Sick of socking?

[Danth]

Originally Posted by kotton05 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What do you do once you got everything then?

Keep on playing because I like it. Don't care about the pixel acquisition rat race.

Problem with TAKP and P2002 is that they'll both go to Planes of Power era, which I detest. It's probably a better environment for folks who like raids, though.

Danth

[Muggens]

Originally Posted by kotton05 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What do you do once you got everything then?

You do something else you addict

[a_gnome_collector]

Meh. Boxing weakens the grouping community since every first duo will probably be sham/monk.

[Artaenc]

Originally Posted by proxytoon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Join https://p2002.com
EQ up to the plans of power expantions

Many QoL improvements that make the game much more fun.
Tons of content that you can set raid times to. No sitting in a zone e for hours on end wait for a dragon to pop. Then you have to hope you get FTE.

No one guild has a monopoly over 90 percent of the high end content.

Come join fun!!!!

This is actually somewhat interesting and caught my eye. How's the population generally during EST/PST?

[phatogre]

Originally Posted by Artaenc [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is actually somewhat interesting and caught my eye. How's the population generally during EST/PST?

I also left p99 for a PoP server, after years of mindless anti-post-veliousism and end game raiding, and I can say everything OP said is true. P02 and TAKP are really fun if you want to enjoy the good parts of that era of EQ without the toxic sludge garbage pale that is p99 culture and raiding. Of course you can't really convince or argue with the neckbeard autists here that maybe their server is like some religious colony separated from modern society and told that only terror and dismay are on the other side of the fence.

The populations are definitely lower than p99 but it never feels empty. Global chat is always lighting up with activity, guilds field 50+ people (100+ characters) easily, and groups are not that hard to find once you get out of like 30ish. The people are generally friendlier, there is no camp fighting typically, and raiding is fun because of the challenge of the encounters, not who can fraps who breaking the rules. I won't go into debating the pros and cons of the era like better itemization and AAs etc, but the content is really great and having so much more to do makes the game feel much more open and exciting.

The GMs and devs are super active. Bugs are fixed shortly after reporting them. Petitions are answered same-day. In some ways the PoP servers feel more "alive" than p99.

To answer your question, usually around 250-300 are online, if you assume every single person is 3 boxing (most aren't constantly 3 boxing, duo is more common) then there are around 100 people on when I play prime time US time.

[Artaenc]

Originally Posted by phatogre [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I also left p99 for a PoP server, after years of mindless anti-post-veliousism and end game raiding, and I can say everything OP said is true. P02 and TAKP are really fun if you want to enjoy the good parts of that era of EQ without the toxic sludge garbage pale that is p99 culture and raiding. Of course you can't really convince or argue with the neckbeard autists here that maybe their server is like some religious colony separated from modern society and told that only terror and dismay are on the other side of the fence.

The populations are definitely lower than p99 but it never feels empty. Global chat is always lighting up with activity, guilds field 50+ people (100+ characters) easily, and groups are not that hard to find once you get out of like 30ish. The people are generally friendlier, there is no camp fighting typically, and raiding is fun because of the challenge of the encounters, not who can fraps who breaking the rules. I won't go into debating the pros and cons of the era like better itemization and AAs etc, but the content is really great and having so much more to do makes the game feel much more open and exciting.

The GMs and devs are super active. Bugs are fixed shortly after reporting them. Petitions are answered same-day. In some ways the PoP servers feel more "alive" than p99.

To answer your question, usually around 250-300 are online, if you assume every single person is 3 boxing (most aren't constantly 3 boxing, duo is more common) then there are around 100 people on when I play prime time US time.

I am not sure if I'm ever going to try it but the multi boxing thing totally kills it.

[Castigate]

Boxing in a roleplaying game is just fundamentally missing the point. It's a huge part of the reason that p99 is so much more successful than others.

[Wonkie]

Originally Posted by Castigate [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Boxing in a roleplaying game is just fundamentally missing the point. It's a huge part of the reason that p99 is so much more successful than others.

how much RP goes on in Aftermath?

[rekreant]

Originally Posted by Castigate [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Boxing in a roleplaying game is just fundamentally missing the point. It's a huge part of the reason that p99 is so much more successful than others.

[Amyas]

Originally Posted by Castigate [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Boxing in a roleplaying game is just fundamentally missing the point. It's a huge part of the reason that p99 is so much more successful than others.

^