Everquest lore is ridiculously overlooked

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Mblake81 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Like many others I had a 3-ring binder full of maps with my own notes scribbled on them, you could get these from places like EQ maps. Why not just minimize the game and go to the map site? because EQ took up the resources of my brand new gateway machine and dial-up prevented me running the game and pulling up a website at the same time. You had to prepare.

I had a binder full of map printouts too: my EQ-playing housemates didn't, and I never understood how they could get around.

But it wasn't just a hardware thing: the EQ client back then would not let you ALT + TAB out (I think it crashed the game or something if you did).

There was a 3rd-party program called EQW that you could use, and literally all it did was let you run EQ in a window (thus the name). It was technically banned by Verant, and wasn't even available in the early years, so the vast majority of players in-era couldn't check maps online while playing ... unless they had two computers or a binder [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]