Want Your Friends To Play?

[ccs88]

I had ~20 friends pick up EQ this weekend to play on Project1999, and I threw together this website to help them get started.
I know the wiki has great info and guides, but this covers the really basic beginner stuff. If you want your friends to play, this may be worth showing them.

http://www.eq101.org/

The forums are specific to my friends and I, but the rest is a work in progress, FFA.

Thanks!
Micron

[Swish]

Rangers are just bad

No mincing words there I see Micron, looked like a good basic overview at a glance. Obviously the forum lawyers will pick it apart, but for new players its a good foundation [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Tecmos Deception]

Not bad. I think I personally would have built a page that walks the player through from setting up p1999 through picking a class through character creation through their first few levels before I worried about a FAQ though.

I mean, someone who is using your site without THOROUGHLY reading the wiki and/or forums is going to make a troll sk and not understand why they are leveling SOO slowly, is going to think a wizard is better for an xp group than a ranger, is going to get lost trying to find his guild, is going to quit the game when he dies to the first newbie mob he attacks on his [insert non-necro class here], is going to freak out when he can't afford to buy all of his level 1 spells right away let alone all of his level 4/5 spells if he gets that far, is going to be frustrated when his cleric/tank/rogue who didn't start in FP or Gfay can't find a single other person to group with, the list goes on.

Cool idea, I just would be executed it differently if your goal is to ease true noobies to EQ (but who seem not to be noobies to more modern MMOs) into the game.

[Hailto]

You left out the fact that Shaman are the most powerful class in classic at high levels.

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-Iksar look retarded when they swing weapons

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[ccs88]

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

Not bad. I think I personally would have built a page that walks the player through from setting up p1999 through picking a class through character creation through their first few levels before I worried about a FAQ though.

I mean, someone who is using your site without THOROUGHLY reading the wiki and/or forums is going to make a troll sk and not understand why they are leveling SOO slowly, is going to think a wizard is better for an xp group than a ranger, is going to get lost trying to find his guild, is going to quit the game when he dies to the first newbie mob he attacks on his [insert non-necro class here], is going to freak out when he can't afford to buy all of his level 1 spells right away let alone all of his level 4/5 spells if he gets that far, is going to be frustrated when his cleric/tank/rogue who didn't start in FP or Gfay can't find a single other person to group with, the list goes on.

Cool idea, I just would be executed it differently if your goal is to ease true noobies to EQ (but who seem not to be noobies to more modern MMOs) into the game.

I actually installed it for them, and am helping everyone in vent so it's really just a quick reference. Not perfect by any means. One of my friends started a barbarian and that starting area is just ridiculous for people used to WoW/etc. He was going to quit for good and I told him to roll anything else. He said it's 100x better starting in Freeport. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[ccs88]

+ Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely take advice and make it better when I get some time. I appreciate the non-flaming-me attitude so far [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Valiant]

Originally Posted by ccs88 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I had ~20 friends pick up EQ this weekend to play on Project1999

Sam Da man - Deathwalker, obviously

[SwordNboard]

No offense, but I'm more impressed with the ~20 people than the website! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Breeziyo]

I wish I had ~20 gamer friends who I could convince to actually play this game.

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