Is P99 today a better game of than EQ live in 2001 ?

[Lojik]

1-59 is pretty fun on this server, the prevalence of items floating around makes xping a lot less tedious. On live you had whole groups single camping one or two spawns in a dungeon, here if more than one group is in a zone people think it's "packed." High end raiding is bad but I never really did it on live, there is no mystery here really though. I'd say it's a tossup

[Baler]

One reason that is fact why live was better back in the day.

There was far less min/maxing and 99.9% accurate information available on the internet.

Things felt more magical.

[Kevris]

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

One reason that is fact why live was better back in the day.

There was far less min/maxing and 99.9% accurate information available on the internet.

Things felt more magical.

This.

It's not a game about elves anymore. It's Moneyball.

[Lune]

I had a much better time on P99 than I ever did on live.

I was also a little younger during live than many others here. I mostly played Luclin.

[Izmael]

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

i guess OP never played on live

sure pal, after 5 years of kunark stagnation, p1999 is the pinnacle of EQ

I led a raiding guild in 2001 on live.

Also, everyone answered the wrong question "Was your EQ experience better in 2001 or on p99?"

My question was "Was the GAME better then or now?"

Oh well, lesson learned. When taking a poll, make sure the question can't be misinterpreted. That's why referendums are a joke 9 times out of 10. People answer the wrong questions.

[Thulack]

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

I led a raiding guild in 2001 on live.

Also, everyone answered the wrong question "Was your EQ experience better in 2001 or on p99?"

My question was "Was the GAME better then or now?"

Oh well, lesson learned. When taking a poll, make sure the question can't be misinterpreted. That's why referendums are a joke 9 times out of 10. People answer the wrong questions.

It was better then because it was new and more exciting. Nothing is more fun the second time around except maybe sex.

[Tankdan]

That's a clown question, bro.

[Daywolf]

live was rushed and buggy while expansions flew out of the machine. Party members always getting dropped, waiting for them to relog. Zones crashing around you. Broken boats dropping you into the middle of nowhere. Popular spots just way overcrowded. In comparison, UO was doing way better at the time, though had it's own issues. Getting off work, sometimes couldn't even play EQ, but UO was always there. EQ improved over time... well to a point of course.

The difference is just that the emu has had the time to work out problems. I was logging into PEQ over 10yrs ago when there were maybe a dozen people on the only server running in the list, and it was just to log in as there was hardly a game.

I thought discord was suppose to be green, but if there is another blue, here is to hoping it goes at half the release pace which will pretty much resolve all...most of the original problems on live.

[Tecmos Deception]

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

That's the thing...it is all an exp game. No one is doing quests for upgrades or trying to hunt their own weapon upgrades. Just show up in commons with 100pp and you can get a pretty decent weapon.

The server is just SOOOO old that there is SOOO much stuff floating around.

It changes things big time. Even just being able to find a port anywhere at any time (while pretty convenient) was never what real EQ was like.

But at least they have plans to eventually open a new green server.....it will be pretty glorious :3

People quest their own gear and get their own drops all the time. Just because you aren't or you see some fungi seiftblade twink in the tunnel standing around doesnt mean shit.

Hard to find ports on live? Please. Live at this time had double our pop per server, and druids were at least as common there (and wizards probably more common) than on here.

I'm not saying the server isn't different than live. It's timeline and population and wiki and stuff make the gameplay a lot different. But it is a lot the same too.

[mr_jon3s]

Live was way better for one simple reason. People didn't know shit. Everyone knows everything now and the game has no real mystery.