ever wonder if we all missed something?

[JacWhisper]

I just reread this thread, and I remembered why I quit original EQ.

Item bloat. Pure and simple. A 50,000+ post signed petition over several different threads that had postcapped on the EQ official forums for a game squish. And it got denied and deleted repeatedly by moderators.

A game squish is where they take everything and cut it to 1/10th. Or whatever. If you hit for 100? You now hit for 10. If the mob hits for 1000? It now hits for 100. For everything.

I remember looking at items with 300 and 400 hp and just being disgusted.

And now I look at items on Allakhazam with over 1000hp and I realize I will never ever go back to that game because that's just unfathomably ridiculous.

A small reason, now that I look back onto the game, but yeah. That's what I do NOT miss about EQ. I remember thinking Nillipuss' SV Earrings were kickass when I first started playing.

[curtischoy]

Originally Posted by JacWhisper

I was the Rampage Tank for the best guild, then, on E'Ci.

Reconstructed? And you used Warriors for RT? I thought everyone used paladins with DA hammer.

[Daldaen]

Item progression in EQ wasn't too bad until much later on.

They were able to keep things interesting until they made everything standardized and stale.

The inflation of HP was just a means to introduce challenging content, and encourage players to move on from prior content. Without it, many would not have seen a reason to go from Kunark to Velious, if not for the increase in stat from the loot and the increased difficulty of mobs requiring said loot to be killed.

From Classic-Velious it was all about maxing out your primary Stat and then stacking HP/AC or Mana + Resists. Mid-Late Velious, your typical player is maxing their primary stat unbuffed without a huge amount of effort. Secondary Stats + More HP/AC and Resists become the focus.

Luclin/PoP allow players to max their primary and secondary stats leaving mostly those stats useless to their class unmaxed. Just HP/AC and Mana+Resists are the focus of gear. However at this point they introduce worn affects. Flowing Thought, Vengeance, Regen (beyond just 2 items), and Spell Focus Effects become huge factors in the strength of individual pieces of gear. Getting to 15 FT, 35 Regen, 250 ATK were huge milestones in gearing. Casters getting their primary focus items (mana pres, spell haste, damage/healing, range) locked down were also huge milestones.

Eventually getting FT, Regen, ATK maxed with gear takes minimal effort, even with increases on the caps. Mod2s are introduced and capped at 35 or 100. A new focus on gearing comes in. Tanks need max Shielding/Avoidance/Combat Effects. Casters need max Spell Shielding/DoT Shielding/Avoidance. Getting all of the foci important to a caster still takes a bit of juggling work. Many classes are easier than others (wizards needed about 6 whereas Druids and shamans wanted about 12).

Naturally capping those becomes too easy, so they introduce Heroic Stats and Mod3s. Which is where they are right now. People focus on Heroic DEX/AGI/STA when tanking, casters just max WIS/INT/STA, etc. Also at some point in here the spreadsheet of items gives a flat 50 to all resists and capping resists naturally occurs with no effort. Around this time they also decided to standardize focus slots. Every head piece had a magic damage focus, all gloves have an ice damage focus, all boots have beneficial haste, all legs have detrimental haste, etc. This change made caring about which gear you picked almost irrelevant unless you were extremely dumb. This + the inflation of group loot in SoF are two things that killed the game for me. At that point it basically became just about raiding for me.

[Ella`Ella]

I read in an article once that devs went back, years later, and found that after like 10 years between Classic, Kunark and Velious, there were a couple hundred quests that had never been completed.

[Baler]

How do you know if a door you've never opened is actually a portal to another dimension in space and time?

Or if watermelons are green on the inside until you cut them open.

[sambal]

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

If there ever was any undiscovered content, it's long since been lost. You have to remember, Project 1999 is an emulated server. That means that, by definition, it only contains content people knew about.

I think that was the intent behind OP's question; was there anything we missed and therefore is not included in the emulation?

[cormag]

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

hidden areas that we players as a whole have yet to discover

GM island in posky and cshome

[Daldaen]

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

GM island in posky and cshome

Just imagine if up on behind a fake wall in the 15000' wide West Karana, or in the sea floor of the 20000' wide Iceclad Ocean there is a zone line to a zone no one ever found.

Wouldn't that be magical?

[Voland]

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

How do you know if a door you've never opened is actually a portal to another dimension in space and time?

Or if watermelons are green on the inside until you cut them open.

*Mind blown!*

[nyclin]

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

GM island in posky and cshome

GM island in Sky is (was) the first island I believe. CSHome was relatively boring.. just a house with a pool out back and some various NPCs strewn about. The most interesting part were the NPCs, which we will unfortunately never see on P99.

They had a couple tributes to deceased Guides and GMs, and vendors where you could buy your various Guide equipment in different flavors. They also had a couple vendors that sold stuff like fireworks and cake/wine for weddings.