What made y'all's server unique?

[RecondoJoe]

On Tunare the auction zone was GFAY. Don't ask me why because I don't know. It just was and I never really questioned it before. I didn't know this was weird until I played on P99. I was really confused by how dead GFAY was the first time I went there on P99 and just assumed there must be less than 20 people playing the game since I was a gnome and hadn't seen many players in Steamfont either.

Raiding Guilds weren't really a thing for most of Tunare's history. I know someone will dispute this, but anyone who really played on Tunare and is honest will tell you that you did not need to be in a guild to raid. I got full Skyshrine and my Epic while guildless during a time period where the items were still BIS (although at that time people considered Kael to be better than SS).

Tunare was one of the only servers where players had full Lustrous Russet. They didn't actually loot these items. Kaylum, for instance, was "gifted" full Lustrous Russet, along with other items, for "helping" GMs.... I later found out that he was in fact a GM himself, and likely gifted himself the items. He later went on to be the first player to acquire a Kunark epic... coincidence? Maybe. However, unlikely.

All of those classic EverQuest songs that were trending 20 years ago? They were recorded by a guy on Tunare known as Richardo Xavier.

Tunare also had the first and only Epic item. It was before the other epics were added to the game. The player's name was "Musk." He later went on to become a successful billionaire after starting a company known as Paypal, and later Tesla.

I feel like I'm forgetting something obvious too.

[magnetaress]

Test server had 150 players on it and we were all super special.

Bertox had a guild of only necromancers. And was one of the more overpopulated servers.

[RecondoJoe]

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

Test server had 150 players on it and we were all super special.

Bertox had a guild of only necromancers. And was one of the more overpopulated servers.

TBH I remember logging on to Test server as a child (curiosity and what not), and being baffled that there were a lot of high level players who played there full time. They were super friendly too. Now that I'm older I wonder if they were GMs or something and wanted to avoid playing on a normal server?

[magnetaress]

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

TBH I remember logging on to Test server as a child (curiosity and what not), and being baffled that there were a lot of high level players who played there full time. They were super friendly too. Now that I'm older I wonder if they were GMs or something and wanted to avoid playing on a normal server?

A lot were, as well as some devs. But most ppl were just internet weirdos. We never raided current content anyway. The server was basically just there to see if patches would run for a week or unravel the database.

One time we had a database error and they needed to wipe and rollback the server real far. Most of the time the worst rollback was like 5 days occasionally. Or a few hrs.

Later on they had testbuff, which was fun for kids like me.

Then eventually they did testcopy to bring over big raiding guilds, which eventually killed the community, but early on when it was just occasional around GoD we got some nice players out of it and the server was quite fun!

[RecondoJoe]

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

A lot were, as well as some devs. But most ppl were just internet weirdos. We never raided current content anyway. The server was basically just there to see if patches would run for a week or unravel the database.

One time we had a database error and they needed to wipe and rollback the server real far. Most of the time the worst rollback was like 5 days occasionally. Or a few hrs.

Later on they had testbuff, which was fun for kids like me.

Then eventually they did testcopy to bring over big raiding guilds, which eventually killed the community, but early on when it was just occasional around GoD we got some nice players out of it and the server was quite fun!

I don't think most people raided current content even on live servers, fam. That's one thing about EQ, it was so hard that most of my friends weren't even level 50 before Velious came out, and I remember Planar gear still being considered good even after Velious dropped.

Players didn't digest content fast back then. You see the same thing happen with WoW Classic and TBC when it came out. The average player never completed the end-game content before the next expac came out, so the wait for the next expac didn't feel bad like it does now, where players on retail WoW are expected to farm the same content they already beat for 2 years before the next expac drops.

And yeah, the wipe is what turned me off on Test. I actually thought very seriously about playing there because of how charitable the players were until I found out people lost entire characters and stuff like that.

[Totekk]

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

Test server had 150 players on it and we were all super special.

Bertox had a guild of only necromancers. And was one of the more overpopulated servers.

I played on Test from the start until eventually quitting (GoD release?). I played on the Test Center shard on Ultima Online and it just sort of carried over to EQ when it released.

The wipe was rough, but also sort of bracing for most of the community. Lot of casters came together to gear up melees etc.

Good to see another Test refugee =)

[DMN]

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

I played on Test from the start until eventually quitting (GoD release?). I played on the Test Center shard on Ultima Online and it just sort of carried over to EQ when it released.

The wipe was rough, but also sort of bracing for most of the community. Lot of casters came together to gear up melees etc.

Good to see another Test refugee =)

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

Test server had 150 players on it and we were all super special.

Bertox had a guild of only necromancers. And was one of the more overpopulated servers.

What were you guy's main characters? I was the first level 50 on test server? Can you guess my name? Big hint: it's awfully close to the name on this forum.

[magnetaress]

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What were you guy's main characters? I was the first level 50 on test server? Can you guess my name? Big hint: it's awfully close to the name on this forum.

My main was Valaman a DE cleric, who'm I raided GoD, OoW, some sporadically up till TSS. Then I had Xurlibik a gnome wizard who only saw a little PoP. Early on I rerolled Dimmak, Xurlibik. And Flayzernax names over and over and I don't think I tried to hit 50 until after/testbuff when I finally got picked up by some guild with wolves in the name and the guild leader lived in Texas or NV with his wife, I think they moved?, who'm I grouped with lots. Plus the only other persons I remember was a necromancer who eventually hated me for being such a child. A mage I was best bros with. But can't remember. And a druid named Spyder I probably had a crush on. There were a pally and sham I grpd with a bunch. And a bunch more interesting people I vaguely remember. One guy used to box a dwarf main and like 10-12 other characters on his own mini raids.. some halfling druid I followed around a lot who begrudgingly tolerated me.. There was two guilds with a pretty good rivalry, I was not in primal brood or whatever it was.

I was in The Ministry of Anarchy or choas or whatever until I got kicked out and pretty much permabanned, shunned from Berlin.

I think I used to talk to a wizard, necro friend duo from Prophecy a lot.

Yall probably don't remember me, but I remember these half elves humping, bumping xurlibik up against the walls lol. I was that wizard who nuked first [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[magnetaress]

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

My main was Valaman a DE cleric, who'm I raided GoD, OoW, some sporadically up till TSS. Then I had Xurlibik a gnome wizard who only saw a little PoP. Early on I rerolled Dimmak, Xurlibik. And Flayzernax names over and over and I don't think I tried to hit 50 until after/testbuff when I finally got picked up by some guild with wolves in the name and the guild leader lived in Texas or NV with his wife, I think they moved?, who'm I grouped with lots. Plus the only other persons I remember was a necromancer who eventually hated me for being such a child. A mage I was best bros with. But can't remember. And a druid named Spyder I probably had a crush on. There were a pally and sham I grpd with a bunch. And a bunch more interesting people I vaguely remember. One guy used to box a dwarf main and like 10-12 other characters on his own mini raids.. some halfling druid I followed around a lot who begrudgingly tolerated me.. There was two guilds with a pretty good rivalry, I was not in primal brood or whatever it was.

I was in The Ministry of Anarchy or choas or whatever until I got kicked out and pretty much permabanned, shunned from Berlin.

I think I used to talk to a wizard, necro friend duo from Prophecy a lot.

Yall probably don't remember me, but I remember these half elves humping, bumping xurlibik up against the walls lol. I was that wizard who nuked first [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Oh there was a bard who couldn't stand me either and was like never talk to me again.

I think back on test I was about 10x more crazy than even the craziest players here in regular RnF.

I remember a ton of ppl just not their names at all.

[DMN]

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

My main was Valaman a DE cleric, who'm I raided GoD, OoW, some sporadically up till TSS. Then I had Xurlibik a gnome wizard who only saw a little PoP. Early on I rerolled Dimmak, Xurlibik. And Flayzernax names over and over and I don't think I tried to hit 50 until after/testbuff when I finally got picked up by some guild with wolves in the name and the guild leader lived in Texas or NV with his wife, I think they moved?, who'm I grouped with lots. Plus the only other persons I remember was a necromancer who eventually hated me for being such a child. A mage I was best bros with. But can't remember. And a druid named Spyder I probably had a crush on. There were a pally and sham I grpd with a bunch. And a bunch more interesting people I vaguely remember. One guy used to box a dwarf main and like 10-12 other characters on his own mini raids.. some halfling druid I followed around a lot who begrudgingly tolerated me.. There was two guilds with a pretty good rivalry, I was not in primal brood or whatever it was.

I was in The Ministry of Anarchy or choas or whatever until I got kicked out and pretty much permabanned, shunned from Berlin.

I think I used to talk to a wizard, necro friend duo from Prophecy a lot.

Yall probably don't remember me, but I remember these half elves humping, bumping xurlibik up against the walls lol. I was that wizard who nuked first [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The guild was probably "Wolf pack" or maybe it was the more germanic type spelling like "wulfe". Wolf/wulve/wulf whatever his name was a barbarian warrior, i believe the first 50 war on the server. he played a lot with sidious, karleigh/tonia, and i do believe his wife also played a babarian shaman. He ran around a lot with a bard too early in test server's life, i forget her name but was a wood elf. Damn good bard,.