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Frog Act posted:- any other cities that have people around? Freeport/EC is the main hub of the server pretty much.
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Frog Act posted:So I played on Al'Kabor for like a year when EQMac was still live (I got to level 30ish) so I'm used to playing EQ classic without maps and stuff. But to be clear, P1999 doesn't have the planes of power or anything, so making my way from Halas to a place with actual players on my Barb Shaman would be extremely difficult, right? I'm contemplating starting a Magician or a Bard somewhere in Kelethin/Faydark since I assume there will be people there to help me on my way - any other cities that have people around? I loved EQMac and this seems pretty similar so I'm keen to give it a go, I'm just not used to playing without the Plane of Knowledge as a central gathering point. If you want to play a barb shaman, stick around Halas soloing until level 8 imo. Then you can train meditate and will hopefully have enough money to buy your level 9 spells. At that point you can make it to the areas surrounding EC and Gfay reasonably easily as long as you're careful. The only tough part is getting through Highhold Pass, where you'll probably need to sit at the zoneline for a bit until someone passes through and you can ask them for an invis past the gnolls/orcs. You can also get to EC/Oasis a lot more easily if you instead play a troll/ogre shaman, and Iksar shamans have plenty of grouping opportunities in the field of bone/kurn's tower.
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Sep 25, 2017 22:22
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Frog Act posted:So I played on Al'Kabor for like a year when EQMac was still live (I got to level 30ish) so I'm used to playing EQ classic without maps and stuff. But to be clear, P1999 doesn't have the planes of power or anything, so making my way from Halas to a place with actual players on my Barb Shaman would be extremely difficult, right? I'm contemplating starting a Magician or a Bard somewhere in Kelethin/Faydark since I assume there will be people there to help me on my way - any other cities that have people around? I loved EQMac and this seems pretty similar so I'm keen to give it a go, I'm just not used to playing without the Plane of Knowledge as a central gathering point. My druid is bound in Qeynos, if you want a barb rogue but want to go to level around FP I can pick you up and give you a ride.
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Sep 25, 2017 22:23
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You would be doing yourself a disservice not leveling in Qeynos area with the plague event going on. The questing path is fantastic. Diseased wolf pelts and gnoll fangs til you can venture out into EK then diseased bear pelts and bandit sashes til 20 easily. The plague event has greatly increased the diseased animal count and every single kill is a guaranteed drop. It's amazing xp. There's a bunch of other quests in the area I pick up along the way but those are the main xp ones.
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Sep 25, 2017 22:36
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Frog Act posted:So I played on Al'Kabor for like a year when EQMac was still live (I got to level 30ish) so I'm used to playing EQ classic without maps and stuff. But to be clear, P1999 doesn't have the planes of power or anything, so making my way from Halas to a place with actual players on my Barb Shaman would be extremely difficult, right? I'm contemplating starting a Magician or a Bard somewhere in Kelethin/Faydark since I assume there will be people there to help me on my way - any other cities that have people around? I loved EQMac and this seems pretty similar so I'm keen to give it a go, I'm just not used to playing without the Plane of Knowledge as a central gathering point. If you want, you can roll a barb and post here some time you'll be on and I can make the trek up and port you to EC or wherever. Freeport and Kelethin are the most popular newbie zones by far, but you'll see a couple dudes in Qeynos or Paineel or whatever.
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Sep 26, 2017 00:40
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Summit posted:You would be doing yourself a disservice not leveling in Qeynos area with the plague event going on. The questing path is fantastic. Diseased wolf pelts and gnoll fangs til you can venture out into EK then diseased bear pelts and bandit sashes til 20 easily. The plague event has greatly increased the diseased animal count and every single kill is a guaranteed drop. It's amazing xp. There's a bunch of other quests in the area I pick up along the way but those are the main xp ones. That is the one thing I find fault with on p99, and it is no fault of anyone but time: I absolutely love Qeynos, but it is deserted, as are so many spots. I leveled numerous characters on Live between classic and PoP and there were always people playing, everywhere: there were always groups in Black Burrow, Cazic Thule, Guk, Paw, heck, even Dalnir. The population on p99 is mostly 60s or twinks soloing; the server has grown too old and too rich to still capture completely what EQ was like in 1999.
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Sep 26, 2017 21:51
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It was fun for the first two years though, that's for sure
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Sep 26, 2017 22:45
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Maybe its time for a reset back to classic
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Sep 26, 2017 22:50
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Meatgrinder posted:That is the one thing I find fault with on p99, and it is no fault of anyone but time: I absolutely love Qeynos, but it is deserted, as are so many spots. I leveled numerous characters on Live between classic and PoP and there were always people playing, everywhere: there were always groups in Black Burrow, Cazic Thule, Guk, Paw, heck, even Dalnir. The population on p99 is mostly 60s or twinks soloing; the server has grown too old and too rich to still capture completely what EQ was like in 1999. Still plenty of new people coming in all the time. So while you may not find people in those places if you have an ounce of charisma(lol goons) it isn't hard to network your way into a group at those spots. 1-40 I still get those classic feels.
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Sep 27, 2017 03:54
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Elephunk posted:It was fun for the first two years though, that's for sure Seriously. 2009-2011 P99 was fantastic.
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Sep 27, 2017 19:15
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Nothing about the raid scene was ever fantastic on P99, in any era, lol.
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Sep 27, 2017 19:19
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Going back to vanilla would be kind of a bummer. While I generally hate the 50+ content in this game, Kunark and Velious added a whole lot of cool lower level stuff.
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Sep 27, 2017 23:37
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khysanth posted:Seriously. 2009-2011 P99 was fantastic. I love the idea of nostalgia for a nostalgia server.
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Sep 27, 2017 23:47
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Vargs posted:Going back to vanilla would be kind of a bummer. While I generally hate the 50+ content in this game, Kunark and Velious added a whole lot of cool lower level stuff. Yeah, I mean everquest without kunark didn't even exist for very long at all. For me classic is very much vanilla and kunark. I didn't really do much Velious until 99 though (and still haven't seen lots of it) Luclin was weird and so I'm pretty cool with chilling in velious, but I could stomach if they added luclin and even planes at some point, but I would never want to go past PoP. And then at that point maybe reverse it back to classic and do the whole progression again.
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Sep 28, 2017 02:04
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I thought there was a planned "Green" server when they finish Velious. The idea being to start fresh and go thru progression in real time and not over years and years as it has been. IDK if that's still a thing since I don't really play anymore but would prob jump on if they did that.
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Sep 28, 2017 02:28
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Zaphod42 posted:but I would never want to go past PoP. Yeah we had Al'Kabor, and it was pretty awesome in spite of the problems with a top heavy, locked and old server. They had to MGB a couple times a day because there was scant lower level gear available. I miss them Sappy MGB batphones. I came back to p99 to get my Q on every few months or so when they deleted the AK server but didn't play for any real duration until recently. The screenshots of 100+ folks socking Trakanon during Kunark... welp. The raid scene is a bit nuts on p99 for sure. Like 80 percent of the tactics are built around competing for insta pulls of raid targets we would have half a night to attempt on Brell in the heydays.
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Sep 28, 2017 02:33
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Raiding in P99 (or at least how it's been described to me) is super cutthroat compared to how it was back when I raided in live Velious/Luclin. The only things that my old server (Zebuxoruk) would race for were the worldspawn ones like the overworld dragons, Lozdial, and the like. Every other raid zone/area was done on guild rotation. If you are an up and coming guild, if could kill the guardian outside the Temple of Veeshan (was it Klandicar? I forget) then you got added to the Halls of Testing and/or the giant faction hall of ToV rotation. If you could reliably clear either of those halls, you could be added to the NToV rotation. Fear/Hate/Sky really wasn't super hotly contested and you could generally do it whenever you needed to or hitch a ride with a planar raiding guild still gearing up for HoT and epics. VP raiding was basically nonexistent because people didn't want to deal with the hassle of the raid zone you can't gate out from once you were in, and Velious dwarf/giant armor was generally on par with or better than it anyway.
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Sep 28, 2017 14:18
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Green server is still in the cards. Still have to finish out blue patches though. Can't wait to have 150 people poo poo socking noble.
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Sep 28, 2017 21:00
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FayGate posted:Green server is still in the cards. Still have to finish out blue patches though. Can't wait to have 150 people poo poo socking Drelzna (jboots), Avatar of Fear (rubicite BP), An Evil Eye (manastone), and a ghoul assassin (guise) Not to mention loading thex daggers and boxes of abu kar on as many mules as possible. Fear will probably be permacamped too once it opens - some Lustrous Russet pieces are nearly BiS until Velious for non-warriors.
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Sep 29, 2017 00:59
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aparmenideanmonad posted:Not to mention loading thex daggers and boxes of abu kar on as many mules as possible. ugh green is gunna be awful
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Sep 29, 2017 02:54
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Classic p99 was a product of its time and place. Theres no point trying to replicate that, we're all older now and have too many responsibilities and too little time for a green server.
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Sep 29, 2017 02:59
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smiling giraffe posted:Classic p99 was a product of its time and place. Theres no point trying to replicate that, we're all older now and have too many responsibilities and too little time for a green server. I'd play Project Project 1999, where P1999's timetable was meticulously recreated.
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Sep 29, 2017 03:58
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Green Servers are the faction-based PvP ones?
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Sep 29, 2017 13:32
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ekeog posted:I'd play Project Project 1999, where P1999's timetable was meticulously recreated. Including replicating unintentional bugs throughout the past 5 years on P1999 that were not on Classic Live, but also the old Live bugs that were purposely replicated on P1999 as Classic bugs, and balancing it with the intentional non-Classic nerfs made for P1999.
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Sep 29, 2017 13:47
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Personally I dislike the original release schedule for live. EQ -> 3mo wait for Kunark, promptly followed by less than a year later Velious was pooped out. It always felt like Kunark was planned for the original release, but never ready, as it follows many of the same construction, design, and functional similarities as the OG release, but given a bit more polish.
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Sep 29, 2017 15:04
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kzersatz posted:Personally I dislike the original release schedule for live. And how all the dragons drop the same loot as the dragons in classic. Outside of VP and Trakanononon.
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Sep 29, 2017 16:42
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FranktheBank posted:And how all the dragons drop the same loot as the dragons in classic. Outside of VP and Trakanononon. Well, there were numerous reasons for that with the addition of the epic quests; flat out, past a certain point, it's the only way for Paladins to get the book of scale (gently caress that quest) when they made it so Lady Vox and Naggy banish those of ... 52+? But yeah, it kinda just adds to it.
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Sep 29, 2017 19:14
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kzersatz posted:Personally I dislike the original release schedule for live. I don't really know if I agree that Kunark seems like it was supposed to be in Classic.... I'd say it's very different, in regards to a ton of things: Melee power, loot power, more raid targets, "easy" outdoor zones worth a drat leveling in, and so much more. Kunark was just a great thing.
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Pilsner posted:I don't really know if I agree that Kunark seems like it was supposed to be in Classic.... I'd say it's very different, in regards to a ton of things: Melee power, loot power, more raid targets, "easy" outdoor zones worth a drat leveling in, and so much more. Kunark was just a great thing. Go look at the loot for most zones and items that were dropping; most absolutely are equiv to what dropped in classic for that same level range, with the exception of poo poo like Chardok, Sebilis and other clear examples of high level content. Also I concede my timelines may be fucky, I was loving off from work and ... well... thats another story.
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Oct 2, 2017 15:30
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Naw there was a lot wrong on your post but no biggie.
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I think it would be hard to bring the spread out-ness of the year 1999. Everquest really felt "lived in" back in. There were player characters everywhere. I think that sony's servers in 1999 for one had two or three as many players per server as p99 has now. Additionally there was no wiki. So players constantly did bad stuff. People thought of minotaur axes as pure gold, but mostly because we all sucked and died a lot and lost our corpses. A lot of the reason things were so hard is just that they were, the resolution, UI, lighting, etc, all of that. In 1999 you could literally get lost because you had no map and the sun went down. It made people less willing to travel. You meditated without a view of the world at all, and even when you could see if was like a quarter of the screen. That said people STILL DID CLUSTER UP! I remember in 1998 in beta having 230-300 in Gfay! Partially because brad was visiting but also just because there was always 100 people there. Back in 2001 two top guilds decided to race to a raid target in velious, and the server the zone was on just went down because the city couldn't handle 200 people showing up all at once. I think project1999 is great though, because while there are only BARELY enough people to give project1999 that lived in community class feeling. It does in fact have that feeling. Modern mmo's all lack this feeling by comparison. It doesn't matter if project 1999 can only get 700players instead of 4000, because every other mmo is either 4player or 6 player and auto-queues strangers into instances.
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The only thing you really notice is the obvious lack of newbies being awestruck at everything, nobody's coming up to inspect you and pooping their pants with excitement. Live was almost too crowded for the amount of mobs in classic dungeons, in Sol B/Lguk you had groups for every drat named then people fighting tooth and nail for trash spawns.
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Oct 3, 2017 18:18
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Would someone be able to do a transfer for me in EC on blue? I'll be on for the next few hours as Maed or Sidhlot if anyone still plays on this silly server.
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Oct 11, 2017 20:12
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Maed posted:Would someone be able to do a transfer for me in EC on blue? I'll be on for the next few hours as Maed or Sidhlot if anyone still plays on this silly server. Just got home from work but I don't see you online. Sorry dude.
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Zaphod42 posted:Just got home from work but I don't see you online. Sorry dude. drat I just missed ya. I'm on again if anyone can help tonight. Otherwise I'll try some pubbie and hope for the best.
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Oct 12, 2017 03:09
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I can't help you since I don't have this game installed right now, but I've never had an issue just asking a random level 60 in the EC tunnel to transfer junk for me. If they steal your poo poo you can just report them and they know this, so they won't take it.
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Oct 12, 2017 03:15
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Vargs posted:I can't help you since I don't have this game installed right now, but I've never had an issue just asking a random level 60 in the EC tunnel to transfer junk for me. If they steal your poo poo you can just report them and they know this, so they won't take it. This. Ask anyone who's in a bigger guild or over level 30. I have had people come up to my druid to transfer huge amounts of cash or expensive items who did not know me from scratch. There's also some folks who transfer for donations.
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Oct 12, 2017 09:11
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Drop transfer everything. Live dangerously.
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Oct 13, 2017 06:33
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FungiCap posted:Drop transfer everything. Live dangerously. Just let us know when and where first.
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FungiCap posted:Drop transfer everything. Live dangerously. Use the Inn in east freeport! I did that once, and ended up stealing 800k worth of poo poo from Aftermath, because they decided to have a recharge party when I was there. edit: ps I don't play anymore. I still have some expensive poo poo to give away. Caiu get's my stolen Bladestopper. Who else still plays? I have a bunch of random expensive poo poo to give away still.
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