In the spirit of my new 1999 addiction

[iruinedyourday]

So I just started 1999 this week, and in spirit of this new amazing thing i went to the way back machine to check out the ol' Allakazam the way I remembered it! Who else remembers booting up their PC in the morning after camping jboots in Njina all night, and scrolling through the days updates of newly added items and quests? :D

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25736152/allakazam.PNG

If youre curious how I got to the old alla webpage, the wayback machine can be found here: http://archive.org/web/

[Supaskillz]

Way back machine used lots here for figuring out classic mechanics

[Swish]

I wasn't nerdy enough for Allakhazam, I frequented Everlore for everything I needed...even made some mob screenshot submissions :p

[Bamz4l]

everlore was good for spell info (or was it castersrealm?). eqtraders for tradeskills, allakhazam was good for everything else

[iruinedyourday]

everlore was good for spell info (or was it castersrealm?). eqtraders for tradeskills, allakhazam was good for everything else

haha omg casters realm! I'm about to wayback to that motha fugga right now! :D

This community is basically the coolest thing on the internet.

Guys I have a question, I notice there is a /r/project1999 on reddit... How many crossover users from there to here are there?

I want to talk to all my new classic EQ buddies!

[deadlycupcakez]

the casters realm drawing of the shadowknight was probably the most baller thing ever

[iruinedyourday]

Haha I remember this UI.. also I managed to go to a page that mentions the EQ gathering in Las Vegas. I will try to find a pic, but my roommate when to this and brought me back an awesome everquest shirt. He said there were about a thousand people there. I said, no im going to stay at home and not leave the house and play eq like a addict instead, like a proper addict.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25736152/casters.PNG

[iruinedyourday]

Heh, clicking around Castersrealm I came upon this, remember these?

http://web.archive.org/web/20000815235225im_/http://www.pvponline.com/ding/ding20000814.jpg

[Erati]

Heh, clicking around Castersrealm I came upon this, remember these?

http://web.archive.org/web/20000815235225im_/http://www.pvponline.com/ding/ding20000814.jpg

thats whats so funny about classic EQ versus here

on live, twinks were looked down upon GREATLY. it was embarrassing to find out the person you were grouping with had a higher level character 'giving' this character his items. people would go to great lengths to disprove or discredit 'twinking claims'

on here no one cares and in fact its a point of pride to show how 'twinked out' your baby alts can get

[Ahldagor]

thats whats so funny about classic EQ versus here

on live, twinks were looked down upon GREATLY. it was embarrassing to find out the person you were grouping with had a higher level character 'giving' this character his items. people would go to great lengths to disprove or discredit 'twinking claims'

on here no one cares and in fact its a point of pride to show how 'twinked out' your baby alts can get

what server did you play? i never encountered twink bashing on prexus.

[Erati]

what server did you play? i never encountered twink bashing on prexus.

well depends the era of classic we are talking about.

In very vanilla EQ, pre-Kunark, it was most certainly something you were not proud of.

Id imagine as expansions started to flow in, people stopped caring as more and more alts came about.

( to answer your question: Bristlebane )

[iruinedyourday]

Well this server is more like a 'hobby' for us old timers, opposed to it being a new never before seen amazing alternate fantasy reality. So people might have multiple characters, and that means they're playing them for fun, and gearing up is fun! I like rawhide armor as much as the next guy, but if I have a full set of Mithral I would probably want that on my next character, cus after all, that's why I'm making a second character, cus I like that class at 50! So why not gear em up to that level if I can.

That said, I see some geared up toons sometimes in BB or CB and it looks a tad bit obnoxious, so going full bright blue mystic armor at level4, isn't exactly for me :)

[Exmo]

Guys I have a question, I notice there is a /r/project1999 on reddit... How many crossover users from there to here are there?



Uh. I moderate that. So at least some of us.

[iruinedyourday]

Erati is right, twinks were looked down upon back in the day when I played. I stopped shortly after Vellious and could imagine future expansions twinks being less and less un-cool.

It was looked down upon cus most people were playing their characters for the first time, a twink seemed like a spoiled jerk, throwing it in their cloth wearing groupmates faces that they were from the rich part of town :)

It was mostly jealousy ;)

[Kika Maslyaka]

the casters realm drawing of the shadowknight was probably the most baller thing ever

the class drawing were awesome.. i wish I could find them ...

[myriverse]

Never experienced any kind of bashing on Nameless, either. Everybody I ran into were either twinks or twinking, even by late 1999.

[lecompte]

Never experienced any kind of bashing on Nameless, either. Everybody I ran into were either twinks or twinking, even by late 1999.

I didn't remember twinks negatively -- maybe enviously.

[deadlycupcakez]

I didn't remember twinks negatively -- maybe enviously.

same, or like "wow give me the digs on how you got that, even if on your main" and then ride the easy xp train in our group and be sad when they leave and we all die bc we thought we were cool, whoops oh well.

On the other hand, in 99-00 i wouldnt go as far to say everyone i ran into were twinking, i found the stark opposite.

[lecompte]

You arent' addicted enough if you have time to do something else besides grind that EXP. Are you at work? Better call in sick tomorrow like a responsible EQer

On the other hand, in 99-00 i wouldnt go as far to say everyone i ran into were twinking, i found the stark opposite.

Freaking bronze armor an thulian claws was twinked.

[Erati]

Freaking bronze armor an thulian claws was twinked.

this ^^^^

showing up in Crushbone in full bronze when most players only 'heard rumors where bronze even dropped' made the rest of the zone despise you greatly.

I vividly remember people in /groupchat getting upset for referring to them as 'twinked'

[Invoke]

First time I twinked was a full set of banded, kite shield and a mino axe for my SK. I felt so cool hanging out at the newbie log in Nektulos.

[iruinedyourday]

Honestly, don't hate me I'm a good person. But the first time I twinked myself was after a super bad hate raid, pre Vellious.. maybe pre kunark even. Anywho, yea we had this terrible raid night and I was in a shit mood.

I played on Rallos and hated PKs with every fiber of my being, but that night I snapped.

I created a wizard, named him Illumdian cus it was the ugliest name I could think of, picked the nastiest high elf face I could find, the one that's all scrunched up and crappy. Dropped a Mithral Quill (the fastest weapon at the time) in a convienent spot to pick up with my alt and ran out into gFey and kicked the shit out if everyone until the zone emptied. I became the hugest level 4 pker in gFey and was pretty notorious, I had the best hp gear at the time after a while becoming addicted to it. It wasn't much, but enough to pull from my inventory when I was at 1% hp and I would die, preventing anyone from getting loot rights.

My roomate came home and was like 8O 'what are you doing!' And I just stared at him like a Jedi would his master when he turns to the dark side.

[Byrjun]

well depends the era of classic we are talking about.

In very vanilla EQ, pre-Kunark, it was most certainly something you were not proud of.

I remember grouping with warriors with Yaks and shit at Orc Highway pre-Kunark and thinking it was the most badass thing ever. It was like free exp.

[Bamz4l]

It wasn't much, but enough to pull from my inventory when I was at 1% hp and I would die, preventing anyone from getting loot rights.

I played on Rallos when Tallon was down. I loved ganging up on the twinks. I even got a skull-shaped barbute off a level 5 twink and then I used to do the pull from slot trick too. Also on Tallon My buddy and I had lvl 24 rogue/pally twinks that murdered groups in Highpass routinely. Slime coated harpoon / Arbitor's Combine Greatsword early kunark when those were top-end. It was redic.

[iruinedyourday]

I played on Rallos when Tallon was down. I loved ganging up on the twinks. I even got a skull-shaped barbute off a level 5 twink and then I used to do the pull from slot trick too. Also on Tallon My buddy and I had lvl 24 rogue/pally twinks that murdered groups in Highpass routinely. Slime coated harpoon / Arbitor's Combine Greatsword early kunark when those were top-end. It was redic.

Haha I used to love it when the level 1s-4s would get raids together to try to kill me it was so fun.

[Scikala]

Never experienced any kind of bashing on Nameless, either. Everybody I ran into were either twinks or twinking, even by late 1999.

I honestly can't remember any twink bashing on Nameless either. Pretty sure our server was pretty mild in that regards.

EC had Beardo, and LoS/Remedy were pretty pleasant top end guilds in terms of friendly?(that I remember)

I think the only rivalry that I can remember were guilds like Sanctuary until they crumbled early velious, and with the Taiwanese population.

[Halius]

the class drawing were awesome.. i wish I could find them ...

https://web.archive.org/web/20010331045317im_/http://eq.castersrealm.com/images/Sk_bg.jpg

[iruinedyourday]

https://web.archive.org/web/20010331045317im_/http://eq.castersrealm.com/images/Sk_bg.jpg

This is exactly why I call EQ the D&D of MMO's (that was a lot of abbreviations) becuse it reminds me so much of this:

http://hicksvillecomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/monster_manual.jpg

and the other thing that really makes me smile.. when you walk out to a ledge or something, and you get a text prompt: 'the wind howls as you approach the ledge'.. its a video game! you can literately make the wind howl if you want lol!!... but the result of that makes me feel like I'm plaing a pen and paper Rpg with my friends in high school again.

So much more than any other MMO yet :)

[iruinedyourday]

And in the spirit, also this: http://windows95tips.com/

http://31.media.tumblr.com/cfea5b31d7862577399984cb7d9c3575/tumblr_mu4cc42mJW1rehruqo1_500.png

At this point I almost hope this thread turns into something like retrojunk.com

[Halius]

Here is a game I used to play when I couldn't play EQ.

http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/458770-microsoft-windows-98-98se-included-games-windows-screenshot.jpg

[Ahldagor]

pauline cheats

[Dragonsblood1987]

haha omg casters realm! I'm about to wayback to that motha fugga right now! :D

This community is basically the coolest thing on the internet.

Guys I have a question, I notice there is a /r/project1999 on reddit... How many crossover users from there to here are there?

I want to talk to all my new classic EQ buddies!

Reddit is populated solely by pompous pseudo militant atheists who think they're far more intelligent than they actually are. And feminists. All of them however are average or below, refuse to concede when they're wrong (if they're even capable of comprehending anything beyond upboats), and make shitty eq players because they're so used to playing world of carebears and all the other super easy welfare games they love religiously with their primitive minds.

[webrunner5]

Yeah, I was a Everlore junkie back in the day also. Wow, this thread brings back some good memories. :)

[koros]

Anyone who thinks twinks were ever looked down on, are mistaking jealously for disgust.

[Bboboo]

Reddit is populated solely by pompous pseudo militant atheists who think they're far more intelligent than they actually are. And feminists. All of them however are average or below, refuse to concede when they're wrong (if they're even capable of comprehending anything beyond upboats), and make shitty eq players because they're so used to playing world of carebears and all the other super easy welfare games they love religiously with their primitive minds.

Downboated.

[Aviann]

Skaterr Gnome

[Chronoburn]

Why the word "twink" though .. I think it was a gay reference before eq.

[iruinedyourday]

im not trying to be offensive, but the word twink in the gay community refers to a little cute boyish love toy...

hence the alt being a little, cute, well dressed toon toy.. became popular.

I mean, if DING made a commic about twinks anonmous, then obviosuly there was a pretty common joke about them being well dressed but shitty players, hence people often disliking them.

people working hard for thier gear, then some noob twink leroy jenkening them and then /logging when people try to give him advice, is probubly what gave them the bad reps.

but everyone experience is different! I for one would con dubious to a twink IRL.

[Chronoburn]

http://i.imgur.com/cy6tac3.png

[Halius]

http://i.imgur.com/cy6tac3.png

Holy crap! I forgot about this game, burned some time on this for sure.

[Invoke]

Holy crap! I forgot about this game, burned some time on this for sure.


The duck sound when you hit a bad shot was classic. :D

[GnashingOfTeeth]

So I just started 1999 this week, and in spirit of this new amazing thing i went to the way back machine to check out the ol' Allakazam the way I remembered it! Who else remembers booting up their PC in the morning after camping jboots in Njina all night, and scrolling through the days updates of newly added items and quests? :D

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/25736152/allakazam.PNG

If youre curious how I got to the old alla webpage, the wayback machine can be found here: http://archive.org/web/

best everlore post ever was the eq fan faire3 or 4, and the guy in the front row looked like a halfling, EPIC, wish i could find it.

[Zuranthium]

the casters realm drawing of the shadowknight was probably the most baller thing everthe class drawing were awesome.. i wish I could find them ...

Yessss! Someone should find those.

[Kika Maslyaka]

found some of them here, more at archived casters realm:
http://www.eqclassic.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=414

Female Cleric and Paladin are so orgasmic ;)

http://s3.amazonaws.com/bambackup/38412569?AWSAccessKeyId=1K3S7Z90W9SH1PAJ9702&Expires=1399262987&Signature=UA6Q4xFihJU%2B4PVUD9uaLgaIZuU%3D

http://16.imagebam.com/download/OQTpJHIZaKhcHJRPBiimRQ/3842/38412559/Cleric_bg.jpg

[Zuranthium]

Ah yes they are still there after all!

The concept art/screenshots I miss the most, though, is for Horizons. That was looking to be the most phenomenal MMO to date. So sad how the game got completely mangled; it could have been revolutionary and exactly what we wanted. The direction of the entire genre has instead gone in the wrong direction as the result of WoW. *sigh*

[iruinedyourday]

Amazing. Eq is truly the D&D of MMO's.

[Wrench]

found some of them here, more at archived casters realm:
http://www.eqclassic.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=414

these need to be added to the wiki for posterity imo

i remember those drawing being iconic for me aswell

[Xerxez]

Skaterr Gnome

Ty so much for reminding me of this I would laugh for hours because of this dude