Rerolling fresh untwinked toon anyone wanna team up

[Auuken]

Long time lurker here, recently made forum account. I work full time and i'm taking programming classes. BUT I still have an hour or two a day to play some EQ to cool off and have fun.

In 1999 vanilla EQ I had a 40 Warrior and had loads of fun. I'm hoping to get back into the game, and group as much as possible :). Most of my fond memories were the groups from classic EQ.

So if anyone wants to reroll a fresh, untwinked char with me and group up to knock out some low level dungeons and casually level up, that would be fun ^^.

I'm planning on monk, human or iskar idk.

Looking forward to leveling slow and steady and trying out a few different zones/leveling paths. Anyone interested?

[Issar]

If you post the time of day that you plan on playing it would help others see if their schedule lines up with yours. Good luck in your adventures, Auuken!

[Auuken]

If you post the time of day that you plan on playing it would help others see if their schedule lines up with yours. Good luck in your adventures, Auuken!

Oh good idea, thanks.

I'm thinking around 7-11pm GMT - 6 or CST.

Also, is there an LFG feature outside of game client that you guys use?

[ketzerei84]

I almost thought you were on a euro schedule at first. (Formatting Tip: Timezone(GMT-#) is preferred.)

I've got a level 1 eru sk, a level 2 eru necro, and been considering rolling up a war, enc, wiz, dru... Needless to say altitis gives me options, but I don't think i could do this every day - depending on your choice of human/iksar monk and whether or not you're going to port and rebind your iksar if you do go that route(and why not, they are moar bettah ^^) I'm sure I could bring something to the table for 2-3 days a week ;p

[Auuken]

I almost thought you were on a euro schedule at first. (Formatting Tip: Timezone(GMT-#) is preferred.)

I've got a level 1 eru sk, a level 2 eru necro, and been considering rolling up a war, enc, wiz, dru... Needless to say altitis gives me options, but I don't think i could do this every day - depending on your choice of human/iksar monk and whether or not you're going to port and rebind your iksar if you do go that route(and why not, they are moar bettah ^^) I'm sure I could bring something to the table for 2-3 days a week ;p

Formatting tip noted.

2-3 days / week sounds a bit more realistic. I might as well go Iskar, past characters were human and barbarian mostly. I'm venturing to guess your alts are iskar?

[RDawg816]

I'm venturing to guess your alts are iskar?
It sounded like he was saying he'd be able to group on his Erudites (or future alts) if you ported your iksar to the mainlands.

[Auuken]

if you ported your iksar to the mainlands.

Ah, would a port be easy to get? I'll have a fresh toon with no plat or abilities to trade.

[ketzerei84]

Im not opposed to getting one of my toons out to fob and binding at the ramp either if you wanted to level in kunark

[RDawg816]

Ah, would a port be easy to get? I'll have a fresh toon with no plat or abilities to trade.
There are some nice people that would come get you. Look for dial a port members or try in /ooc in the meantime. Note that you can port to EJ easily, FoB is not so far away.

[Auuken]

Im not opposed to getting one of my toons out to fob and binding at the ramp either if you wanted to level in kunark

Sounds like fun, what classes duo or group well with monk?

[Salerno]

shaman, enchanter work well with monk. Shaman more so.

[gprater]

if you are really serious about not twinking and earning everything, you should consider joining Auld Lang Syne guild. You can see their thread in the guild discussion section.

[ketzerei84]

Yeah... I'm not playing a shaman ;p But I'll get something out there soonish!

[b_rob242]

I main a necro and regularly duo with a human monk. Pretty steady kills happening. Necro heals and a topped off mend/FD on the monk help too. Pet technically makes it a trio. LOL. I have been RP'ing on my IKS [clan of Suulangband -Ssessth (NEC), Shaadoe (SHD), and newest member Zylys (MNK)]. Trying to keep Zylys completely untwinked and on Kunark for full progression. Only speaking lizardman and trying not to eat too many Gnomes!

[Trollhide]

if you are really serious about not twinking and earning everything, you should consider joining Auld Lang Syne guild. You can see their thread in the guild discussion section.

http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2449643#post2449643

Everyone in our guild starts from scratch and earns gear exclusively through drops, crafting, and trading with guildies only - no EC tunnelquesting is allowed. I have a 21 gnome cleric and it's honestly been the most fun I have had in 3 years of playing here. Leave the mudflation economy behind and find out what classic EQ is really about :)

[Dragonslayer]

http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2449643#post2449643

Everyone in our guild starts from scratch and earns gear exclusively through drops, crafting, and trading with guildies only - no EC tunnelquesting is allowed. I have a 21 gnome cleric and it's honestly been the most fun I have had in 3 years of playing here. Leave the mudflation economy behind and find out what classic EQ is really about :)

I have always loved the idea of start from scratch and work your way up. this sounds like fun but even in classic there was the EC and GF trading areas to sell and buy items you and others needed to finish either quest or trade skills. Restricting members from buying things they would have no way of getting at their lvl is great but all together sounds a little un-classic. It was still the way to make pp to save for later items and spells and other stuff. Still I love this idea.

[RDawg816]

It was still the way to make pp to save for later items and spells and other stuff. Still I love this idea.
Saving up 100p for banded is different than saving up 100p for a weapon you shouldn't be able to afford in a non-top-heavy economy. There's nothing stopping you from buying from your higher level guildees, or for those guildees to offer decent prices for tradeskill material farming from you.... it might not be classic, but it's a lot more classic than what everyone else is playing. :)

[b_rob242]

I never played on live, but buying/selling around the world (say a shaman gets to level to craft/sell sow potions) seems like a good for the economy like it's pretty hardcore especially if they are gathering their own materials. Even if they see someone selling the bear skins they need, that doesn't seem like cheating. In a real-world economy, don't people buy components from other makers then assemble them into a new item? Seems fine to me, maybe in the vein of ingredients for other sellable goods that could not be found any other way (sow pots, banded armor, etc). I don't like the idea of MQ'ing or just buying everything for your alts. I did this once and it felt like cheating.

[RDawg816]

In a real-world economy, don't people buy components from other makers then assemble them into a new item? Seems fine to me, maybe in the vein of ingredients for other sellable goods that could not be found any other way (sow pots, banded armor, etc).
The guild in question allows this. You just have to keep the buying and selling within the guild.
If you spend your low levels killing skeletons and then sell those bone chips in EC you could easily have enough money to buy full banded by level 4. That's not classic. If you then sell all your Orc belts and pads, orc/gnoll scalps, Shiny brass idol, Shralok packs and whatnot....now you have a haste item and a 31/37 damage weapon before 25. It just gets more and more ridiculous.

I'm not in ALS but I commend them for playing "honestly."

[b_rob242]

They sound like a pretty good group of players (ALS). I may have to check them out. I guess my hang up would be, if I was a shaman running through a zone or hunting and someone asked to buy SOW pots, I would sell, but I'm not parking my happy butt in EC for hours trying to pimp my stuff all my life. To quote Sweet Brown, "Ain't nobody got time for that." If they could life even with that, I could live with them. Back to the topic, if they play untwinked and have members on when OP is, could be a good fit for him as well. GL OP!

[spaceaids]

me, im starting new from scratch HMU

[Dragonslayer]

The guild in question allows this. You just have to keep the buying and selling within the guild.
If you spend your low levels killing skeletons and then sell those bone chips in EC you could easily have enough money to buy full banded by level 4. That's not classic. If you then sell all your Orc belts and pads, orc/gnoll scalps, Shiny brass idol, Shralok packs and whatnot....now you have a haste item and a 31/37 damage weapon before 25. It just gets more and more ridiculous.

I'm not in ALS but I commend them for playing "honestly."

Not true/ this is classic. I know, I was there. Others would buy your chips and GLStones so you could eventually buy the banded. true it wasn't as easy to sell the bone chips in such quantities as today but it was still a way to make pp to upgrade. I'm not saying sell the items to buy gear or weapons way above your lvl, but selling items to earn pp to buy spells, buy supplies to actually up your trade skills is necessity in the game and in true classic of 1999.

I love the idea of the guild here in question and working to earn every thing you have. I have done it many a time already but you "can not" have, nor expect a closed economy to work. It's just not possible. Even in the top guilds on this server, you wouldn't have enough diversity of people and abilities to have a closed economy, let alone one as small and as few in members as this. there just isn't enough nor will there ever be enough like minded individuals on P99.

I'm all for guildies having first call on purchasing items (even at a special) guild price. But you have to be able to sell your loot or farmed/trade skilled goods out side the guild. Would you honestly put all the time, work and effort (plat) into upping a trade-skill if it's ever only going to be accessible to a very few players? No, I don't think you would, don't kid your self. better to be honest than to just slip around and sell the stuff. Again, I'm not saying sell to earn plat and buy items you shouldn't have but the player needs to be able to sell his goods and services for income.

Restricting the members from selling out side the guild is way to unrealistic and will eventually hurt the guild and it's members personally in leveling their characters skills and abilities that will in the long run benefit the guild.

I have a Druid that's 28 that i have thought of entering and has earned every thing he has by himself or in normal groups with others, so nothing he has is a rule breaker, but I wouldn't be expected to not make plat off porting others around. i would of course give free rides to guildies and be true to leveling and earning my items but I most definitely not be locked into a closed economy. In the end it will only hurt your numbers. Just my 2 cents.

Love the idea of self sufficient and not twinking but some of the ideas just want work.

[RDawg816]

Would you honestly put all the time, work and effort (plat) into upping a trade-skill if it's ever only going to be accessible to a very few players? No, I don't think you would, don't kid your self.
I already do this. I've leveled my tailoring, smithing, alchemy, pottery, etc. and I only ever use them for friends and guildees (at cost). There are plenty of ways to make money in this game without being a tunnel rat.

As for your comment about selling bone chips, you still can. Sell them within the guild. On my server they went for like 2-5p a stack, eventually. In EC you can easily get 10p a stack. That's not classic at all.

We'll have to agree to disagree, but this thread is off-topic now....