Oldest active player/forum account

[eisley]

Eratani and I are trying to find the person with the oldest signup date.

Currently, I've got him beat by a month: 11-11-2009
But with an embarrassing ~880 posts, or 0.20 per day.

Meanwhile, Eratani, in addition to being one of the coolest dudes on the server (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRdYufrcsP8) clocks in at 4,500 posts, or about one per day, despite his join date of 12-27-2009.

I had a few other thoughts (Aata, Catherin) but they're quite a bit later. Even Dald has a surprisingly late join date of 06-08-2010.

I would check Franswa but I don't know his forum name. I can find a few inactives with older dates than mine, like Hasbinbad's 10-19-2009.

So currently, though I've got him beat slightly, Eratani absolutely smashes me in popularity and consistency, he's been pretty much active straight from Vanilla to this day. I pretty much quit after a few months of farming each expansion. Plus everyone loves him, I mean, who doesn't like Eratani? He's like Fingerz except the opposite. So I'm #1 old person right now, but Eratani is #1 old cool person.

Thank you for any assistance in getting to the bottom of this important endeavour.

[eisley]

Franswa to the rescue

[Allishia]

spaz =P

[nilzark]

I asked the same question a couple of years ago. This is what happened: https://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=147533

[Tunabros]

damn does franswa still play?

[Chortles Snortles]

slurp

[Reis]

Pretty sure I stumbled in here via a link from another EQ project early on and the forums had just gone up around that time. I haven't really even played since green launched but I still check the forums occasionally, just don't post.

[eisley]

damn does franswa still play?

Yeah, he says he hasn't been playing much the past month or so though. I believe Franswa is the only person left who I was guilded with from Vanilla all through the merry go round. (IB > Rampage > TR > Awakened)

[eisley]

Pretty sure I stumbled in here via a link from another EQ project early on and the forums had just gone up around that time. I haven't really even played since green launched but I still check the forums occasionally, just don't post.

Similar story for me. I played another custom EQ game (Shards of Dalaya) and I knew Sirken from Vallon Zek and VZTZ. To be honest, at first I thought this game had no chance, lol.

[Ashimar]

Hearing the name Eratani and Hasbinbad bring back memories....

[Somekid123]

10-20-2009 for me but im not active on forums, lurk once n awhile and hop on red to say hello when the planet's align every 7 years.

[Kirdan]

I think Droxx has a 2009 date too, probably close to that list.

[Toxigen]

Can confirm Tani being one of the realest elves out there.

[Tunabros]

Eratani is like the opposite of Detoxx.

kind, helpful, and overall a very cool person

you feel very safe hearing his voice in comms

[Chortles Snortles]

https://i.imgur.com/Liqro6i.jpg

[Bones]

Pretty sure I stumbled in here via a link from another EQ project early on and the forums had just gone up around that time. I haven't really even played since green launched but I still check the forums occasionally, just don't post.

nice!

I played in the beta for a few weeks coming hot off Clumsy's World (also dabbled around on VZTZ for like 2 years prior off and on) when p99 beta was announced which basically killed Clumsy's World server :( . I didn't make a forum account for about a few weeks I believe, but was online the day it launched. Not even really sure how to check join date but I bet you have me beat there.

I am still active but extremely casual now as life has changed a lot in 13 years.

[getsome]

Not even really sure how to check join date .

General Information
Last Activity: Today 07:21 AM
Join Date: 10-21-2009
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[Lich]

I'm only active in game.

10-18-2009

[kuuky]

I don't play anymore and barely read forums but since I read this I'll contribute. I joined 11-21-2009.

[kawing168]

I'm not active on forum and just came back after 6 years break.

[Barahir]

Olds

[Strifer]

Hearing the name Eratani and Hasbinbad bring back memories....

Haven't heard HBB's name in ages. Same with Harrison. Wonder where they are now.

[Ripqozko]

Haven't heard HBB's name in ages. Same with Harrison. Wonder where they are now.

I like to think that HBB is out there torching cars and protesting something. Storm feather broke him. Rip sweet prince.

[Danth]

I vaguely recall that this particular board wasn't open right when P99 first started up and for a short period we were using a different forum that had a black color theme.

Danth

[Barahir]

I vaguely recall that this particular board wasn't open right when P99 first started up and for a short period we were using a different forum that had a black color theme.

Danth

Maybe a section of the emu forums?

[Supreme]

Hold my beer.

[Crease]

I think Droxx has a 2009 date too, probably close to that list.

Droxx sitting with a 10-19-09 while actively leading a guild still.

[Pint]

https://i.imgur.com/JsMXUZR.png

day one or bust guys

[JayDee]

was creating a character the moment server first went live

god it feels good to be a gangsta

[fastboy21]

You can just check the accounts:
https://www.project1999.com/forums/member.php?u=822

Is my account (fastboy21)...I am number 822. Replace the 822 in the URL and you'll find all the other numbers. Won't tell you who is active...but it will give you the list.

[eisley]

I vaguely recall that this particular board wasn't open right when P99 first started up and for a short period we were using a different forum that had a black color theme.

Danth

Yeah, we used EQEmu forums during beta.

We left to our own forums right before official release I think, and forked completely from EQEmu sometime during Kunark iirc. Which turned out to be a very bad idea, as EQEmu went on to get some amazing Devs and right now the stock EQEmu code is more Classic than p99 codebase in many areas (combat, charm, channeling, loot tables, so on).

[fastboy21]

Yeah, we used EQEmu forums during beta.

We left to our own forums right before official release I think, and forked completely from EQEmu sometime during Kunark iirc. Which turned out to be a very bad idea, as EQEmu went on to get some amazing Devs and right now the stock EQEmu code is more Classic than p99 codebase in many areas (combat, charm, channeling, loot tables, so on).

Not trolling. I haven't played any non-live version of EQ other than p99 in a long long time...is EQEmu actually this good now?

[JayDee]

Maybe a section of the emu forums?

yea was emulator forums. nilbog posted about his vision for a new "classic" server. not many cared or believed in it. there was something like 40-50 players online on night 1.

[Pint]

I recall the early days being a few hundred ppl from eqemu and eqclassic communities but maybe I'm being too generous. Global chat probably made it seems like there was more going on then there was.

[eisley]

Not trolling. I haven't played any non-live version of EQ other than p99 in a long long time...is EQEmu actually this good now?

Indeed it is. This is largely because Torven joined the EQEmu staff.

Some Torven highlights

Charm, Lull (https://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43370)

NPC Double Attack / Dual Wield (big one) (https://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=38708)

Melee Combat routines (https://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=40543)

Basically, if you log on stock EQEmu now, it's like a slap across the face how classic it feels compared to p99. Holy crap, NPCs equip their dropped items. Whoa, mobs have different delay per hand and don't quad every round. Statue doesn't quad at ALL unless he has two weapons. (due to his low level).

Sontalak with Exquisite fast weapons can quad, each weapon swings individually. Feshlak with his Staff can proc it. On and on.

Oh, and don't even get me started on Channeling. On p99 we've just come to accept casting with mobs beating us in the face. Yeah, no. Back to kiting and helping your groupmates.

It's fun.

[Reis]

I would say the biggest difference is probably the lack of stamina being calculated per melee swing honestly. Early days the server had less than 20 melee characters online at any given time, 3 swings and you were out of stamina. Shame the weapon weight/stamina drain per swing was never able to be corrected, and instead was just dropped. I feel that is the biggest early change that signaled the direction the server was going.

To be clear though, I enjoyed playing here as it was, and appreciate all the work that has gone into the server.

[Bones]

I recall the early days being a few hundred ppl from eqemu and eqclassic communities but maybe I'm being too generous. Global chat probably made it seems like there was more going on then there was.

It did build quickly, but it didn't reach over 100 for at least a month if memory serves. JD is right in that it had like 40-50 opening night and most of the first week.

Once it started hitting those 100's numbers the server was having trouble sustaining the load, probably because it was being run off a box in nilbogs garage or something, at which point hardware ownership was basically handed off to Rogean where he had the project housed on a server at an actual data center. There was also many rough patches of being DDoS'd by mad kids being banned for cheating and abusing unfixed exploits and dupes.

How many people remember gettin the EQ itch and not being able to login for hours sometimes days at a time? I think I even remember it being down for nearly a whole week at one point as Rogean was trying to get DDoS protection for the server.

How far its come. For better or for worse.

[lyyfeleech]

I'm 10/21/09

[eqravenprince]

10-19-2009 here

[Valdain]

not quite as long as the 09 people here. I stumbled on this project through the forums of another EQ Progression server i was following called EQClassic. It had a really lively forum since the game had not been released. They had a roadmap for their progression on the build, but having just checked the site again, it looks like it may have fizzed out at the end of 2020 or early 2021. I remember the forums dying down pretty quickly once P99 started to catch on.

The most recent dev post in that forum mentions another project called Project Lantern, so who knows if they're even still working on EQC

[MrSparkle001]

not quite as long as the 09 people here. I stumbled on this project through the forums of another EQ Progression server i was following called EQClassic. It had a really lively forum since the game had not been released. They had a roadmap for their progression on the build, but having just checked the site again, it looks like it may have fizzed out at the end of 2020 or early 2021. I remember the forums dying down pretty quickly once P99 started to catch on.

The most recent dev post in that forum mentions another project called Project Lantern, so who knows if they're even still working on EQC

Yeah I think that's how I found P99 too, from EQClassic forums.

Although there was another "classic" EQ server I used to play on then that I can't remember the name of. I have screenshots from it and a separate install folder for it still. I have no clue what it used to be though. I think it used PoK and other non-classic things, I have a vague memory of that.

[stavio]

Not sure what took me so long to create a forum account, but I've been around for quite sometime. Chirp started out as my honeycomb farmer for stein of moggoks.

[bomaroast]

My first toon's birthday is November 9, 2009, but I no longer play. P99 gets progressively worse every year. (the narrowness of the xp highway, the overuse of zerg forces, and enchanters being totally OP and not classic)

I do still love the idea of eq though, and feel nostalgic for it regularly.

[Thulack]

I've posted 3 times in the last 5 years and still averaging 1.11 posts a day with account created in 2011. Man i talked too much on here back in the day. Somehow Eratani overtook me in posts too. I feel ashamed.

[Gustoo]

It felt very different when you could trade accounts and when you could trade between red and blue.

Feels really different now then those times.

Running a casino on blue while insidiously campaigning for red 1.0

I even stockpiled pvp twink gear in case they allowed some kind of transfer from blue to red of characters or items.

So much used to be on the table.

And it seems like p99 has been so successful that most of the other emu projects never get critical mass, though there are some and they have good communities of their own.

[Snagglepuss]

Haven't heard HBB's name in ages. Same with Harrison. Wonder where they are now.

Probably still Fat. Mad. Sad. Bad. Harrison. Man people used to flame him so hard. Remember back when there was no red forum containment section and people would just roast him in the server chat...

Then there was the great RNF war with Feachie, Tralina and Deathgirl.... oh and Visage was a troll too... so many memories from the golden era of P99

[Naerron]

i might qualify, but also, you might want to go off the original forums

https://classicbetatest.guildlaunch.com/forums/index.php?gid=62867

[eisley]

i might qualify, but also, you might want to go off the original forums

https://classicbetatest.guildlaunch.com/forums/index.php?gid=62867

yeah, that's when it was mostly shards of dalaya people.

[-Catherin-]

I technically started on P99 during the big SoE hack that caused all of their servers to go offline for weeks. I was playing EQ2 at the time and a lot of people were taking the opportunity to tell us all to try P99.

After the servers came back I went back to EQ2 for a short time and then realized it sucked. So then I returned to stay :). First forum account, simply named Catherin, was not approved for some reason, and I didn’t bother to try again until sometime later.

It wouldn’t accept the same name again, which resulted in the slight alteration

[eisley]

I technically started on P99 during the big SoE hack that caused all of their servers to go offline for weeks. I was playing EQ2 at the time and a lot of people were taking the opportunity to tell us all to try P99.

After the servers came back I went back to EQ2 for a short time and then realized it sucked. So then I returned to stay :). First forum account, simply named Catherin, was not approved for some reason, and I didn’t bother to try again until sometime later.

It wouldn’t accept the same name again, which resulted in the slight alteration

Oddly I was wondering why your forum account is relatively new (post-Kunark, I believe Kunark was 2011-2015) despite seeing you in Vanilla.

[-Catherin-]

Oddly I was wondering why your forum account is relatively new (post-Kunark, I believe Kunark was 2011-2015) despite seeing you in Vanilla.

Yeah, when i returned Kunark had already dropped. Was already 50 though, whirl till you hurl mechanics were great back in vanilla lol. Maxed out the exp during the SoE outage

[eisley]

Yeah, when i returned Kunark had already dropped. Was already 50 though, whirl till you hurl mechanics were great back in vanilla lol. Maxed out the exp during the SoE outage

lol yeah, I remember grouping with you in vanilla. Whirl til you hurl was the first like big nerf I remember. (For those unaware, for a looooooong time Whirl Til U Hurl was effectively a permastun on anything. Catherin can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it always lasted 12 seconds. It may have been unresistable too? because I remember using it on red cons a lot. It also may have worked on otherwise stun immune things but I'm hazy on that too. 55 mana for 12 sec stun basically meant you didn't even need a tank, but it also made it so that it was ideal to fight higher level stuff.)

You guys also may feel like we've been in Velious forever. We were in Kunark for nearly five years too. Kunark has so little content the game almost died. Velious was a meme on the forums for years. Then the deal happened and well, for better or worse, you decide. lol

[-Catherin-]

Yeah i dont even remember being resisted. not sure about stun immune mobs though. Summon chanter pet, take one hit, start whirling. I dont think the duration was fixed though. you just had to chain cast it (there wasnt a cooldown) pets didnt suck up a bunch of exp for doing the most damage back then either

[eisley]

oh yeah, thats right. its 2 ticks, so it lasted from 6 to 12 seconds and could just be spammed as there was no early breaks or diminishing returns.

now, all stuns are capped at 4 seconds max, and can break early. there is or was some mechanic to this where casting the same stun over and over would result in it breaking earlier though, which is why AoE groups needed enchanters casting in different rotations. (all 3 enchanters would cast their 3 stuns in a different order)

also, Chardok wasn't the first place we AoE powerleveled. It was actually... Skyfire. Yeah, it'd take 2 or 3 bards like a half hour to gather up the whole zone and circle it well, but then it could be permastunned just like Chardok later would be. I think it was actually even easier, didn't it only require 1 Enchanter?

Yeah, bit of an oversight. Was so fun looting those pulls. This was also when they put in the exp per kill cap, because one Skyfire pull took a level 1 to level 40.

[-Catherin-]

The 3 chanter stun chain was actually because with such a huge number of mobs, you were going to get resisted on a TON of them and die instantly. skyfire specifically the AEs were so massive that even 3 enchanters could die.

If it was unresistable, one chanter could hold it while mana lasted if they timed the stuns right so you would not have to wait for CDs.

They made wurms stun immune to stop the skyfire stuff, which is why it moved to chardok. Skyfire was better.

[PlsNoBan]

This thread makes me realize how much more fun P99 was before all the fun got nerfed out of it :(

[Shrubwise]

Hasbinbad, Alarti, that metro guy who posted pics of the girls he (claimed) to be hooking up with. Character/account sales (once legal!) and the time they brought down the server for like 2 weeks due to angry nerd DDoS (and then laughed in his face with new hardware)

Pepperidge farm remembers

[TheDudeAbides]

It did build quickly, but it didn't reach over 100 for at least a month if memory serves. JD is right in that it had like 40-50 opening night and most of the first week.

First few months were only a few hundred

[Imago]

I technically started on P99 during the big SoE hack that caused all of their servers to go offline for weeks. I was playing EQ2 at the time and a lot of people were taking the opportunity to tell us all to try P99.

After the servers came back I went back to EQ2 for a short time and then realized it sucked. So then I returned to stay :). First forum account, simply named Catherin, was not approved for some reason, and I didn’t bother to try again until sometime later.

It wouldn’t accept the same name again, which resulted in the slight alteration

I remember this. It was right before Kunark dropped on Fippy Darkpaw. Broke my raid momentum for Twisted Legion, never got it back.

[Loadsamoney]

Probably that former TPO (The Poopsockers Order) member with the Jeremy Irons avatar.

[eisley]

First few months were only a few hundred

Yeah, definitely. I believe even by the Manastone/Guise nerf day there was only around 150 on primetime. Manastones and (especially) Guises weren't particularly hard to get, honestly. I do remember farming them a lot and putting a bunch on alts but if some dude came by wanting one I just let them have it. Wasn't like Green with a 30 hour /list.

[evilwizard]

Hi Eratani

Zexa still needs to give me back my manastone, which will never happen.

Doublefist has my Zlandicar's heart, which i'll never get back.

[Wenai]

Yeah, definitely. I believe even by the Manastone/Guise nerf day there was only around 150 on primetime. Manastones and (especially) Guises weren't particularly hard to get, honestly. I do remember farming them a lot and putting a bunch on alts but if some dude came by wanting one I just let them have it. Wasn't like Green with a 30 hour /list.
Yes. The culture was also different. On Blue I leveled a Cleric to level ~30 and hated it, quit and re-rolled a Shaman. Got to Level 34 and then a friend and I went to the Manastone camp. There was one guy there. He got a Manastone and then handed it off to us. We got one Manastone each and handed it off to the next person. There was plenty of players capable of holding that camp 20 hours a day, but there was no interest in that. Penoy famously was bound at the camp so whenever he died on raid or anything he would kill the EE before getting rezzed if that camp wasn't taken. Hah.

I didn't play enough on Green to get to that point, but I was around when the /list was announced. I assume it was a pretty greedy affair.

I actually think I would win the character age competition in this thread. My Cleric was originally rolled with my forum name "Wenai". We were worried about people trying to troll and steal our forum names so Nilbog let me log in to my player account like 10 minutes early to secure my name. I logged off and waited for the server to unlock just like everyone else, but the character creation happened probably about 10 minutes before server opened.

That character received a lot of CSR requests and server complaints so I ended up getting a name change down the road anyways.

[evilwizard]

Yes. The culture was also different. On Blue I leveled a Cleric to level ~30 and hated it, quit and re-rolled a Shaman. Got to Level 34 and then a friend and I went to the Manastone camp. There was one guy there. He got a Manastone and then handed it off to us. We got one Manastone each and handed it off to the next person. There was plenty of players capable of holding that camp 20 hours a day, but there was no interest in that. Penoy famously was bound at the camp so whenever he died on raid or anything he would kill the EE before getting rezzed if that camp wasn't taken. Hah.

I didn't play enough on Green to get to that point, but I was around when the /list was announced. I assume it was a pretty greedy affair.

I actually think I would win the character age competition in this thread. My Cleric was originally rolled with my forum name "Wenai". We were worried about people trying to troll and steal our forum names so Nilbog let me log in to my player account like 10 minutes early to secure my name. I logged off and waited for the server to unlock just like everyone else, but the character creation happened probably about 10 minutes before server opened.

That character received a lot of CSR requests and server complaints so I ended up getting a name change down the road anyways.

"Penoy" is Freeze and he lives not too far from me, friends with him on FB still. He was just bound there and would check it constantly.

I'm Magic, probably one of the oldest characters on here as I was playing here even in beta. Quit for a while after Nilbog deleted my Broom of Trilon (server first) because Temple of Sol Ro wasn't supposed to be open. Came back and they had changed my mage's name for some reason. Got my druid to 50, his name was "halfling" and then they changed it to "Deputy" -- all of my characters had lowercase names.

I got a GM banned because i showed him how to do the Tumpy Tonic quest with the koala nuts and he did it repeatedly to get 50 in like a night, lol. Pretty sure his name was Tantalar or something, he was a ranger. [Edit]: Good read here (https://www.project1999.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-1213.html). Blink was a dude I played with pretty frequently back then, but never got personal and he just kind of disappeared. Apparently someone in his circle had working MacroQuest with ghost hack (attack/kill any mob in the zone from any distance, flying etc). There were a few monks that were pretty sus, which this would explain it.

Reiker and pals were leveling up when me and spoolie and evo were already level 30. They made a guild called Rusty Long Swords which then became Fine Steel Long Swords. I was holding the EE camp and let Reiker and Zexa come down while my pet was soloing EE. Stone dropped, they begged in mumble for me to give it to Zexa since "she's a cleric bro she needs it not u" and Zexa said she'd give it back one day. Never did of course. Reiker then proceeded to get banned for using ShowEQ and some other radar stuff. They all used it.

I remember when Jeremy rolled here. He exploited the jewelcrafting recipes and became rich overnight.

Half of TMO got banned for some RMT scandal and most of my friends quit around that time. Server used to be dope, slowly turned into a popularity contest along with weird inner guild politics where people probably let guild leaders bang their wives for loot. Sad tbh

[-Catherin-]

I remember seeing you around. always seemed to be in Mistmoore for some reason.

And yeah that lower case name made me jealous lol. My last name is a bit unique too. they stopped allowing special characters in names a long time ago, but let "Min'Dazzle" stay.

The name was created by petition request. I cant remember if its just because that was the way to get a surname back then or because it was a special request

[Danth]

I cant remember if its just because that was the way to get a surname back then or because it was a special request

For years, actually until recently enough that I thought it was still current (they don't do it anymore?), if you wanted a ` in your surname you had to petition for it and usually they'd give you one. I don't recall the GMs ever routinely giving out names with other types of special characters; certainly I've never seen people with $'s or &'s running around.

Danth

[eisley]

Basically, early Blue was just a lot more laid back. If you had told me back then it would turn into THIS I wouldn't have believed it.

Aside from all the bugs, the playerbase was generally a lot friendlier and didn't take pixels so seriously. I guess that kinda came with the territory being new and having a smaller playerbase. At the time, the most popular EQEmu game was probably Shards of Dalaya or EZServer.

Yeah, you could get ' in last name from petition.

I think I posted this already, but this is the oldest toon I still have. I can't remember opening day, but I feel like it was maybe 2-3 weeks before this?

Sirken used to delete and restore my guise on Tream randomly, because stuff like that is funny to Sirken. (We knew each other on Vallon Zek). Then one day I asked him for it back and he was like "Maybe" and didn't do it. Then he just never did. And well, it's a bit late now. And that's the wild story about Sirken destroyed my Guise for no apparent reason.

[-Catherin-]

I think it helped that the game was not nearly so top heavy back then. There was one true raid guild (IB).

Things didn't really start to get ugly until more guilds started aspiring to do the same.

Even to this day, the regular player base that is not involved in that scene is mostly the same as i remember it.

[-Catherin-]

For years, actually until recently enough that I thought it was still current (they don't do it anymore?), if you wanted a ` in your surname you had to petition for it and usually they'd give you one. I don't recall the GMs ever routinely giving out names with other types of special characters; certainly I've never seen people with $'s or &'s running around.

Danth

There were even a very small group of people running around with three word names

[Weekapaug]

The thing I'll always remember about early p99 were the quite persistent global /ooc spammers and the ever-increasing measures taken to thwart them without actually disabling global /ooc. Almost as entertaining as playing.

[azeth]

This thread is making me reminisce about the early years on the server. Obviously true 1999 classic can't be recreated because we the gamers are aware of many of the secrets and the progression. But even 12 or 13 years ago when the server premiered, EverQuest still had a little bit of mystery alive in it. And I'm really thankful to Nilbog and Rogean for giving us the platform to experience that again

[pogs4ever]

aye, thought i had a shot at this being 4/2010 but like 4000 user id's between that list and me lol.

original p99 was super fun, broken proc rates, global chat, rogean was playing daily, docks translocators lol.

-Purpyl

edit: also people were really nice and chill.

[Naerron]

y'all remember when Rogean and Nilbog would come down in the form of gods and buff people and interact with the player base? I remember when they gave my mage C3...i was a god myself for a few hours lol.

And yea, the server culture was 100% different, it was a lot like the culture on other emu servers, where people just give away stuff they aren't using. It was a pretty neat time to be around. My first guild was the all mage guild that pretty much owned oasis for a bit lol.

good times

[eisley]

This thread is making me reminisce about the early years on the server. Obviously true 1999 classic can't be recreated because we the gamers are aware of many of the secrets and the progression. But even 12 or 13 years ago when the server premiered, EverQuest still had a little bit of mystery alive in it. And I'm really thankful to Nilbog and Rogean for giving us the platform to experience that again

Hey Azeth :]

Yeah, in my opinion this game did accomplish it's goal because when I look back it was very much it's own thing and something I'll be nostalgic about just like I am for the original EQlive. Just as I remember fondly doing NToV on Tarew Marr with Enlightened Dark, I remember it as fondly here with Rampage and Awakened. They were very much their own things, but being a part of it and seeing it play out was awesome.

It came a long way from 150 of us in Vanilla with global chat joking about all the bugs, to the utter depths of despair of late Kunark, to the thrill of Velious beta and release, and reaching 2600 or whatever players. When I started I didn't think it'd even make it to Kunark. Nilbog, Rogean, and Sirken get a lot of credit, but 100+ people contributed to this game, from long retired devs like Uthgaard to long retired GMs like Eunomia to bug reporters like Daldaen (the self-nerfer!) and Ele.

[Keykey]

Eunomia

:)

[Arkanjil]

Eratani and I are trying to find the person with the oldest signup date.

Currently, I've got him beat by a month: 11-11-2009
But with an embarrassing ~880 posts, or 0.20 per day.

Meanwhile, Eratani, in addition to being one of the coolest dudes on the server (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRdYufrcsP8) clocks in at 4,500 posts, or about one per day, despite his join date of 12-27-2009.

I had a few other thoughts (Aata, Catherin) but they're quite a bit later. Even Dald has a surprisingly late join date of 06-08-2010.

I would check Franswa but I don't know his forum name. I can find a few inactives with older dates than mine, like Hasbinbad's 10-19-2009.

So currently, though I've got him beat slightly, Eratani absolutely smashes me in popularity and consistency, he's been pretty much active straight from Vanilla to this day. I pretty much quit after a few months of farming each expansion. Plus everyone loves him, I mean, who doesn't like Eratani? He's like Fingerz except the opposite. So I'm #1 old person right now, but Eratani is #1 old cool person.

Thank you for any assistance in getting to the bottom of this important endeavour.

I’ve got you beat :p

[Glasken]

Months late from the start, but still here. Still old.

[Pint]

We can wrap this one up guys, I'm the oldest active player

[sever]

Grouped with Hasbin a few times on route to 50. Pretty sure you’d need to dig up fossils like us by now. Surprised ‘99 is still going strong after so long.

[Swish]

I found this server while looking up a quest on Allakhazam while playing one of the early live custom servers (Mayong 51/50). Someone had P99 in their signature in the comments.

Fast forward not too much and they axed Mayong, axed the server I hopped to afterwards which was STILL NEW, so I flipped the SOE table and came here instead and never went back. You lucky people.

[JayDee]

Hour 1

[Gilder]

May 1 2012 on Gilder. And I still play.

[Akinero]

Join Date
11-02-2009
Total Posts
168

Been lurking a long time.

[Salaryman]

RED99

I am the Number #1 PVPER in all of EverQuest History

RED99