Noob here!

[bosshogg]

Hi All,

Am in Canada 52 year old male. First mmo was WoW when it first came out and quit after cata dropped, like so many.

I cracked open P99 a few years ago but I had such a hard time trying to figure out what to do or how to find quests etc that I gave up but now I want to give it a go again.

Into PvE and just developing my character and exploring the world. All the servers are a little confusing right now...well everything is confusing right now lol.

What server do people suggest for me.. also any video series i can watch to help me learn my way around? A character that is easiest to play maybe and what area to start in.. stuff like that.

Any other pointers are VERY welcome!

Thank you,
Al

PS... I might as well ask this since I'm here. I have an Ideapad 3 Gaming laptop with a AMD Ryzen 7 4800H and a GForce GTX 1650 Ti and it has 8gig ddr4 3200mhz. I know this is more than enough to run P99... I just want to ask if getting another stick of RAM to get to 16gig is something I should consider. Personally I dont think so because when I check, even with something like WoW running I never see more than 80% of ram used. Any geeks here who can tell me if there are any benefits for me going to 16gig? THANKS :)

[putrid_plum]

I say play green because it has a greater player count, more lower end than someone with 10 L60's with epics max geared, and 'if' it gets merged (which I suspect it wont) you'll end up on blue anyways.

As what to play? Depends what you want. Casters are usually more solo friendly and take less gear to get off the ground but nothing is impossible with the drive to make it happen.

[Encroaching Death]

I don't think upgrading RAM will help P99 run any better, but it's so cheap and easy to do, you might as well do it in general (and if it improves P99, that's a bonus)

The Green server has more people, and more that are lower level - so it will be easier to find groups. Green is more classic, so it may have fewer quality of life features, like pet window and being able to see at night (although this could be outdated info, Green might have those things now)

As far as which class to play, I always recommend a self-reliable caster class of some sort. A Druid, a Necro, a Mage, or Shaman. Those are usually decent. They have the ability move around the world decently, they can make money. They just make easing into the world a bit nicer and easier.

My main was a Rogue. Bad choice lol. If you want to do that, you'll be okay but I definitely recommend one of the classes above, as you'll hit the ground running and learn about EQ way faster and easier.

[bosshogg]

Thanks for replies :)

Ok, gonna start a caster on Green.

Ya extra ram wont do anything for me as far as P99 is concerned.. was just reaching out about it because the gamer community all have 16 as a min but like i said.. i dont personally see any benefit if it for me. I dont think i ever come close to using up the 8 I have but I do have slot 2 free... so who knows maybe ill order up another 8gig stick and stuff it in just to see if I notice anything

[Thrombosis]

Welcome to P99. Please check out the newbie guide if you haven't already: https://wiki.project1999.com/Newbie_Guide

As you've come from wow, one of the biggest differences you'll notice is that there are no quests to guide you through the levelling process - you make your own story rather than play someone else's. You pretty much have to grind it out by killing stuff.

Consider a druid for your first class, solo friendly, easy travel and welcome in most cities, good class to get to know the game imo.

[Nutell_Woodson]

I feel like a druid would be a good starting class. EQ is definitely a very rough game to get into and takes some real commitment to get going and understanding what the hell is happening, but very rewarding when you get over that hump. I'd recommend looking at the wiki for the class lists and then going to YT to watch some videos on that class. The wiki is going to be your best friend for everything. Get used to having 10 tabs open from it at all times. You'll also want to be looking up, your class specific spell guides, and leveling guides. Green is definitely the go to server for a first timer.

[Encroaching Death]

Druids are good because they offer a wide variety of styles of play as well.

They fear kite.

They charm kite.

They root rot.

They quad kite.

They....regular kite.

You basically learn every type of spell caster combat style.

They also port, so you learn the world faster. And SoW helps you move around it.

[Duik]

As much as it pains me to agree with him, Encrotching Wretch is correct.

[Encroaching Death]

As much as it pains me to agree with him, Encrouching Wretch is correct.

:)

[Duik]

Lmao, you are 1337#
Leet poaster.

[Encroaching Death]

Lmao, you are 1337#
Leet poaster.

:)

[Byrjun]

EQ was developed in an era where it was common for computers to have 16-32 MEGAbytes of RAM. The game itself should use relatively low amounts of memory compared to just about anything else on your computer. Nowadays memory is much cheaper so newer games and software are made to utilize a lot more of it.

So the concern isn't really EQ but the other stuff you use on your computer. If you play other (more modern) games while doing other things at the same time (watching streams, having lots of browser tabs open, streaming, video editing) then you might need to upgrade your RAM. If you don't really use your PC like that, then you can be totally fine on 8 GB. I wouldn't go any lower than 8 GB nowadays though, and you may start to struggle in a few years as software assumes that its users have more and more RAM available.

But if you're not noticing slowdown (especially while doing multiple things at once) then you probably won't notice much of an improvement by upgrading to 16 GB.

As far as starting out in the game, I've always wanted to make some sort of video or guide to help new players get into EQ but it's an intimidating amount of stuff to cover and it's very easy to accidentally leave stuff out. There's a lot of things about EQ that can be confusing to new players, but I'll try to answer whatever questions came up in the OP.

I had such a hard time trying to figure out what to do or how to find quests etcQuesting in EQ is quite different from most other MMOs. There's some basic information to cover:


There's no quest journal or quest UI at all. Write down your own notes, and/or follow information from the P99 wiki.
You talk to NPCs by hailing them. The default keybind for this is the H key.
You respond to NPCs by repeating phrases in [brackets] in /say with the NPC targeted. For example if an NPC says "Nice [day] we're having, isn't it?" then the NPC should respond to anything containing the word day.
This is true about 99% of the time, keep in mind that the game had broken and unfinished quests and NPCs. Also some quests (mostly high level & difficult quests) don't bracket the word or phrase that needs to be said to continue the conversation.
Some NPCs will just have fluff dialogue, while some NPCs will offer quests. It can be difficult to determine which are which unless you look the NPC up on the wiki.
All quests are repeatable.
Many quests are mainly for lore purposes and not worth doing. A small handful of quests are very good and are worth doing. Determining which quests are worth doing takes some experience with the game, and/or researching player resources such as the wiki.
Many quests have reduced experience rewards compared to how things were back in the day. This was done to keep the server healthy (ie. remove incentive for high-level players to camp low-level dungeons for quest drops)
Some quests are still worth doing for experience (gnoll fangs, goblin ears) but the vast majority of your exp will come from just killing mobs.
NPCs can accept 1-4 single (non-stacked) items.
NPCs remember that they've received items, but they don't remember who gave them the item. For example let's say that an NPC wants to receive a Bike Horn and a Banana Peel to complete their quest. If you only give them the Bike Horn then the NPC will keep the item and you won't get anything. However if you (or someone else!) later turns in the Banana Peel, then the NPC will fully reward that person since they've already gotten the Bike Horn before. This can be manipulated so that one person can complete a quest without all of the required items, and in the community this is referred to multi-questing aka MQ (there's similarly named cheat software for the game so be aware of this so you don't get confused if you see the term come up later - multiquesting itself is totally fine and legal).


I think those are the main points. My biggest suggestion is to use the wiki to look up which quests are available around you and maybe do some research to try to determine which ones have rewards (experience, money, or items) that make them worth completing.

What server do people suggest for me..

Probably Green.

Green = Newest server (although still old by this point), largest population, easier to find groups and such.

Blue = Oldest server, a bit lower population than Green, most established, cheaper prices. Might be harder to find groups but on the other side there's probably more solo camps available.

Red = Very little player population, PvP.

[Naonak]

Welcome to P99, never too late or too old to play.