You're all playing the game wrong

[CrazyPro]

You sit around all day in raid comms watching youtube waiting for someone to scream "POPOPOPOP" so you can log in and deny pixels at 7 AM on a Monday, but that's not what the game is about. Boy I can't wait to spam 10 flux staff buttons in rapid succession while kiting this guard, this is a fun thing to do for with my day.
MAAANNNN I am so PUMPED to go stare at this spawn point for 16 hours straight, this is riveting gameplay! I hate those other guilds, dude, the people in my guild's discord echo chamber says they're nothing but the scum of the earth and they're all underhanded, double-dealin', no-good swindlers I tell ya hwat.

Meanwhile, the chad, 255 INT, 255 WIS guildless hermit in full banded armor with a bronze longsword and a vendor kite shield just runs around killing random shit and meeting people and grouping up and talking to people and stuff, you know? Like, that's way cooler than being a lawyerquesting poopsocking nerd p99 addict.

You are all playing this game so wrong, and stuff.

[Wakanda]

Making me miss 1999-2001. IDK if it's possible to truly replicate.

[Jimjam]

You sit around all day in raid comms watching youtube waiting for someone to scream "POPOPOPOP" so you can log in and deny pixels at 7 AM on a Monday, but that's not what the game is about. Boy I can't wait to spam 10 flux staff buttons in rapid succession while kiting this guard, this is a fun thing to do for with my day.
MAAANNNN I am so PUMPED to go stare at this spawn point for 16 hours straight, this is riveting gameplay! I hate those other guilds, dude, the people in my guild's discord echo chamber says they're nothing but the scum of the earth and they're all underhanded, double-dealin', no-good swindlers I tell ya hwat.

Meanwhile, the chad, 255 INT, 255 WIS guildless hermit in full banded armor with a bronze longsword and a vendor kite shield just runs around killing random shit and meeting people and grouping up and talking to people and stuff, you know? Like, that's way cooler than being a lawyerquesting poopsocking nerd p99 addict.

You are all playing this game so wrong, and stuff.

The correct way to play is to roll a barbarian, do every level in Everfrost, Permafrost and Black Burrow with occasional jaunts to Karana.

[Jimjam]

(And make pals with whoever is cool enough to inhabit these regions). Take no gifts, click all overlevelled buffs.

[Swish]

You sit around all day in raid comms watching youtube waiting for someone to scream "POPOPOPOP" so you can log in and deny pixels at 7 AM on a Monday, but that's not what the game is about. Boy I can't wait to spam 10 flux staff buttons in rapid succession while kiting this guard, this is a fun thing to do for with my day.
MAAANNNN I am so PUMPED to go stare at this spawn point for 16 hours straight, this is riveting gameplay! I hate those other guilds, dude, the people in my guild's discord echo chamber says they're nothing but the scum of the earth and they're all underhanded, double-dealin', no-good swindlers I tell ya hwat.

Meanwhile, the chad, 255 INT, 255 WIS guildless hermit in full banded armor with a bronze longsword and a vendor kite shield just runs around killing random shit and meeting people and grouping up and talking to people and stuff, you know? Like, that's way cooler than being a lawyerquesting poopsocking nerd p99 addict.

You are all playing this game so wrong, and stuff.

Typical day for OP then...

https://i.imgur.com/3LYTA8l.png

[Ekco]

Making me miss 1999-2001. IDK if it's possible to truly replicate.

it's not and this project has proved it since day 1, closest you can get to experiencing early EQ is gonna be some project like Erenshor that emulates a Mmorpg as a single player game with a bunch of larping bots

[Duik]

Just do the dumb things you did in 1999-2000 like making leather/silk armor and baking food instead of hunting cashcamps and speedrunning to 50.
I dunno if it works here but in BB find a skunk and get musked. I am 100% certain other monsters can sniff you out from the other side of the zone.

[Jimjam]

Just do the dumb things you did in 1999-2000 like making leather/silk armor and baking food instead of hunting cashcamps and speedrunning to 50.
I dunno if it works here but in BB find a skunk and get musked. I am 100% certain other monsters can sniff you out from the other side of the zone.

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[Goregasmic]

I made an iksar monk with full visible black panther, seahorse belt, a fungi and the level appropriate weapons and the most thrilling thing is brushes with death fighting red cons in kurns. I could get the same thrill with raw silk armor and using just fists fighting blue cons.

I've done some raiding and it is often boring AF. Sometimes I feel like I'd be better served doing a solo self found mage or whatever. I feel like I enjoy camping stuff the most I think so it would make sense, especially on an old server like p99's.

Maybe that's just me but what's the point of gearing a toon if it is going to spend the rest of its life in TOV anyway.

[Swish]

Why not try P99 red? Camps are open, and you can fist as many blue mobs as you like.

[Goregasmic]

Why not try P99 red? Camps are open, and you can fist as many blue mobs as you like.

No thanks, this game is aggravating enough with PVE alone. Not all that many camps on green are difficult to get if it isn't raid related or serious LR/MQ money.

[Duik]

No thanks, this game is aggravating enough with PVE alone. Not all that many camps on green are difficult to get if it isn't raid related or serious LR/MQ money.

What!?!
Not even a snicker about fisting blues?

Aside: Fisting Blues has got to be a band/song name surely.

[Goregasmic]

What!?!
Not even a snicker about fisting blues?

Aside: Fisting Blues has got to be a band/song name surely.

Fisting with scaly arms must be a death/grind song.

[sammoHung]

You sit around all day in raid comms watching youtube waiting for someone to scream "POPOPOPOP" so you can log in and deny pixels at 7 AM on a Monday, but that's not what the game is about. Boy I can't wait to spam 10 flux staff buttons in rapid succession while kiting this guard, this is a fun thing to do for with my day.
MAAANNNN I am so PUMPED to go stare at this spawn point for 16 hours straight, this is riveting gameplay! I hate those other guilds, dude, the people in my guild's discord echo chamber says they're nothing but the scum of the earth and they're all underhanded, double-dealin', no-good swindlers I tell ya hwat.

Meanwhile, the chad, 255 INT, 255 WIS guildless hermit in full banded armor with a bronze longsword and a vendor kite shield just runs around killing random shit and meeting people and grouping up and talking to people and stuff, you know? Like, that's way cooler than being a lawyerquesting poopsocking nerd p99 addict.

You are all playing this game so wrong, and stuff.

You've typically been a zealot of the Castle raid zerg - grown tired of it? Ready to start a casual only guild that is helmed by experienced players?

Cause lemme tell you brother you are speakin my language. I grouped with a brand new player this weekend and it was the most fun I've had in the game in a while.

[Reiwa]

Rabies should inflict a fear effect if you try to drink water or swim.

I wonder if there's a server that would implement this kind of thing.

[BradZax]

P99 should have a custom rabies spell that is uncurable and its called "old age" and once you get it, your stats slowly decay to -0's until you cant move and just die on login.

[Praxcthius]

People should drink animal milk. String bones less beta

[Praxcthius]

Strong**

[Mortdecai99]

STRING BONES LOL

[CrazyPro]

You've typically been a zealot of the Castle raid zerg - grown tired of it? Ready to start a casual only guild that is helmed by experienced players?

Cause lemme tell you brother you are speakin my language. I grouped with a brand new player this weekend and it was the most fun I've had in the game in a while.

The only guilds that aren't zergs are LoF and MT. The word 'zerg' has been tacked onto every single guild in history so many times that it's lost all meaning. The term has never mattered, the only thing that matters is who wins the mob in the end.

However, I believe competitive raiding should be abolished and that raid targets should be rotated between guilds. The collective time wasted every 7 day cycle is absolutely insane. 16 hour windows are trash game design, no one should have to take shifts staring at a spawn point for 16 hours and not be guaranteed to win.

The entry requirements for a new raid guild to see all the content outside of the draft are far too steep. You need a ton of cleric bots, rogue bots, ranger bots, coth bots, wizard bots, quad mage bots set up with 4 DA items, a bajillion platinum to cover reagents and clicky upkeep costs, several degens willing to poopsock dragons in an elf sim every week for the foreseeable future, a bunch of people who know what they're doing to fill critical roles, and a horde of warmbodies to carry out the auto attacking and CHing and the operation of buff vending machines.

But real 255 INT ogres know that you can just show up and auto attack and get DKP and eventually get full BiS and then go make the ultimate casual guild and carry your homies to slightly less garbage gear and it'd be 10x more rewarding. But then your casual guild becomes an actual serious raid guild and you become what Castle is now and the cycle continues.

[OriginalContentGuy]

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ROFL goon rush get fucked OP.

[CrazyPro]

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ROFL goon rush get fucked OP.

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TOWER RUSH GIT REKT NOOB

[Ekco]

the timeline where TA won the 90s RTS war is the Golden Path.
https://i.imgur.com/Kg8K5mh.png
wish i was in it.

[Rygar]

It has always amazed me that P99 doesn't implement guild rotations.

This is what live had in era. Perhaps not GM enforced per se, but call them semi enforced.

The decrease in CSR workload alone with managing guild petitions would be insanely worth it. Dragons can be unrooted and kill zones established in ToV.

By memory, I think a guild had a full 24hrs on live to kill a mob like VS or Trak, could wipe as many times as they wanted. If left up, next guild got notified and had a fresh 24hrs to kill. The guild that failed still had their rotation spot but we're "put on notice" that another fail forfeits their spot.

Now I'm sure the neckbeard will cry "but we get more pixels and higher population due to competitive raid scene!!!". I don't disagree on more pixels, but dude... The wall staring and biblical petitions are DUMB!!!

[OriginalContentGuy]

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TOWER RUSH GIT REKT NOOB

Still you must construct additional pylons.

[Danth]

It has always amazed me that P99 doesn't implement guild rotations.

This is what live had in era. Perhaps not GM enforced per se, but call them semi enforced.


For whatever reason P99's admins have always favored maintaining a ruleset that primarily caters to the high-hours players. Been that way since the start. Isn't just raiding either, stuff like the more recent /list system on green also heavily favors people who put in what some of us would call unhealthy amounts of time online. Ordinary folks and lower-hours players are tolerated here, but that is all. Maybe some day they'll come around, maybe not.

[Praxcthius]

I cannot believe the less skilled players still cry to have rotations. Didn’t they do that on green with the monthly draft bs? The only servers on live that had rotations were the ones critically populated by the least skilled least capable players. The majority had too guilds trying to outdo for world firsts

[sammoHung]

I cannot believe the less skilled players still cry to have rotations. Didn’t they do that on green with the monthly draft bs? The only servers on live that had rotations were the ones critically populated by the least skilled least capable players. The majority had too guilds trying to outdo for world firsts

Takes a lot of skill to ignore the real world and stare at a screen for 16 hours in the hopes to get 26 year old pixels.....

[Reiwa]

It has always amazed me that P99 doesn't implement guild rotations.

This is what live had in era. Perhaps not GM enforced per se, but call them semi enforced.

The decrease in CSR workload alone with managing guild petitions would be insanely worth it. Dragons can be unrooted and kill zones established in ToV.

By memory, I think a guild had a full 24hrs on live to kill a mob like VS or Trak, could wipe as many times as they wanted. If left up, next guild got notified and had a fresh 24hrs to kill. The guild that failed still had their rotation spot but we're "put on notice" that another fail forfeits their spot.

Now I'm sure the neckbeard will cry "but we get more pixels and higher population due to competitive raid scene!!!". I don't disagree on more pixels, but dude... The wall staring and biblical petitions are DUMB!!!

Members of uber guilds on my server would talk down to you and treat you badly for even talking to them.

Classic.

[Praxcthius]

@sammohung yet here you are complaining someone has made a choice how their life will be lived. They just want the pixels more than you. If you don’t care about pixels then stfu. However since you comment about someone “no-lifing” that means you care and 1. Your grandma limits your internet time 2. To pay all your bills you need to work this have little time to play with which in that case stfu. RL requirements trump fantasy not real play time things.

[sammoHung]

@sammohung yet here you are complaining someone has made a choice how their life will be lived. They just want the pixels more than you. If you don’t care about pixels then stfu. However since you comment about someone “no-lifing” that means you care and 1. Your grandma limits your internet time 2. To pay all your bills you need to work this have little time to play with which in that case stfu. RL requirements trump fantasy not real play time things.

Ouch, looks like I hit a nerve. Sucks to be you, I guess.

[Reiwa]

I cannot believe the less skilled players still cry to have rotations. Didn’t they do that on green with the monthly draft bs? The only servers on live that had rotations were the ones critically populated by the least skilled least capable players. The majority had too guilds trying to outdo for world firsts

@sammohung yet here you are complaining someone has made a choice how their life will be lived. They just want the pixels more than you. If you don’t care about pixels then stfu. However since you comment about someone “no-lifing” that means you care and 1. Your grandma limits your internet time 2. To pay all your bills you need to work this have little time to play with which in that case stfu. RL requirements trump fantasy not real play time things.

Usually the winners do set rules for the losers. Nothing new.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

The lvl 1-10 min-game in classic everquest, which is well-preserved on p99, is the ultimate stress breaker. So this pixel hunt stuff, it can come and go.

Nothing, and I mean nothing, beats the lvl 1-10 minigame.

Well, after Darkoor's option I mean.

[Kich867]

The lvl 1-10 min-game in classic everquest, which is well-preserved on p99, is the ultimate stress breaker. So this pixel hunt stuff, it can come and go.

Nothing, and I mean nothing, beats the lvl 1-10 minigame.

Well, after Darkoor's option I mean.

Levels 1-10 are unequivocally my least favorite part of EQ. Most newb zones are terrible for it, the level distribution and density of mobs makes it so fuckin slow and tedious.

I find level 15/16 are when the game actually picks up because thats around when classes feel like they have an actual identity and you have more variety in where you can go and what you can do.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

When you view the end of the game as lvl 10, it looks different from if you are planning on going further. I think all the starting cities and zones are charming. And, p99 has it. Live is destroyed. Long, long, long destroyed.

[Swish]

When you view the end of the game as lvl 10, it looks different from if you are planning on going further. I think all the starting cities and zones are charming. And, p99 has it. Live is destroyed. Long, long, long destroyed.

The classic 1-50 journey is top tier EQ.

[Kich867]

The classic 1-50 journey is top tier EQ.

Straight facts, 1-50 bangs.

[druidbob]

The classic 1-50 journey is top tier EQ.

20-40 is the absolute sweet spot imo. Your character starts to feel like a badass, the world really opens up, and level progression hasn't slowed too much to be a slog.

[Jimjam]

20-40 is the absolute sweet spot imo. Your character starts to feel like a badass, the world really opens up, and level progression hasn't slowed too much to be a slog.

Is that assuming kunark / velious items or are we talking preexpansion, presky, pre sol ro temple, etc? Is it true to you for all classes?

[BradZax]

Is that assuming kunark / velious items or are we talking preexpansion, presky, pre sol ro temple, etc? Is it true to you for all classes?

Idk but I hate level 52 for some reason.

[druidbob]

Is that assuming kunark / velious items or are we talking preexpansion, presky, pre sol ro temple, etc? Is it true to you for all classes?

I would say it's true for all classes. Melee has their damage cap removed, casters are getting their class defining spells. And even pre Kunark, 20+ is when I feel most start venturing out past the zones surrounding their starting area and exploring the rest of the world. It's also when you start getting your first solid magic items (assuming you aren't twinked)