Is P99 today a better game of than EQ live in 2001 ?
 

Talking strictly about the Blue server.

I have the feeling that P99 today is better. The devs had years to make small adjustments to resists, drop rates, pathing and whatnot and I commend pretty much all of their decisions (except maybe the removal of the buff timers). This made EQ a better game that what it was during Velious era on live.

Do you agree or not, and why?

P99 for your first few months in my opinion is as exhilarating as your entire live career. everything was new on live.

a year, or for me 6 years, into p99 and its not really everquest anymore... its P99

Azeth speaks the truth! Your in our world now!

Live eq back in the day was full of adventure and unknown ....

If a new server opened it would come a lotttt closer to the magic of live EQ than what we have now. Really, the first 6 months or even a year of a new server is pretty nice. But now most zones are empty except for a couple grind spots between 1-50.... and if you do find a group, everyone is twinked.

Becomes just about higher end farming and exp grinding.

You're exaggerating.

There were TWELVE people in paw a few days ago when I logged in. I was almost never the only person in the zone at any point in the day. There was a full group of nontwinks (or if they were twinked it was with like only several k pp) near entrance for a couple hours.

That's an anecdote, sure. But my time leveling on blue the past couple weeks is pretty full of anecdotes like this. I haven't run into PLing or fungi twinks except in solusek a. I've seen (mostly) untwinked groups/players xping in kerra isle, every karana, oot, najena, Sola, paw, and more.

The xp game is alive and well all around blue, maybe moreso than ever before. Do / count all and / count all 60 and see first hang that it isn't all about farming gear. The 10 people messing around in Chardonnay are fewer than the people in one lowbie dungeon xping. Etc.

lol is this an autocorrected "Solusek A"?

Yes the server isn't down non stop =P

That's the thing...it is all an exp game. No one is doing quests for upgrades or trying to hunt their own weapon upgrades. Just show up in commons with 100pp and you can get a pretty decent weapon.

The server is just SOOOO old that there is SOOO much stuff floating around.

It changes things big time. Even just being able to find a port anywhere at any time (while pretty convenient) was never what real EQ was like.

But at least they have plans to eventually open a new green server.....it will be pretty glorious :3

Live in 2001 was better simply because the population was spread out more evenly in the low levels with a paucity of guys level 60.

.... That and the server wasn't 6-7 years old in 2001, contributing to item bloat and deflation.

p99 is better than Live EQ currently by a long shot though

i guess OP never played on live

sure pal, after 5 years of kunark stagnation, p1999 is the pinnacle of EQ