Families
 

I remember a fella saying there was the option to have families when the game was new. He was showing his dwarf and saying you could be in a guild and/or a family.
Is this gona be in?
What is the purpose of a family if it was in there and not just some disjointed memory?

I have never heard about /family. Probably either you remember "wrong" or the old friend was "lying/making things up" back in the days ?

Petition for GM support of in-game marriages.

You could /petition to have the same surname as your significant other. Usually this was a 'marriage', it was a big event in classic EQ. I remember Senior Guide Lily on Mith Marr had special social scripts and dedicated wedding vows and could spawn fireworks etc. She held her weddings at the druid ring outside Mistmoore usually.

http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/s...06191643676435

Edit: I guess she mixed it up sometimes:

http://www.oocities.org/garbink/history.htm

I was married to three different players back in the day on EQ. All four of us had the same surname.

Now, what keeps me up at night, is wondering how many of those three were actually men playing female characters. :D :D :D

All three....

Yea probably as mentioned surname petition. I remember this being common especially in evil RP(ish) guilds. Many players would take the name of a common Dark Elf House as their surname. Didn't even have to be a marriage thing