P99 Classic vs Original Classic
 

P99 Classic

- Professional traders in EC tunnel (EC tunnel is more like wall street or the goldman sachs HQ)
- Level 1 Twinks with the best items (including NTOV loot)
- Wiki full of spoilers, step by step guides, personal opinion, unverified data and item price dictation
- Min/max mentality (in a max/min game, ironically)
- Advance knowledge of camps, drops, patches, bugs, exploits, changes, etc before server launch
- Advance warning of server launch
- Porting corporation/monopoly (Dial A Port)
- Full epics for sale
- No duels
- Everybody you see is playing solo in their own little bubble
- Lack of spontaneity
- Nobody says DING
- Everybody that speaks in /ooc is already an expert
- Emulated code
- Digital download
- No subscription fee
- No Verant/SOE
- No original devs
- No castersrealm

Original Classic

- None of the above

Can't get i NTOV at level 1 so I disregarded your entire post, hope you find help IRL and stop raiding

[QUOTE=Gugg;3552781]P99 Classic

All of it entirely optional. If ignorance is bliss, abstain from using it entirely.

Undermined by fashionquest.

Subject to change, whether on purpose or accident, thanks to continued updates aiming to preserve the spirit of classic.

It's still a shame Tell-A-Port never took off. But on a server that has, on occasion, seen quite low pop numbers it's helped stave off demands for translocators.

Not equipable anymore until level 46.

Several guilds host arena fights. Also, duels also still happen when people need to hammer. The recipient of the beating tends to take the opportunity to fuck with the other person somehow, not just slowing to help them proc. I like trying to disarm them; did it to a dwarf outside of ToV the other month, twice in a row.

Treating an old MMO like an RPG can make it more classic, esp if you cut yourself off from buffs, cheap gear, etc.

Quakes, GM illusion bombs, and xp bonuses.

Some still do on occasion, esp at low levels, and receive grats. More rare are shouts announcing the arrival of the boat.

Experts arguing with each other over which is the best shaman race, warrior main/offhand for aggro, etc.

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Ennewi's Quotes...

Regarding the "Wiki"

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All of it entirely optional. If ignorance is bliss, abstain from using it entirely.

It's not optional when every player is checking Wiki for prices. It's like telling me bad news is optional in a world which revolves around bad news. It's not optional, it's mandatory.

Ther was NO WIKI in the original classic.

Min/max

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Undermined by fashionquest.

On P99, money making > eyepatch.

That's why there is an entire guild DEDICATED to porting for plat. It wasn't like that in Original Classic, there was no Dial A Port, everybody was too busy having fun making new friends grouping.

There's an entire industry on P99 dedicated to selling Jboots MQ for 5kpp. Real players can't get their own pair of Jboots on P99 the old fashioned way like they could in the ORIGINAL classic era...there's too much competition from commercial sellers camping the zone. This selfish business mentality destroys classic.

Advance knowledge of the game prior to P99 launching

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Subject to change, whether on purpose or accident, thanks to continued updates aiming to preserve the spirit of classic.

In Original Classic, players didn't have advance knowledge of what was to come. It was all new to everybody. Advance knowledge destroys the spirit of classic. Some players on P99 have used this advanced knowledge to permanently corner the market and make a name for themselves.

Epics for sale

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Not equipable anymore until level 46.

Irrelevant. Players in Original Classic didn't buy epics.

Duels

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Several guilds host arena fights. Also, duels also still happen when people need to hammer. The recipient of the beating tends to take the opportunity to fuck with the other person somehow, not just slowing to help them proc. I like trying to disarm them; did it to a dwarf outside of ToV the other month, twice in a row.

Duels in EC tunnels don't exist like they did in the original classic era. EC tunnel is pure business, there's no fun going on there.


Everybody playing solo

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Treating an old MMO like an RPG can make it more classic, esp if you cut yourself off from buffs, cheap gear, etc.

In Original Classic, everybody grouped and loved it. They didn't play in a bubble.

Lack of spontaneity

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Quakes, GM illusion bombs, and xp bonuses.

Players in Orignal Classic were more carefree and spontaneous. Players on P99 are very serious and business-like. P99 is a business orientated environment and business has no heart.

Regarding DING

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Some still do on occasion, esp at low levels, and receive grats. More rare are shouts announcing the arrival of the boat.

Some...as in somebody once in a blue moon and nobody responds anyway.

The lack of boat shouts on P99 is proof players are less caring in P99 Classic. It was definatley friendlier in the original classic. There was more humanity. P99 lacks humanity.

Everybody's An Expert

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Experts arguing with each other over which is the best shaman race, warrior main/offhand for aggro, etc.

Attention seekers and drama queens argue, real experts agree.

No monthly fee



I never used PayPal during classic. PayPal sucks. Will I get race & class fixes aswell as AA's for my subscription fee?

We need @DSM and @Loramin to chime in here please.

Loramin ain't original classic, neither is his innacurate wiki.

I am, I was there. I camped my epics, I grouped, I raided, as it unfolded in real-time, and without Loramin's wiki to teach me parrot fashion how tie my own shoe laces.

I learned on the go, and discovered things for myself just like we all did. We spoke in-game and had fun together, we didn't sit on Discordd waiting for a sale to come through.

There wasn't anybody back then telling us to check the wiki like there is today.

I remember my friend twinking his brand new DE warrior in 1999.

A full suit of Bronze armor and an Executioner's Axe.

I was in awe and he looked amazing.

Full rubicite was considred godly back then.

On P99 though, I killed some brutes for gems and purchased an item which drops from a L62 mob so now my low level Ranger has a Frostbringer which isn't supposed to happen.

I mean, it's fun being a low level twink with a weapon beyond my reach but it ain't classic. Commercial sellers dedicating their life to killing high value targets for profit isn't classic...that's exploitation of advanced knowledge.

Lower Guk is beyond the reach of a level 1 Dark Elf Warrior.

That was in 1999. I believe that was Classic era.