Not much grouping?
 

I used to love grouping and sitting at a camp with some people back in the early EQ days. It sounds like from what I have seen people don’t do that all that much anymore or there just aren’t enough low level players. Am I just going to be disappointed in p99?

The servers are just old, even a couple years ago there was groups all over on green. You can still find groups,just have to goto hot spots. Server is busiest evening hours,that helps to.

I was qeynos last night and there was 4 or 5 low level new players running around

General treadmill is:

Crushbone
Unrest
Mistmoore
City of mist
Karnors
Velks

Mainly because of exp bonus, ease of access and being outdoor zones except for velks. There are arguably better spots but they're more of a BYOGroup basis. You can usually find duo/trio partners in popular spots like SK aviaks/gnolls.

The upside is some zones are criminally underrated and you get them mostly for yourself or your group. Been leveling my cleric solo in befallen and it has been a blast, never did that zone before.

The goal of this place is classic EverQuest, and grouping is absolutely a part of classic EverQuest. Unfortunately for you, you joined while the people behind P99 are on a little hiatus from that goal.

The good news is they will return (they always have in the past). The better news is that when they do, they will likely merge Blue and Green, doubling the number of people available to group with.

The still better news is that at some point after that, they will go even farther and start a new server. Imagine (literally) thousands of players all starting at level 1: forget about grouping, on day 1 you'll be lucky to find a single mob ;) But soon after we'll all have an extremely classic-feeling server, full of players of all levels grouping together ... and it will be glorious!

Even xp highway is dead except maybe KC.

Rogean was online on green the other day. :fingers_crossed:

I created my main on green in january 2024 and I've always seen several groups in those zones when I went through them. It was admittedly mostly during peak times but grouping is far from dead even though it is the shadow of its former glory.

I'd even argue that you guys remember the crowded zones with teary eyes but places like KC feel cramped with 4 groups and the exp is known to be mostly terrible so imagine how terrible the exp was then when there were 40+ people in zone at all times... much better today than getting like 10 mobs every 27mins in a group of 6.

If you do want to group in the current environment, https://wiki.project1999.com/Group_Hunting_Spots has some suggestions on where you're more likely to find others.

RED99

DER99