If you don't raid at the upper end and don't worry much about the forums then the P1999 community is about average for most online games. The most irritating folks congregate at the top of the raid scene where they mostly interact with each other. Even there they're probably a minority, just a particularly loud and visible one. P99-Red receives special exception because flaring tempers and trash talk go hand-in-hand with PvP games. It comes with the territory.
Contrasting the P99 and EQC communities probably serves little purpose. Given the number of folks who participate in both communities, myself included, they're in effect one and the same. The EQC boards are better solely due to the high degree of active moderation.
One note: P99's average community, surprisingly, is rather young: mostly in the early-mid 20's. Lots of folks here were little kids when EQ was new. I was surprised to find myself a bit older than the average here. As such this community naturally doesn't exhibit the sort of conservative maturity that a forum populated by 50 and 60 year olds will.
Long story short, this is neither the best nor the worst community I've seen.
Danth
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