I don't understand why you think you have to solo just because your friends blew past you in levels. There are groups out there, everywhere, go find them. EverQuest is a social game in which two boxing drastically hurts player to player interaction.
And yes I'm well aware of two computers being used to two box and I know from experience that this was an extremely rare occurrence for the first few years of the game. I'm sure anyone you would ask that has been playing this game since the beginning years would tell you the exact same thing. Boxing didn't gain popularity until later when groups and the general population began diminishing after GoD. Hell, I two boxed in PoP and I was one of the rare few still to that day. Barely anyone did besides the farmers.
I honestly don't know where you are getting your information, because there was almost zero reason to two box when the game first came out. People were crawling everywhere and you couldn't trip over a moss snake without running into hordes of people everywhere. Having a second box was almost a hassle because you'd have to wait on the waiting list as having two characters instead of just one, barely anyone did it. There was no reason to.
Even on this server there is no reason to, groups are out there, you just need to put effort into finding them instead of throwing out the "I'm a casual" excuse and saying you need to play by yourself all the time.
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