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Originally Posted by Wired Aces
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I played Everquest back when the game was new and played through the Planes of Power Expansion before moving on to other games. I have always remembered EQ fondly and recently I came across Project 99 and was pretty excited to dive in and see the old world that I remembered. I say "was excited" because there seem to be a few factors that might make starting undesirable. I was hoping the community could address them.
1. Because there is only one server that has been going for a while the game seems very top heavy and overcrowded. Of course, I only have one toon at level ten right now, but it looks to me as if lower levels almost don't exist and end game raiding is a cluster**** because there are so many people going after it. Raiding is obviously a big part of this game and I don't want to get to level 50+ only to find out that every raid has a Disney World sized waiting line just to get a shot at it.
2. Due to issue number one and most players are either already high level or are power leveling lower level toons, it looks like I will literally be soloing all the way to at least level 50. I don't want to solo my way through these levels and having to do so would kill any desire I have to play. But so far I have been unable to get a group playing around the Blackburrow area.
3. Inflation has gotten out of control and I don't know if I will ever be able to catch up financially. Because there are no real plat sinks everyone has tens of thousands of plat. I saw one player offering 12k for a rez, another offering 10k, one paying 300 for a port, etc... When I played live, 10k was more than enough to MQ the Ancient Cyclops quest much less get a rez. And if I got ten plat to port someone I considered myself lucky. I have no idea what that MQ goes for now. If platinum is really that worthless then I will never catch up to the rest of the game.
Any thoughts from the community are welcome.
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1: Now I've only recently made lvl 60 and I will never become a hard core raider so take what I say with a grain of salt. I'm in casual raiding guild (Europa), we have raids scheduled several times a week and we scan for pops and then, when something like a Kunark Dragon or Cazic Thule or whatever pops, we try and get there first. It is very much true that the server is dense with high lvl players that all compete for the same mobs. It's not a very big deal for me as I'm not that concerned about raiding for the most part. I know that my guild does get there first from time to time. And we're just talking about the world/plane bosses. There are plenty of other raid zones that seem to be available for us. I won't speak about the highest tiers of raiding cause I don't have experience with that.
2: I started one year ago and have played one char to 60 (necro) and another to 40 (shammy) and I've found there to be plenty of life and grouping from lvl 1-20 and beyond, honestly. Sure you will probbably be grouping with more players that already have another, higher lvl character than with other fresh new players like yourself, but that shoudn't be a detractor in and of itself.
3: I don't think it's that big a deal with inflation tbh. People are plenty generous and will help you out during the first few lvls in my experience. Sure, you will struggle at lvl 1-40 to get above 5k from looting Spider Silk and Bone Chips (even then, there are leveling guides about getting a bit of coin while getting leveled). But then again, would you expect to be able to twink your new lvl 1 char with 5k items? Once you get higher lvls you will begin to loot vendor stuff that sells for a decent amount and if you get lucky you will loot a money item at one stage or another.
As a solo class Seafury Island is decent for grinding a 500pp-1k pr hour once you're 50+ (if you are a solo class), but at that lvl you can also join exp groups in places like KC and HS where money items drop.
Point is, I don't think it's very detrimental to the gaming experience that there are hundreds of items being sold in EC for hundreds of thousands of plat on a daily basis. Nor that porters are getting 30-40pp for a port... many, many porters will gladly port you for way less if you are new and have little funds.
Also, someone paying 10k for a rez is exceptional if you ask me... so not something to measure things by. Usually I see people offering upwards of 500pp for a rez if it's in a really shitty place like OOT or somewhere like that.