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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) There are always groups to find 1-60 on Blue, as long as you know what's popular. As others have said, the Qeynos area tend to be sparsely populated as it's isolated in Classic EQ. Elsewhere though, you wont have to look very hard to find someone else.
2) The only reason to solo 1-50 is because you want to. There are plenty of people all leveling, all over the place. What time zone are you in? The majority of Blue seems to be EST, and you'll see the population shoot up to ~1300 normally at around 7pm EST. I would say, if you're concerned about population, Blue99 hits ~1400 max, Red99 ~300 max.
3) I don't think this is an accurate reflection of in-game. You're citing posts you've seen on the forums, but in-game its much more sane. Rez's are normally 100-200p or free. Most people pay ~25p for a regular port. A full jboot MQ is 7.5k. If anything, prices for non-"Best in Slot" items are incredibly cheap, making it very easy to gear up.
These forums are potentially a place to go to for help/questions/bugs/good info, but also have a lot of rabble to them. A major selling point (to me) about p99 and EQ in general is that every step of the journey is fun. Don't focus too much about what people gripe about on the forums, just enjoy the process of getting there in-game
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