Right, I mean by default it was dark as any race, and insanely dark as a human - the first time I ever logged into EQ as a human ranger in Surefall Glade, I stumbled off the docks and promptly drowned in the small pond. You couldn't see shit.
And I'm sure light emitters had a more profound impact on the environment. The client change that eventually happened was mostly to address the problem which I'm describing - players were simply cranking their gamma way up to compensate for the darkness, making their UI and everything else outside of EQ way too bright. So yeah, that was an unclassic change, but it totally falls under the purview of QoL exceptions like item linking and queued tells.
You could probably make P99 pretty close to classic by figuring out a way to give the UI its own gamma/brightness setting, but I'm guessing that would require some pretty heavy client-side modification that you wouldn't be able to accomplish in XML alone.
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