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Originally Posted by bwe
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I have no idea how people originally figured out some of the epic quests, they're so obscure
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Originally Posted by loramin
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Honestly I think that was a HUGE part of the fun of them. People all over the world, on various servers and in various guilds, were just hailing random NPCs, saying random bits of text (inspired by things other NPCs said), giving random items to random NPCs, etc.
It was like a giant team puzzle or scavenger hunt, and every "team" (ie. every class) was sort of racing to complete their's first.
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That is something else that a person who never played in era will experience. EQ was the first game I ever had to conduct research for. Not just the RP aspect of my enchanter needing to research his spells in the world, I am referring to me researching the game because things were obscure. Like many others I had a 3-ring binder full of maps with my own notes scribbled on them, you could get these from places like EQ maps. Why not just minimize the game and go to the map site? because EQ took up the resources of my brand new gateway machine and dial-up prevented me running the game and pulling up a website at the same time. You had to prepare.
Searching the forums, some of them were RP forums and others not so much, some sites could give you basic spell informations. The game didn't even describe what spells did.
I think Loramin has a wayback machine link in the wiki for 'The Neriak Library'.
Anyway, between talking to other players in game, making notes, exploring to find these places and comparing them with your own printed maps (had a reason to own a printer).. it.. it was very involved to play this game. This is where I took up forum lurking that carries over to this day.
Today you have the benefit of the good information being compiled in an all-in-one wiki. Some of this came from many scattered sites.. imagine yourself looking and comparing, making notes, conversing with others in game about those notes, then setting off in adventure to see if they are true. Nothing was really for certain yet.