I know people will try and tell me this isn't true or that I'm lying, but I lived this experience and know that it's true. Like there are still archived forum posts from the time because they used the forums to keep up with DKP, loot, epic progress, seniority etc.
I'm not saying it would solve a lot of the problems on P99. I don't even raid on P99, but just saw a thread about how someone got in trouble because of a GM enforced raid agreement or something, and it feels surreal to me because my classic EQ experience was basically like.... anyone who wanted to raid could raid, lol.
It didn't matter what guild you were in. I felt like it was more fun because you didn't need an actual raid schedule and could basically just raid whenever you were in the mood. It also felt like there was endless content because if you were an unemployed kid on summer break, you could find a raid somewhere, all hours of the night. When WoW came out I was a little taken aback by how we only raided once a week because I was used to the culture of an MMO being a raid every night.
Just posting some archived threads for all my haters who will say it's fake.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/tuna...pic-t1025.html -- they publicly tracked epic progress since it wasn't based on your guild. they also tracked dkp for nag/vox publicly, but archive only goes back until 2001.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/tuna...poh-t1474.html -- they reported all loot since it was public raids.
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/tuna...ess-t5056.html -- random guilds or even guildless people would host these raids, and anyone could join and basically random on things. Sometimes if you only need the last 2 pieces for your set you would get seniority though.
I was never in a guild in classic EQ and got my epic, full plane of hate gear, full plane of growth gear and full skyshrine gear (I always wanted Kael, but its ironic because on P99 a lot of people think Skyshrine armor is better?).
Like IDK.
This was actual classic for me. I remember when Tunare split and some players went to Drinal, they were kind of culture shocked by the Mithaniel Marr players having closed guild-only raids.
Another weird thing about Tunare was that the auction zone was GFAY. Remember hundreds of people being there at all times.
When I started playing on P99 it wasn't a truly classic experience FOR ME because suddenly your guild mattered a lot, and the auction zone is in EC tunnel, lol. It still feels so weird to me when I go to gfay and I'm the only person in the zone.