[xCry0x]

I just started in Feb, didn't know a single person on the server and managed to level a cleric to 53 and counting just fine. Just finished my epic, am apping rapture.. in past 2 weeks i have done sky,fear,hate,hole,naggy,vox.

Leveling up was a ton of people on the same page as me, just found out about the server etc. A few twinks hear or there but every single one of them that wanted to actually group were more than happy to be social, answer questions etc. Level 30-40 suck because the grouping options are really few and far between but I made friends with a couple of DPS and ended up duoing with them. From day 1 I was going out of my way to make friends with monk twinks, rogue twinks, enchanters etc so I could duo/trio with them and that is eventually what I ended up doing. As you mentioned, EQ is about networking and it sounds like although you acknowledge that you failed to do it.

As far as rich people and twinks; I don't know what people are expecting, as soon as kunark came out and people started farming fungi's the monk twinks started coming out of the wood work on live. If someone has been playing since the server came out consistently of course they have a lot of money and/or multiple 60s. If twinking is your goal then level an account to level 50+, sell it for a fungi and start over, now you are a twinked level 1 without spending any time farming, congratulations.

I also think almost across the board there was always 1 uber guild who controlled everything unless you played on some sunshine and rainbows server; that is what made EQ EQ. If you have people on at 3am to kill the boss, you get the boss, if you don't then the chinese guild that does gets the boss.