We're lucky to be playing 14 years later

[diplo]

I was just thinking about when the game first started and when Kunark released, how impossible some of the quests would be to figure out.

One specific example is the VP key. Being how rare Rotting Skeleton/Pained soul and how vague the quest information from the NPCs are, how long did it actually take for someone back on classic to successfully finish this quest.

It's not rare to spend like 50+ hours at rotting skeleton/pained soul, who woulda thunk to kill those two specific NPCs.

Shit's cray...we are lucky to have a wiki.

[Bantam 1]

I liked the game a little more when we didn't have a wiki.

Figuring it out was kinda fun.

[Genedin]

I always wonder these things.

Or those secret spawns behind walls you can walk through, or false trap doors, or other misc areas that dont seem like there is any reason something should be there but there is.

I had so many played hours just exploring the world, getting lost, discovering new things.
I'm glad to now have the wiki, but nothing is going to beat that raw sense of adventure all men pine for deep within their being.

[Fael]

It's not as improbable as you think. Ps and rs spawn roughly 1 outa 100 times. So if you have 25 servers there is a 25% chance one was up when kunark went live. Once the secret gets out. It's out.

Dolic

[Nirgon]

I liked it when night time was pitch black even for DE's

[diplo]

Originally Posted by Nirgon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I liked it when night time was pitch black even for DE's

I couldn't see shit in Qhills on my erudite mage back on live...i was actually frightened as a 12 year old when i finally ventured out of qeynos into Qhills not knowing what to expect while i was nearly blind.

Originally Posted by Fael [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's not as improbable as you think. Ps and rs spawn roughly 1 outa 100 times. So if you have 25 servers there is a 25% chance one was up when kunark went live. Once the secret gets out. It's out.

Dolic

You are correct, but the odds that people are exping that particular mob is also a variable factor, so I say that 25% chance brings it down to <5%

[Trojanman]

Originally Posted by Nirgon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I liked it when night time was pitch black even for DE's

^This

[hatelore]

Originally Posted by Nirgon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I liked it when night time was pitch black even for DE's

Funny you mention this. When i first started in 1999 I played a pvp paladin on innoruuk. I still remember venturing into nektulos woods on accident and running into a group of dark elves with lanterns. Man it was so awesome, them asking me if I was crazy venturing into dark elf territory at night, and telling me no, I could not sit at there fire since I was a pale face. I don't think I will ever forget how much fun I had back then.

[koros]

There were hundreds if not thousands of epics completed server-wide by Velious release. Most were solved around early October 2000, by collaborative effort of the respective class boards.

Warrior and Mage epics took the longest to complete. The queen in Chardok was almost never killed, anywhere, and therefor the quest piece from her was a bottleneck.

FoH killed the original Naggy/Vox.

People shared information on boards then just as they do now, some things were kept semi-secret, but not most.

[trustandfall]

Originally Posted by koros [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

FoH killed the original Naggy/Vox.

Do you have any proof of this? And they were the first ever to do both? Would love to see some sources [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]