People here for classic experience...?

[Bodybagger]

If you came to p1999 looking for a classic experience, are you playing blue or red? Curious because I can't even enjoy blue now that I went to red, not because I wanted to be red exactly, pvp is rough in EQ, but the fact of the matter is it is infinitely more classic than blue where the world has grown stagnant in a 3yr old kunark economy with a top heavy population.

Anyone care to share thoughts or expand?

I came for classic and stayed for red. I spent a few days ECQuesting blue and could twink heavily any character I want. Pixel heavy on blue but not classic to me at all... and all of the excess twinking discourages grouping and leveing. Everyone seems to only PL or twink to hell and solo mostly or duo with a friend. Red actually has me finding and making more friends in level range as I level, and having a genuine experience with people from rags to riches, thanks to XP mod for group bonus. I was very surprised to have an easier time getting grinding partners on red where they have the option to kill me instead of group with me, but 90% or more are down to party up and clean house.

Who here has experience with both and can share? Not meant to bash blue at all, it's a very fun experience, but blue reminds me of luclin era EQ'ing, sans bazaar, beastlords, and vah'shir/content. Economy and play wise, it feels more luclin-ey to me, while red feels pure classic.

Thanks to developers for great options both ways though, really cool to have my blue twinks and easy money and gear, and red earned and enjoyed classic experience!

[kaev]

Suggestion: Take this thread and 10 pounds of sand and shove it where the sun don't shine, er, move it to the red forum for some kneejerk +1'ing. Also, deceptive title for 9857th tiresome "come to red" thread is bad and you should feel bad about yourself for having posted it.

[Swish]

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

Suggestion: Take this thread and 10 pounds of sand and shove it where the sun don't shine, er, move it to the red forum for some kneejerk +1'ing. Also, deceptive title for 9857th tiresome "come to red" thread is bad and you should feel bad about yourself for having posted it.

Proof that the blue pop isn't all nice and friendly. Nice ad for BDA right there ^^

[Bodybagger]

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

Suggestion: Take this thread and 10 pounds of sand and shove it where the sun don't shine, er, move it to the red forum for some kneejerk +1'ing. Also, deceptive title for 9857th tiresome "come to red" thread is bad and you should feel bad about yourself for having posted it.

Buddy, I'm a newb who returned to EQ 10 months ago after discovering live is F2P, loading it, being disgusted, but being told of p99, and promptly joining in... got burned out on blue in a month or so, the one guy I played with said lets jump to red, they enrfed our buffed XP gain like day 2 we were there, he quit... and I got busy in life and walked away for a while, came back, and realized how much more red suits my desire for classic experience.


I am sorry if you don't agree, but this feedback was for BOTH servers regarding classic experience. Your experience on either server may vary, as may your classic experience.

Luckily, dealing with pricks is totally classic so my feathers aren't ruffled at all by your completely useless and rude post. All part of the experience.

Happy hunting to all!

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

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

Suggestion: Take this thread and 10 pounds of sand and shove it where the sun don't shine, er, move it to the red forum for some kneejerk +1'ing. Also, deceptive title for 9857th tiresome "come to red" thread is bad and you should feel bad about yourself for having posted it.

Loves me some Kaev.

I laughed when I envisioned him reading.

"Oh good, interestin... W.... C'mon! This is Fuckin Bullshit!! HOLY FUCK!! THESE FUCKING GUYS

[Arturo Fuente]

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

Loves me some Kaev.

I laughed when I envisioned him reading.

"Oh good, interestin... W.... C'mon! This is Fuckin Bullshit!! HOLY FUCK!! THESE FUCKING GUYS

HAHA!

[kaev]

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

Loves me some Kaev.

I laughed when I envisioned him reading.

"Oh good, interestin... W.... C'mon! This is Fuckin Bullshit!! HOLY FUCK!! THESE FUCKING GUYS

Hey Yums, still sad you left blue for the easymode server. I'm a solid 12 months past actually caring about these posts, now it's just whether I feel like poking 'em, kinda like a bored kid with a stick looking at an anthill. OP seems a bit touchy, wonder how long he'll last on red if one of the srs trolls decides he might be fun to rustle.

Come back to blue Yums, you know that over 9000x XP multiplier on Red is about as unclassic as EQ gets, you might as well be playing live. Come back man, it's almost :classic: here these days, kinda sorta.

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

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

Hey Yums, still sad you left blue for the easymode server. I'm a solid 12 months past actually caring about these posts, now it's just whether I feel like poking 'em, kinda like a bored kid with a stick looking at an anthill. OP seems a bit touchy, wonder how long he'll last on red if one of the srs trolls decides he might be fun to rustle.

Come back to blue Yums, you know that over 9000x XP multiplier on Red is about as unclassic as EQ gets, you might as well be playing live. Come back man, it's almost :classic: here these days, kinda sorta.

I'm actually not a fan of the xp bonus fwiw. I'm bringing up another character on red and personally find it too fast to really enjoy the newb zones. I do, however hate logging into blue and seeing the same no life's sitting at cash camps like it's a job. Pvp really brings another element to the game and makes it feel dangerous again and gives me reason to go visit an "occupied" camp.

I came here under the same impression others probably felt when they started here: "oh man! Classic server with less population than live!! I should be able to demolish pretty much anything and do the things I couldn't back when I was in high school. I'm probably better at this game and with only 700 people here ( at the time) I shouldn't have problems camping anything."

Problem is, 650/700 people thought the same thing. A very handsome portion of those forego entertainment, social lives, bathing or eating just to get a slice of the pie. Fucking EATING. I mean, really??? That's the blue server. It's attracted the longest beards of every server to one place. The end game is non stop bitching and lawyering. Everyone winds up there with nothing to do but endlessly farm tranix crowns, fingerboner hoops or TS ad nauseum for gear that will be obsolete day 4 of Velious dropping.

I feel like my gear conquest on red assists me in locking down a kill or resisting a spell to get away. Something to strive for in a game who's claim to fame is that it never ends

/rant off

[Darkwinter]

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

If you came to p1999 looking for a classic experience, are you playing blue or red? Curious because I can't even enjoy blue now that I went to red, not because I wanted to be red exactly, pvp is rough in EQ, but the fact of the matter is it is infinitely more classic than blue where the world has grown stagnant in a 3yr old kunark economy with a top heavy population.

Anyone care to share thoughts or expand?

I came for classic and stayed for red. I spent a few days ECQuesting blue and could twink heavily any character I want. Pixel heavy on blue but not classic to me at all... and all of the excess twinking discourages grouping and leveing. Everyone seems to only PL or twink to hell and solo mostly or duo with a friend. Red actually has me finding and making more friends in level range as I level, and having a genuine experience with people from rags to riches, thanks to XP mod for group bonus. I was very surprised to have an easier time getting grinding partners on red where they have the option to kill me instead of group with me, but 90% or more are down to party up and clean house.

Who here has experience with both and can share? Not meant to bash blue at all, it's a very fun experience, but blue reminds me of luclin era EQ'ing, sans bazaar, beastlords, and vah'shir/content. Economy and play wise, it feels more luclin-ey to me, while red feels pure classic.

Thanks to developers for great options both ways though, really cool to have my blue twinks and easy money and gear, and red earned and enjoyed classic experience!

Blue feels like Kunark to me. Don't really care about economy at my level.

[Swish]

Agree with most of that it has to be said. I still play both. I hate EC, chardok AOE, people locking down a camp in CoM solo/duo while everyone else has run out of mobs and is competing and getting mad trying to steal from others.

I leveled a wizard on red in starter robe til 35ish, and then an oracle robe to 51 with very little else... empty slots everywhere etc. Not saying that in itself is "classic" but the level of twinking on blue has trivialized the content for wherever you end up grouping.

The people who whine about the red XP rate probably have had a character PL'ed or Chardok AOE'd on blue, so I never see the argument there...and red pals need to stick together anyway and the XP bonus helps people interact [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Red isn't a terrible place, but funny isn't it how often people say "gear me and I'll play there"? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Get back to the roots of EQ, leveling with a rusty weapon or your starter robe. Just consider it when you're bored or thinking of making your 4th-10th blue alt. It's a new challenge [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]