I'm not having fun playing this game. Why?

[SorenVC]

Hello I made a first character Iksar Necromancer who is currently level 5. I'm in Field of Bone and is it true that I only need to farm Bone Chips from skeletons to level up? I tried submitting the curscales for the quest but you only get a single bag for those and you have to run back and forth to the Cabilis East NPC for the curscale armor quest, so I dropped this quest and only focus on getting bone chips from skeletons so I can submit them in Field of Bone to that NPC at the entrance. I think that is faster.

I have 3 bags (8 slots each) and I'm just running around killing skeletons for Bone Chips. I mean what else can I do, all the other enemies are either yellow or red so I can't kill them. I only have Minor Shielding and Lifetap. Is there something I am doing wrong when playing this game? Is it so boring because I'm playing alone? What do I need to do to have fun and enjoy this game. I was told Necromancer as Iksar is one of the easiest race/class combos especially for pure soloing.

I'm on the Green Server and I know how to use Sense Heading and I also leveled up Meditate (put 1 point in). That's about the only things I did here. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong playing this game? I really don't like how when you die you have to get your corpse inventory back and the slow nature of this game.

[Old_PVP]

I would suggest taking a look at the wiki and researching your class, quests and the game in general. Find goals you want to start working towards. This game isn't like WoW where they hand hold you and tell you where to go and what to do. You need to create your own quests and goals you want to accomplish for the most part. Look into tradeskills, that opens up a whole new rabbit hole of tasks. There are quests, but you need to look them up. You can even start working toward quests for other classes and sell or keep those items down the road.

Heres a quest for iksar necro to start looking at:

https://wiki.project1999.com/Necroma...kullcap_Quests

https://wiki.project1999.com/Necro_Spells

Also..."farming bone chips to level up" is not a viable plan. The bone chip quest in Field of Bone is not about the exp, but the faction hits... that's all its good for.

[SorenVC]

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

I would suggest taking a look at the wiki and researching your class, quests and the game in general. Find goals you want to start working towards. This game isn't like WoW where they hand hold you and tell you where to go and what to do. You need to create your own quests and goals you want to accomplish for the most part. Look into tradeskills, that opens up a whole new rabbit hole of tasks. There are quests, but you need to look them up. You can even start working toward quests for other classes and sell or keep those items down the road.

Heres a quest for iksar necro to start looking at:

https://wiki.project1999.com/Necroma...kullcap_Quests

https://wiki.project1999.com/Necro_Spells

Also..."farming bone chips to level up" is not a viable plan. The bone chip quest in Field of Bone is not about the exp, but the faction hits... that's all its good for.

Yeah I think I'll give up on this game. It's too complicated for me and I'm too lazy.

[SorenVC]

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

I would suggest taking a look at the wiki and researching your class, quests and the game in general. Find goals you want to start working towards. This game isn't like WoW where they hand hold you and tell you where to go and what to do. You need to create your own quests and goals you want to accomplish for the most part. Look into tradeskills, that opens up a whole new rabbit hole of tasks. There are quests, but you need to look them up. You can even start working toward quests for other classes and sell or keep those items down the road.

Heres a quest for iksar necro to start looking at:

https://wiki.project1999.com/Necroma...kullcap_Quests

https://wiki.project1999.com/Necro_Spells

Also..."farming bone chips to level up" is not a viable plan. The bone chip quest in Field of Bone is not about the exp, but the faction hits... that's all its good for.

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=104675

"1-11 - Field of Bone, in the pit...and mobs around the outside."

But I DON'T GET IT. Here in this guide it says to level from 1 to 11 in Field of Bone but I can't find any enemies to level me up. All I can do at level 5 is farm bone chips or curscales and submit them for quest exp. What else can I do? There are no enemies in Field of Bone that give decent exp, unless they will kill me easily.

How do I know how to level up from 1-60 as an Iksar Necromancer. Do I have to read and manifest 20 pages of guides before playing a class in this game? This is why this game doesn't get more players, it needs too much knowledge. How do I know which mobs to kill?

I went around in a circle of the Field of Bone pit and found no good enemies for exp. I can kill blues, but that lasts days until I get a level up, unless I just farm Bone Chips but you said it's bad.

[bcbrown]

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

I went around in a circle of the Field of Bone pit and found no good enemies for exp. I can kill blues, but that lasts days until I get a level up, unless I just farm Bone Chips but you said it's bad.

Kill the blues.

[Xer0]

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

https://www.project1999.com/forums/s...d.php?t=104675

"1-11 - Field of Bone, in the pit...and mobs around the outside."

But I DON'T GET IT. Here in this guide it says to level from 1 to 11 in Field of Bone but I can't find any enemies to level me up. All I can do at level 5 is farm bone chips or curscales and submit them for quest exp. What else can I do? There are no enemies in Field of Bone that give decent exp, unless they will kill me easily.

How do I know how to level up from 1-60 as an Iksar Necromancer. Do I have to read and manifest 20 pages of guides before playing a class in this game? This is why this game doesn't get more players, it needs too much knowledge. How do I know which mobs to kill?

I went around in a circle of the Field of Bone pit and found no good enemies for exp. I can kill blues, but that lasts days until I get a level up, unless I just farm Bone Chips but you said it's bad.

This mentality is why modern games stink. They're mindless faceroll clickfests where everything is handed to you like a participation trophy.

[SorenVC]

Originally Posted by Xer0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This mentality is why modern games stink. They're mindless faceroll clickfests where everything is handed to you like a participation trophy.

I would enjoy Project 1999 more if you didn't LOSE all your inventory on death. I don't understand how it's more fun to be going back to your corpse everytime. Or if they'd at least let you respawn in the same area where you died. This is too hardcore for me together with the complicated gameplay.

[lronhubbard]

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

I would enjoy Project 1999 more if you didn't LOSE all your inventory on death. I don't understand how it's more fun to be going back to your corpse everytime. Or if they'd at least let you respawn in the same area where you died. This is too hardcore for me together with the complicated gameplay.

TL;DR: Use /corpse when targeting your corpse to recover it from dangerous locations.

I've know about ever quest since 2001, but hadn't played it until recently. My perspective comes from that of a new player, but an experienced gamer of yore.

EverQuest is a product of it's time. It was released in 1999, which was 26 years ago. It was the first game of it's kind re-imagining the way we play games on a whole. It was developed by a dedicated team who designed a game that they wanted to play that didn't exist at it's time.

Now you don't lose all your inventory when you die. You leave a corpse where you died at. You can recover the corpse and get your equipment and items back.

Last night I died, I walked right into a camp of rogue dwarves because I assumed they were friendly. My corpse was a bit too deep and I died a second time. I then discovered that I could use the /corpse command to pull my corpse to a safe location. I read on the wiki previously that you could pull your corpse with /corpse but didn't recall on my first death; nor did I know how to use /corpse. But low and behold I just needed to be near my corpse (within range), target my corpse, and type /corpse; then poof my corpse was at my feet.

Unfortunately in this day and age most are programmed for instant gratification and hand holding. Man gaming was great when everything was a mystery.

[SorenVC]

Originally Posted by Xer0 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This mentality is why modern games stink. They're mindless faceroll clickfests where everything is handed to you like a participation trophy.

EverQuest Project 1999 treats you like it's the only game you wanna play for the rest of your life. The amount of skill and knowledge it requires. You would be stuck reading guides more than playing as a new player. And that's why my main game is Battlefield 6 right now, cause it's easy and oldschool.

[Xer0]

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

EverQuest Project 1999 treats you like it's the only game you wanna play for the rest of your life. The amount of skill and knowledge it requires. You would be stuck reading guides more than playing as a new player.

That's not really the case. You can jus tplay the game and learn gradually over time through interaction with the world and it's players, and googling/reading things as they become necessary.

Remember, it's just an emulation of an old game. There was a time when there were stones yet unturned-- there were thousands of paid monthly subscribers in the game, crawling around blindly figuring things out as they went.


It's entirely possible to play the game, and enjoy it, while being perfectly ignorant to 80% of its mechanics etc.

A lot of people ENJOY a game that force to figure things out, and learna bout the world/mechanics in order to succeed in. Look at how DARK SOULS has spawned an entire GENRE. It is such a believed niche that imitators started popping up left and right. And DS and EQ are very similar in that regard-- games that don't spell anything out, or hold your hand at all. You have to figure things out and thankfully at this point in the timeline, most things can be google'd.


The problem is not the game. Everquest is still somehow alive as a franchise even in official capacity, not even counting all the players that focus on unofficial gameplay avenues. The "problem" is that you don't like games like it. Not eveyrthing is for everyone, and that's okay. It's not actually a problem at all. You don't like a thing that some people do. What the hell even is the point of this disguising this post as a dicussion? The same end could have bene achieved by titling it "I don't like EQ P99 and here's why"