Getting people to play P99

[kaluppo]

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

The first 4 hours of EQ are the best! Trying to find that rusty 2 handed sword for those 1 hit kills; scrabbling together a full set of cloth armor; getting started tailoring your own set of armour, working towards that first pet for mages. Finding your first friends to go wreck some gnolls, goblins or orcs!

After that, the content you do struggles to actually provided upgrades you can use, and instead many find the game starts to drag, becoming an xp farm so you can plat farm to buy the pixels you couldn't earn yourself.

There is no experience like the first character you made here. As a Druid I remember looting every corpse I killed and looting other corpses that were abandoned just so I could afford all my lvl 5 spells even though I was still using the starter club and wearing a cloth shirt LOL.

But then I noticed something. By the time I was 60 and decided to play a Cleric my bank account for the Druid had 10K PP (which is nothing on this server). But even with that modest amount I was able to buy cheap wis gear for the cleric, a decent weapon and all his spells were in bags waiting for him to hit each new spell level.

It wasn't the same. I don't think my Cleric even bothered to loot a corpse till he was in his 40's when the mobs were finally dropping PP coin and items.