P99 has so many custom rules : is it still classic at all ?

[loramin]

P99 is, and likely always will be the most classic server, if for no other reason than it's the only server to actually keep us all playing one account at a time (you know, like 99.9% of us did in classic).

That being said, there's a reason there's been a huge amount of discussion of "what does classic even mean" around here lately, and I would suggest that a very simple way to end it would be for the staff to actually get passionate about classic EQ again, and then articulate what they see as classic EQ.

Right now we have this total mishmash: AoE swarming is classicly/unclassicly limited, but charming looks nothing like it did on live ... and yet we still stick to the "letter of the law" on it. ZEMs are a similar sign of this schizophrenia.

It would take all of one or two paragraphs for R&N to make clear what their goal for classic EQ actually is, and it would put everyone on the same page ... but I truly think they either they themselves don't know the answer to "what's classic (here)?", or their just afraid of players twisting whatever they say (which seems silly to me as it's their world, and we'll fall in line behind whatever definition they decide on ... if they ever decide on one).

TLDR; Someday the http://wiki.project1999.com/Non-Classic_Compendium will be totally logical. It will be able to explain everything that seems "unclassic" using the "classic criteria" that everyone is on the same page about. Until then we're going to have thread after thread after thread about "classic" ... where 90+% of the arguments just come from everyone having a different definition of the word.