What attitudes and philosophies do you hate in P1999?

[kaev]

Originally Posted by sox7d [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

IMO, the factors that give EQ the feeling of being a world rather than a game are (in order):

-No maps/GPS
-No third/second person view, but that's kind of out of the window on this server
-No PoK
-No bazaar
-Little soloability

All this shit is in every other MMORPG, P99 is a sacred bastion in my opinion. Play literally ANYTHING else.

Dude, 3rd person and transparent UI were avail in Kunark for sure, don't recall using them pre-Kunark so maybe not original or maybe I just didn't know about them yet, but 3rd person is definitely a classic (i.e. pre-Luclin) EQ mechanic.

I preferred 1st person pov but used to use 3rd person when travelling all the time on live. As an example, a naked L20 warrior on CR could run unsowed from FV to corpse out in LoIO with 3rd-person (via F9) with 100% success. It broke the awesome immersion of 1st person view but avoided a lot of deaths when travelling alone.

Also, Necros had solo'd damned near everything except Naggy/Vox before Kunark came out. Soloability only sucked for warrior, paladin, cleric, and rogue, that's way less than half the classes.

[sox7d]

fixed it