P99 Classic vs Original Classic

[long.liam]

Classic is kind of a Vague term anyway. At what point in timeline is EQ still considered "Classic"? The original game, no Kunark? Kunark? Velious? Which Patch? What about Hot fixes? Temporary Bugs? What day? What Hour is EQ still classic? Things were changing so often, that there is no to tell perfectly how the game was actually functioning to perfect accuracy at anytime. P99 is good enough to be considered classic. Perfect reproduction of everything is unnecessary and not really possible at this point. The original source code is lost to time. All they have available to rebuild the original "Classic" game is random anecdotes from players at the time, patch notes, and the few developer comments. It's also kind of a strange rant. There may not have been a wiki and all the other stuff you listed, but people still shared information online as it became available. If "Classic" means perfect reproduction of some arbitrarily defined point in the development timeline and the web as it existed in time, then "Classic" is impossible to create. This seems more like a troll rant.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

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

The original game

yes. For the purposes of this thread, clearly yes. p99 is "as close as one can get" is more a concession than a statement of what is possible.


So, we got this vision, this no cats on the moon vision. We've now got two servers of it. To beguile my leisure, I need to go back further. Trying to imagine what EQ could have been if stamina/endurance had not been nerfed is a noble cause, and potential future for this so-called project 1999.



Weapons, fight length, haste and speed buffs, should all interact with this missing mechanic. The fact is this entire path of game mechanics (stamina, the stat STA, and endurance) got neglected early on, finally jettisoned into the junkheap in 2003, and it still sits there on the interface. Yellow bar. Why not try to calculate how to fold it into the now-established "classic" of p99? A true un-nerfing. It would mean doing something with a foundational rpg feature, that the original game had, did not spend time on.


We need young blood to nourish the Archons, however. And we cannot afford any.