Lake of Ill Omen was super freaking classic lol.

[Arvan]

most zones were populated because the servers were populated

[Ciderpress]

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

most zones were populated because the servers were populated

It's both that and the ignorance and naivete of the player base at the time. Even if p99 had 2500 players at peak hours this wouldn't be happening like op remembers.

I remember it too, consider yourself one of the lucky ones if you got to be there for it

[Trexller]

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

It's both that and the ignorance and naivete of the player base at the time.

Exactly. LOIO was just straight up open world fun, it didnt matter if the ZEM was like -1000, nobody knew better and nobody cared.

the exact opposite of the psychotic min/max data driven mindset

[Wakanda]

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

It's both that and the ignorance and naivete of the player base at the time. Even if p99 had 2500 players at peak hours this wouldn't be happening like op remembers.

I remember it too, consider yourself one of the lucky ones if you got to be there for it

IDK if we were really that naive, at least my friend group. We were the level 9 players who were always pushing the limit to the point it scared most normies. Doing Unrest Trash at level 8, even solo if we had to etc. and remember a lot of people tell us we're nuts when we asked them to join us.

LOIO was just dramatically faster exp and the easiest way to level as far as we knew (granted, we weren't Necromancers, we were like Rogues, Warriors, Clerics etc.)

I don't think P99 experience is classic honestly and I think it misleads people about how fast leveling was 20+ years ago. I remember Unrest generally being a ghost town (no pun intended) once Kunark launched, and the exp being relatively bad compared to the LOIO > Frontier Mountains > OT > DL > KC > Sebilis train. Which is my fondest memories of classic.