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[Bruman]

Here, Sleeper, EQMac, and Shards of Dalaya are the closest you can get to that classic EQ feel that I know of. Note that Shards of Dalaya is a custom MMO built on EQ, but it still has that "old school EQ" feel to quite a bit of it.

[Moop]

Oh, I didn't mention anything about Shards... Were you drawn to Shards?

[Reiker000]

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

So, what now? Reiker, I agree with your position on a competent alternative to P99... but what else is available?

The Sleeper added some flavor, mostly in allowing 2-box teams - but it just kinda seems like it's dying now...
Al-Kabor seems like pretty neat place to play, most box using a MAC - which seems much more difficult with the PC hack.
Then... there's this here P99. Great server, but a bit too 'established' for my taste.

They all suck, EQClassic if it ever launches I guess.

[KotBK]

I've seen streams of EQClassic alpha build, so atleast it is now finally in a broader testing phase as far as an alternative server is concerned

[Bruman]

Decided to answer my own question - about 2 to 3 weeks ago, at this time, it would've had around 150-200 non-anon/rp toons on. Now there's 88.

[Highbrow]

The Sleeper is garbage. The devs and beta testers were all morons and I could tell right away that the server wouldn't make it until summer. I gave it like a week and a half and gfto'ed. It's probably the worst eqemu server I've ever seen, and that's some feat for a server that claims to have spent two years in development. I've literally seen better attempts by random lone dudes who spent a month tinkering with the database. Kegz is so unintelligent and so utterly incompetent that I could tell just from looking at the forums during late beta that the server would probably be a massive failure, and it was. It's only because people are desperate for an alternative to P99 that there's still anyone playing there at all, and I would bet money on Kegz shutting the server down within three months.

[pharmakos]

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

Has anyone been banned yet on 'The Sleeper' for use of third-party-programs(IP or Acount)? The efforts to stop bad behavior don't seem to be logged on their fourms...

for awhile on their forum's "new posts" page you could mouse-over-preview posts from the administrator forums, and yes apparently at least a few people were banned.

Originally Posted by Reiker000 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The population has dropped because the devs are incompetent and rude to their player base, and people are realizing the server sucks and is never getting any better.

i couldn't believe that Kegz gave you those in-game titles. also can't believe that he still hasn't deleted the forum post where you're talking about the day he drove you off the server.

[Sularus Oth Mithas]

Originally Posted by Reiker000 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is the kind of shit that will never be fixed no matter how many times they patch the server. Kegz raged out on me in tells because I was reporting too much shit, and then begged me to help him dev his sinking ship of a server after giving me the title of Whiner. And then my legitimate bug reports were deleted off the forum. They'd rather create the illusion that everything is working fine and silence people trying to help, instead of actually fix the piece of shit server. This thing's been in development for 2 and a half years and it's essentially stock PEQ with expansions disabled with a handful of changes to the AC code.

And speaking of immature GMs, that Sloan guy is a real piece of work. He changed his name after finding out there was a Sloan on P99 so I can't remember what stupid name he goes by now. But a few days before I quit I /ooc'ed WTS nude pics of Tralina, and then suddenly I lost all ability to communicate. I couldn't continue the conversations I was having in tells, couldn't talk to my group, etc. I jumped into Mumble and raged out on this guy, who told me "nudity is not allowed on The Sleeper" over and over. He sounded like the nerdiest 14 year old virgin and is possibly one of the dumbest people I've ever spoken to. This is your "head of customer service" on this server.

It's a shit fest, get out now. I was one of the biggest supporters of this server for the first couple weeks, because it's healthy to have alternative servers to pressure each other to improve. But this is not the one. It'll be dead within a couple months.

My wife and I have stopped playing both right now. We were huge supporters of it when it came out but it just got stale real quick. It feels like Kegz wants to bask in the glory of being the GM of a server without taking responsibility for any of the problems. It was completely weird that Sloan changed his name, and while he initially came across as mature and a good representative of their customer service, it fast became clear that was not the case.

I like P99 but I do have my issues with it, and maybe if we had joined earlier it would be different. It was fun to enjoy the nostalgia for a while anyway.

[greatdane]

Is this server dead? I couldn't even log on their forum, it said I wasn't authorized or some shit.

[gotrocks]

EQClassic will likely never happen:

http://www.eqclassic.org/forums/view...php?f=9&t=3817

edit:

To paraphrase, in that thread I was attempting to ask yeahlight (lead dev/coder) how he planned to deal with the massive database set up and editing required to run a truly 'classic' eq server. this was his response:

Originally Posted by yeahlight

I will not be involved with this. Earlier this year, I reached out to SoE with a proposal that traded liability and monthly subscriptions for their classic content and distribution rights, but they declined it. Without an agreement in place, I will not be involved in the distribution of SoE's IP. Anyone else is welcome to assume this risk, but it is not going to be me.

which means two things,

a) eqclassic.org as an entity is probably NOT going to host a server themselves and,

b) someone else would need to take over responsibility of not only hosting a server, but also setting up ALL of the relevant npcs, items, etc using PEQ's database (or I guess p99's, if that's publicly available? still not very likely)