Back in the faydark after 20 years

[laxton1919]

Hello
So I played EQ after the Kunark expansion came out in....what, 2000? 2001? I played the game off and on until maybe 2005 or so. Lost a semester of college to it lol. I played it with my (late) brother. I heard about project 99 and had to see it. I remember the faydark, the orcs, and I really want to re-experience it. But MAN is it a culture shock and throw back. I'm on project 99 green velious server. I had a few questions to help ease me back in.

1. Starting in kelethin or felwithe. I approached an npc, hailed them, and in the dialogue box it looked like there as a hyperlink to click to get a quest, specifically outside of the emerald weapon shop in kelethin, gallin something. It was about hunting meat. I clicked it but nothing happened. It was also white. What does that mean? I also typed it into the chatbar (the exact phrase he used) while targeting him and nothing happened. Am I wrong and this isn't a quest? Or am I missing something on how to progress a dialogue tree?

2. Could you give me a handful of starter tips? Again it's been a few decades and resetting my mind to this old school of gaming is a bit difficult.

3. Is there a better server for me? I'm looking for the older EQ experience, maybe up through planes of power or something like that. Not into PVP. PVE all the way. I see the heroes journey server has a large number of players but I think that has the homogenized starting zone in the mine, right? Or am I incorrect there?

Thanks and man it is good to be back!

[chillybob]

Welcome to p99! You cannot 'click' dialogue here. That is a later feature added well past the 2001 timeline which we are permanently stuck in.
You must reply in /say with proper dialogue to get an appropriate response from the npc. I believe the quest you were trying to do is this here, Shark Meat Quest.

Your best friend will be the p99 wiki, your classic everquest bible so to speak. Filled with guides and almost all the info you'd need to know.

If you are looking for something that goes past velious, p99 is not the place for you. We are stuck here for life until another server launches which will then proceed to do it all over again from classic to velious over a 2 year-ish period.

If you are curious about other custom servers in the EQEmu-niverse, might I direct you here to browse.

[laxton1919]

Thank you so much. This is definitely where i wanna be. Just gotta get my bearings. I tried going back to live and even the progression servers feel....weird. This feels very much like coming home.

[loramin]

Originally Posted by laxton1919 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

2. Could you give me a handful of starter tips? Again it's been a few decades and resetting my mind to this old school of gaming is a bit difficult.

The wiki has tons of guides to help. There's one for each starting city (including Kelethin), one (or more) for your class, one for places to solo and one for where to find groups ... and that's just the guide pages! There's also tons of non-guide info too [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Originally Posted by laxton1919 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

3. Is there a better server for me? I'm looking for the older EQ experience, maybe up through planes of power or something like that. Not into PVP. PVE all the way. I see the heroes journey server has a large number of players but I think that has the homogenized starting zone in the mine, right? Or am I incorrect there?

You're looking for Project Quarm (started by a former P99 contributor named Secrets). It doesn't have everything Project 1999 has (eg. single-boxing, more classic rules), but if you want to go to Luclin and beyond it's your best bet.

[Jaketheretro]

Welcome to p999

[Gustoo]

this is the oldest eq experience.