Consider Project 2002

[wormed]

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

Classic features such as a lack of tab targeting. Try being an effective Enchanter without tab targeting. No scrolling out to third person, only the ghetto F9 cam views, which are hardly comparable. You cannot see the exact amount of mana you have, only the percentage. There are lots of things that TakP/Project2002 have which are vastly more classic than P99.

P99 has slightly slower xp gain, a larger community, easier access, an easy economy to break into after years of farming have over-saturated the market, and doesn't have global /ooc. To each their own.

And no boxing. Which is huge to me, and many, no matter how you want to spin it.

[Taryth]

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

And no boxing. Which is huge to me, and many, no matter how you want to spin it.

I didn't try to spin it. You asked what P2002 does better than P1999.

Boxing, btw, is classic.

[loramin]

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

Boxing, btw, is classic.

No, it wasn't, or at least not in any way an emulated server can reproduce. On live to box you had to:

• have multiple physical computers
• pay $15 per boxed account
• have an internet connection with enough bandwidth

No one in the classic era ever had even a single free account, let alone 2+, and even if they were willing to pay for extra accounts they couldn't use them from the same computer because the client could only handle one instance (you could run multiple instances by using EQW, but that was a banned 3rd-party program). And even if you did have 2x accounts and 2x computers, you needed a (at the time very pricey) ISDN or DSL line, or you needed multiple phone lines/ISP accounts.

So, paying $30+ a month, having two computers, and paying out the nose for an internet connection that could handle both of them was classic; everything else isn't.

[Wharhog]

P2002 is going to PoP, and won't be stuck in expansions for multiple years at a time.

[Paleman]

boxing was called dual wielding back in da day

[BossThunderace]

P2002 is an awesome server and I'm sure p1999 is fun for some folks to. Reminds me of a saying, different strokes for different folks. If you want to be on a server where the economy is over saturated that's your choice, if you want to be on a server that has a fresh economy and will end in the PoP era.. That's your choice! P2002 runs nice, and the small community there is awesome! I don't know much about blue on p99 but from what I hear, I don't understand how playing with lv1 epic twinks would be fun. To each his own

[Wharhog]

P2002 forked from Takp to produce faster, more complete (database) content....toward the ultimate goal of getting to PoP. P2002 and Takp work together and share code...Takp does the majority of server code and P2002 does the quest scripting. Kunark will be released in June on P2002.

[Haynar]

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

P2002 forked from Takp to produce faster, more complete (database) content....toward the ultimate goal of getting to PoP. P2002 and Takp work together and share code...Takp does the majority of server code and P2002 does the quest scripting. Kunark will be released in June on P2002.

It's one of those Love/Hate relationships.

Which is better? Dunno. Will they both still be around in 5 years? Dunno.

I know they cant get along. But they really need to work something out.

At this point, I think they need to merge to a common login server. That way when ppl get on, they have a choice between the two servers. And that would give others the opportunity to have servers too.

Every new takp/p2002 server having their own login server seems redundant.

H

[apio]

I personally think we need both servers, the folks on tak have made it very clear they only want to cater to casual players, project 2002 covers a different demographic. We also have a hands off approach when it comes to player disputes which is quite frankly the complete opposite of tak.

[Haynar]

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

I personally think we need both servers, the folks on tak have made it very clear they only want to cater to casual players, project 2002 covers a different demographic. We also have a hands off approach when it comes to player disputes which is quite frankly the complete opposite of tak.

I don't know enough about p2002 to give an opinion.

I do know we are talking about a small population of users/players/devs. If you cannot work ur way around differing opinions. Both servers are doomed to never sustain a measurable population.

H