Recycle/Starter Server Badly Needed - General Review of P99

[skipdog]

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

Your opinions, thoughts and ideas are stupid.

[Dynheart]

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

That's weird cause they vendor for 300.

Never attempted to vendor them. I just remember them going for that much. You would have the occasional 150pp.

/shrug

[maskedmelon]

Interestingly, people sell items for below vendor price all the time. The enterprising young nooblet will save up to purchase those items and then vendor them themselves ^^

[skipdog]

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

the only valid complaint imo is that the server is extremely top-heavy. even after velious, all of the raid targets are dying minutes after they spawn and usually with 2-3 guilds present and competing. a recycle server would probably have the same issue eventually, but it may also ease some of the pressure at the top end of blue.

not true at all. LOADS AND LOADS of targets on all continents are being left up for surprisingly long a lot of the time since velious release...

[Charlievox]

Logged on to my Level 4 DE Enchanter last night for the first time in weeks. Played just under an hour. Went home and banked almost 100pp.
Looted a HQ Bear Skin in Nektulos and sold it without even leaving the zone for 30pp. Then popped over to EC and in less than five minutes, sold all the bone chips i had accumulated getting to Level 4.
AND i also gained a whole level of xp.
All in about 45 - 50 minutes.
My level 9 Ranger has a full set of Banded and a Silver Swiftblade and a 90pp bank balance.
If making Plat is this easy at these low levels, it can only get better from here.

Of course, I loot EVERYTHING! Even spiderling legs and eyes. Everytime I see a skellie, I kill it. Even if it's green. Every cp I can grab, I grab. I've been in Orc1 groups where nobody loots anything but the belts. I grab all the rest. Cloth armor, ruined, LQ and MQ pelts, rusty weapons spider legs scarab legs and carapaces... You name it, I'll loot it if no one else does.

All of my characters always have enough money to buy their next set of spells

[wormed]

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

In what way?

There's just too much competition for every mob on the server. Simply put, that wasn't the case in classic EQ. I think that causes issues when the game really wasn't designed for 500 level 60's tackling mobs. Even with bigger populations in EQ's prime, the game simply was more difficult due to the unknown factor. The economy made sense, although that's not a huge gripe with me on P99. There weren't people leveling to 50+ with relative ease using a Fungi tunic, or at least it wasn't as prevalent as it is on P99.

Velious helped a lot. However, I think it's evident that there's just too many top level people with top end gear able to take down Velious mobs with ease. When Velious was released in classic, you didn't just roll up with Vindi and throw numbers at him. The gear just wasn't there. Not many people had PoSky on farm except for the best of the best. But on P99, farming Sky was done by a multitude of guilds and not just the extreme poopsock neckbearders, either.

Is P99 a bad server? Nope! I enjoy my time on this server as I feel I've found a guild that kicks ass and fits what I want to put into it. Am I pretty bummed that Velious is "it"? Yea, and it's definitely something I need to think about. Do I really want to play Velious for 4 years? I think a lot of us felt EQ was at its best at Planes of Power. This was where there was just an absolute abundance of content, raid mobs, etc, that not everything under the sun was downed within minutes. Guilds could grow in strength and build towards bigger mobs. Currently, there's really nothing to "build" towards. Everyone has gear capable to take down NToV, the issue is numbers and experience, not gear.

Shrug, whether you disagree or not, that's just my feeling on it. P99 is great but I definitely don't see myself playing Velious for years.

[thufir]

OP, back in the day Xegony generally had 2k+ on at prime time, which this server never even gets close to. So it isn't more crowded than it was on Live during this era.

It also seems pretty *easy* to break into the raid scene here - not hard. On Live very few guilds had the chops to do the really tough stuff and their membership was carefully gated. That same stuff is all well known now, and a lot of guilds are doing it. Many of those guilds are recruiting actively.

I've been here for 2+ years on and off and am not even close to the level cap, but I have generally enjoyed my time here and sort of agree with the "if you don't like it, sorry man, have a good one" attitude being expressed. I do like the idea of a recycle server and Sirken has said one will be coming eventually. But I also like the characters, adventures, and relationships I have here. It's a fine little server and no other comes closer to recreating the Classic/Kunark/Velious experience.

Of course, I still have to get to the raid scene here, and I've been pretty slow to do that since the things I missed on Live all revolved around dungeons and leveling (having foolishly made the decision on Live to take the Ecom->Nro->Oasis->LOIO->OT route to higher levels that was recommended by 90% of people I knew). There's content out there to see and most of it isn't even remotely overcrowded! Find friends and look around; there's still things to discover out there, especially in Velious where the wiki is pretty dubious.

[perditionparty]

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

Shrug, whether you disagree or not, that's just my feeling on it. P99 is great but I definitely don't see myself playing Velious for years.

Not agreeing or disagreeing, just seeing what you were trying to say. I think your concerns stem from another issue you addressed, which is the vast knowledge and accessibility of the game now vs then. More high level characters don't create more camped mobs, op items, etc; the knowledge does

this differentiation may be pedantic though /shrug

[Beckoning]

I started in May and I've made probably close to 70K doing ports alone. As a newbie, I obviously had nothing, so I started in Misty and would forage misty acorns and high quality wolf skins, each of which I could sell for 10 - 20 pp if the right buyers were on (Saide and Ayleth). Pick a class that has the potential to earn, the potential to teach you how to play the game and that has the potential to be functional without twinking. I'm level 52 and I still wear leather boots. It hasn't affected me in the least! You don't always need good gear to do things!

[Zuranthium]

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

That's a given on any new launch night server. You basically go to Steamfont, Innothule, Feerott, Tox or somewhere a bit quieter to get those mobs in... or run the mail quest 1-5.

Who wants to go to Innothule, Feerott, or Tox? Aside from being weak/annoying newbie zones, that would also require significant time expenditure having to run there and then run back to your own city eventually. Don't think it would be worthwhile.

Also, Steamfont newbie zone still had overly strained resources back in the day. There used to only be 1 kobold tent in the starter area, but now there's 4 or 5 of them. So that's not classic on this server, but at the same time I'm totally fine with it and think it makes sense: the area where the extra kobold tents are at now used to just be an open area with nothing there. Steamfont has always been great for the wide level range that can hunt there but those extra kobolds now make it much better for supporting more people from level 4 to level 8.