So what happened in luclin-pop?

[Swish]

What about cats in lost dungeons of norrath tho? I'd like to see that... with LoY zones.

[Cecily]

It's not Everquest without fluorescent pink ogres.

[mr_jon3s]

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

There are many that cannot believe that p99 would just stop, and never see Luclin or PoP.

No matter how many times they are told, they still won't believe the answer.

Im just wait for p2002 or takproject to get to luclin. Once they get released I'm gonna start playing those.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

I cannot believe some people are actually arguing for plane of knowledge and bazaar. I wish I was a guide. I'd port you immersion-killing bastards into the maze in Skyshrine and reset your sense heading to zero.

[Haynar]

Originally Posted by mr_jon3s [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Im just wait for p2002 or takproject to get to luclin. Once they get released I'm gonna start playing those.

P2002 will be in luclin first. You should go there, if you think its appropriate comparing p2002 and takp. Have fun with all the LDs and lag.

Here's your sign.

[Ennewi]

Denial -> anger -> bargaining -> depression -> acceptance. Just think of them as expansions.

[Dacien]

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

This guy so eloquently illustrates the real reason why people don't like POK books. It has nothing to do with the thrill of adventure that you get from staring at a dock for 20 minutes, then at the deck of a boat for another 30 minutes.

The reason there's so much vitriol about POK books is because the porting classes want to keep charging a tax on travel, and people are willing to pay it since the other option is mind-numbing boredom and a waste of RL time.

I dunno man, the boats added gravity to the world when I played back in the day. Call me crazy, but boat times made the world seem real. I liked it. Had to take the boats often too, for corpse recoveries. Made death more scary, that's for sure. Which again, made Norrath seem alive.

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

I haven't actively played on the server in several months. I just find this to be an intriguing topic because of many similar threads on mmo-champion that have started because of the shutdown of the Nostalrius vanilla WoW private server. It's interesting how people only want to look through their rose colored glasses at original versions of games, and refuse to even acknowledge that features added later on in the game actually made the game objectively better. I say objectively because Everquest subscription was at its height when these supposedly horrible, game-ruining features were introduced.

Yeah, casual MMO gameplay is pretty popular, I'll grant you that.

I know "casual" has become a dirty word, but I'm simply using it as a descriptor.

[Psionide]

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

Everything released by SoE/Verant up to some certain point is classic. Everyone else here gets to decide for themselves what that point is.

Classic isn't Vanilla through Velious just because you think it is. There are many people who think PoP was the peak of "classic" Everquest. And there's an argument to be made that the sub numbers from back in the day reflect that fact.

And just because you think pop was classic eq doesn't mean it was either, see I can do it too[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Except it wasn't me saying this was classic it was taken straight from the fucking homepage by the people that run this server let me copy it for you....

"Relive the classic Everquest MMORPG Gaming Experience as it was in 1999 and onward. Project 1999 is a free to play Emulated Everquest Server giving Players the opportunity to experience Classic EQ Once again, currently in the Velious expansion and a max level of 60, with the look and feel of the old interface and several modifications making game mechanics similar to how the game used to be. Project 1999 is the best and most popular classic Everquest experience."

For the sake of disclosure, I actually play on TAKP and I think there are fantastic elements to SOL and POP but I don't think they outweigh the bad. Finally and most importantly you won't see me pushing for elements from those expansions on a emu that is SPECIFICALLY trying to recreate the EQ experience without them. Hence, why if I want to go experience that I go to a server that is dedicated to that, I just don't understand why that is so mind boggling?

[myriverse]

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

Please help me understand why you are playing on a classic emu if you don't want classic mechanics? For real, like this is the exact type of attitude that turned a good game into the garbage that eq live eventually became.

There is one reason I play on this server, and it's got nothing at all to do with classic.

The boxing policy.

[fadetree]

Yeah, I play on P99 for reasons other than just that it's classic, although that's certainly a draw. My own feeling is that EQ up through PoP was 'classic', and it was after PoP that it went entirely off the rails.

Haynar, I for one am fully aware that P99 will never go past SoV. I just wish it would. Would I play 2002 or tak when they get to PoP? That's doubtful, unless they put in the same kind of work that P99 did to unroll all the post-PoP crap and make the server stable and prevent asshats from boxing. If all I wanted was PoP I'd go solo the place in live.