Is P99 today a better game of than EQ live in 2001 ?

[Bwils]

On live I started on end of Luclin beginning of PoP. I started here when server opened. First 8 months of this server opening was the most fun I had on everquest.

[Gondule]

Can't personally say if it's better or not but let me say this instead. Coming from someone who missed this game by about 6 years (first MMORPG was Vanilla WoW) I have to say this has been the most enjoyable experience I have had playing an MMORPG in literal years. Me and my friend are really pumped for Pantheon so we figured we'd give this game a try and boy I'm glad we have. I just wanna play all the time but RL interrupts quite often but other than that I just love how immersive this game is.

[fash]

No, its a shell of its former glory with the mystery completely gone. I don't think you can have the same type of mmo experience in a modern mmo due to how effective we've become at wikifying game knowledge. Traveling across oot or lake rathetear without the fear of an unknown giant sea monster devouring your character is a materially worse experience.

[yorumi]

I think the problem is so many people posting played EQ absolutely to death back on live and have experienced and done everything possible so it's not longer as fun. If you wern't a hardcore raided back then, then p99 is quite a lot better experience overall.

I played EQ a lot back up through POP but was never really a high end player. To me p99 offer a lot of adventure. Wiki ruining everything? On the contrary it lets me experience quests and zones and things I just flat out never knew existed. I can select zones I've never been to before and experience a new side of EQ. I'm playing classes I never played on live because I understand them better and get a more fulfilling experience.

Twinking? Please, twinking was just as prominent on live. Maybe it was a bit harder to afford a fungi but beyond that there was always a fbss available on live, and it was never hard to get good weapons and basic stat gear too on live.

Everquest is what you make of it, there's plenty of grouping going on, and questing, and exploring. I rather like knowing about things rather than going through the world dazed and confused just hoping i'm not making a fool of myself.

[Stormfists]

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

pathing

Jesus what fucking server are you even on? Pathing here is absolute dog.

[big_ole_jpn]

Small group content (the good part) is way better. Try levelling a cleric in 2001/2 without a PL. Not being able to solo on live was crippling.

I hate how nodrop items are "NO TRADE" tho

[sacman08]

Live was much better. The biggest reason was lots more people played on live and it was much easier to get into a large guild (or a guild large enough) to progress through raids or even just in guild groups where they were helpful in farming gear to make your character better.
Ya sure sometimes it was a pain on a busy Saturday when people would be KS because so many people were in one area or whatever, but it was still fun. More fun than I have ever experienced on P99.
P99 isn't bad, I really enjoy that old school EQ game feel but it's different and you better get use to a lot of solo play unless you have talked a group of your person RL friends to gmae with you.

[Izmael]

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

Jesus what fucking server are you even on? Pathing here is absolute dog.

Have you played live circa Velious launch? Pathing was so much worse then. Especially in weird zones like velk, kedge or (shiver) SG. Mobs were getting stuck or would fall under the world all the time (if you were particularly lucky, they would even summon you there!)

[Izmael]

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

I hate how nodrop items are "NO TRADE" tho

Maybe whoever maintains dsetup.dll can patch it? That would rock.

Also change TEMPORARY to NO RENT while you're at it, please.

[big_ole_jpn]

Originally Posted by sacman08 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Live was much better. The biggest reason was lots more people played on live and it was much easier to get into a large guild (or a guild large enough) to progress through raids or even just in guild groups where they were helpful in farming gear to make your character better.
Ya sure sometimes it was a pain on a busy Saturday when people would be KS because so many people were in one area or whatever, but it was still fun. More fun than I have ever experienced on P99.
P99 isn't bad, I really enjoy that old school EQ game feel but it's different and you better get use to a lot of solo play unless you have talked a group of your person RL friends to gmae with you.

What live server did you play on that was more crowded than p99? P99 is way more crowded than any EQ i ever experienced.