TAK project.

[Walex]

Takp is awesome. I moved over about 8 months ago and pretty much never looked back. I'm a pretty casual player and it took me about 6 months to level my trio to 60. Since then I've still been keeping busy with quests (hello Chardok revamp and 8th shawl).

As a whole, the server is 100x more friendly than P99. My first day there I said in /ooc that I was new to the server and was greeted by many people welcoming me, throwing free gear my way to get me started. It's really awesome how welcoming everyone is to newcomers. Free starting gear is doubt a huge part of what enabled Savok to level up so quickly.... I know I personally loaned him a fungi for the first few levels and several others loaned him plenty as well.

What really annoyed me about p99 was the toxic, overly competitive raid scene. It's like there was never a break from inter-guild bickering, training, poopsocking, etc. TAKP has none of that. Raid mobs are done on rotation, there are no guild rivalries, everybody helps everybody else, etc. Seriously, I don't know what the TAKP people did differently to make it that way but it's a night/day difference from p99 and it is SO refreshing.

As for the allegations about the server being a "loot pinata", it's probably a product of the lower population, to be honest. There's just more loot to go around. But I wouldn't say it's easymode by any means.... the mobs still hit just as hard and respawn at the same rate. Just because the high end isn't bloated like P99 doesn't mean it's easy. I play EQ to develop my character and try new challenges. In 8 months, I haven't gotten to the point where I feel like I've "beaten" the game in its current state, and Luclin is just around the corner. So there's still plenty to keep you busy.

Savok single boxes whereas many others double or triple box. So of course he's going to have really good gear.... when stuff drops from raids, he's not splitting his DKP between 3 toons. We keep pretty busy with our raid schedule, having ToV all to ourselves every 4 weeks. On the other weeks, we down ST (warders will never go away because The Sleeper couldn't be woken on original AK server), Tormax/Statue/Aow, Yeli, Dain, CT, Ring wars, VP, etc. It's also not hard to imagine how he was able to kill "every" mob already since all he's had to do is stick around for a full rotation to see them all.

So yeah, take a lower population server and look at how much raiding we do and it's not hard to see how the gear seems to fall better over there.

If it doesn't seem like your cup of tea, that's fine. P99 has a great thing going on and I'm happy for any chance I can get to relive this game. But I would encourage everyone to try it out first and then form their own opinion. We'd be happy to have you.