Anyone else started EQ in P99?

[DromalPhrenia]

These posts about people bouncing off the graphics are real sad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] EQ definitely isn't the prettiest game but so many of the graphics are full of personality! Games like FFXIV and ESO allow for a ton of pretty princess dress up, but no character in those games has the personality of an Ogre with a goofy face, no monsters are like goblins and their godawful posture and their buttcracks... nothing in those games can make me laugh like a little gnome in a robe with a giant specter ready to fuck you up.

No doubt some of it is nostalgia, maybe even a lot of it, but I think EQ has personality that a lot of MMOS (old and modern) lack. I have friends who decided to check out the classic Anarchy Online server and DAoC server, and I've played both of those games, but holy shit your character is just bad looking. I remember thinking DAoC was cool for having cloaks but man I cannot imagine caring about my character in that game at all.

[Worry]

I started as a wee child in 01 I think.

Missed classic in both unfortunately

Hopefully I'll be ready for Green.

[Phenyo]

Never played EQ before p99 now im a scummy elflord who rules these lands

[Jorlaan]

I started in EQ back before Kunark came out and played on and off until WoW came out. I only ever got my druid main to 55, but had 4-5 other chars from low to mid 40's.

I played Shards of Dalaya on and off for many years, starting back when it had hundreds of people online at a time. It is in all honesty a very good upgrade of many of the mechanics that were/are SUPER frustrating in older EQ/P99, but as it is a custom world it's "not EQ", so most people weren't interested in checking it out. Now it's basically dead but a lot of questionable decisions by the newer devs over the years helped that along...but this is not a place to harp.

I started on P99 a couple years ago, only in the last few months have I started playing more often. I was unsure of whether I wanted to start a THIRD EQ game from the start but I now have a 31 monk main and am enjoying myself. This is a great community.

[sacman08]

I started in 1999, saw the game as a top 10 seller at CompUSA. I thought the graphics looked poor at best compared to other games that were out, so I waited to buy and I talked to a co-worker who had played. He made it sound like a great game; thousands of people all together playing in a gigantic world. I bought EQ and I made a druid in Surefall and ran out to Qeynos Hills to adventure.. and was promptly killed by a Gnoll pup (lvl4 vs me lvl1). I got hooked immediately.
Eventually I had two groups of friends, EQ friends and Asheron's Call friends. I played between the two games regularly depending on who was on first. We all tried WoW at some point when it came out but pretty much all of us went back to EQ or AC.
After PoP my SK was largely nullified and no one wanted to group with me anymore, so I solo'ed most of 61 to 65 and after dinging 65 quit EQ in spite. I was tired of the game, it wasn't fun anymore it was hours and hours of work just to level.
When P99 came out I heard about it and tried my game again, I still had the original EQ install CD's. Of course they didn't work as I needed at least Titanium install. Got everything running and then realized P99 was kinda like live EQ in 1999 but different.
The community of people in P99 is way higher class of people than those who played on live, still there is a way of doing things on P99 versus what worked on live so it does require playing and learning what the P99 server considers good. (i.e. the level up via what zones at what levels.)

[Silken]

A friend of mine (who I had moved away from in '92), tracked the progress of the game on Usenet for years, and both (eventually) got on the game the day it opened. I created a human rogue and he created a human cleric. At some point during the first week we got into an argument, because he was obsessed with knowing when I was poisoned, even the weakest of poisons, and we got into an argument when I stopped telling him about the short duration poisons that did next to no damage, so that he wouldn't waste all his mana curing them. He basically just rage quit that day, and I never saw or heard from him again, LOL.

[Vexenu]

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

A friend of mine (who I had moved away from in '92), tracked the progress of the game on Usenet for years, and both (eventually) got on the game the day it opened. I created a human rogue and he created a human cleric. At some point during the first week we got into an argument, because he was obsessed with knowing when I was poisoned, even the weakest of poisons, and we got into an argument when I stopped telling him about the short duration poisons that did next to no damage, so that he wouldn't waste all his mana curing them. He basically just rage quit that day, and I never saw or heard from him again, LOL.

Your friend just wanted to roleplay as a poison curing specialist and you denied him that. Early EQ had all kinds of weird role playing like that. I remember some people played Monks and refused to equip any items whatsoever. Let's not even get started on the Warriors who rolled small races and stacked AGI because they thought it made them harder to hit.

[Zuranthium]

Originally Posted by kjs86z [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

sorry folks, but AC is still the best game ever made....no contest...EQ is a good enough substitute.

Asheron's Call was ahead of its time in terms of being zoneless and having better character customization, but the game itself was quite empty and didn't have as many interesting design details.

[Nibblewitz]

Started EQ here!

Played WoW from classic to pandas, then some friends dragged me here.

Enjoyed the grind rather than quest hubbing, resource management, high-stakes cause and effect, and spell particles!

[strongone70]

I started in 1999 three weeks after launch. Played on Tribunal sever, my guild Vis Veres.