Emulation Servers!

[Tunabros]

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

TAKP is a great alternative to p99 EverQuest. Currently in Luclin and will be in Planes of Power next year. Healthy population, friendly community - much more era-accurate than p99, too.

Looks like a few people from Kittens are playing Star Wars Galaxies. Almost curious enough to try that out - maybe after the holidays I'll give it a shot.

Have heard good things about the DAoC Phoenix servers but haven't given them a try myself.

I was there at the launch of DaoC Pheonix Server. I was surprised to see a lot of EQ

players around. It was a lot of grouping in the beginning and small pvp.

But now the population has died down pretty drastically. I kinda miss pvp in old

retro mmos where dying has severe penalties.

I still hop on tibia and osrs and do some pking tho [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Danth]

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

I was there at the launch of DaoC Pheonix Server. I was surprised to see a lot of EQ players around. It was a lot of grouping in the beginning and small pvp. But now the population has died down pretty drastically.

Dark Age of Camelot was always like that. For some reason that game has always had problems with player retention. Even its commercial version followed the pattern of initial outpouring followed by relatively rapid decline until an expansion opened. I think that pattern may be a result of what that game is: It's good enough to be worth playing, but has just enough faults to keep it from holding people very well. Many of its faults were consequence of its limited production budget. It was well made for what it was and in truth made the most of limited resources, but both the character classes and content felt very "thin" compared even to EQ. I liked DAOC when I tried it, but it couldn't hold me there long term, either. Moreso than anything else it left me wishing it had been constructed with a larger budget.

Danth