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

there are aspects of it that are actually more classic than p99. The UI, loading screen, and many other aspects are more classic. But of course right now it has luclin and they threw in PoK and its books for ease of travel. Its still very custom content to me, not in a bad way, just custom.

P99 did what it could to make a "about as classic as it can get" server minus all the problems that come with bloated end game population fighting over very limited resources and a server built off the titanium client. At the time titanium was the easy option as anybody who followed EQclassic.org knows they have spent over a decade trying to rebuild the client off the trilogy discs and get a working server and it still hasn't happened.

Secrets will figure it out someday, I have faith [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But seriously, the fundamental thing that will always make TakP unclassic is the boxing. If you played on live from '99-'01 you probably didn't know anyone at all who boxed. Maybe you happened to know one rich person who already had two computers sitting side by side, and could afford two phone lines and two EQ accounts ... but the vast vast majority didn't.

The only people really boxing back then were those who played in computer gaming centers, schools, or other places where a bunch of computers with Internet connections were already in the same place ... and even then it wasn't one guy with multiple accounts so much as friends using each other's accounts.

P99 doesn't emulate that perfectly: instead of live's maybe 0.5%-1% of players boxing, we have (ostensibly) 0% ... but it will always be a million times more classic than TakP's "everyone is playing three accounts at once" system.