What's the point of playing on a permanently 'classic' server and how is P99 classic?

[XDrake]

1. That is how Classic Era, Kunark, and Velious were. :/ Manastones were considered priceless overnight. The only "un-classic" bit is there are disproportionately higher numbers of pre-nerfed items than were ever were on live.

2. Unbalanced races and classes were during those era. The idea was to re-create the closest to the original experience you could get. These are sad truths at the time. Thankfully every class still is useful in some way. Whether it is mages CoTHing or Wizards porting to Hate... Everybody has something.

3. I would argue the population is better on P99 for camps than it was on Live. I recall Sunday nights (peak time) easily being 3,000 people during early Kunark. Camps have much less competition now.

4. Beastlords were cool and Luclin had its moments, but post-Velious was definitely a different EQ.

5. Iksar and Ogres are how they were.

6. It isn't, but it is about as close as we'll ever see to the original.

Project 1999 is a re-creation of original EQ to allow folks to re-live glory days in those eras. Not later EQ that balanced many of those issues.