Oldest active player/forum account

[Ripqozko]

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

Haven't heard HBB's name in ages. Same with Harrison. Wonder where they are now.

I like to think that HBB is out there torching cars and protesting something. Storm feather broke him. Rip sweet prince.

[Danth]

I vaguely recall that this particular board wasn't open right when P99 first started up and for a short period we were using a different forum that had a black color theme.

Danth

[Barahir]

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

I vaguely recall that this particular board wasn't open right when P99 first started up and for a short period we were using a different forum that had a black color theme.

Danth

Maybe a section of the emu forums?

[JayDee]

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

Maybe a section of the emu forums?

yea was emulator forums. nilbog posted about his vision for a new "classic" server. not many cared or believed in it. there was something like 40-50 players online on night 1.

[Pint]

I recall the early days being a few hundred ppl from eqemu and eqclassic communities but maybe I'm being too generous. Global chat probably made it seems like there was more going on then there was.

[Bones]

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

I recall the early days being a few hundred ppl from eqemu and eqclassic communities but maybe I'm being too generous. Global chat probably made it seems like there was more going on then there was.

It did build quickly, but it didn't reach over 100 for at least a month if memory serves. JD is right in that it had like 40-50 opening night and most of the first week.

Once it started hitting those 100's numbers the server was having trouble sustaining the load, probably because it was being run off a box in nilbogs garage or something, at which point hardware ownership was basically handed off to Rogean where he had the project housed on a server at an actual data center. There was also many rough patches of being DDoS'd by mad kids being banned for cheating and abusing unfixed exploits and dupes.

How many people remember gettin the EQ itch and not being able to login for hours sometimes days at a time? I think I even remember it being down for nearly a whole week at one point as Rogean was trying to get DDoS protection for the server.

How far its come. For better or for worse.

[TheDudeAbides]

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

It did build quickly, but it didn't reach over 100 for at least a month if memory serves. JD is right in that it had like 40-50 opening night and most of the first week.

First few months were only a few hundred

[eisley]

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

I vaguely recall that this particular board wasn't open right when P99 first started up and for a short period we were using a different forum that had a black color theme.

Danth

Yeah, we used EQEmu forums during beta.

We left to our own forums right before official release I think, and forked completely from EQEmu sometime during Kunark iirc. Which turned out to be a very bad idea, as EQEmu went on to get some amazing Devs and right now the stock EQEmu code is more Classic than p99 codebase in many areas (combat, charm, channeling, loot tables, so on).

[fastboy21]

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

Yeah, we used EQEmu forums during beta.

We left to our own forums right before official release I think, and forked completely from EQEmu sometime during Kunark iirc. Which turned out to be a very bad idea, as EQEmu went on to get some amazing Devs and right now the stock EQEmu code is more Classic than p99 codebase in many areas (combat, charm, channeling, loot tables, so on).

Not trolling. I haven't played any non-live version of EQ other than p99 in a long long time...is EQEmu actually this good now?

[eisley]

Originally Posted by fastboy21 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Not trolling. I haven't played any non-live version of EQ other than p99 in a long long time...is EQEmu actually this good now?

Indeed it is. This is largely because Torven joined the EQEmu staff.

Some Torven highlights

Charm, Lull

NPC Double Attack / Dual Wield (big one)

Melee Combat routines

Basically, if you log on stock EQEmu now, it's like a slap across the face how classic it feels compared to p99. Holy crap, NPCs equip their dropped items. Whoa, mobs have different delay per hand and don't quad every round. Statue doesn't quad at ALL unless he has two weapons. (due to his low level).

Sontalak with Exquisite fast weapons can quad, each weapon swings individually. Feshlak with his Staff can proc it. On and on.

Oh, and don't even get me started on Channeling. On p99 we've just come to accept casting with mobs beating us in the face. Yeah, no. Back to kiting and helping your groupmates.

It's fun.