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

Lmao, you are 1337#
Leet poaster.

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[Byrjun]

EQ was developed in an era where it was common for computers to have 16-32 MEGAbytes of RAM. The game itself should use relatively low amounts of memory compared to just about anything else on your computer. Nowadays memory is much cheaper so newer games and software are made to utilize a lot more of it.

So the concern isn't really EQ but the other stuff you use on your computer. If you play other (more modern) games while doing other things at the same time (watching streams, having lots of browser tabs open, streaming, video editing) then you might need to upgrade your RAM. If you don't really use your PC like that, then you can be totally fine on 8 GB. I wouldn't go any lower than 8 GB nowadays though, and you may start to struggle in a few years as software assumes that its users have more and more RAM available.

But if you're not noticing slowdown (especially while doing multiple things at once) then you probably won't notice much of an improvement by upgrading to 16 GB.

As far as starting out in the game, I've always wanted to make some sort of video or guide to help new players get into EQ but it's an intimidating amount of stuff to cover and it's very easy to accidentally leave stuff out. There's a lot of things about EQ that can be confusing to new players, but I'll try to answer whatever questions came up in the OP.

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

I had such a hard time trying to figure out what to do or how to find quests etc

Questing in EQ is quite different from most other MMOs. There's some basic information to cover:

• There's no quest journal or quest UI at all. Write down your own notes, and/or follow information from the P99 wiki.
• You talk to NPCs by hailing them. The default keybind for this is the H key.
• You respond to NPCs by repeating phrases in [brackets] in /say with the NPC targeted. For example if an NPC says "Nice [day] we're having, isn't it?" then the NPC should respond to anything containing the word day.
• This is true about 99% of the time, keep in mind that the game had broken and unfinished quests and NPCs. Also some quests (mostly high level & difficult quests) don't bracket the word or phrase that needs to be said to continue the conversation.
• Some NPCs will just have fluff dialogue, while some NPCs will offer quests. It can be difficult to determine which are which unless you look the NPC up on the wiki.
• All quests are repeatable.
• Many quests are mainly for lore purposes and not worth doing. A small handful of quests are very good and are worth doing. Determining which quests are worth doing takes some experience with the game, and/or researching player resources such as the wiki.
• Many quests have reduced experience rewards compared to how things were back in the day. This was done to keep the server healthy (ie. remove incentive for high-level players to camp low-level dungeons for quest drops)
• Some quests are still worth doing for experience (gnoll fangs, goblin ears) but the vast majority of your exp will come from just killing mobs.
• NPCs can accept 1-4 single (non-stacked) items.
• NPCs remember that they've received items, but they don't remember who gave them the item. For example let's say that an NPC wants to receive a Bike Horn and a Banana Peel to complete their quest. If you only give them the Bike Horn then the NPC will keep the item and you won't get anything. However if you (or someone else!) later turns in the Banana Peel, then the NPC will fully reward that person since they've already gotten the Bike Horn before. This can be manipulated so that one person can complete a quest without all of the required items, and in the community this is referred to multi-questing aka MQ (there's similarly named cheat software for the game so be aware of this so you don't get confused if you see the term come up later - multiquesting itself is totally fine and legal).

I think those are the main points. My biggest suggestion is to use the wiki to look up which quests are available around you and maybe do some research to try to determine which ones have rewards (experience, money, or items) that make them worth completing.

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

What server do people suggest for me..

Probably Green.

Green = Newest server (although still old by this point), largest population, easier to find groups and such.

Blue = Oldest server, a bit lower population than Green, most established, cheaper prices. Might be harder to find groups but on the other side there's probably more solo camps available.

Red = Very little player population, PvP.

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