Launch Day / Year 1 stories

[magnetaress]

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

Op is an incarnation of a banned user trying to re establish themselves as a typical poster

Congratz.

U described virtually every body.

[Castle2.0]

On launch day on Green, I remember knowing I would be the most epic, most distinguished, biggest receiver of self-determined and self-ascribed awards.... then I went and did it, like a total boss.

I almost feel nostalgia for those days but because I was 100% confident, I actually feel like I do now with my EQ trophy case in my basement: bliss.

Cheers.

[Neno]

There was already a lot of info about the game and leveling spots before live launched. Some people tried to keep beta info top secret going into live and there was drama when lower guk spawns/loot were leaked since only a small group of players had done any real work in there.

There were definitely a lot of clueless newbies, so while people may have understood early on where to go the skill level of players and their ability to navigate the game were awful. Very little understanding of things like proximity aggro.

By about 8-9 months in Lower Guk/Sol B was packed with 100+ players. This was a problem with pretty much every leveling dungeon all the way down to crushbone. Probably a big reason why players sucked so much because there was an almost 0% chance of death during peak hours because your group killed like 5-8 mobs every 20ish minutes. And even back then when the dungeons were filled to the brim no one really bothered with places like sol a, perma, najena, paw, runnyeye, kedge or befallen outside of a few camps that were typically held down by a solo player.

[cd288]

What server were you on where no one was in runnyeye? I remember that place being very popular at least for the first like 5 or so months

[Swish]

It took me an hour to get from the caster's guild area in Felwithe to the newbie area. It's amazing how much smaller the world feels these days.

[Danth]

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

It took me an hour to get from the caster's guild area in Felwithe to the newbie area. It's amazing how much smaller the world feels these days.

P99's near-instant zoning plays a role in that perception as well. World felt bigger when it took 30 sec or more to cross a zone line. I've heard horror stories from the guys who had dial-up and older computers saying it could take several minutes to zone. Neriak or Freeport must've been awful.

[WokeCat]

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

banded was like big boi armor

Bronze Breastplate sold for over 100p on my server, and 100p was a big deal back in the day because most of us didn't really know how to make $$$ really fast. We had one drop in Unrest and two kids on my school bus got into a huge fight over it.

[WokeCat]

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

Bronze Breastplate sold for over 100p on my server, and 100p was a big deal back in the day because most of us didn't really know how to make $$$ really fast. We had one drop in Unrest and two kids on my school bus got into a huge fight over it.

It may have been 300p actually, no exaggeration. This was before crafted armor. I also remember someone raging at me for having a langseax (6/23 1 hand slashing with no stats, warrior only) on my level 10 halfling warrior. he said twinks like me were ruining the game.

[magnetaress]

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

It may have been 300p actually, no exaggeration. This was before crafted armor. I also remember someone raging at me for having a langseax (6/23 1 hand slashing with no stats, warrior only) on my level 10 halfling warrior. he said twinks like me were ruining the game.

Langseax is ez to cheese at low lvls. Especially with sneak and a throw away alt.

[Swish]

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

twinks like me were ruining the game.

There was definitely that vibe. Some serial server jumpers (when new servers went up every few months) would try and escape the highly "twinked"/"old" servers [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]