I tried to like it... I really tried...advice?

[47shadesofgay]

Project 1999 reality check:

1. Will project 1999 recreate the way I feeled when I discovered EverQuest 14 years ago? no
2. Will the GMs on this server be like they were in 1999? no
3. Will soloing be the same it was in 1999? no
4. Will grouping be the same it was in 1999? no
5. Will raiding be the same it was in 1999? no
6. Will the other players on this server be like they were in 1999? no
7. Will the encounters be as close as possible to what they were in 1999? yes
8. Will project 1999 attempt to recreate the EverQuest game world as it was 14 years ago? yes
9. Will there be effort made to replicate things server side as close to they were 14 years ago? for the most part?


Is Project 1999 a time machine? no

Can I have fun on Project1999? Only way to find out is to try.

[Genedin]

Haha nah I'm not retarded. My first character back in classic was a warrior. I learned the hard way not to make a meele as your first character.

I made a necro. I dont expect anyone to level for me or to be the 1%. I just get annoyed when I try to get a group in the classic places I used to and there is a shaman with a fungi camping it solo..for example. Or try to buy a shitty item and it's inflated 1000% from what it probably should be worth due to the millions of platnium floating around. This is part of the server I understand that.

that is really why i was asking about a newer server. I dont want anyone to level for me/pwer lvl me/etc. I was just looking for a more balanced community. Thanks for the input.

[Done]

I started playing in February, first week of February to be exact. I'm level 57 now, I did very little soloing, and I feel I have geared myself up a pretty decent bit. I'm by no means rich, and I am just now starting to get "throw-away" plat. Up until now I was scraping every little bit I could to buy that next piece of gear.

Leveling a monk from scratch, and getting into groups, was a daunting task for me (as it seems Monk is everyone's favorite twink class and there's sooo many around). I still managed to get it done. It just takes dedication and the desire to do it. I've made a lot of good friends along the way, and a good number of acquaintances who I would call upon when I needed their specific role filled, or they would call on me.


This is a social game; unlike the MMOs of the current generation. You need to get out there, you need to make friends, and you need to do decent in the groups you do end up in.

No groups asking you to join? Okay...just do a / all LFG for your level range, grab who is there and go do something. You'd be surprised at the amazing things people can pull off with a less than "perfect" group make-up.


As far as raiding goes, and the current "monopoly" on raid content....all I can say is welcome to EverQuest? It's been like this since 1999. You wanna do a good amount of raiding? Cool! Get your ass some levels and app to one of the raiding guilds. If you're good and consistent I'm sure they'd take you.

[Nordenwatch]

made a necro.

trying to get a group.

why?

[Odeseus]

Sorry if I came off really mean, but this topic strikes close to home. I felt the EXACT same way when I first started P99. I wanted to be as uber as I was on live back in the early 2000s, when I was one of the top shaman on my server. I wanted to recapture that.

But that was a goal I would never achieve, not because of the game or server, but because of myself. Back when I was one of the best of the best, I was in high school in a small town that was frozen over 8 months out of the year. I had nothing else better to do than to play EQ for hours and hours a day.

10 years later, I have a job, a wife, a kid, live in a city with stuff to do and money to do it. All of that cuts into time that I had previously devoted to EQ. Now I had to ask myself, would I give up any of those for more EQ time? The answer for me was hell no.

It might be different for other people though. If I had REALLY wanted it, I could give up my job, divorce my wife, disown my son and move to the middle of nowhere again and devote all my time to being the most uber thing p99 had ever seen.

You have the same choice. It is completely up to you what you do.

[Genedin]

I haven't asked for items or power levels. I haven't asked to be the most elite.

My point was simply that coming back to EQ I expected to be able to enjoy end game content somewhat casually without having to poop sock.

For those telling me "bro you can be leet too just divorce your wife quit your job and stop having friends!" thanks, I realize if I dedicate my life to this I can do that.

I don't have to be super leet, that's not what I was getting at. Anyway, I know you guys love this server it's obvious from your predictably overly aggressive reactions that I expressly said were not necessary. I was really asking if there were any other options.

[Hitchens]

The nostalgia has worn off and it is time to play something else. This is the nature of emus.

[xCry0x]

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

My point was simply that coming back to EQ I expected to be able to enjoy end game content somewhat casually without having to poop sock.

What server did you play on that you DIDN'T have to poopsock for raid targets? That was how EQ worked back in 99 and it is how EQ works now.

It seriously sounds like you are confusing classic EQ with WoW and expecting to get something from the game that never existed before. I felt like this game was everything I remembered it being. Dying from trains, horrible corpse runs, lfg for hours, check, check, check. That is EQ.

[Done]

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

I haven't asked for items or power levels. I haven't asked to be the most elite.

My point was simply that coming back to EQ I expected to be able to enjoy end game content somewhat casually without having to poop sock.

For those telling me "bro you can be leet too just divorce your wife quit your job and stop having friends!" thanks, I realize if I dedicate my life to this I can do that.

I don't have to be super leet, that's not what I was getting at. Anyway, I know you guys love this server it's obvious from your predictably overly aggressive reactions that I expressly said were not necessary. I was really asking if there were any other options.

Are there options? Sure. The problem is, mostly, you're going to encounter the same thing anywhere else you encounter here. "Poop socking" has always been around, even since the game was first released. If you can't devote all of your free time to this game that's fine, but you better know that there's a shitload of people out there who can, and will, to be at the top and take the top spot on the server (whichever server that may be).

On live I was one of the top Enchanters in game, in the top raiding guild of my server. And I can honestly say I'm having more fun now than I did then. I honestly don't miss being in that top-tier.

Play the game to have fun with the actual game, not to relive what you had on live.

[Genedin]

Perhaps I played on a "rainbows and butterflies" server back in classic.

I played on tarrew-marr. The premier guild was "Engligtned Dark"

They were amazing, super elite, had the best items and spent all their time playing.

I had no illusions with my more casual play style I would never join that guild and that did not bother me.

On this same server I successfully organized and led a pick-up Naggy raid. How? Because the elite 1 or 2 guilds that ran the server didn't care about monopolizing ALL of the content. Also there was Velious by the time I was 50 so perhaps that will help in the future.

Thanks for all of the snide and immediately jumping to "this guy just wants to cry and get twinked" conclusions even though I never asked for a thing. That is classic.