Did you actually play on 99

[Cars]

I was there on Day 1

[liquefiedvapor]

I was a late comer. Bought the original trilogy in Oct of 2001. Forever ago now, but late to the old schooler's. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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I'll never forget my first time on. It was the summer of '99 and I made a Dark-Elf Wizard. I didn't have enough RAM and was stuck in a laggy Neriak.

[falkun]

I think I previewed my cousin playing his troll warrior during classic, but I didn't pick up the game until Kunark (I know because I have the EQ+RoK disc(s) still). He gave my fledgling WE warrior a full suit of bronze and it was too heavy for the tiny WE to hold along with the banded she was already wearing. So I vendored the bronze!

I eventually gave up on the warrior to make the pally in the signature. He got to 60 some time during Luclin (I remember leveling up in Velious still) and raided a bit. I quit some time after GoD came out in like summer '04.

[Kuriin]

Not on day 1, but, I was on about day 15 or so. Can't remember.

[Striiker]

I started at launch. It was a fascinating world to explore. I was a big Dungeons & Dragons fan as a kid and loved playing AD&D computer games on my Commodore 64 and PC. I never got into Ultima Online but got totally hooked on Everquest.
I can remember seeing the user count for each server. It helped one avoid the over populated servers if you wanted. I started on Fennin Ro with a Paladin and gave him up once he got to about Lvl 16 or so and rolled a Wizard who I leveled up to 50 fairly quickly. Sigh, the good old days.

The chat server was also always packed, particularly when the servers crashed or were brought down for maintenance. The chat server would usually be the first to be available once the servers were nearing a ready status for being brought online.

I remember also that there was a tutorial "zone" where there was a skeleton you had to go kill. It taught you the very basics of the game. I'd love to see that again for nostalgia reasons. I don't know if this was actually online or if it was a standalone thing run on your computer. I suspect the latter.

[Dantes]

Yup. Launch.

[eqravenprince]

Yep, played in 99. Don't know if it was day one, but it was March or April and I had a cloth map. And got money refunded in the first couple months because they had such bad connection problems early on. But man was I hooked.

[madhatta317]

I started in kunark era right before velious release, epics were out when i started. I played a druid all the way up until PoP release, got to level 38 or 39. And i played on torvinillous

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