New Players to P99...How did you find out about this?

[Notwotwo]

I discovered Project1999 by Hooper (Karkaradon in-game) who make lives of the game

[Insomnia]

Im not new, but the old Fires of Heaven forum brought me here.

[Phenyo]

Someone I met in another game told me about p99 so word of mouth

[Jan Jensen]

www.drow.org

Which is no longer a functional domain. RIP BotS.

[Arkanjil]

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

I didn't play EQ back in the day. Hell, I didn't even bother getting a home computer until 2003, and then I got sucked into FFXI with some friends and didn't even think about other MMOs for years.

Several months ago I'd finally had it with FFXIV after years of trying to find some depth in it. I went back to XI for a while, trying to recapture some of the magic I felt back in 2003-2010, but the game is so different now and there wasn't any mystery for me left. So I decided to give retail EQ a try.

I played it for maybe a day or two and found it pretty clunky, and also incredibly barren (I wasn't playing on a TLP server). I started encountering videos about P99 when searching youtube for EQ vids, and most of the comments were pretty positive so I decided to give it a try.

It's mostly been ok. I get frustrated sometimes by how little I really understand the game, and I've struggled a bit to find a class I really enjoy. However the world and gameplay really interests me, so I just keep plugging away. I keep trying to get other people interested so that maybe I'll have someone to play with, but that hasn't really happened for me.

I created my account back in June, but didn't play for a few weeks after my first day, and then couldn't make up my mind what class to play, so I still have no real levels. I have a semi-abandoned level 20 Paladin, and a baby Enchanter and Cleric that I'm enjoying, but haven't grouped with yet.

Wow, that’s awesome that you decided to jump in and give it a try, with no previous EQ experience. One thing that might really help you to feel more involved and be around people to socialize and group with is joining a guild. A leveling guild would be a great option. Send a tell to anyone in Kittens Who Say Meow, Auld Lang Syne, Dawn Believers, or any other newbie friendly guild. They’ll direct you to an officer and that could be a great resource to lean on and socialize with while you learn the ropes of the mechanics and zones.

[Pint]

eqclassic.org, everyone was salty that this emu project was going to beat them to release but not be as true to classic. eqclassic never materialized though = \

[skarlorn]

my brother ruined my life by telling me abt it

[SunDrake]

I know at least two or three people who I met over on the Coirnav TLP server that heard me mention P99 and downloaded it.

It's not perfect, but P99 truly is a pretty great server.

[Danth]

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

eqclassic.org, everyone was salty that this emu project was going to beat them to release but not be as true to classic. eqclassic never materialized though = \

Wasn't P99 originally something of a stopgap because that one was taking so long? P99 used stock EQ-EMU codebase as a starting point, which let Nilbog & Co. get a working server up and running more quickly than the folks trying to build everything from scratch, at a cost of some classic accuracy. As it was, the perfectionist approach proved self-defeating since the other project fizzled out years ago.

Danth

[sylfi]

It was on twitch that I learned about P99. Just thought it'd be fun to see what's going on in good old Everquest (last logged on in 2002-ish) and saw most streamers were playing P99 with the pre-Luclin character models : )