15 Years Ago Today...

[Weekapaug]

Speaking of hardware. I originally played EQ on a 386 with a 64 meg (?) Diamond Monster Voodoo video card. My friend was really uber...Had a 486 with 2 of the same card running in tandem.

When kunark came out the fucking lag from the trees (that they insisted didn't exist) got me killed so much. Probably mostly why I came to hate playing a wiz. Lag + robed caster in kunark = no bueno.

Had to upgrade for daoc. First thing I did on the new box was log into eq and run around kunark lag free.

[Scikala]

Does tree lag still exist? I thought I read somewhere that people disabled the trees here on P99? Would explain some oddities in BW for me.

[Weekapaug]

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

DAoC castle siege pvp ftw. I am debating starting on an emu for that game.

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Come play Alb on Genesis with me. Have made some friends but always good to start with other starters.

One of my buddies that I grouped with a bunch wound up in the same guild. Turns out he plays here, too, actually.

[Messianic]

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

I don't care what everybody else on the planet says, the fact that there were AV battlegrounds that lasted for days at a time was fucking awesome

This.

I had a very poorly but strategically geared hunter (hp/crit) and the best AVs were the ones where they'd pushed you back into your base and somehow your team managed to fight out of it and capture behind them and push them back, we'd get them to the bridge and then it would go back, etc. It was absolutely ridiculous but it was definitely epic.

BGs were best when you could team up with a few RL friends and have a sick hit squad.

[Kekephee]

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

This.

I had a very poorly but strategically geared hunter (hp/crit) and the best AVs were the ones where they'd pushed you back into your base and somehow your team managed to fight out of it and capture behind them and push them back, we'd get them to the bridge and then it would go back, etc. It was absolutely ridiculous but it was definitely epic.

BGs were best when you could team up with a few RL friends and have a sick hit squad.

That feeling of "They're in our base! Our towers are destroyed! All is lost!"

"Oh my GOD someone from our team has ninjad their tower, GO FORTH MEN, GO FORTH, WE CAN STILL WIN THIS IF WE HOLD THEIR TOWER AND SUMMON KAZZAK THE BLOODTHIRSTY. ON TO VICTORY"

[Kekephee]

Also, guild raids on AV games. Get 40 guildies together and just wreck the pugs... and by "just wreck" I mean "it only took 4 hours"

[Vandlaetari]

My first real character was Chiznat Thebombdiggety, I was too scared to leave Everfrost and spent three months "banking" for ice giants and killing mammoths.

Finally reaching the 28th level i decided it was time to explore so I went into permafrost, got popped and quit. Good times

[Khaleesi]

This would be nice for the new comers section.

[Rhambuk]

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

When kunark came out the fucking lag from the trees (that they insisted didn't exist) got me killed so much. Probably mostly why I came to hate playing a wiz. Lag + robed caster in kunark = no bueno.

Velious killed my pc, but i didn't explore to much kunark content when it was endgame.

The day i installed velious, it took me 10 minutes to get from server select to char select assuming it didn't crash then another 10 minutes from select to in game assuming no crash.

Once in game it was simply unplayable couldn't even move really, hold down forward nothing nothing nothing 30 seconds later id take a few steps.

The only cool thing though was sometimes i would get put into slowmo mode where everything on the screen just moved slower im sure it was the same serverwide but it was great watching my dorf do rolls in slowmo

[-Globox-]

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

Because most of the people PvPing didnt respect objectives and were just kill farming.

Some things in WoW are still classic it seems.