Things changed/nerfed in 1999 not nerfed in Live.

[Kagatob]

I can't wait for coin drop.

[triad]

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

Second this.
Having to manually tap sense heading adds nothing to the "classic" experience or enjoyment of the game.

you would still have skill it up the compass on live would just point randomly until your skill was up iirc

[Kagatob]

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

you would still have skill it up the compass on live would just point randomly until your skill was up iirc

Only during Luclin/PoP. LoY changed it so you didn't have to. Velious didn't have a compass at all (Besides the item).

[maximum]

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

It's hard to sift through all the emotional posts about people claiming it was or wasn't on live etc. Lots of debating and back and forth in threads make it hard to distinguish between a revert to classic live, or just a change in 1999.

The forum isn't the place for this kind of thing. P99 has a wiki, where you can create articles and people can help fact-check. Here's an example:

http://wiki.project1999.org/Non-Classic_Compendium

I suggest doing this on the wiki.

[Snagglepuss]

I was thinking the other day that I don't go LD on the boats enough or even glitch and fall off the ships. That's different from live! I think some of my most traumatizing gaming experiences came from falling off the boat or getting killed by a seafury that somehow attacked me through the ship. Then having to locate my corpse or swim to an island and beg for someone to find me.

I also don't randomly crash or go LD when someone picks up the phone line.

Anyone else have horrible stories of crashing or going LD back in the glory days of dial-up and classic eq?

[bopice]

Things that are different here that realy bothered me are :,

Pathing = much worse than live here. spots in dungeons never fixed that kill groups over and over.

Ac = not the same as live. It is better than at launch but still isn't close to correct , which kinda ruins the whole getting better gear for melee's. When the Ac doesn't do exactly what it should.

Mobs drop rates. Item drop rates are put in at the best guess of the devs. Many items were much Harder and sometimes easier to obtain back on live. This ruins it for me too [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I mean if obulus death shroud drops 1 in 1000 here and 1 in 5000 on live. kinda sucks for that true classic experience. or When wu sticks drop 1 in 100 instead of 1 in 2000 phantoms etc etc.

Mobs that roam where they shouldn't , mobs missing . The LDC that roams from entrance of sol b ? the kobold that is stationary in the first left tunnel of sol b on p1999 was never there. etc etc.

Mobs spawn rates / spawn times. not always correct.

It is great that they work so hard to make this server classic . It is just sad that no one can ever recreate it exactly.

Go to eq mac and check out the spawns and loot chances maybe ? would be an easy way to fix things. Even a go way to check how ac should work.

Mobs not casting correct ai. and not acting like they did on live. Also spells "whirl till you hurl" etc . working different than live. at this point.
It is a great server , just that when 40percent of the players were caught cheating.... kinda ruined it for me. On top of power hungry gms that banned me so their friends could get a raid mob. I was unbanned but still ruined the experience.

I loved playing beta and the first few months were awesome here.

[Waedawen]

5 minute Damage Shield timers.

Seriously. What the fuck. Make it 15 and get it over with. Last time this topic gained steam, GM's basically said "Deal with it. hurr durr PL abuse."

[Wutno]

The devs nerfed halfling and freeport guard spawn timers for some reason. This is not classic.

Just because people are levelling there is no reason to make it unclassic. Also, getting a high lvl ds from a druid or mage was one of the coolest things as a noob. 15 minutes of great xp!! Why nerf that? People have multiple 60s and lvling noobs is one of the fun things. It's both fun and classic.

Wutno

[Ele]

for damage shield duration see: http://www.project1999.org/forums/sh...ad.php?t=29088

[Nirgon]

Resists, melee combat tables (npc and pc)

The Mac has that crisp, authentic taste that I can certainly detect

This is pretty close cept for (insert unmentionable in blue territory here)