Recycle/Starter Server Badly Needed - General Review of P99

[Robbintha Hood]

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Some people advocate Levels > farming, but that's not necessarily true. There are plenty of routes to make money < 50 if you take the time to do them. Hell, I remember buying a jboot MQ for one of my first characters at lvl 20.

These forums are filled with 6 years of money making posts, regardless of level. Do your research.

Thank you, Loot! You are absolutely correct.

[NizmerThafen]

What class and level is OP? 10?

It's a highly competitive server. Perhaps OP should level to around 50, join a guild, and contribute some time. If that doesn't work out then perhaps they can make a whiny post.

This thread should probably be moved to R&F anyways.

[Bill Tetley]

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[azeth]

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Really though, keep your complaints inside your head until you've actually played on the server.

[Expediency]

I started a few weeks into the life of a server on live in 99 and played a few years. I started here this year and this place is great. People were very friendly and gear was easy to come by. There is a valid criticism that the wealth of many players leads them to not even bother selling newb gear (items under 100pp especially) but I find that to be offset by how often they will just hand those items to someone for free. Its amazing the prices of items now that the server is mature. If you can get a few hundred pp you can get a weapon that back in the day would have taken 5x the money. You wont have a fungi tunic, but you'll have a short sword of the ykesa or sword of the morning before you know it. If you require more that that as a starting experience you should probably look somewhere else.

It is very top heavy, in that the high level characters or their alts have crazy gear. But thats never going to change, people had 5 years or whatever to gear themselves in kunark gear instead of the <1 year on velious. They also have the benefit of much more knowledge about the game to expedite things.

You cant go home again. This is the closest you're gonna get

[jarshale]

So basically OP you are mad jealous of everyone's pixels?

[thufir]

OP, back in the day Xegony generally had 2k+ on at prime time, which this server never even gets close to. So it isn't more crowded than it was on Live during this era.

It also seems pretty *easy* to break into the raid scene here - not hard. On Live very few guilds had the chops to do the really tough stuff and their membership was carefully gated. That same stuff is all well known now, and a lot of guilds are doing it. Many of those guilds are recruiting actively.

I've been here for 2+ years on and off and am not even close to the level cap, but I have generally enjoyed my time here and sort of agree with the "if you don't like it, sorry man, have a good one" attitude being expressed. I do like the idea of a recycle server and Sirken has said one will be coming eventually. But I also like the characters, adventures, and relationships I have here. It's a fine little server and no other comes closer to recreating the Classic/Kunark/Velious experience.

Of course, I still have to get to the raid scene here, and I've been pretty slow to do that since the things I missed on Live all revolved around dungeons and leveling (having foolishly made the decision on Live to take the Ecom->Nro->Oasis->LOIO->OT route to higher levels that was recommended by 90% of people I knew). There's content out there to see and most of it isn't even remotely overcrowded! Find friends and look around; there's still things to discover out there, especially in Velious where the wiki is pretty dubious.

[Taminy]

Farm tailoring crap, sell it, buy bang for the buck gear. Not difficult. Or farm other tradeskill crap. Or farm rare pain in the butt quest items that people use for epics. Or do plat running for people killing guards. Or loot trash off guards that people leave. Endless possibilities to make your first few plats [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] also, sell rather than turn in orc scalps, goblin ears, etc. When you get higher level farm dwarf or giant heads.

In fact it's much much easier as a noob now because it won't take that much time to get a a jade mace, snare whip, staff of battle, cobalt gaunts, hp rings, and other random crap for a noob warrior for example. So you're going to be grouped with rogues with epics and monks with cof/fungi. Just makes your leveling easier. Many people will probably even pass down more bang for the buck stuff in a group (or at least once you get to know them) or let you do main loot. Just don't be a stupid/bad and play bad or spend money on obvious bad/overpriced gear. I'd rather group with someone with cheap bang for the buck items than some dummy who spends all their money on one BiS / near BiS item.

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Trust me, if I started over here with no twinking it would be much easier than launch day of this server (crowding, no economy, no resses or high level buffs, wearing banded/bronze armor with 6/22 weapons, etc)

Also for your epic, depending what class you play this may end up being easy (rogue, shaman) that you will probably get for free once you get into a high level guild. The monk epic, I think doesn't have a major bottleneck, just pain in the ass camps (never done it). The ranger and druid (and wizard??) epics are going to get less bottlenecked. The shadowknight, warrior, magician, and cleric epics will of course be a pain in the ass still, but meh.

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

OP: your immersion level is dangerously low

[indiscriminate_hater]

A+ troll thread. Anything that can rustle 4 pages worth of jimmies is fine by me