Please add Luclin!

[Phenyo]

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

If you play here for nostalgia, then it's no shock it gets old. Nostalgia's always fleeting.

I'm not nostalgic for old EQ. I was an adult when it came out and the wife and I both well remember its poor management and problems all too well. It took only a few short years before that game morphed from something I liked, into something I did not. I've no interest in re-living that! That's the great weakness of the MMO/RPG genre, and of expansion-driven business models more generally. Even if you find a game you like, you get to watch it slowly break apart in front of you until you can't stand the thing anymore. It stinks.

P1999's no nostalgia fix. Rather, it's a version of EQ that takes away the parts that drove me out of the game the first time around. It works; I've spent far more time here than I did in the original. The fixed era might be regarded as a weakness, but it's a tolerable weakness. It if gets old sometimes, well, so do my other hobbies as well. That's why I have hobbies (emphasis on plural) and don't try to fixate on any single activity. P1999 works well for what it is and I'm glad to have it always available.

Danth

pras

[Baler]

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

If you play here for nostalgia, then it's no shock it gets old. Nostalgia's always fleeting.

Nostalgia is like a drug and one can build up a tolerance for Nostalgia. Put the mouse and keyboard down for a bit. Then come back later ready for that first blast off of Nostalgia again.

[zodium]

Dald, my man, you're not supposed to play the same version of the same video game continuously for 8 years. I should not have to say this to an adult man!

This is what everyone who wants P99 Luclin seems to just not grasp on a basic level. Like, I'm done progressing and have been for months, Gatmanno will never significantly improve, and I don't need him to. I love to show people around the game I played as a kid. It's fun to bounce around and help people out, go on some adventures, shoot the shit, just doing my elf thing. But one day that will stop being fun. When it stops, I'll just move on to a video game I like. Then I'll maybe check back, but mostly I'll just quit. Like a normal person.

Playing P99 is not supposed to be part of your identity. If you had a healthier attitude towards elfin' it up, you wouldn't constantly be pining for P99 to be something it's not. Like godverdomme man, you need therapy or something.

For your own sake, go away. You are done with P99. You were done with P99 before I and many current players even started here. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[fortior]

For the true classic experience, stick a post-it on your screen to cover up your Duxa UI mana counter. Then stare into a flashlight every 10 minutes to make sure you don't see shit at night - alternately, buy a monitor with bad viewing angles and turn it sideways. Also, whenever you meditate, close your eyes. Finally, don't forget to roll a d6 every time you zone: force-quit the game whenever you roll a 1

[Sinistria]

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

For the true classic experience, stick a post-it on your screen to cover up your Duxa UI mana counter. Then stare into a flashlight every 10 minutes to make sure you don't see shit at night - alternately, buy a monitor with bad viewing angles and turn it sideways. Also, whenever you meditate, close your eyes. Finally, don't forget to roll a d6 every time you zone: force-quit the game whenever you roll a 1

Very good description of what EQ was during Kunark on Live [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[zodium]

I know you think that. We were guilded. :>

The reality is, however, this, and I'll wrap it in a classic era reference just for you: you are the Jon Irenicus of P99. I saw you in Awakened. Clinging not even to the memory, but to the memory of the memory of something you used to love, absolutely unable to remember what that even means anymore. Whatever you feel for P99 or its community, it has nothing to do with anything anyone else would recognize as love for the game. What you feel is a sad and bitter thing that you happen to call love.

Except instead of being an all-powerful wizard who can't let go, you are an EverQuest player who can't let go. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[mcoy]

I thought AA's were cool until I started seeing groups LFM but with <insert minimum AA requirement>. That and it also made the game more WoW-ish with all the extra hotkeys.

I'll vote not classic.

-Mcoy

[Wuffles]

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

I thought AA's were cool until I started seeing groups LFM but with <insert minimum AA requirement>. That and it also made the game more WoW-ish with all the extra hotkeys.

I'll vote not classic.

-Mcoy

Lol who ever in their right mind would say Hotkeys are negative in ANY capacity.

Come on...

[Fryhole]

It would be an interesting experiment to see what would happen if P99 launched a progression server up to PoP. Same rules as current blue server, add a P99 spin and don't include the bazaar, mounts or PoP books. That said, it looks like current dev support has been watered down between some of the other EQ emu projects, and if Pantheon turns out to be what they claim, dev free time will be even lower.

For all the bazaar hate though, sitting in EC for what can be days of your playtime to either buy or sell something is painful.

[Lammy]

You guys talk about Luclin like the devs can just insert a CD and install it to the server.