The Golden Era of P99 is behind us, we need something new.

[loramin]

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[shovelquest]

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

I just watched that movie for the first time last night!

NIICE this was one of the few good fantasy movies with swords in it that I had to force myself to identify with because we had slim pickings back then.

Still love it though, but I think its funny how hard it was to be a fanatsy fan back then.

Dragonslayer was #1 dragon movie until lotr like 30 years later!

[Sadre Spinegnawer]

"The verdant plain, the mossy stones, the lichen on the pier, all becomes green in the light of the sun." -- Plato, The Republic.

[mycoolrausch]

Back in live classic it was cool being a complete newb and experiencing everything for the first time.

Then with p99 it was cool to revisit classic eq and do it again, and learn to min-max the game in the way you always fantasized about back in '99 but never achieved.

Peak p99 was getting a spot in one of the 5 simultaneous XP groups in Mistmoore and making new friends you'd journey to 60 with, or full grouping fungi king while /ooc was filled with the 30 other people grinding the zone, and things like starting a fun melee twink and actually impressing someone in Unrest with it. And then to some extent micro-maxing the mechanics at the high end with things like aggro/training/pulling, etc. That's all been dead for years.

Turtle WoW has convinced me (from what I already suspected anyway) that the future of Classic is "Classic+." Adding new content in the same tiers as existing (so not replacing) while not being afraid to do some housekeeping with the class balancing and content difficulty/scaling, and a QoL change here or there that doesn't fundamentally change the design or mechanics. You also want a new client because Titanium is on its last legs and barely holding together. I think short of a new client (Project Lantern still in the works?) and Classic+ done by a competent team the classic EQ emu crowd will approach rapidly diminishing returns as everyone that would play something like this has, and had their fill.

Preserving some terrible balance because the over-worked EQ devs didn't get around to the fix until 3 weeks after P99s timeline, or staring at unfinished placeholder content and items for all eternity, is not what made P99 great. Although I think that singular zealous focus worked for a time by preventing anything crazy being done by the wrong hands at the wrong time. But we're past the point of having to worry about that anymore. Some team needs to get with the Project Lantern guys and then get with Rogean and Co and work something out with him for the P99 database, and start a Classic+ project. Go ahead and get on that, whoever you are. I'd play it.

[shovelquest]

A green p99 would be a lot of fun with a mischife loot system.

[Swish]

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A green p99 would be a lot of fun with a mischife loot system.

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[Xer0]

I would like something in the spirit of p99 that goes up to Luclin/PoP era. Unfortunately Quarm doesnt scratch the itch with its janky client and ez mode features like pinkicite

[onmove_broke]

If I was DB I would do exactly what Blizzard did with D2...remaster it. Keep everything classic with some QoL improvements. Add some new quests, add a few new items, tune under used zones, etc. Let that run and make some good $$ while working on a true EQ successor for the modern day audience.

Problem is they probably have no idea to do it and if they did it would turn out to be shit given that half the team are femnazis

[zelld52]

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

Problem is they probably have no idea to do it and if they did it would turn out to be shit given that half the team are femnazis

Anything you said before this statement is made invalid. I don't understand why you started with a decent point and then injected your incel logic into the second part

[shovelquest]

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but it feeeels classic man [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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