This game was and never got out of beta in 1999

[onmove_broke]

Did many of you play when this game first came out? Like when you could Kill SGs without taking a hit and a whole bunch of stuff never worked correctly like tradeskills etc.

Quests were broken or simply not finished. The pathing bugs were also hilarious.

[Eisai]

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

Did many of you play when this game first came out? Like when you could Kill SGs without taking a hit and a whole bunch of stuff never worked correctly like tradeskills etc.

Quests were broken or simply not finished. The pathing bugs were also hilarious.

And you could dupe your entire inventory by dying at the last moment of /camp [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Wakanda]

I was a Rogue main but also had a high level monk in true classic. I remember when EQ 2 came out (I chose EQ 2 over WoW at first), I was shocked that my characters suddenly had abilities I could use and was like wow this is so cool. Like Rogues and Monks are clearly good as hell in classic EQ, but basically pressing attack and backstab or attack and kick ..... very dry game play. Hop over to EQ 2 or WoW and suddenly having all kinds of stuff to do... it felt nice.

It felt more like being a caster from EQ.

[Wakanda]

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

And you could dupe your entire inventory by dying at the last moment of /camp [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I remember my neighbor figured out some way of climbing on top of rocks in highpass hold, and being able to kill NPCs who couldn't reach him. He got an insane amount of experience, and he did get a ban, but said it was worth it and that he would do it again because he got a ton of EXP and loot from this. Before he was a dude who struggled to get a character to level 14, and suddenly he had a 25+ Druid over night and just had to deal with a 24 hour ban, most of which he spent in school or sleeping.

Whenever I first came to P99, I was in Crushbone and saw someone in my groups nuking orcs down below from Orc Hill and I actually got scared that we were going to get banned because they cracked down on it so much in real EQ that players knew not to even attempt it.

Of course on P99 this method generally doesn't work mechanically, but I didn't know that at the time and just saw these Orcs dying before they could even get to us and was like man, we fixing to get banned if yall dont quit.

[Dolalin]

I started playing EQ in September or October 1999, can't remember exactly. But I remember being so immersed in the MMO aspect of the game that I didn't really pay attention to the bugs. I definitely noticed lag! That was what killed me most often. But pathing bugs were just quirky.

[Duik]

I began just after the sit in a fire bug gave 10pp? Per sit/stand. The one near the zone between guktop gukbottom deadside was one that worked. Friends who got me started mentioned it. Dunno if they exploited it.

I too was too immersed to use mechanics/exploits. For example i had a wiz with a star of eyes and a flux staff and never once used it reset gcd. Dumbarse I was.