I found my old trilogy rulebook(with some interesting things)

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So I found my old eq trilogy rulebook in an old box today, and I briefly read through it. The most interesting thing to me was it showed a screenshot of the player count per server(in the selecting a server section):

players online
Tallon Zek(pvp team lowest pop): 504
Vallon Zek(pvp team): 513
Lanys Tv'yl: 672
Luclin: 675
Rallos Zek(pvp): 719
some other servers
Quellious(highest shown): 858

There was a scroll bar to the side, so this is probably the lowest population servers. However this shows that at times project 1999 does have higher population or comparable population to live servers at the time.

Some other stuff:
Five food and drink is supposedly supposed to last 30 hours in game, or 5 game days. I'm not sure if this is accurate or not on p99 can't really tell.

Dexterity in the rule book says it decreases time between attacks, chance to hit an attack with certain weapons. I'm pretty sure this is inaccurate, but I found it funny it listed it in the rulebook this way.

Supposedly guilds are supposed to be able to declare "guild wars" on each other in game where you duel each other and you can loot coins off of the losing side's body. I don't know if this is in game or not because I've never heard of someone doing this.

The rulebook is very advanced, it tells you everything and includes a mini strategy guide with information that is actually useful on how to play the game(for example recommends iksar necro, Halfling druid, doing the crushbone belt quests if you're an elf). Also includes maps of all newbie starting areas. It literally teaches you almost every aspect of the game if you read through it including the abstract concepts like pulling monsters.

If you're below level 5 it says when you die you should respawn with 5 food and drink. It suggests dying to replenish your food supplies if you run out below level 5. It does however say you would need to get your corpse to recover your possessions, so it sounds like the mechanic is you die then you respawn with only 5 food and 5 drink.

When you need to run from a mob one of the suggestions is to bring it to other players.