Everquest 1999

[Anonymous No.8334994]

I have started playing this for the first time on Project 1999 green server, and wow, it is fucking fantastic. Any fun stories from Project 1999/ OG everquest? Anyone here playing on green server?

[Anonymous No.8335002]

Curious about this myself. Downloaded EQ via Steam last night but have yet to give it a try.

[Anonymous No.8336798]

Bumping out of curiosity.

[Anonymous No.8337640]

>>8334994
I've had a good time on p99, both servers.
Wonderful game and a stark example of how the very idea of an MMORPG has mutated over time and what has been lost or traded away. One of the last of the genre actually made for thoughtful people.

[Anonymous No.8338257]

Eww, looks like no fun allowed.

[Anonymous No.8338521]

Bump in case there are more everquest bros out there.
Please enjoy this lovely art.

[Anonymous No.8340908]

>>8338257
They have a section in the rules where they basically say "we have these rules in place so if people are being faggots we have a reason to ban them".

[Anonymous No.8341196]

>>8340908
And that's fair, but then they go full RP autism on the naming conventions.

[Anonymous No.8341589]

>>8341196
I like that. I am not a big fan of joke names. I wouldn't police people for having them myself but I don't like seeing them. It lessens the atmosphere.

[Anonymous No.8342267]

>>8338257
The original game restricted names in quite a similar fashion, so the list isn't too far fetched in that sense. Plus, I like it this way and I think it's more fun actually.

[Anonymous No.8342310]

>>8341589
>>8342267
Oh boy I sure do love the atmosphere of "name not available" for two hours.
Just let me name the character an obscure dictionary word so we can all move on.

[Anonymous No.8342543]

>>8342310
You just lack creativity.

[Anonymous No.8342581]

>>8338257

Literally no different than what was allowed back then. Trust me, I was there in my jboots

[Anonymous No.8343209]

>>8334994
Best time I ever had on EQ was during Underfoot, when my entire guild (Triality) got suspended for a week because Absor got super butthurt that we made his pweshus "super duper hard" uwu raid look like a bitch and exploited the shit out of it just to show we could (and to demonstrate a major vulnerability in the instancing system that desperately needed to be fixed).

[Anonymous No.8343307]

>>8334994
>fantastic
just wait until you get to mid level and everyone expects you to already be twinked to fuck or endgame where the guild(s) that control the rotation schedule are all full and don't accept new applications unless an existing member dies

[Anonymous No.8343308]

>>8343209
>exploited
To this day the entire raid scene in EQ live is basically just exploiting poorly written scripts or DPSing so hard that mechanics don't even matter.

[Anonymous No.8343341]

when did it all go so wrong?

[Anonymous No.8343369]

>>8343341
If EQ stuck with the "low poly" style it originally had and just cleaned up the original models/animations and modernized the lighting system I think the game would have a popular niche following to this day. And damn, just think about how much content they would've been able to push out with the original style instead of wasting time on those 00s """"realistic"""" models/zones.

[Anonymous No.8343483]

>>8343341
>left: rabies
>right: HIV

[Anonymous No.8343576]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt9aKgVKNww

will it ever release, /vr/?

[Anonymous No.8343707]

>>8343308
Sounds like the shitstorm that was classic wow.

[Anonymous No.8343883]

>>8343209
>Absor
Those official EQ boards were some of the most reddity places on the internet before reddit existed. Everyone clamoring to get attention from blue names.

[Anonymous No.8344094]

>>8343707
Worse. How do you even balance 54 man content? If you aim it at a typical guild with a variety of dps classes then the hardcore guilds that stack berserkers are going to steamroll it, and if you target the hardcore guilds then nobody else is going to be able to clear it. Of course, you could just balance your dps classes, but EQ has never cared about that, there were expansions where the top class would do 3x or more the dps of the worst class.

[Anonymous No.8344930]

>>8343369
On the one hand, I agree, on the other hand: >>8344094
is right, there comes a point where balancing content for a huge raid of high-end players who have already beat everything the game has to offer, becomes extremely difficult. Everquest has a good amount of depth for what it is, but there's really only so far you can go when the base mechanics are so heavily oriented around tanking/healing and threat management.

[Anonymous No.8345062]

>>8342543
No shit, I just want to play the fucking game not write the next Lord of the Rings.

[Anonymous No.8345124]

>>8345062
Let me help you then. There are multiple fantasy name generator websites that people use for dnd and such. Just hit F5 until you get something that you like.

[Anonymous No.8345179]

>>8343341
Jesus, were the revamped models really that bad? Who in their right mind would look at that and say the right looks better?

[Anonymous No.8345665]

>>8341196
>>8342310
You're making a big deal about nothing. People have all kinds of names, just don't be a fucking idiot and name yourself penishead and you'll be fine.

[Anonymous No.8345809]

>>8345179
That doesn't look like a Luclin model to me. that looks like something from later, after the soul was entirely gone.
I don't think the Luclin models are quite as bad as that, but they are still terrible. The originals had charm and nice idle animations. With Luclin you got horsefaces, pancake-asses, and awkward postures. Pretty much every male model looked like huge douche and the fantasy races lost all their character.

[Anonymous No.8346270]

>>8345809
>I don't think the Luclin models are quite as bad as that

[Anonymous No.8346285]

>>8343369
Low poly EQ could have been kino if they also stuck to the original D&D-like world. Instead the game became full on artificial, things only existed for the sake of some kind of progression mechanic.

Take something as basic as faction for example. The original implementation was heavily RP inspired. Eventually they dropped the idea of race/religion modifiers from new factions in order to make faction more "fair" and it just became something you'd grind to unlock a quest for some item you wanted. Then it devolved even further and became a bar you were forced to fill up just to unlock access to raid zones or rk. 3 spells or raid armor vendors.

[Anonymous No.8346295]

>>8345809
I play with the new models O F F! God they're terrible. Their animation doubly so, only drawback is that original models don't sit on mounts so they look like they are standing in the mount. I hate it.

[Anonymous No.8346301]

>>8346270
They are the iksar run cycle is atrocious as is all the new model player animations.

[Anonymous No.8346302]

>>8346295
On the bright side you don't have to see other people's mounts with it on. Also the new models are so horribly bootstrapped into the client that to this day they massively bog down performance. Pixel shaders 2.0 too. And don't get me started on the lighting system, I have a modern GPU and the fans start screaming if I turn it on.

[Anonymous No.8346305]

>>8334994
One funny thing about the EQ game box art is that the paladin is always doing NOTHING! In the Kunark art I think the Paladin is standing there pointing to a troll. LOL.

[Anonymous No.8346309]

>>8345809
The new models also don't match most of the world they are in. The old ones might be simplistic but so is everything around them. What really makes it awkward is that half of the NPCs were left as the old models after the Luclin disaster.
>>8346285
This is an excellent criticism.

[Anonymous No.8346313]

Heres some screenies when P99 was newish.

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[Anonymous No.8346321]

[Anonymous No.8346325]

>>8346313
>the old ogres
I don't want to spew out the soul meme, but there it is. They are lovable, evil cretins like something out of Labyrinth.
They were betrayed more than most by new modelling.

[Anonymous No.8346330]

>>8346285
kek back in kunark I probably had the best faction of any iksar in the game, I spent all my playtime just feeding muffins to dwarves and other obscure quests that gave like 1 faction each

people would flip their shit when they saw me walking around kelethin, which I remember being a pain in the ass to raise because you couldn't just kill orcs you also had to do a bunch of fetch quests to slowly raise factions with the merchants and guilds

[Anonymous No.8346332]

This one is funny ogre fell in the lave in Solesek's Eye.

[Anonymous No.8346336]

>>8346325
I love the old Troll and Ogre modes All of them!

[Anonymous No.8346340]

[Anonymous No.8346341]

>>8346270
>left:
>based and redpilled
>right:
>soí and estrogenpilled

[Anonymous No.8346345]

>>8346330
I remember back in early 2001 when I saw my first Erudite female Paladin with Soulfire, I was stunned.

[Anonymous No.8346347]

>>8346313
>>8346317
>>8346321
So much soul. I wish I could have experienced it as a teenager. My parents would have never allowed me to play a sub game.

[Anonymous No.8346351]

>sorry guys I have to log my mom wants to make a phone call

[Anonymous No.8346357]

>>8346351
LMAO! AOL had disconnected.....

[Anonymous No.8346358]

[Anonymous No.8346360]

>>8346345

I was so impressed that decades later I made one.

[Anonymous No.8346367]

My druid on Vox. A super dead server.

[Anonymous No.8346427]

How's the PS2 version of EQ?

[Anonymous No.8346437]

>>8346358
Gnomish technology has gone too far

[Anonymous No.8346507]

>>8346427
I think someone's working on an emulated server but no clue if that ever went anywhere

[Anonymous No.8346605]

>>8334994
I'd rather play the fan server for Asherons Call

[Anonymous No.8346620]

map hacking perma-cc endgame pvp and pbaoe farming min/max pve aside, daoc was a pretty fun level grind

[Anonymous No.8346694]

>>8346620
>minstrel joins your group
>proceeds to do absolutely nothing because he has no skill points invested so he can get free autotrain points
>neglected to mention this before joining

EVERY TIME