I started playing with some friends during the beta test. We were all gnomes so we would have the same starting city. I played a rogue. If I recall correctly, the others were magician and cleric.
I played EQ when it went live, and played until Gates of Discord. Since then I seem to have a cycle of playing for 1-2 years before taking 1-2 years off. EverQuest is the game I always end up returning to, though.
I went to a computer camp for a few years, and the brothers who ran it were in one of the high end guilds on their server. A lot of us were immediately obsessed…I remember going home after the first week and begging my parents to buy the game for me.
Got away from it in late high school and college, but I started on p99 during the pandemic.
Started in the beta testing like you. Was crazy laggy and I remember running a direction, the whole world shifting around and bugging out, then shifting back. Often falling through the world and having GMs rescue my corpse as it was literally below the world.
PvP servers, standard servers.
The brutality if dieing and losing literally everything. The complete lack of directions (aside from that super basic tutorial).
Good times.
I stopped in early 2004. Might re-join again just to look around. Though it looks like I might have to check out project 1999 for the nostalgia and daybreak for the current happenings and content.
I have a Mischief character but haven’t put too much time in, even though it seems that is the best long term server. Hopefully I can move my Yelinak Druid there at some point but not sure what the transfer rules really look like.
I am not sure about transfer rules. With SoF out, the group gear is as good as the raid gear from the previous expansion. If you sell a krono, you could gear up and get 70+ pretty quick and start grouping and getting the gear to drop or buy it with the leftover money. With all gear being tradeable, leveling is pretty easy with cheapo gear from past expansions.
Looks like there’s a whole 2 of us using Lemmy instead of Reddit LOL.
I missed out on classic because I could never afford a subscription, but started playing when the F2P stuff started and have been enjoying the TLP action over the past few years a lot.
It was just me for a while. It’s nice to see others in here. I have a feeling with more niche communities popping up all the time, we will see more people stopping by to see what the fuss is about.
I have been on Mischief since launch. I just got to level 80. It’s amazing how much SoF changes things. They really seemed to balance things more like a modern MMO. I liked classic, but I also am excited about the way things are going. One of my favorite changes made back in TSS is them stopping making every single mob summon.
Summer of 2000. My cousin got me into to the game he was already playing and got me all hyped up about it.
I started as a half elf druid in surefall glade cause kelethin was way too laggy.
We kept playing up to gates of discord , but eventually left for all the other mmos that were coming out around then. Coh, ffonline, eq2, and eventually wow, where I got seriously hooked until I finally burned out during MoP.
The. I spent a long time with no MMOs, and eventually went back to EQ during EOK, as a f2p and dinked around there till that first velious expansion, but never did much other than solo, which gave me a craving for classic EQ, where I tried various classic servers. P99 was “too” classic for me, but I found one that was locked to pop at the time and ended finally raiding and clearing PoTime, in era. Which was extremely satisfying to me, and a lot of fun. But keeping up with raising was too tie consuming so I once again quit.
Now I’m back to messing around on live 1 to 3 boxing just for fun. With no goals in mind , don’t even care about hitting max level just want to go see some of the places I haven’t been through all the expansions I’ve missed.
When I have been away from EQ for a while, it usually starts with feeling nostalgic for a certain raid or quest that used to be too hard for me to do. Then I get on an overleveled character and go destroy it. Then I realize I don’t really know how to play very well anymore, so I start a level one and start working my way up through the levels to remember how to play. Then when I get high enough level to start grouping with other people, I get hooked.
I started in 2000 right before kunark launched and was it sucked me right in. Made tons of friends and played pretty hardcore up until the end of PoP then got distracted with real life.
I still get the urge sometimes and will hop into a TLP or p99 every few years. Had a good group of friends on red for 2 years or so before the population fell off a cliff.
Just recently played through a pretty amazing emu server that kept me and a friend busy for several months. I’m sure in 6 months or so I’ll be looking to come back and get another eq fix in whatever form it takes this time!
