Project 1999 - Free Classic Everquest: Now with Kunark and Epics!

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aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

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aparmenideanmonad fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Aug 2, 2015

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 18:57

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Did Everquest pop your MMO cherry? Are you tired of WoW and its copycats dumbing down your MMO experience? Have you never played EQ but want to see what all the fuss is about? Do you sometimes have nightmares about running around naked trying to find your corpse in the middle of West Karana?

Project 1999 is a free emulated Everquest server (run through eqemulator.org) that has been developed to recreate the original Everquest experience as accurately as possible. It is the result of a demand for reliving the classic age of Everquest, that is, Vanilla through Velious, that Sony is unable or unwilling to meet. You may have heard of Sony's progression or EQMac servers. EQMac was a great alternative for people looking for expansions up to PoP but is now defunct. The progression servers have many of the new features of contemporary EQ built in, which, for many of us nostalgic old-timers, makes playing on them completely undesirable. Project 1999 eliminates these features as much as possible and overall is the most accurate classic experience currently available. If later versions of EQ are your cup of tea check this thread for more info: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3472675

Project 1999 is a work in progress based off the Everquest Titanium client. There are some legal limitations for the developers, especially when it comes to modifying the client. The Vanilla-look client can't be hardcoded, though people have come up with UIs that make your client look Velious era, or even Vanilla-era to some degree. Also, there are some intentional differences, mostly ones designed to prevent faction/experience/plat grinding exploits, protect the economy, and keep the raid scene from getting too awful. New raid rules have been put into place recently that are similar to some of the player agreements on various classic servers, but, of course, are much spergier and detailed to match the rules-lawyery attitude of many raid guilds on this server. There are a few weird/random things that aren't classic, but for the most part, the developers do a good job making things feel right.

ARE THERE OTHER WEIRDOS LIKE ME WHO ACTUALLY PLAY THIS?

The community of classic Everquest has been recreated to a large degree and most people are polite, friendly, and at least somewhat concerned with their character's reputation. Unfortunately, due to people's more recent experience with games that give you whatever content you want on a silver (instanced) platter, you will occasionally run into people who will attempt to bully, rules-lawyer, or grief you out of a camp or group. This is most noticeable at high-value item camps that are fairly easily soloable by lots of different classes, but is thankfully not a general problem. The endgame raiding scene is extremely competitive, much more so than most live servers, which has led to strained and at times openly hostile relationships between the various top raiding guilds. Raid guild drama is pretty darn classic and this server has it in spades, both in game and on the forums. There are guilds that raid casually, though these guilds tend not to kill as many of the most desirable mobs. There are leveling guilds and community guilds as well if that's more your speed.

Peak hours have regularly seen 1500-1700 characters online for the last year. Due to strict policies against multi-boxing accounts, almost all characters are unique players, which greatly encourages grouping. There are plenty of opportunities to group at all levels if you get to the proper zones. If you need to figure out where to be, ask in the thread or do some /who all searches in game: '/w all 28 32' is good for finding people around level 30 for instance.

CURRENT PROGRESSION (Apr 22nd, 2015): Kunark + Epics, VELIOUS RELEASE IMMINENT

The server has been running publicly since Fall 2009. The plane of fear was introduced during the following winter. Hate was opened (with a Bloody Kithicor event) in Feb 2010, which was shortly followed by the opening of the Temple of Solusek Ro and the first mid-level class armor sets, as well as the removal of dropped items like Rubicite, Manastone, Guise of the Deceiver, and Journeyman Boots (go here for a more complete list - JBoots are now a quest result of course). The Plane of Sky and The Hole were made available later in 2010. In the spring of 2011, Kunark was released, and not long after some drops were removed (check the above link for details). Most recently, Veeshan's Peak was opened and the original class Epic Quests were implemented. The Velious beta server has been running for over a year now and the work on the last classic expansion will soon be released. Expect a huge surge in population on both servers when Velious hits that will likely last to some degree through the summer.

Here are some things that are still in: Class/Race XP penalties, original Fear and Hate mobs/gods, level capped (52 max) Nagafen/Vox raids, original epic mobs (Ragefire is still in SolB for instance), and pre-revamp zones like Cazic Thule, Chardok, Droga, etc. Velious will quickly introduce progression changes, including the vanquishing of class based XP penalties, a list of items that will no longer drop, and, eventually, epic and planar revamps and chardok B. If you have a specific question about progression, ask in the thread.

MY MASOCHISTIC NOSTALGIA IS TINGLING, WHERE DO I SIGN UP?

PC
1. Find yourself a copy of Everquest: Titanium (do not ask about :filez:

in the thread please), and do a clean install (note, do not install in 'program files' or another protected directory in Windows 8/7/Vista if you want to be able to use combat logs or take screenshots).

2. Follow the instructions here: http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2651

3. If everything works fine, good for you, enjoy. If you run into issues getting EQ to run, then go here: http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=94928

Mac
Check this guide out: http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56238

ME AND THE PRIEST OF DISCORD ARE PALS, WHERE'S MY PVP?

Project 1999 includes both a "blue" (PVE) server and a more recently released "red" (PVP) server. Due to the long wait for Velious, Red is now in sync with Blue as far as server progression. While running at roughly 5-15% of the active population of P1999 Blue, Red has become quite popular among goons lately due to features like faster XP (compared to Blue) and a smaller, newer player community. EQ PVP, while pretty much universally acknowledged to be unbalanced and bad, also provides another incentive to be social and group up with people. The PVP is mostly +/- 4 levels so you don't have to be too concerned with high level ganking - twink ganking happens but is largely avoidable by grouping. Here's a post with more details about the PVP and other mechanics on Red:
http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=148678
Many of the devs and GMs involved with P99 are committed to a stable and enjoyable PVP server, and there are long term plans for a racial/team PVP server, which may include an eventual merger of the current and new PVP servers.

HEY I WANT TO BUY A CHARACTER SO I CAN 2-BOX MACROQUEST AND SHOWEQ!

Project 1999 has strict policies regarding all of the above. Here's a rundown of some of the more common offenses and how they're handled.

3rd party "cheating" software (Macroquest, ShowEQ) = Ban, *HIGH* enforcement + automatic detection - This server has far better hack/cheat detection than anything Sony ever ran. If you run this stuff, even for some benign reason, you will get caught and you will get banned. It's honestly one of the best reasons to play on p1999 over some of the other available classic-ish options out there.
2-Boxing (more than one character per player) = Ban, high enforcement - It is not possible to log in more than one account from the same IP address without a special exemption. Sure, it would be nice if you could mule items, port and powerlevel yourself, but this rule is what ultimately encourages grouping at all levels. The community would be much less classic-like without this rule. GMs have gotten pretty good about catching people who try to get around this with proxies and cell-phone tethering etc. and the community helps to police it.
Real Money Trading (trading in game stuff for out of game stuff) = Ban, high enforcement - There was a recent post about plat-generating exploits and RMT bans, so this is definitely something that is being actively enforced. In any case, please do not use this thread for RMT. If you must mix with free pixels, just google Project 1999 RMT and you should find what you're looking for. Note to buyers: beware - if you end up getting caught you can lose your P99 character/items/plat and the seller will typically get to keep your dolla bills, WoW/D3 gold, Isk, etc. I know exactly one person who managed to get his money back from a RMT that resulted in a ban.
Buying Characters/Accounts = Ban, enforced like RMT - Up until August of 2013, you were allowed to buy and sell accounts for in game currency and items. This was convenient for a certain small subset of players but did very strange things to the economy. It's a good thing that it's gone.

See here for more rules info: http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2651

If you want to play with people who share your IP address, you will need to apply for an IP exemption here: http://www.project1999.com/forums/announcement.php?f=25 Note: this can take a few weeks to go through.

CLASSIC and SERVER SPECIFIC RESOURCES

You will be able to find some good item and quest info on current EQ fansites like Allakhazam, but some of it is wrong for P99's take on classic EQ.

Official P99 Wiki: http://wiki.project1999.com - This is really your one-stop shop for classic EQ information. Over the last year or two, almost all the important content that used to be available only by digging through archive.org has been added by a legion of dedicated users. Class and race info, spells, maps, items, and most quests are available through this page. There's also a Magelo-style feature that lets you put up a wiki page for your character and list their gear to be displayed graphically, like so:

Maps - EQAtlas mirror: http://www.allakabor.com/eqatlas/atlas.html - EQ Map Preserve: http://www.steveprutz.com/eq/
Spells - Classic through Luclin spell list (ignore Velious and Luclin spells for now): http://crys.org/everquest/spells.htm
Auction trackers - the official wiki has prices for many items on each individual item's page, but many of them are out of date or have been manipulated by the people who upload logs. I'd recommend this tracker instead: http://ahungry.com/eqauctions/. You can also check out the East Commonlands subforum on the P99 website.
Class selection - A realistic look at choosing a class on P99 - slightly endgame skewed but mostly good info: http://wiki.project1999.com/Loraen%27s_Class_Selection_Guide
Goon-written project 1999 FAQ: http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1002

P1999/Everquest Beginner's Guide - very useful if you never played EQ during the classic era:
http://www.project1999.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41480

EQ PVP Class Summary - trying to figure out which class to roll on Red? Check this post: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3475298&pagenumber=66#post434167724

Feel free to ask any other questions in this thread or on the official P1999 forums: http://www.project1999.com/forums/index.php

If you're having trouble getting the game to run or want more info on modified UIs and other technical stuff, check out the stickies in the Tech Discussion forum: http://www.project1999.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=40

Links to the old threads in case anyone needs to check them out and lost their bookmarks:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3254358
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3211945

WHERE DA GOONS AT?

Blue

Invalid Guild is dead, long live Unknown Guild!

The new official blue goon guild is <Unknown Guild>. Invalid Guild finally got nuked after 3 years due to some silliness from the server admins, but welp! While it is the official guild for goons, UG is always in a state of flux with regard to activity, and most high level players are tagged with one of the many raiding guilds. If anyone wants an invite and can't find a tagged person with officer/leader access in game, (do /w all 'unknown guild' ) then ask in the thread and I'll get you taken care of. Feel free to add my characters (Bugen, Illtair, Smrt, Hootie) to your friends list and bother me in game as well.

Red
The goon guild on Red is semi-dead at the moment but <SLAMDUNKATRON> will probably return. See thread for details.

aparmenideanmonad fucked around with this message at 03:05 on May 18, 2015

# ¿ Mar 29, 2012 17:05

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Funkutron5000 posted:

You can update me! I'm at 31 now, and should get to 32 the next time I'm able to play. Also, this is a fun time game.

I edited from the future.

Also, I should actually be on this weekend for a bit. If I'm not busy helping some silly rogue level I should be free to hook up new people with starting cash or IG invites. Look me up.

vvv done vvv

aparmenideanmonad fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Mar 30, 2012

# ¿ Mar 29, 2012 19:34

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Hashal posted:

I'm looking to purchase a Barbarian Spiritist's Hammer if anyone knows someone selling. Been looking for a while now with no luck.

Saw one in EC today being sold by Kristian for 28k.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2012 20:35

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Hopefully you've caught someone for some goonerosity - I haven't been in game in over a week due to wife-having-baby-complications but I should hopefully be back on between feedings in the next week or two.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2012 20:21

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Spudsly posted:

Sup, EQ-while-newborn-sleeps buddy!

Haha yeah, it's a fairly well populated club. I might have to start quadding on my wizard again - it seems like it would suffer the least from the frequent interruptions.

Also, to the guy who asked me for an IG invite last night - sorry I didn't catch up with you afterwards. I'll try to get on this evening to hook you up.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2012 14:22

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

cenzo posted:

Shaman question:

Which would you all consider better, the shaman regen line or the fungi staff click effect? Obviously the fungi staff effect roots you, but it's also (i believe) comparable to the highest of the shaman regen spells (not including torpor.)

So at like a level 40+ situation, would the fungi staff be superior for soloing?

Fungi stick is obviously going to be more mana efficient, and it's 15/hp a tick, just like the level 52 spell Regrowth, so it's definitely superior from 35-51. After 52 it's mostly just a convenience and a small mana-save. Of course it also snares the target (not root) which, depending on your style of soloing, can be more or less annoying. Shaman do not tend to kite, so I don't think the snare is too bad for them. Really the only downside to it for shaman is that it costs 30k-ish for the post-nerf version. Whether or not you want to drop 30k for a slightly better mana-free regen spell for 10-15 levels is up to you and your pocketbook.

I will say that a fungi tunic is a much better item for soloing if you do not have one yet and are getting close to the necessary funds to pick one up. If you're lacking the plat for a tunic, it might be worth getting a staff and flipping it once you get enough for a tunic. It's also worth pointing out that high level shaman spells are quite expensive. You might need that 30k to put towards Torpor or another good, rare spell down the line.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2012 16:53

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

It should be around 225k right now (source), but I've never heard from anyone who I'd believe what it actually costs on p1999. I tried to get access to a few when the Kunark beta server was up so I could test this out (I had 30 billion or so plat because of loot table decimal place errors) but I never managed to do so. I assume someone in IB sold one at some point just to see, but I don't know if any goons who still read this thread would know.

# ¿ Apr 12, 2012 16:41

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

So, VD is folding and a lot of folks are going to BDA. With another 20-30 bodies to throw around this will likely make BDA a solid #2 with the potential to compete on any mob they commit to. I'm hoping this doesn't reignite the standard top 2 raid guild hostility BS that's been so problematic on this server but I know better than to hold my breath.

I'm personally holding off on joining a new guild at the moment as RL poo poo has me way too busy, but good luck to all the goons in BDA and the VD goons who will be joining them. In the mean time, I'll be more available than usual to help out with random stuff so don't shy about shooting me tells for ports or whatever if I'm online.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2012 05:45

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

I hooked up another goon with the one I didn't end up needing on my own rogue, so I can't help you directly. However, if you want help dropping the Coercer in Kith or with Phinny, let me know. I can take down the Coercer with a cleric no problem and if she has the Kedge Robe she'll be wearing it.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2012 18:11

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

I would personally go solo unrest basement and snag MM castle entrance groups when they're available. You could also go to OT if you prefer open outdoorsy zones. I'm not sure what other zones have mid 30s groups running at the moment.

I've done a few IG invites in the last month but I don't see people on much. If you're looking for a guild to hang with while leveling up I know there are some goons in <The Feel>.

# ¿ May 4, 2012 02:27

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

I've never seen people do it on here, but I had a good SK friend on live who would re-max 60 from raid XP loss doing solo fear-kiting in the wolf/spider/bear pits in Perma. I'm not sure how the pathing is down there on P99, but it should be awesome XP if you can pull it off. If not, should be a lot of awesomely inaccessible Sirduh corpses.

In other words, sounds like a win/win!

# ¿ May 21, 2012 21:06

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

It's just as not allowed according to P1999 rules as the people selling plat for :10bux:

so caveat emptor. These kind of transactions have been traditionally discouraged on SA as well but the mods haven't weighed in on any of this yet.

In other news, I started a new SK so that I can do all the crazy BFG related things that I want to do in Velious. If anyone wants to group up, shoot me a tell on Berak. I'm level 11 at the moment and probably heading to Unrest soon.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2012 20:34

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

I went troll because I had lots of random gear I could take off other characters for a troll but not an Iksar. Also the googly purple eyed troll is my 2nd favorite character model in classic and I have an iksar already!

# ¿ Jun 6, 2012 21:58

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

I'm aware of frontal stun immunity and don't really care. This isn't a character for serious, I've got a mix/maxed 60 iksar monk already.

# ¿ Jun 6, 2012 22:15

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

I'd be happy to give it a shot with you, just would need to move some gear back onto Bugen. I'll probably be semi AFK on Berak most of today, just shoot me a tell and we can get stuff shuffled and try if you want.

I don't think I can duo it with you on my 52 mage, but he's bound outside perma for Vox usage if you get another volunteer and just want some more DPS.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2012 17:33

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Definitely sounds duoable if that is correct info regarding HP. I don't remember them hitting harder than 120 or so. Between a monk and an SK I don't think getting a single will be an issue, just will take a little patience.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2012 18:26

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

moolchaba posted:

The info I'm looking puts the Icy Terror at around 8000 hp. The issue is if I could pull a single, I think they like to come in pairs. I may experiment with this first.

Would be fun to do a quest for once.

I've got my monk parked at perma now and I was able to get one single and have just enough HP to solo it (needed to start with 90% rather than 70% health to finish one). Splitting it out to the king room without clearing any giants was kinda annoying but it worked eventually. Will be much easier with you there to snare etc. and fighting one down in the pits.

aparmenideanmonad fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Jun 8, 2012

# ¿ Jun 8, 2012 03:14

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Just grabbed some drums for ya. Catch up with me when you log on later, might have a lute by then too.

# ¿ Jun 8, 2012 22:03

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Whichever is online

(Illtair or Bugen probably).

EDIT: Got 2 drums and a lute. If anyone else needs a drum, holla.

aparmenideanmonad fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Jun 9, 2012

# ¿ Jun 9, 2012 00:05

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Lakedaimon posted:

Oh God im actually thinking about playing this again. Already bored with Diablo 3. Im loving the fact that fungi prices nosedived from even six or seven months ago. I could actually afford to kit out a twink pretty darn well - the only thing on my wishlist I would not be able to afford are crazy things like a Cloak of Flames.

Many item prices are on their way back up, so get in while the getting is good! There are at least 2 people trying to artificially push fungi prices back up now that the server-quitter-liquidation supply has tapered off.

Getting a CoF for a twink right away might be out of reach, but the lower end haste belts are quite cheap. RBGs are ~40k, SotDBs are ~8k, FBSSs are ~6k. I don't know that these will ever go back up as more RBBs and CoFs continue to pour into a pretty low population every week.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2012 19:25

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Well, it's kind of a complicated situation early on because of level based damage caps. Once the caps are gone, TStaff is better DPS than AC/SoS and certainly cheaper than that combo as SoS goes for more than a TStaff at this point.

From 1-10, a Jade Mace is actually the best weapon easily available because it doesn't get capped (weapon base damage contribution is limited to 10). From 10-20, it's 14 (AC/SoS is not too heavily penalized but TStaff is still hit pretty hard). 20-30 I'm not sure as I haven't had a character in that level range since they added that cap, but I would guess it's high enough that a TStaff is no longer too bad. At 30, a TStaff will start to be better than AC/SoS.

Here's some other considerations...
1. Monk epic is pretty easy. You can do it as early as 46 on this server right now, and there's a patch in the works that will make it MQable sooner than that. For most monks, epic fist mainhand + SoS offhand is the best DPS setup available in Kunark (Wu's Fist of Mastery from Sky are upgrades in either slot). It is definitely a (small) improvement on TStaff DPS and is the biggest reason that SoS has held its value despite all the other monk weapons dropping like a rock.

2. TStaff is a weapon that all monks should have available for both the proc as well as when fighting stuff with damage shields. Epic mainhand against a high level mage or druid damage shield will destroy you.

So...yeah. Lots of things to consider.

If you had unlimited cash, here's the best Dual Wield and 2H weapon configs at each level range (excluding Sky/VP):
1-10 Jade Mace/Jade Mace > RFS
10-20 AC/Jade Mace (or SoS) > RFS
20-30 RFS > AC/SoS
30-46 TStaff > AC/SoS
46-60 Epic/SoS > TStaff

If you want decent weapons at all levels, don't want to do a lot of ECing, and want to play for eventually having your epic, I'd go Jade Mace/SoS (can pick up an AC later if you don't get your epic right away).

If you're strapped for cash and don't have an interest in doing epic anytime soon, I'd get a Jade Mace to use early on with another cheapish 1HB (KD or another JM) and a TStaff for later.

If you've got the cash, grabbing and keeping a TStaff around regardless of what else you decide on isn't a bad idea, though I suspect they won't go back up in price for while, and may even continue to drop.

aparmenideanmonad fucked around with this message at 03:45 on Jun 11, 2012

# ¿ Jun 11, 2012 03:41

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Yep, that happened in the most recent patch along with some changes to fleeing behavior and level based aggro range. I noticed the latter as I was running around in perma and able to pretty much breeze by ice giants and pit monsters with JBoots.

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72784

# ¿ Jun 11, 2012 05:18

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Raid mobs up for grabs, patch, and double XP weekend? Of course I'm off camping. Grats to BDA goons and others on your kills - nice to see the casual folks have a shot even if it took yet another TMO suspension to make it happen. I came back to several text messages on the old VD batphone to come help in VP if interested so I guess someone is trying to get that going also.

Zombones, if you're still playing that bard I have a set of MM drums you can have.

quote:

What do you guys think would bring you back to play? I gave my accounts and poo poo away so I'm probably done unless they decided to increase experience 10x and the drop rate of rare items 10x.

I dunno if the dude playing your wizard is still playing him but no one ever claimed your 40-something necro. I'd be happy to help you gear it up if that's the only thing holding you back.

Finally, a number of people have been getting alerts about malware/trojans on the P1999 forums so use caution if you're over there. I imagine it's the same kid who keeps spamming gore porn but who knows.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2012 16:42

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

xZAOx posted:

Did you know that large portion of VD came to BDA? We took a big group application, and we did kick a few people, and just had to kick two more (and it hurt, but they forced our hand), but most people have been fitting in great. If you ever want to join the door is open.

Yeah, I've been active the whole time since VD split up, there's just been a number of reasons I've held off. The biggest of these were the grading clusterfuck that is the end of the college semester and my wife and I having our first kid. I'm also really not a fan of mass applications - I prefer to get to know and be known on my own. I knew some of the people going over in the mass app were going to be problems so I'm glad to see they got sorted. I've been chatting with Skullmonkey a lot and will probably end up throwing an app your way in July after I get done with my last bit of summer traveling, though the recent crusade that some of the former-VD guys have been pursuing on the old VD boards to get people to join has been kind of obnoxious and off-putting.

VP is crazy yeah but it will be a lot better than it was the few times I went in with IB or VD (I won't have to constantly be ducking trains and dragging the bodies of people who couldn't). Doing stuff with small numbers is more fun too! I could totally have been 3%+ DPS on Silverwing, sorry I missed that.

boho posted:

I've never seen a high-end raid guild be anything other than complete twats when it came to server relations and contested content... but I guess that's what you have to do if you want to be a high-end raid guild.

Agreed and it's pretty sad. It's to the point where it can even infect well meaning guilds when they're exposed to the environment for long enough. Something that really pissed me off when I was in VD was when TMO and IB both got suspended and the VD leadership decided to take that as an opportunity to kill everything (ostensibly to show to TMO and whoever else that we were capable of doing so) despite mine and others' protests to do what BDA is doing now. Really happy to see that the folks at BDA aren't falling into that trap.

# ¿ Jun 19, 2012 22:14

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

boho posted:

What does it take to get an IP exemption? I requested one a week ago and they haven't responded at all.

4-8 weeks lately depending on how busy Amelinda is with RL stuff. She is supposed to do them once a month but it's been longish lately. Do not DO NOT bump your thread if it hasn't been at least a month yet, just pisses her off.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2012 00:13

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

I agree the server GMs have been bad and unhelpful for awhile, but it is worth mentioning that the development, guide, and forum moderation staff has really gotten more active recently. Sadly they can't do a lot of the things that need doing.

Feedbacker posted:

Encourage grouping over soloing by giving groups an experience bonus that increases with each additional member.

Encourage the use of dungeons by giving them a massive experience bonus relative to outdoor zones.

Increase the base experience rate. This probably wouldn't need too much of a boost if grouping and dungeon crawling are sufficiently rewarded.

There's actually some evidence that at least some of this should be done based on how fast people have been leveling up on EQMac. To be honest, the dungeon ZEMs are already pretty big, but people are lazy. I was getting the same XP killing a light blue in Unrest as I was an even con in Oasis but that doesn't stop people from going to Oasis.

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Get rid of class experience penalties.

Hopefully they drop these at or just after Velious release.

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Increase the drop rates of rare items. Double, maybe? This would take some tuning.

Don't really think this is a good idea. Drops should be tuned in some cases but I think classic drop rates are fine, especially given how much item farming happens on this server compared to its relatively low population. Ultimately this would just cause items to be devalued.

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Introduce some kind of platinum sink at higher levels to curb inflation.

Ban RMTers and delete the relevant plat, ban and item/plat delete more people who break the rules rather than just hand out weak suspensions, etc. would do pretty much the same thing without having to introduce something non-classic.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2012 01:45

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Yeah VP was fun last night. Silverwing with 20ish and no bards is pretty tight given you can no longer dodge the AEs. We did get one clean pull on Phara Dar to the zone in past Hoshkar (which requires a bit of luck) but people weren't really ready to go and most DPS ended up stunned for the majority of the fight. We'll be giving it a go again tonight so hopefully a Crown of Rile or something drops and we can see everyone's inner lootwhore come out and get mad over losing rolls to a Ranger or someone who ends up selling their account or something similarly hilarious.

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My favorite experience in EQ was around the summer of 2000. Me and a friend were cruising around one of the karana's when some bard came along and I said hi. He didn't answer so I proceeded to follow him around repeating over and over "Y U NO LIKE ME?" for a good 2 minutes while he tried to get away from me and my friend while my friend followed behind me. during this epic chase we aggro'd a few of those stupid birds and the dude died. We survived. It was glorious.

The trolling factor in that game was legendary.

Haha, this is pretty amazing. The best part is that a Bard couldn't get away from you in a zone like the Karanas. I used to do similar things to people in Blackburrow - I would follow them around and spam sit/stand on top of them. On live (unlike on p99) it would play the animations as fast as you could press CTRL+S and people would get mad that they were being humped and try to move away, sometimes moving into packs of gnolls and training themselves.

# ¿ Jun 20, 2012 19:04

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

moolchaba posted:

Haha, I'm dumb.

This story is classic you. Don't ever change man.

PS: Let me know when you're ready for monstrous zombie again

# ¿ Jun 22, 2012 20:13

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Some people hang out in the P1999 IRC but there's no goon-only channel that's currently active: irc.eqemulator.net, #Project1999

# ¿ Jun 23, 2012 15:25

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Lakedaimon posted:

Ugh just got done grinding through level 30 which must have been a hell level. Some dude tried to horn in on my exp spot earlier today and got killed despite being a twink.

My memory isnt the best, but I dont remember hitting this hard on live. Like I only recall being able to do (weapon damage * 2) + damage bonus as a max hit.

That's the formula for the "magic number" or modal damage (most often occurring amount of damage you'll hit for). After a lot of research, the devs have implemented the max damage multiplier for 1-50 like this:
(STR + OFF) / 100
http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43565

There's some more info and links to discussion here, though some of it is a bit out of date: http://wiki.project1999.org/index.php/Game_Mechanics#Melee_Combat_and_Damage

Once you get to 51 as a monk/war/rog you get a new damage table and max damage calculation which allows for even bigger hits:

Kanras posted:

Max damage multiplier from 51+ is determined by (PWR / PWR_CAP) * DMG_TABLE (simplified)
PWR is the portion of displayed ATK that relates to damage calculation after a hit has successfully landed. The other portion of displayed ATK is ACC which relates to your chance to hit. Yes, STR has an impact on PWR.

SoleilEquil posted:

Are there good reasons to play this even as someone who never played EQ originally?

It will be rough for sure but there is plenty to enjoy if you can get over the unfamiliar interface, the grind, and lack of direction. Classic EQ plays much more like a MUD or old open-world CRPG than a contemporary MMO. You have little to no direction on what to do or where to go other than a few bits of dialogue from NPCs. There are no maps or quest indicators or other such things that would break immersion - instead you have roads, signs, placards, and your own eyes. There's limited fast travel (two classes can group teleport to limited locations) and no mounts. If you want to find out if an NPC has a quest for you, you can hail them (or look up quests on allakhazam or other such sites). Game mechanics are largely hidden from you. You will have general bits of info about your gear but nothing that is going to really tell you how different items compare unless you parse your combat data. Good loot is rare but extremely powerful and there are almost no level limits on gear (weapon procs and item click effects are the only thing level limited). Most classes cannot solo effectively, especially untwinked, for more than the first 10-20 levels. Death sets you back hours of XP and leaves you naked at your bind point.

All of these things together result in a game where you really have to rely on other players and communal knowledge in general in order to succeed, which is pretty unique in the fantasy MMO world these days.

moolchaba posted:

I've worked hard the last two days and now have everything but the prickly pear.

Just need to find a duo partner to kill a few icy terrors in perma, then the big mutha fuckin mummy.

When are you going to be online to do this? I'm happy to run out again assuming we can meet up.

# ¿ Jun 24, 2012 16:09

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Noah posted:

Man, so what does STR really mean for leveling up? Do ogres and trolls really have that big of an advantage?

The max hit disparity is noticeable but doesn't really increase DPS by all that much unless you're a rogue (backstab benefits much more from high STR than normal melee attacks due to how the multipliers work); that said Ogres Trolls and Barbs do have a significant stat advantage as melee classes, especially STA. It's one of the reasons that they get XP penalties (Troll -20%, Ogre -15%, Barb -5%). For warriors, at least, this is somewhat offset by low dex (tough to hold aggro with no procs) but overall it's an advantage that doesn't really get evened out by gear until Velious, when STA comes on tons of gear for all classes and you can get a primal weapon that adds 100 to everything else.

Lakedaimon posted:

Now im level 31 and looking for new xp spots. Id prefer something close to Cabilis, any suggestions?

At that level range I've seen the most groups available in Mistmoore, but you have pretty much zero options for friendly banking and shopping on Faydwer, though as a monk it's still doable with sneak and FD.

Zones in that level range that are close to Cabilis: OT, Dalnir, Nurga, and FM, though none of them seem to be very popular for groups. OT has people in it but it's mostly caster/bard soloers. OT has a bad ZEM anyway though so I wouldn't bother with it if I were you.

Personally I'd just hitch a ride to Faydwer, catch a bind at the wiz spires in GFay, and go to Mistmoore. GY/Pit and then Castle Entrance groups were great XP for my on my iks monk until 37 or so, and killing in MM has the added bonus of getting you non-KOS with Kunark dragons (no Gorenaire surprises running across DL until you start killing her pals on raids). If you want a ride over just hit me up - my wiz has an OT hammer so it's easy to get to the Cabilis area.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2012 00:22

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

moolchaba posted:

I'm gonna park Sirduh down in perma tonight, prob around 7-8pm EST. Then, if all goes well, head out to Rathe Mountains to take out mumzilla.

/ all Sirduh
There are no players in Everquest that match those who filters.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2012 00:40

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

moolchaba posted:

Almost home. ETA 15 min.

Do you need a ride to WK?

Yeah, running my twink (Berak) to EC to get my stuff back on my monk also if you have a character over there.

aparmenideanmonad fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Jun 25, 2012

# ¿ Jun 25, 2012 01:09

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Crested pants are great, and you'll get most of the rest of the set while waiting for some to drop!

OT doesn't have a penalty per se but it does have the standard outdoor ZEM, aka, the lowest ZEM there is. P99 ZEMs have never been published, but it's something close to .7 for non-newbie outdoor zones and 1.2+ for most dungeons. Traditionally, HHK, Crushbone, UGuk, SolA, Kurns, and Unrest have had among the highest ZEMs followed by MM, LGuk, SolB, Perma, HS, Chardok, CoM, etc. KC has a low ZEM for a "dungeon" but it's still better than most outdoor zones. Newbie zones and city zones have higher ZEMs than normal outdoor zones also.

# ¿ Jun 25, 2012 04:17

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Lakedaimon posted:

had some serious success yesterday, but after someone interrupted me to tell me all about the horrible, soul-melting pedofurry characters you can make in TERA I went on a major cold streak. Still I should be several thousand plat richer.

Nice! Every time I try to camp Soblohg I get jack poo poo, but I've gotten 4-5 BD/Diamonds just knockin him off on the way to Seb or wherever.

SoleilEquil posted:

Possibly starting EQ

If you do decide to start up put all of us on your friends list (check 2nd post) and don't be afraid to send tells about whatever ( /t playername ).

# ¿ Jun 27, 2012 00:01

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

boho posted:

Great anecdotal advice for new folks

I'll just add - don't be afraid to ask if you need help with stuff.

I love the poo poo out of starting in Qeynos, mostly because BB and gnolls fangs are the absolute best way to get XP around from 1-12, especially if you're not twinked to kingdom come - as such, I'm more than happy to run my wizard over to QHills to snag level 12 people who've done all they can there to eliminate that painful run. You just need to ask.

I also have access to a 250 JCer and am happy to hook people up with 5/55 rings or whatever other non-Jacinth/BD/BS/Diamond stuff they need. You just need to ask.

The main thing is, if goons in game don't know who you are and you don't ever ask for help, it's really hard to hook you up. We really love it when people stick around and play long term, but even if you aren't sure if you're going to be one of them, don't let that be a detriment to looking us up. If we give you things and you disappear it's really not that big of a deal. No one is going to give a new person anything that they expect to see returned in any way, so if you decide to check things out, let us know - many of us are happy to help. (It's a pleasant surprise when people log in one last time to return stuff before quitting

)

Lakedaimon posted:

Yeah as far as advice to a new player... do we try to steer them away from hybrids and their ridiculous 40% exp penalty? Probably Ranger at least.

Hybrids are rough, but I honestly think people should play whatever they enjoy. 1-50 for any class/race combo is a joke compared to 51-60, so pick something you think you'll like playing all the time, and treat the first 50 levels as an experiment.

That said, if people are interested in which classes are better for soloing and grouping situations, there are reasons to recommend certain classes above others.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2012 07:15

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Rainbow_Horse posted:

Are rogues sought after in groups? I have a 34 rogue who is well geared in pre-kunark items. 880hp/489ac, strength heavy gear (190 strength), Gloomwater and PSD.

Rogues are great DPS and definitely sought after in groups once the tank/healer/cc spots are locked down. You'd want to update your weapons a bit with kunark stuff, but otherwise you would be set. Because the rogue epic is so easy to do the price of rogue mainhand weapons has plummeted, so you should be able to pick up something decent for cheap.

Bybus Slago posted:

I just recently started playing again, after getting burnt out shortly before the Kunark release. Is a lot of the goon presence no longer in Invalid Guild? I don't think I've seen more than two people on even during the evenings.

It's pretty much like xZAOx said - people have largely moved on to other guilds. If you're under 50 and looking to level up, Full Circle seems to be the place to be right now. If you're getting close to 50 and looking to do some raiding or work on your epic, BDA has probably the most goons at this point of any of the casual-ish raiding guilds. TMO is the only option currently if you want to be involved in a hardcore raiding guild.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2012 15:26

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

Jamuraan posted:

Either 35 or 34 is a hell level. I can't remember. I think it's every level that ends in 5 and 9 if I remember correctly.

30/35/40/45 and 54/59 are currently the hell levels: http://wiki.project1999.org/index.php/Game_Mechanics#Experience_Requirement_by_Level
It did used to be 29/34/39/44 a long time ago on P1999, so you might be remembering that Jam.

Rainbow_Horse posted:

Can someone enlighten me on my choice of Rogue weapons? I have ~500pp to spend.

Jade Chokdai Prod (11/30) is roughly 500pp and you will need one someday anyway to do your HS key quest.

Rapier of Oriin, Bone Razor, and some other pretty big upgrades to JCP are in the 2-4k range these days, so you could get a JCP and save for those.

xZAOx posted:

Uh, what? Thought OT hammers, like gate, ports, etc, didn't work in Sky...

They don't anymore but I guess maybe they did early on?

Zombones posted:

Trying to get started up with a buddy. I don't know if anyone would be interested, but I have a couple million D3 gold I'm trying to get rid of if anyone has some plat they'd want to trade

FYI this sort of trade is against server rules and will result in a ban for both parties if you get caught. Just sayin!

aparmenideanmonad fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Jul 1, 2012

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 18:57

aparmenideanmonad: Jan 28, 2004; Balls to you and your way of mortal opinions - you don't exist anyway!; Fun Shoe

For MQs, especially cheaper ones like JBoots, you pay the MQer and then they will do the turnins (with you doing the gold turnin last to receive the jboots). It's generally pretty safe to pay them on a different character and then log over to the one getting the MQ as well.

If you were doing a big MQ like a complete epic or something you could use a third party for escrow, but even then I think you're pretty safe handing over cash first. I haven't heard of anyone successfully ripping someone off for a MQ in a long long time. The GMs ban people for scamming and typically get cash/items back to scammed people as well - you'd just likely have to wait a bit.

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EQMac stuff

Not to discourage discussion in this thread at all - EQMac chat is welcome - but there may be other goons playing who are reading the thread for SOE maintained servers rather than this one. It might be worth checking if you're trying to find people to play with. A lot of my P99 buddies have been playing over on EQMac and are having a blast raiding Velious content, but I really despise Luclin+ so I haven't bothered getting it to work. Pilsner, I will link to your post in the OP so interested people have a place to look for the info.

Also, if anyone is actively playing on both P99 and EQMac, I know that Kanras and the other P99 devs are looking for help with Velious quests. If you're questing in Velious over on EQMac and want to lend a hand over on P99, check this thread for more info: http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76729

# ¿ Jul 9, 2012 05:16

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