Project 1999 - Classic Everquest Emulator

I was seriously addicted to EQ. To this day the world seems many times larger than even Warcraft. I don't know if that's necessarily true in the sense of pure square miles, but it at least seemed it partly because there really wasn't much fast travel. I mean this was a game where people basically had to RUN (no mounts) from one end of the world to the other. They'd beg for SOW (spirit of the wolf) from any passing Druid so they could run faster.

Imagine how big WoW would seem if there were no flight paths. You're in Silithus and you need to get to Dalaran? Run all the way to Orgimmar (no mounts, no flying, no fligth paths) and then take the zeppelin, and then run all the way to Dalaran from Borean Tundra. It'd make the world seem a whole fuckload bigger that's for sure. 

At the same time it was SO limited at first. Quests were few and far between. There was little instruction, and the internet was in it's infancy so the online help was minimal. I remember my early days as an Elf in Felwithe. The first time I dared the run through the Butcherblock mountains to take a ship over to the main continent. The run across the continent as a low level character. Good times. But ultimately it was much more of a Kill 10 Bats game, or even worse... Go to Area X and kill shit your level over and over again... Or worse... There was a quest to kill an NPC in a quest chain, and they wouldn't spawn for 4 hours at a time, and there would be a line of people to kill them, and assholes would jump the line to kill steal the NPC....Etc.

I dunno if I could play it regularly. I'd probably check it out out of nostalgia though.

I was also pretty addicted to EQ.  I totally agree about the size of the game world, it really did seem big despite being a zoned system.  To the very end my cleric carried SoW potions, even when he had the mount from the Emperor.  Until the PoP expansion travel was a big part of the game and I can still remember my epic low-level journey from Freeport to the Karanas overland, the run through Kithicor, that huge long ramp from Highhold Keep down to the plains and so on.  So many memories *sniff*

EQ's game mechanics were pretty badly thought out imo.  No instancing and mobs spawned quite slowly so there were "camps" everywhere - you always had to say "camp check!" when heading into your preferred zone. The death penalty meant no pickup group would ever do anything really dangerous so there was alot of xp grinding (corpse runs to difficult places could literrally take 2-3 hours of real time).  Since every mob was an "elite" by WoW standards that meant you pretty much had to do everything in a group so alot of time got spent near zonelines in places like Karnor's Castle.  Kind of a shame because there was alot of dungeon crawling you could do.

I logged back into EQ a few months ago when they had the promotion for the "Fippy Darkpaw" progression server but the old aphorism that you can't go home again held true for me. I wouldn't actually mind playing a moderately difficult game again someday but maybe that's because WoW has gotten so extreme on stuff being either very easy or very hard. 

I never played EQ but it certainly guided me into the MMO community. Good friend of mine in scouts played EQ and used to describe to me in detail his adventures and I loved to hear about it. I'm sure my imagination inflated my percepts to a great degree, but without that I might not have been driven to play SWG and so on.

It was fun back then, but going back to EQ would be like dropping from a cable connection to 14.4. It was a good early try, but I remember my frustrations with the game much more readily than my enjoyable experiences, because there were MANY more of the former than the latter.

I would love to do something like this, but downing Vox and Naggy on a private server would be nigh upon impossible.

So the game that's impossible to solo past level 10, you want to put on an emulator so that it's impossible to group with other people...

I spent a fair amount of time playing EQ, but I was always getting bored and rolling new characters around the time I couldn't solo anymore and had to sit for 30min after fights to regen health/mana. Most of my time was spent yelling "(lvl)(class) Looking for group" and getting no responses. Wee. Of course, I had a crappy internet conneciton at the time and always had to be on the lowest pop servers. My highest level char was a 15 druid.

Ya, it sucked, but it was the only game in town. So much never again.

I played on a PvP server back in the EQ days.  I had a Necromancer, Shadow Knight, Ranger, Druid, and my favorite was my Bard.

I remember an entire zone coming to hunt me down and kill me on my Bard.  I loved twisting songs getting 3 sometimes 4 going at once was just a blast.  Moving fast as hell and killing people while healing myself was a blast.  I think my next favorite was my Druid...those 2 for sure because of how big the game was.  Made it a bit easier being able to travel faster with Bard speed and Druid SoW's or even wolf form.  It was a good game but looking back it just scratched the surface.  Don't think I could play it again though...not compared to todays games.

oh the days of camping rubicite!

I played my entire 8 years on the test server.  it was great with a lot of great memories.  once we were testing changes to Dain and the dev turned the whole raid into Dain clones.. another time we were testing changes to king tormax and when he wiped us a dev made the avatar of war yell zone wide something like did you ding off that..  was great. 

and tal... i remember my first trip from qeynos to freeport when i was like lvl 10 lol... OH SHIT HILL GIANT!!!

uhh is anyone playing this cause i just noticed the post and a friend of mine and i have been lingering on here for a little bit?!

GAAAAHHH!!  Why can't we just get an updated version of THIS!!!  Make it a little more solo friendly, have a quest line to hand hold the kiddies, and amp up the XP for grouping with areas that have elite mobs only that the quests don't go near so we don't have to hear all that crying from the "forced grouping" sociopaths.  I'm so sick of this "foced solo" that modern MMO's do.  Make it so that you get full XP and full loot to everything you help kill, even if someone else started it and did most of the damage.  Don't have a group?  Just follow somebody around!  You get your own instanced loot, so every gets full loot, like the treasure chests in DDO.  Make it so that others are a benefit, not a hindrance.

GIVE US THIS GAME!!!  *nerd tears*

Everquest or was also called evercrack to some ppl. Everquest was my 1st online game. Played pally lvl 73 human name Tregarth sever IDk name started with D all i know and lvl cap was 75 at  the time i left, and last thing i was doing was working on my 2.0 pally sidequest. Had all the items to start raids but no man power to fightr the boss for the items they drop.  Also had fiery Defender before they change it for ppl who could not get books from 2 dragons.  Had 1.5 epic pally sword never did the gem slot for it. Also had necro/shadowknight/mag/enc. Good old days in dreadlands me and rogue soloed their all the time killing spiders =P

I Think i was lvl 65 when i quit EQ after 2 years playing, Year after got back playing and join new guild was called forsaken fellowship don't think guys ever heard of them. So do miss them it would be only thing go back to playing EQ for. Think graphic were change  zones and the races look much better or was it a addon i had hmm idk =D

Things needs fix are boats, bugs that happens all the time, and if ever download any addons i hope in patchs they do hopefully tell you what file or something so its quick fix, few times took me hours to fix whenever they have a huge patch. One thing i hated was took forever get group or when you die lose exp, one time i died so many times i lost whole lvl =/ maybe why stop playing.  Really i just miss ppl in Forsaken fellowship guild i was in for last 4 years.