So apparently my original post on this was deleted during the server Wonkyness last week.
Redoing to the best of my knowlege.
About a month ago I discovered EQEMU. This is a server emulator for Everquest. There are multiple servers, each with thier own little (or major) twists (such as server specific quests, zones, and exp bonues). Most of the server use the content up to at least Planes of Power or LoY (though I beleive there are some that go up to Depth of Darkhollow).
Previously I had been playing on a server that was 5X exp, solo oreinted server (most of the mobs had thier HP reduced, to expidte the soloing, for example, my 70 druid could 1 shot Vox for 1500k). However, the server I had been waiting on went live on Oct 2nd.
Project 1999 is an attempt to recreate Everquest the way it was when it first launched back in 1999. The developers have spent months (if not over a year) working on the database to strip out all of the "new" content (the EMU server uses Everquest Titanium as it's baseline for all servers) and put the adventure back into EQ.
No more books to click on to go from city to city, no more 10 level tutorial. Rubicite, manastone, and Jboots drop again. It returns the feeling of accomplishment when you run from Freeport to Qeynos.
The plan currently is to expand up to Velious and stop there (this is expected to take at least 2 years, similar to the launch time tables back in the Verant days of EQ).
Over the weekend, the population hit a server high at 213 (which is impressive, as the server has code to prevent multi-boxing). Considering that other EQEMU servers top out at 400-500, and it is believe that at least half of those are boxed accounts, this is quite impressive for a new server.
If you are interested, you can find out more here:
http://www.eqemulator.net/
http://www.project1999.org./ (The forum link is a little hard to see, but it is at the top).
Redoing to the best of my knowlege.
About a month ago I discovered EQEMU. This is a server emulator for Everquest. There are multiple servers, each with thier own little (or major) twists (such as server specific quests, zones, and exp bonues). Most of the server use the content up to at least Planes of Power or LoY (though I beleive there are some that go up to Depth of Darkhollow).
Previously I had been playing on a server that was 5X exp, solo oreinted server (most of the mobs had thier HP reduced, to expidte the soloing, for example, my 70 druid could 1 shot Vox for 1500k). However, the server I had been waiting on went live on Oct 2nd.
Project 1999 is an attempt to recreate Everquest the way it was when it first launched back in 1999. The developers have spent months (if not over a year) working on the database to strip out all of the "new" content (the EMU server uses Everquest Titanium as it's baseline for all servers) and put the adventure back into EQ.
No more books to click on to go from city to city, no more 10 level tutorial. Rubicite, manastone, and Jboots drop again. It returns the feeling of accomplishment when you run from Freeport to Qeynos.
The plan currently is to expand up to Velious and stop there (this is expected to take at least 2 years, similar to the launch time tables back in the Verant days of EQ).
Over the weekend, the population hit a server high at 213 (which is impressive, as the server has code to prevent multi-boxing). Considering that other EQEMU servers top out at 400-500, and it is believe that at least half of those are boxed accounts, this is quite impressive for a new server.
If you are interested, you can find out more here:
http://www.eqemulator.net/
http://www.project1999.org./ (The forum link is a little hard to see, but it is at the top).
