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Setting up for P1999:

Register forum account on https://www.project1999.com

Create loginserver account https://www.project1999.com/account/?CreateLS

Settings:

Run your EQGame shortcut.

Click Options – a new window should popup.

Select all character models, select all engine settings, for best graphics. Finish.

Exit game, open eqclient.ini.

Set WindowedWidth= and WindowedHeight= to preferred values. (ex: 1024,768)

Set Gamma=5 (otherwise the game may brighten desktop colors while running).

Save the ini file.

Download latest Project 1999 Files from website and extract into your EQ directory to patch and replace.

You may now log in to Project 1999: Blue (PvE).

Beginner tips:

>Remember to turn on music volume and environment sounds in in-game options

>Add a button for Autorun/walk in Keys options such as "J" [as Alternate]

>Open doors with left-click, interact with NPCs with right-click (and "H" to query a selected NPC for any available quests)

>Click F9 to switch between different camera modes, scroll wheel to zoom in/out

>Two common ways for player movement: J + arrow keys and J + holding right-click

>You have to sit (type "/sit") before camp/logout.

>Choose your race + class wisely, read the class pages in the wiki listed in https://wiki.project1999.com/Players:Newbie

>See more commands here: https://wiki.project1999.com/Commands

How viable is it to duo play in this? I know it was made back when MMOs were largely about forming full groups and making camps but is just having a warrior and cleric, or whatever, go around and kill shit even an option on the table? I always liked playing MMOs like that.

>>16375736

>EQ deserves more love.

EQ is just too hard for the modern mmo demographic. That's why it doesn't get more love.

>>16375799

It seems so, nowadays people are more interested about graphics, less multitasking and "player friendly" gameplay.

>>16375777

Get two necromancers and you're set.

>>16375849

>people are more interested about graphics

Let's not go down that road again, people have always been interested in graphics since video games first started. I doubt peoples lack of enthusiasm has anything to do with your points and more of the fact that people have already played it to death

i wasnt big on everquest, just seemed like it would eat too much of my time when there were so many other games to enjoy, but i knew people who loved it. i like listening to the soundtrack though, and i also liked the 3d elf titties on the boxes.

I've been messing around on this game for a while. Got a 45 Iksar SK. The game definitely has charm and you can see how closely WoW followed it early on.

I used to boot up P1999 every couple years to do a run through Blackburrow and Crushbone for the nostalgia. How's the server population for low level shit these days?

I played P99 and P02, both are pretty good fun, but p99 turns into a "cliche fest dating back to original EQ that you will never be part of" as soon as "end-game" (55-65). Have fun buying epic pieces from guilds that literally sit on spawns for years. P02 was a little more fun because You can 3 box, but the boxing servers have their own endless annoying culture as well. Both can be very fun for a casual player wanting to do nothing, but for your average guy who wants to end-game, avoid both, unless your going to jump blindly into the cancer you choose.

>tfw cannot into MMOs because I can't handle social interactions

It's weird how a lot of hardcore MMOfags are autistic as fuck, yet I'm somehow TOO autistic to play them.

eq was pure shit, why would you want to replay this grinding turd

>>16389601

You're a virgin, aren't you?

>>16389545

Endgame raiding lootfests in MMOs period is just pure cancer and ultimately killed the genre.

>>16377895

both of these images are horriable fantasy art, that looks more like a photoshop arrangement, compared to say, some battle. but I would bang the woodelf bard in pic1 first, and ironically whatever is in the same spot on pic2. that is a side topic though, these pics are shit tbh, look at the males gazing weirdly off to the left for no good dam reason.

Any full roleplay servers planned or already in?

>>16375849

But isn't the point of MMORPGs to have a lot to do and for it to be challenging so it takes you a long time to do it?

>>16390592

"A lot to do" used to mean playing for hours on end beating some boss, finding some item or just exploring. Now it means "It takes longer than 15 minutes but no more than 30 to do my mandatory daily quests".

>>16389853

You have terrible taste.

The first one looks unique and has good art.

The other one looks like it copied WoW, look at the Orc armor or the cat's armor.

Wow fake looking cartoony warhammer age of shitmar looking armor.

>>16390635

The environment and lighting are also completely flat, like someone took a low effort backdrop and just shopped the characters in.

>>16377895

First pic

>lush, bright colors

>you can tell what class someone is by their attire

>exotic fashion and armor

>feels like you're actually in some chilly mountains

>not afraid to show skin

>sense of adventure into a new world

Second Pic

>everyone has the same clunky, unnecessarily thick metal armor with big pauldrons

>evreything looks the same

>weapons are heavy unwieldy lumps of steel

>fucking pauldrons

>everything looks so desaturated

Why the fuck does modern fantasy love chunky armor and weaponry so much?

why does everything have to be at least 6 inches thick

>>16389588

>evil

answered it yourself. Only slutwear is evil.

>>16390592

MMOs are about group activities in a persistent world. How grindy it is depends on the game. e.g. UO was not a grindy game originally.

>>16393844

It was originally to easily make and paint Warhammer figurines, then it was to more easily tell units apart in Warcraft but ever since the WoW fungus exploded and its spores drifted to every corner of game development you see people, and even the source itself at this point, aping the style for no reason other than "this popular game does it". The art department for these companies works on a revolving door.

>>16393844

WoW (or whatever WoW ripped off for its artstyle).