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by Grumpy » Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:25 pm
I voted yes with one caveat, keep the current UI and graphics, just cap levels at 50 (thus eliminating all AAs), and bugfixes and nerfs. The ONLY patches that would be made to this server, would be UI improvements and bugfixes. Hell, maybe they'd actually fix some of the truly ancient bugs and bring those fixes to the rest of the servers.
You folks saying you've already beat that game are wrong. Unless you played to 50 pre-kunark, the game was an entirely different thing than it is today. For one thing, the world was absolutely HUGE, none of this popping in and out of PoK to get somewhere in two zones, no PoK to serve as a hub for the entire world. Unless you are a druid or a wizard, you walk to get anywhere, at best you walk to a zone holding a druid ring or wizard spires and hope some druid/wizzie is porting for donations.
And all the mudflation was yet to come, no cheap ubergear for sale, hell no epics even (those went in with Kunark). The ultimate encounters were Vox and Naggy, and without ubergear and everyone capped at 50, those were some major tough encounters.
With the updated graphics and UI, EQ classic would be a breath of fresh air. And once you've REALLY beaten EQ Classic, you can always xfer your characters and be a real country bumpkin gone to the big city.