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sorry if blonde but what is a "old world" guild?

ahh yes *feels nostalgic* but unortunately times change it's hard to go back.

There was no in game email in the Old World.

Dude, sorry. Everyone is picking on your post. I think what everyone means is Everquest cannot be divided into "old" and "new" or "the good ole days" and "now." It has been patched and changed slowly over 7 years. If you really want to play old world style, the bazaar, PoK and the guild hall are not the only things you would have to give up. Half the spells we have did not exist back then and there were no AAs. 99% of the gear we have did not exist. Tradeskills did not exist like they do now either.

Aye Reyla is right here. I like the idea, but not sure if it would work. Because not only the spells, items, tradeskills, modes of travel have changed but also the people and as such the zones.
I started playing in 2000 before Kunark came out, and at the time it took me quite some weeks to get my druid from 1 to 20 and wow was 2o special! You got a surname then. Around that time, maybe a little earlier I spend quite a lot of time in HHK, but the basement was too hard for me. So I stayed at the bank and buffed people who were "old" enough to go downstairs.
There used to be hours of queues toget a group, it was chokablock in there, as the basement was very nice exp and loot then. I made nice money there with sow and Ds casting. Someone gave me a Zaharn's coronet (not too long after Kunark came out) for all the free buffing I had done for him and his guildies (thanks Glazed) and that was like 'OMG' everyone in my then guild was jealous as hell that I had been given this item.

Nowadays HHK is empty (well not as much as it was pre-MMs)no one queues for the basement anymore there is rarely a soul there.

See one might try and not go with all the changes an keep it old world, denouncing all that came after X expansion, but what would be missing is the feeling and atmosphere. Places that once were thriving communities are now nothing more then ghost towns.

And without those the old world is gone

Heheh sorry if I bored y'all, just had a little trip down memory lane

EDIT: Oh and please don't think this is a flame or sorts as it is not, I would love to be able to o back 5 years and relive EQ as it was then

Edited, Mon Feb 6 05:47:00 2006 by Maktub

Honestly what i had in mind was old world content.
i would say and this would be up for discussion. use of PoK port stones would be allowed because travel old school is not fun. i would even go as far to say the max lvl on the first push would be 52 why well at 52 people could aa and not get bored with there class and we could still do the old world content naggy/vox/fear/and some hate.

Use of ingame chat email and such would not ruin the challenges of doing the old content. The one thing that will be a must is where you level and what gear you use.

The gear thing is nessary not the trivalize content and make it worth while in a sense to do old content. if everyone was in ornate armor from the planes it be really easy to take naggy out. where would the challenge and fun in that be.

Where you hunt now the 1st push this would be bad must dungeons have been revamped cutting out alot fo hunting areas. Groups i would hope be easy enough to deal with in guild if i could get raiding amount of people to buy into this. Pwerlvleers well there been around a long time but i think without the overcrowed problem that will not be a huge issue. but here the thing and people may argue this and i understand the flip side but to my experience the best players of a class are the ones that learn the hard way and doing it the way i mention will be the hard way.

ok i address a few question on this i hope this helps this a idea i like to get some deicated people to help me hammer out.
are there any more question please feel free to ask i do not feel flamed i can see why people would naysay this idea

korran

Honestly, the closest you could get to an old world content guild would be to only allow people to install Everquest with NO expansions. If this is even possible technically these days. It is for me since I have my original 989 Studios EQ disc still. Hey, is that a collectors item now?