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Old 08-29-2016, 10:08 PM
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How do all of you keep from burning out when playing EQ?

After spending 8.5 years of playing EQ on live servers I left the game because it was no longer the game I loved. It had become a bunch of unnecessary nonsense and guild politics caused by a shrinking game population. Not too long ago I was reading an article written last fall about the prison server for EQII and the author of that article really hit the nail on the head when describing EQ without the heavy social element. Here is a link to that article http://motherboard.vice.com/read/we-...-prison-server

I spent many months or maybe even a couple of years creating content for my private server but I never actually played through most of it. When I play EQ these days I usually level up the same character or two from 1 – 85 then get bored and start over months later. The last paragraph of the article linked above made me realize in a bad way that the content I had created merely existed in a game world without purpose.
With the sole exception of the GoD expansion it might literally be years before the project catches up to where I was at on live. I have tried playing on numerous servers but it all comes back to the missing social aspect. I am yet to find a server to play on that is not overrun with bot or box armies.
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Old 08-29-2016, 10:42 PM
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I tend to take frequent breaks from EQ and come back when I get the itch. There is no real pattern, but I have always come back to EQ despite taking a break many times. There is a strong feeling of nostalgia when I go back and play again. When it becomes about numbers or collecting items, I slow down a bit.

I dislike EQ live for many common reasons. But, I have social difficulties as well that make it uncomfortable to interact with people. I could, possibly, play with a small group of people I grew to trust, but have never done so. So, I have played alone for the majority of the time I have discovered EQEmu.

I kind of created my own world on my private server, with all my own characters that I leveled up, and have a crude trading system between them. I geared up about 200 bots from cloth armor, so that took some time. Sometimes I raid (if you can call it that by yourself), sometimes I play a "Classic" style character, sometimes I play my original characters that I am just counting the AAs on at this point. It depends how I feel. I know there is a lot of pretend make believe stuff in how I play, but it is a game anyway. I like the world I made there.

Maybe that was too personal, but there you go.
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Old 08-30-2016, 12:41 AM
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It had become a bunch of unnecessary nonsense and guild politics caused by a shrinking game population.
I remember when I had first learned about EQ way back when, as someone
explained a bit about the game. Talking about running around all these zones,
the boats, the tradeskills and all the other content when I first started playing.
When EQ was in that state of game mechanics, it became one of the most
popular mmorgs in it's time.
I've always had this attitude, "If it's not broken, don't fix it." Unfortunately,
Sony didn't have that same attitude. I get the whole concept of evolving and
trying to make things better, trying to attract more players, but they obviously
made the wrong choices, as their numbers kept going down.
In my opinion, people don't always stop playing a game because they don't
like it anymore. Many people get bored and take breaks from a game, then
come back later. But when those bored people do come back, in a lot of cases
they expect to come back to the same game. EQ is not EQ anymore.
They should change the name of it to something more appropriate for the
game, like "MMORG Click 'n Go" (chuckle)
I never do get burnt out on this computer. I spend on average about 10-12
hours a day, 6-7 days a week. Been doing that for years now. Myself, I find
that if I am focusing on one thing, my mind is more relaxed and able to keep
going without a thought or upset nerve (chuckle)
I know some people use the phrase "work" when on a computer, but what I
call work is something like carrying 100 lb sacs around all day, 5 days a week.
Sitting on a computer with my fingers going up and down with keystrokes, is
the laziest thing I have done in life.
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Old 08-30-2016, 08:49 AM
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EQ Emu Play 30-90 days Take a break unless lots of new server releases.
EQLive Quit SoD Fall 2008
EQ Live Timelocked Progression usually 6-18 months depending how long friends/guild stays active.
EQTest-dont think you can anymore but used to play with The Faceless and do the progression runs.


Live is a guild lobby AFK Fest until raid hours. Youll find one face or guild tag you remember on old servers but most of the time no fun. I have always played the new Time Locked Progression servers and made plenty of memories and fun times and may again its untelling.

I have also played EQEmulator some servers have pulled me in for a few months of play but usually in a few weeks you do most of content or max out your characters if your logging in daily.

I realize that if you play a close to live server from say Pre Omens of War and your guilded with friends youve known for X amount of years and other guilds are competing than it always lasts longer and takes more time.


I think burning out on EQ means you have no guild members, friends, or family playing and become bored because even if your not maxed out the fun and interaction is gone and that played a huge part in EQ for most people.

If your looking for a new EQ Experience and havent played any different servers you should give these a try. Lots of custom addins or different stuff going on there are others these are just what comes to mind

EZServer http://www.ezserveronline.com/forums/

The Hidden Forest http://www.thehiddenforest.org/

Kimura's http://projectkimura.proboards.com/

RebuildEQ http://rebuildeq.com/

New Eriviyn http://ruinspire.forumotion.com/ Info http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=38846

S2K http://scorpious2k.tk/

Raid Addicts http://raidaddicts.forumotion.com/

Leetsauce-Have to register

Ive also been keeping my eye on these projects and following them. Both are on Social Media and release was around 2017!

Saga of Lucimia
https://sagaoflucimia.com/blog/

Pantheon Rise of the Fallen
https://pantheonmmo.com/
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