It's understandable I suppose that most people just want to #level 60, summon loads of high-level items and kill tough mobs, since they want to see things and use items/spells that you can't in EQLive without vast amounts of time and effort.
But I'm sure as EQEmu develops and becomes more complete and bug-free, more people will start playing it properly.
I am playing various characters "legit", starting at level 1 and only using items looted or purchased, but only offline, since it would be annoying to lose them all after a DB wipe (I have to rebuild my localhost DB every so often, but at least I know when it's going to happen
)
Funny, Trumpcard, I enjoy playing low level characters far more as well, in most RPGs - it's much more fun when you have to travel through every zone warily, watching for lurking Ghouls or Orcs, and when every magic item or new spell you manage to find or buy is
a real treasure!