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So I went over to a friend of a friends house and he had a everquest emu running. He doesn't have it open to the public, or advertise really. Just close friends and lan parties. I sat and played with them, first real time playing EQ and I actually had fun. I played it years ago but quit very quickly. With just a collection of people, average party you would play with anyways, it was a neat experience. No lagging and of course no problems with graphics set on super high I am actually going to setup the same for my lan parties and a game I can treat as a RPG that is always up and running. Its a great environment for a persistant world for a small group.

I am not getting into the argument of whether emus are legal or right.

The tools to dit the DB are quite extensive too. You can literally create your own world. I personally wouldn't want to do that for a lan game but neat that the community is still so large and expansive.

I think I played an EQ before too (not sure if it was 1 or 2 though)
Was actually pretty fun, but that was long enough ago that I wasn't old enough to be paying for a monthly fee.

You will have to do a lot of tinkering to get it set up for small parties or solo play. Like most MMOs from that era, you have to have a full group with all roles covered to really get anywhere. I guess if you turned the xp up really high (which it needs a huge boost anyway compared to modern games), you could successfully solo and duo then.

yeah that's something I forgot to mention, xp was like 5x or something.
The place is so big it would take a small party forever to explore it all! I never realized how big EQ is. You have to get Titanium edition and it is like 8 expansion packs. thousands upon thousands of items.

As far as really hard bosses, the game is very easy to edit.You could actually edit it a bit as you go through it solo to make it better for when a party comes through it or a second time around. Also I am finding TONS of custom maps and stuff for it. Like solo worlds.

Yeah, with all of the expansions I think EQ is the largest MMO out there. It has something like 50 square miles of zones lol.

I played EQ2 I think for a while, didn't really like it that much. Also tried Eve Online last month, quite nice, but unfortunatly don't got the time to play

EQ1 and EQ2 are really only related in name and in basic story/setting similarities. The gameplay is completely different. EQ2 tried to make itself more like WoW, while EQ1 stayed, for the most part, true to the camping/group grinding gameplay it started with.

i am actually liking it. Especially for lan parties. There are tons of servers with tons of players still playing.

I have also been playing GTA san andreas multiplayer. VERY AWESOME.