Possible New Comer to EQ II Have some questions

attentivevow

Hey all,



I played the Trial before and was not all too impressed but i'm willing to give it another shot. I have a few questions.



1) Is there a dedicated role-play server with a role-play ruleset?



2) Is there actually role-play on said server?



3) Is it even possible to get to high end at a acceptable rate with being a new player. (I.E. Will I experience the "Ghost Towns" for low level players?)



4) Is there any PVP?



5)Why do you play it?



Thanks!

WantsumBier

Originally posted by attentivevow

Hey all,



I played the Trial before and was not all too impressed but i'm willing to give it another shot. I have a few questions.



1) Is there a dedicated role-play server with a role-play ruleset?

I don't know for sure, but I believe there is.



2) Is there actually role-play on said server?

Same as above. (sorry)



3) Is it even possible to get to high end at a acceptable rate with being a new player. (I.E. Will I experience the "Ghost Towns" for low level players?)

What is acceptable? I have lvled 3 toons to 30+ with only a couple of weeks playing, and that is only a couple hours at a shot. A lot depends on you and the type of toon you choose.  I guess you could power lvl if that is what you want, but you miss soooo much doing that.



4) Is there any PVP?

I think that there are pvp servers, but I do not know how combat works there (again sorry). Other than that there is dueling.



5)Why do you play it?

It is a blast. The community is great (I'm on Mistmore) and very supportive.  Crafting is not as much of a grind as SWG or WOW, and you can actually make some good stuff that you would like to use.  Lots of places to go and a ton of quests. In the end I guess it depends on your playing style.



Thanks!

bonobotheory

1) There are two servers designated as "Role-Playing Preferred." It's not enforced, and there's a fair amount of out-of-character chatter, but there's plenty of roleplaying to be found.



2) On Antonia Bayle and Lucan D'Lere, the RP-Preferred servers, I've found plenty of people who talk in-character most of the time - it seems to be the norm, rather than the exception. I don't know what other MMOs you've played, but I can tell you it's far better than WoW.



3) I'm moving along at a casual pace, and switching between characters a lot, so I haven't done any rapid leveling. My highest-level character is 38, and I have two in their 20s (level cap is 70). I've encountered the "ghost town" effect in a few zones, but there are always people crowded around the brokers and a few in the tradeskill instances.



4) There's PvP, especially between the two opposing factions (Freeport and Qeynos), but I haven't participated in it, so I can't tell you how it works.



5) I play it because I like the community, and it has the best roleplaying atmosphere of any MMORPG I've played.



Check out the forums for the two RP servers, and you'll get a feel for the roleplaying atmosphere:

http://forums.station.sony.com/eq2/forums/list.m?category_id=32

attentivevow

Thanks for the responses, eager for more!

Ceohai

Originally posted by attentivevow

Hey all,



I played the Trial before and was not all too impressed but i'm willing to give it another shot. I have a few questions.



1) Is there a dedicated role-play server with a role-play ruleset?

yes, 2 RP servers, and one RP/PVP server



2) Is there actually role-play on said server?

yes, but there are plenty of people who are ooc all the time



3) Is it even possible to get to high end at a acceptable rate with being a new player. (I.E. Will I experience the "Ghost Towns" for low level players?)

yes, leveling is pretty easy, even if you just run through solo quests because there's a hell of a lot of quests to do from 1-50, then it starts to slow down if you cannot find a group, but on most servers that's not a problem



4) Is there any PVP?

there's the arena, which is mainly used for duels / group duels, there's normal duels which can be initiated pretty much anywhere, and there are PVP ruleset servers.



5)Why do you play it?

I dont, anymore. I played on Vox, but I got sick and tired of the apinfuly low pop, and SoE refusing to address the problem. I did really like hte game though, because it was pretty fun, and I will probobly go back when the next x-pack is almsot rdy.



Thanks!

lomiller

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Originally posted by bonobotheory
1) There are two servers designated as "Role-Playing Preferred." It's not enforced, and there's a fair amount of out-of-character chatter, but there's plenty of roleplaying to be found.

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There are 3 RP servers. In addition to AB and Lucen D’lere there is a PvP-RP server for which I can’t remember the name at the moment.

bonobotheory

Originally posted by lomiller


 

Originally posted by bonobotheory

1) There are two servers designated as "Role-Playing Preferred." It's not enforced, and there's a fair amount of out-of-character chatter, but there's plenty of roleplaying to be found.
 

There are 3 RP servers. In addition to AB and Lucen D’lere there is a PvP-RP server for which I can’t remember the name at the moment.

Thanks for the carification; I completely forgot about that one.

It's Venekor, by the way.