We never zone crashed. I wasn't everywhere to see train slime wars.Red died because there was absolutely no rule enforcement, so Holocaust members trained and zone-crashed all the competition into quitting.
You pull shit out your ass randomly. But it shows people a glimpse of the toxicity you and yours killed the server with. Grief everyone and constantly shit on staff. Then wonder why server dies and is left to wither away. Exhibit N
Rise of Zek seems to be the lunatic red island of choice. They maintain a decent population and did a good job on the rule set and database. The P99 red ship sailed a long time ago, although I do think it would be awesome if they dumped all the green characters into red after the cycle is over.
Don't forget the out of era items and focus effects.
The game had it's time. Everything that can be done has been done a million times. It's not particularly hard. No one is particularly going to care about your in game accomplishments and the people still playing are to a large extent the scum of the earth.
I think the last time I actually truly enjoyed myself in EQ was on Al'Kabor before it shut down.
I think the only competition for P99 would be classic WoW. No other eqemu comes close to the popularity of P99.
I think the only competition for P99 would be classic WoW. No other eqemu comes close to the popularity of P99.
That's because there's a ton of people that left P99 and scattered around to a dozen different servers. Total population of those dozen other places probably beats P99.