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This guy seems a little too knowledgable about this ‘Rainz’ character… 😒

Still the only game to effortlessly immerse me in the world. Simple mechanics yet immensely complex encounters. Just amazing.

actually... no :D

owned this new played it on my p2 266 !

I can't wait for this! What made you pick Everquest instead of World of Warcraft, RuneScape, The Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons & Dragons Online, The Elder Scrolls Online, etc.? All the best!

Project Quarm is the new spot for EQ check it out

Already almost double the goal, congrats!

Nice work 👍❤

Awesome news.

this is relevant to my interests. pledged!

YOOO! This is awesome! Congrats, Matt! I'm gonna boost this everywhere I can.

2:56 I had the first Everquest auction on eBay; 1000 platinum on Tunare that went for $750'ish. There's a long conversation about it on the Everquest usenet group.

Wow, excited! Ah bummer, the shipping is more than the book itself to the uk :(

YOU’RE DOING A BOSS FIGHT BOOK!? SOLD! And congratulations!

According to the one official guide, apparently SimCity 3000 has a tile by tile value on each tile of road, road by bus, rail, subway, and other things like getting on a bus station and swapping between one method to another, like car to bus station, etc. I seem to recall it coming out to something like this: Roads, directly from one zone tile in a straight line to another zone tile, can go about 1/4 the map Roads by bus go slightly further Rails about half way across the map Highway I think is equal to rail, except via a car or bus Subway can go across the entire map Then there is the value to transition travel methods. If you have to drive to the train station to reach it, it takes a bigger chunk of time than a single road tile to switch travel methods. Meaning having to drive more than a block to a train station to get to work can greatly reduce the effectiveness of bothering to take the train. It can also just generate even more local traffic issues driving to the train station, especially if you use the IRL logic, a person might drive a few blocks IRL to get to the station. However, this is compounded by the fact that industry born traffic checks can't go by bus or subway ever, and means industry always needs direct access to roads or rail, and by extension, both limits how far away industry can be from the other zones, and also means you might have to run undesirable trains occasionally through residential areas, at least until you get to 100% clean industry and can put them right up against stuff like residential zones. This results in annoying things, like a R to R, R to C, R to I, C to R, C to C, C to I traffic can all use subway to travel the entire map, but your I to R, I to C, or I to I traffic can only be at most half a map away, if you use trains. Also, apparently there's at best an 80% chance or such, WITH ordinances, to use non personal vehicle travel. Meaning if you want to ensure 100% successful traffic attempts, everything has to be built confined by road travel restrictions. I used to love SimCity 3000, even while not fully understanding the traffic for years, as overall I thought it was the best city sim made (until Skylines). But I always wondered why traffic flow felt so, weird. Now I know. And when I built a recent city using all this in mind, and built things in squares around bus stations and later subways, I began to realize that an ideal city seems to require building a ton of mass transit entry points directly in range of zone tiles. This most recent city, once I got the ordinances going, was the first ever where I eventually saw road traffic almost disappear after getting subways and trains everywhere. Also, while the game doesn't have physically rendered traffic jams, at least in SimCity 3000, there is supposed to be something to calculate being stuck in a traffic jam via the simulation, that's supposed to increase travel distance per tile, which can reduce travel efficiency, and result in a failed trip. And apparently the game will try to recalculate future travel attempts around the jams. So SimCity 3000 does have traffic management, just not in the same overt, physical way. At this point, it's still a good game, but by understanding how to better manipulate the road traffic to nearly not exist, and get people on mass transit, I kinda feel like my zoning strategy has become super cookie cutter by necessity. Skylines, however, as you point out, actually follows some sense of IRL logic, and you can actually get people to travel all the way across town to a job, and not just two blocks away.

Makes me miss DFC 😢. DAoC is still awesome, but wish the prequel MUD was still around. The best game I've played to this day.

Watching this after the fall of Homeworld 3 reminded me of when I was excited for that game. Was a good video to watch, and I hope you create that HW cataclysm video.

I've seen some people and families destroyed during my time on EQ and EQOA for the PS2. EQ wasn't the culprit, but it was the medium by which these things occurred. I saw some things play out that I didn't really understand when I was a 13 year old playing my dark elf shadowknight. Now that I'm an adult in my 30s I am slightly disturbed. Ultimately these issues are people issues, not video game issues.

I'm definitely gonna give this a go on a private server

I thought it was a fair objective review.

Compare the amount of dopamine and time to delivery of everquest to call of duty, you had to work for lateral hours for even the tinyiest of advancements in stats, and that tiny hit of dopamine was so powerful it kept you coming back months after months. Comparatively call of duty floods your system with dopamine rewards and diminishes its potency

By the time velious was released the dev team of everquest had become adversarial to the end game top guilds, so much so that the final dungeon of velious was designed with intent to punish the number one guild in the server, once the four warders were killed, they were gone permanently from the server, denying the experience to every other guild who may have been slower

Simcity 4 is still the king, let's be real.

I remember playing the open beta when they stress tested the border forts

I played EQ so much that they flew me and my wife out to San Diego to tour the studio and meet the team. So many of that team have now passed away. 😢

Greatest, most memorable game of my entire life.

Thank you I was looking at this book yesterday. Which link are you referring to regarding the working mechanics of the game? 🤔

DAOC is the best Mmorpg ever.

Well, I played this game a lot when I first installed it in 2000 (two CD's came out with CD-Action, a Polish magazine about games and computers, very popular in Poland back then). It was my first experience with RTS and I was 7 years old. I often come back to this game (played it today for about 2 hours) and it never gets old.

lol the vids homey uses for beta are obviously not beta but are from like 2009+ or whenever global T chat came into being.

To shoehorn resource gathering in, the game would have to be more like a 4x game with RTS combat missions.

Funnily enough, Mechcommander 1 is the perfect mirror of the upcoming MW5:Clans. In MW5:C, you play as a mechwarrior of Clan Smoke Jaguar during the 3049 invasion of the Inner Sphere, in MC you play as an Inner Sphere commander taking the fight to the Jag's home planet of Huntress

It’s still alive on Project 1999

Man I loved this game. I still love this game. Played it for 10 years straight. Still hope on it now an then and play it today. I miss MMO like this one. Wish some one would make a MMO like this one again. Hell if they just rereleased Ac with todays graphics and nothing else changed. They wouldn't be able to take my money for the game fast enough. Asheron's Call for me was the best damn MMORPG to ever come out. Nothing else has ever come close to being this good.

Kool your a total nerd and will never have a woman!!!!!

Online games in the late 90s really were something else. I remember playing an online shooter called "splatterball" on AOL for $1.99 a month (which I paid for using my mom's credit card, which I was also severely punished for). The game was almost unplayable using my 56k modem, but man, I still absolutely loved it.

i disagree that WoW killed off previous MMO's Asherons Call & Everquest suffered player losses due to Stawars Galaxies! get the details right.

the pvp keep system is the same one mythic they used in warhammer online.

i luved this game.

Dnd 2 and 3 did it right. These days when everyone can be anything, then nothing is special and it all lacks flavour.

SC have beaten C&C, full stop. It’s only C&C fans who still live in their own fantasy world that C&C somehow had a tremendous impact in the industry.

No, it is not Maybe it is good for some kid who played mobile games and don't know flick about Homeworld games, but for everybody else, it is a disgrace

Played this over gameranger last night. It's still great.

It is still the best MMO ever

objective opinion: this was/is the best MMO ever made

Somehow Ubisoft releases the same AC game each year and gamers still buy it.

Lmao the murderer picture😅

Dark reign will break your balls, and force you to learn guerilla warfare in a way that no other RTS will.

I have such good memories about this game! Wish we could have a mobile version

Played for the last 20 years. I’ve played since I was 7 years old. The game is what made me love gaming. My entire family played ! Blades of Unity-Guinevere ;Midgard!!!