What is everyone doing instead of EQ?Follow

I'm playing 2 mmos

Battle of the Immortals this is kinda like diablo

and Champions Online make your on superhero and kill alien invaders

both are free to play so good time filler till EQ comes back

Studying for my final exams. Perhaps this downtime is a good thing for me! hehe

Slowly mentally degenerating...
Catching up on DVRed shows (done)
Reading (more than 20 books, I read fast)...
WoW (which may account for number one ...

loosing my mind

I've been checking out a few free MMO's.

Lord of the rings online
Need for speed world (GREAT racing game!)
Runes of Magic (WoW clone... only recommended if you actually like WoW, which i do not...)

I also reinstalled my old favorite, Oblivion. Can't go wrong there =)

P1999 is alright, but it has some significant issues. It's fun for a lot of people, kudos to the team that runs it, and I won't bore you with some of the reasons why I don't play on P1999, but P1999 isn't for me.

Had fun on EZServer for a bit, until I found out about the RoA and what you have to do to progress later on. If you thought live EverQuest was a timesink, imagine being required to level up to 70... ONE HUNDRED TIMES (as well as do things like levelling every tradeskill to 300) in order to "power up" a ring (think it has like 10,000 HP and +500 tick regen at its max level) that's basically necessary for late and endgame.

Some claim that with ideal multiboxing setups and no competition they can get someone from 1-70 in under an hour, but you're still talking about ~100 hours. Per character. Under ideal circumstances. With PLing. Just for one requisite quest to get your ring boosted. And that's just one of the timesinks they put in. I won't even mention the barrel / chest quest.

Currently playing on TheHiddenForest and having a hell of a good time. Basically a huge revamp of EverQuest, ranging from total zone overhauls, to a new storyline, to MANY new quests, to custom loot. Retuned spells (pets are upgraded, for one thing), etc. I could go on and on about why I like the server, but it's by far my favorite of the emu servers. Lots of guilds, big community (not as big as P1999 of course), basically a great place. Imo it's sort of what a lot of people wanted EverQuest 2 to actually be. It's hardly perfect, but THF is by far the best emu server imo. People help each other out all the time, and there's everything from solo to group to raid content.

Also, imagine my surprise when at level 20 my group ran into new named mobs in Crushbone (already populated with new mobs) that Enrage, Flurry, etc. It's definitely good times.

Kingdom of Loathing
http://www7.kingdomofloathing.com/

and

Minecraft
http://www.minecraft.net/

Let me know when you get that up and running. My name in Minecraft is the same as my username here.

D2
lotro
360
lots of crying

Decided to buy Rift last week when servers initially went down. Eh, it's an okay game. Also been playing World of Warcraft and Perfect World. I've also been sleeping a lot since I just finished my semester last week. *grin*

Reading Kindle books like crazy.
and considering buying a PC game called Amnesia. Check out (big baby plays scary game). If you google that, you'll find video of someone getting really scared by going through a walk through. Very funny, but heads up for the language (PG-13 or higher).

Edited, May 10th 2011 2:45am by fluticazone

P.S. Checking my credit card online daily. Oddly enough, I still haven't been charged for station cash that I bought at 1/2 price that bonus Saturday April 30th. Makes you wonder if they knew and threw in that 1/2 price day a few days before dropping the boom.

Edited, May 10th 2011 3:28am by fluticazone

Doing the same stuff I did when EQ was alive.

Working.
Playing with my kids.
Writing.
Chopping firewood for next winter.
Reading.

Instead of EQ, I am playing Fallout New Vegas and Crysis.