Time Lapsed Progression. Teek starts on Kunark and SoV opens up 12 weeks later. Etc.
I'll admit I never played EverQuest as much as the rest of you guys. UO was my jam, I played multiple accounts for years, macro Skilling any of my characters. Share the accounts with one of my best buddies in high school, and it was all about robbing houses via glitches, and PVP in Deceit in the lich level, or Terrathan Keep.
I remember going to a kegger back in college and a dude was aoncomputer game during the party, asked what he was playing, and it was EverQuest.
I sat and bullshit with him for a little while because I had never seen it before, but I asked him is there PVP, and he said no you just go kill monsters. Kind of turned me away.
Dark age of Camelot came out though, and I was all in, and I guess that's probably the closest amalgamation to eq with PVP at the time.
Did have a roommate eventually in college that was hardcore EQ. Knew about the forum and I guess the guild fires of heaven, and he proclaimed to have various server first or whatever. The guy was a hardcore neckbeard, he was always fun to hang out with, and his sister was good looking as were her friends.
He sold his accounts twice to German people of all things for thousands of dollars that allowed him to pay rent. I think the last time he was running stuff he was two boxing warrior and cleric. He would just I guess go in the farm specific items and make a lot of platinum, build up a character geared out and then be able to sell it for a few thousand bucks, on top of working at the same place we worked at.
At some point when he was still renting a room, there was a permadeath PVP server that popped up, and we played that for a long time. I was probably my best experience with the game.
I did do eq2 for a bit, but it ran like dog shit. However I'm sure that had I been in that Glory Days of original EQ, I would have loved the hell out of it. I guess I got my fix with UO, and perhaps Warcraft with Black Wing Lair and rushing to be server first. Shit was exciting, and I can imagine why a lot of you guys have such fond memories of that stuff.