n0nsensical

heh, heh. I thought someone might ask. Progression servers are a new pair of servers Sony started in June with ONLY the zones that were in original EQ, no expansions. Then expansions are progressively opened with time and as players do things which are usually killing the bosses and obtaining major items. Like to open Kunark, first Phiningel Autropos, Vox, and Nagafen had to be killed to open the original 3 planes, and then Cazic Thule and Innoruuk had to be killed to open Kunark, and in addition, at least a month of real time had to pass. Similar things for the other expansions..

How did I level so fast, well, I played 6-12 hours a day for one thing. :P For another, it's just a lot easier to level now because of all the changes that have been made like removing xp penalties, and a lot of zones have been either revamped or added with easy content, good loot, and big xp bonuses that didn't exist originally. (The zones themselves are basically the same as those on regular servers; progression just restricts which ones you can go to) Plus nearly everyone there is an experienced player so you didn't get the groups of newbies who had no clue what they were doing. There were people who got there a lot faster than me too. I think it was around day 10 that the first people hit 50, and some made it with like 4 days played; it took me more like 17 days real time and 6 days played. I was probably one of the first 100 people though.

Shit, now I'm starting to think I shouldn't have stopped playing when I did. It would have been better for me if the progression was a little slower, maybe an expansion every two months instead of every month so I could take a break without missing everything. It's always the same story, I play a lot, then something happens and it becomes too tedious to even think about playing so I stop, then months later I get the urge to play again, and I feel like I just wasted all that time when I wasn't playing. I suppose the true answer is to just get a real life that I care about enough to forget the game entirely, but I've always failed at that too.