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It is called being steroid-dependent; I have seen it a 1,000 times in my BBing days. People love quick fixes; they use roids as a crutch instead of an element to assist them in their training, that's why I have seen soooo many people start the race and never finish it.What will eventually happen with these people you worked/work with is that roids will stop working for them, and they will end up with a frustrated experience and then they will just flat out quit training. I'm pretty sure I have a good idea who you are talking about, and I'm not remotely impressed with their physiques. You and I can go to any high school in America and find 20-30 kids who have the identical physique as these people, and those kids will more likely be natty. Look, I did not touch a roid until I was 24 years old and I stopped taking them for about 8 years when I was in my 30s. I trained natty for all those 8 years and never missed a workout and always ate clean; those are some of the main reasons why I'm 41 years old and I'm a Class A Bodybuilder/Weight Trainer and they are Class C, and that's giving them the benefit. You are on the right path: just don't deviate from that path and you will indeed have a long and successful BBing career.
Considering you are looking for slow, quality gains you have to be a little patient. First, start your dose at 400 mgs a week; this way will give your body time to adjust to the hormone and time to adapt accordingly to the enviromental stimuli. Through my experiences, 1 month is suffice time to where my body adjusts and adapts to the hormone, then I usually increase my dosage by 100 mgs a week, and stay at that dose for a month, then increase it to another 100 mgs a week after adaption occurs again. It seems that I personally reach muscle/hormonal plateaus about every 4 weeks, I would venture to say you would reach plateaus basically at the same rate as me. Therefore, I recommend you dose the way I explained in above sentences; that is the best way to pack on quality muscle because you will not be overloading your system with large amounts of gear all at one time and you will be giving your body time to utilize the hormone without wasting it. This dosing strategy is my theory I discovered by testing different hypothesis through trial and error; and my theory has been tried and it is true. I would say, do 400 mgs a week for a month, then up to 500 mgs a week for a month, then up it to 600 mgs a week. Stay at 600 mgs for the duration of your cycle unless you feel you reached another plateau, then up it another 100 mgs a week, that should by suffice and get you the gains you desire. As for the appetite increase from EQ, I will say there is some truth to it but I believe it is exaggerated. When I use EQ it enables me to want to eat when it is time to eat, which prevents me from force-feeding myself. It increases my appetite enough to want to eat at the appropiate times, but not to the point where I want to go to McDonalds 10 minutes after I just ate.. That's pure nonsense! Remember, EQ raises RBCs; so it transports oxygen and nutrients to muscles at faster rate than the majority of other AASs, which means you can eat a little more without fretting because the food will be utilized more. 
