Why not grief the server back into single digits?

[Fame]

This idea is probably dumb but hear me out.

A few things first:
Stablequest
Numbers
Emotional investment
Experience
Time
Purpose

It seems to me like most of the people no longer playing include a substantial amount of the old heavy hitters. The deck is stacked. At this point the people not playing while waiting for a new red significantly outnumber the breadline nerds still standing in line.

If that group of savages could band together, set up a batphone, rain on the parade for a few weeks and release videos of them deleting everything that drops I’m fairly certain the remaining true believers would at the very least consider abandoning ship. Think about the experience they have had for the past few years, it’s been a cake walk compared to what all of the veterans have been through.

The time investment to just park characters and delete loot is minimal. It gives ya something to do and might even provide a sense of purpose to many of our fallen comrades.

Within a few weeks the homeland would be back to a barren waste land and we could all celebrate under a mission accomplished banner.

Silence is compliance.

Thanks for coming to my TEDtalk

*music cuts in: The Beastie Boys (You Gotta) Fight for your right (To Party)*

[Disease]

Tune would destroy you and the rest of the quitters within a week. You will then quit again, claim the server is dead and go back to playing the rise of zek shit box with a less population then red.

Tune litterally beat you guys into submission, that you had to get a bunch of shitters together to make your own server lol

[Krazy/sickpuppy]

Tune would destroy you and the rest of the quitters within a week. You will then quit again, claim the server is dead and go back to playing the rise of zek shit box with a less population then red.

Tune litterally beat you guys into submission, that you had to get a bunch of shitters together to make your own server lol

I knew he was going to last till the very end once I found out that he was literally trying to max his faction on his bard with everything possible. That is a true champion , but it still doesn’t remove the fact that the server is dead and will stay dead until something drastic happens like a reset . No one in the right mind will start new on red when the same 40 players farmed it for years uncontested and still play today .

[White_knight]

Tune would destroy you and the rest of the quitters within a week. You will then quit again, claim the server is dead and go back to playing the rise of zek shit box with a less population then red.

Tune litterally beat you guys into submission, that you had to get a bunch of shitters together to make your own server lol

Tune sat on a level 50 druid for 2 years farming pelts while everyone else enjoyed Velious raiding.

it wasn't until 50% of the server quit out of boredom of raiding Velious he was finally allowed to log off his level 50 anonymous druid in CS.

He then managed to turn a 150-200 pop server into a 40 pop server.

[silo32]

log in and say that to my face...

[silo32]

the server died when staff helped cr people in a zone that was not supposed to have any customer support

that and banning nizzar from being a raid leader...

aka staff killed it not the player base and no one will ever trust a new server again but the 20 people that want a reset

you have the timers

[Swish]

The biggest blow to the server was the removal of the original XP bonus, busting it from 270 nightly down to sub-100, and then the inability to trade between red/blue - blue/red, preventing people who wanted to start with a few bought items from doing so.

While the current XP bonus was put in, we never saw the near 300 numbers again. Red Dawn really had some momentum going at the time.

[Fame]

Red dawn was definitely one of the bright spots in this servers history. I agree that the staff decisions played a heavy role in the fall of this servers. I’d say the toxic community did some work but I really liked that side of the server and participated in it so I’m inclined to give them a bit of a pass. The toxic shit has been the same since day one, the only real change has come from the staff.

Nice to see you still around Together, we had some good times lol

[Uuruk]

The biggest blow to the server was the removal of the original XP bonus, busting it from 270 nightly down to sub-100, and then the inability to trade between red/blue - blue/red, preventing people who wanted to start with a few bought items from doing so.

While the current XP bonus was put in, we never saw the near 300 numbers again. Red Dawn really had some momentum going at the time.
I dont think you understand why fast xp is bad for these servers.

[Swish]

I dont think you understand why fast xp is bad for these servers.

Its not about me, it's about what happened when they turned it off.

[heartbrand]

Tune would destroy you and the rest of the quitters within a week. You will then quit again, claim the server is dead and go back to playing the rise of zek shit box with a less population then red.

Tune litterally beat you guys into submission, that you had to get a bunch of shitters together to make your own server lol

One of the funniest tropes on this forum is the claim that people who no longer play red99 as we approach year TEN of the forever velious locked server are “quitters” who somehow “lost”.

For some perspective, ten years into eq live they were on expansion #17, House of Thule. The vast majority of us here quit EQ live sometime around GoD, which was year four of EQ. But yet here people are approaching year ten of the same server which will never have new content again. Let that sink in a bit. I can’t speak for everyone, but I know for myself when I came here it was to experience some nostalgia and try out EQ PvP; it wasn’t to raid ToV and Trakannon for fifty years until I die of heart failure or Trump kills me while nuking a hurricane.

[Disease]

One of the funniest tropes on this forum is the claim that people who no longer play red99 as we approach year TEN of the forever velious locked server are “quitters” who somehow “lost”.

For some perspective, ten years into eq live they were on expansion #17, House of Thule. The vast majority of us here quit EQ live sometime around GoD, which was year four of EQ. But yet here people are approaching year ten of the same server which will never have new content again. Let that sink in a bit. I can’t speak for everyone, but I know for myself when I came here it was to experience some nostalgia and try out EQ PvP; it wasn’t to raid ToV and Trakannon for fifty years until I die of heart failure or Trump kills me while nuking a hurricane.

Play what is offered or move along. What dont you understand?

[heartbrand]

Play what is offered or move along. What dont you understand?

You may be having reading comprehension issues. My issue was with the comment that somehow people who played here did all the content and had fun and then moved on like normal human beings "lost" by choosing to not continue to do the same content ad infinitum.

[Shac]

One of the funniest tropes on this forum is the claim that people who no longer play red99 as we approach year TEN of the forever velious locked server are “quitters” who somehow “lost”.

For some perspective, ten years into eq live they were on expansion #17, House of Thule. The vast majority of us here quit EQ live sometime around GoD, which was year four of EQ. But yet here people are approaching year ten of the same server which will never have new content again. Let that sink in a bit. I can’t speak for everyone, but I know for myself when I came here it was to experience some nostalgia and try out EQ PvP; it wasn’t to raid ToV and Trakannon for fifty years until I die of heart failure or Trump kills me while nuking a hurricane.

:p

[Disease]

You may be having reading comprehension issues. My issue was with the comment that somehow people who played here did all the content and had fun and then moved on like normal human beings "lost" by choosing to not continue to do the same content ad infinitum.

If you moved on, you wouldnt be here. Server is fine and thriving. There was 60+ people on last night and almost 100 the other day.

Move on man.

[Uuruk]

If you moved on, you wouldnt be here. Server is fine and thriving. There was 60+ people on last night and almost 100 the other day.

Move on man.

On and at character select are different things

[Uuruk]

Is ToV being cleared has Tunare ever died?

[Tradesonred]

First time i endorse a "grief em off the server" post

[Tradesonred]

The biggest blow to the server was the removal of the original XP bonus, busting it from 270 nightly down to sub-100, and then the inability to trade between red/blue - blue/red, preventing people who wanted to start with a few bought items from doing so.

While the current XP bonus was put in, we never saw the near 300 numbers again. Red Dawn really had some momentum going at the time.

This was really the final blow that fucked up the server. After that i was done, because i had no faith in where sirken was taking the server and no comm from devs so it seemed like he was ghetto steering the boat. This thing about Rogean and Co "owes you nothing" works both ways. The server isnt owed players either, if you keep making bad decisions after bad decisions, seem like you dont give a shit about players experience on the server, the players realise you are actively making the server worse and doing nothing would have been better, youre going to have a dead server.

[Tradesonred]

To be fair i dont really give a shit anymore, so if the 100 people clinging to their pixels want to get it, shrug. Albion is just too fun, i dont have time for anything else. Its basically the golden age atm kinda like when burning crusade came out with the roads of avalon.

[Uuruk]

Is ToV being cleared has Tunare ever died?

[Disease]

To be fair i dont really give a shit anymore, so if the 100 people clinging to their pixels want to get it, shrug. Albion is just too fun, i dont have time for anything else. Its basically the golden age atm kinda like when burning crusade came out with the roads of avalon.

You seem to be having a blast on Albion. Thanks for checking in cupcake.

[Uuruk]

Hello, is this "healthy" server clearing the content????????

[strongNpretty]

Hello, is this "healthy" server clearing the content????????

I see you use Aol still... A/S/L?

[Toad1]

This was really the final blow that fucked up the server. After that i was done, The very next day i started sourcing all my food items from local dumpsters, i was hooked. You would not believe what stores throw away, expired meat, condiments, returned deli and bakery items, Gold jerry, GOLD !

[heartbrand]

Taking the bait here on a troll account but as an avid Mario fan I gotta know what the World 1-5 reference is bro

[Toad1]

"My armor color matches my playstyle"

[Tune]

Tune sat on a level 50 druid for 2 years farming pelts while everyone else enjoyed Velious raiding.

it wasn't until 50% of the server quit out of boredom of raiding Velious he was finally allowed to log off his level 50 anonymous druid in CS.

He then managed to turn a 150-200 pop server into a 40 pop server.

few corrections here

I was on a 60 bard farming those off and on for about 2 weeks. stlll empire couldn't kill me even with their best windys

i had no direct control over population and I still don't.

I refused the join the losers that got my guild banned unjustly, and that was the only way they could win, so yeah Id say u lost

[heartbrand]

lame was hoping there was a witty reference there kind of let down

[JayDee]

On and at character select are different things

Kinda funny the guy thinks ~50 players is thriving for a server in velious

[Uuruk]

Kinda funny the guy thinks ~50 players is thriving for a server in velious

Yeah, dude id a dipshit. Im still waiting to hear if ToV is being cleared and what is Tunares current status.