R.I.P Red99

[Slarp]

http://i1143.photobucket.com/albums/n623/slarp1/ripr99.png

Who knew it would slowly die.

[Doors]

I'm sure it being 11 A.M. has nothing to do with the server population. Fail troll attempt.

[nilbog]

Having threads like this since day 1 of the pvp server launching probably didn't help you guys.

New players must visit the forums to get patch files, and while they are installing Titanium they probably read the pvp forums and never finish lols.

[Supreme]

Considering that everyone without an exemption can only have one account logged on....

83 people at 11am on a weekday for a EMU is damn good.

[Jaleean]

The server population is about 200 roughly, Day 1. 800 players. Day 45. 200 players. Fuck bluebies....

[Amelinda]

Having threads like this since day 1 of the pvp server launching probably didn't help you guys.

New players must visit the forums to get patch files, and while they are installing Titanium they probably read the pvp forums and never finish lols.

[Slug]

It's funny how the expectations of server population is extremely high for the blue server players, who left red - yet the people who lobbied for the red server in the first place are completely content with the population, and are not at all concerned.

You guys have your own P99 server, stop worrying about the population of the one you couldn't continue playing on.

[Humerox]

personally...these threads are getting on my nerves.

they really should be removed...the server is alive and well. all the disillusioned people that thought they knew what a real pvp server was all about have left.

the point now is to QQ and c-block server growth...which sadly, may be working. people here are lucky i'm not a mod...i'd grief till the cows came home.

[oldfish]

Even me who thinks the server is in trouble think these threads arent helping. Its better to voice concerns in one huge thread like the one Searyx made.

[nilbog]

personally...these threads are getting on my nerves.

they really should be removed...the server is alive and well. all the disillusioned people that thought they knew what a real pvp server was all about have left.


I agree. Hopefully the pvp community as a whole now recognizes those who announce 'server dying', 'exploits', and general negativity towards the project do nothing but damage their own playerbase.

Removing threads helps in the short term, but a general realization and anti-doomsaying response from the community will help the long term.

[Nirgon]

I agree. Hopefully the pvp community as a whole now recognizes those who announce 'server dying', 'exploits', and general negativity towards the project do nothing but damage their own playerbase.

Removing threads helps in the short term, but a general realization and anti-doomsaying response from the community will help the long term.

But haven't you heard? People have to run crying or boasting to the forums about everything.

There isn't much of a healthy "blue" or "anti-pk" base here like I thought there would have been. One side destroys the other, server is won etc.

On RZ at least, the top guilds were not completely random pk or griefers. It's like of like what live would have been like if I went back in time and gave all the random pkers the repeatable quests, tricks, exact spawns etc we have now.

Welcome to the alternate 1999, where "the Biffs" have taken over.
http://jstacer.myweb.uga.edu/alternate%20biff.jpg

[Shannacore]

WTB more low leveled players so I have someone to group withhhhhhh

[Tassador]

back to the future reference solid! maybe we go back in time to find out that it wasnt really the 12monkeys that fux0red the world? Just sayin.

[Slarp]

Considering that everyone without an exemption can only have one account logged on....

83 people at 11am on a weekday for a EMU is damn good.

We all know this isn't true, people 2box all the time, sad but true.

[nilbog]

We all know this isn't true, people 2box all the time, sad but true.

All of your posts are anti-project1999.

Peace out.

[Reikerx]

All of your posts are anti-project1999.

Peace out.

Amidst all the hacking, exploiting, boxing, and game-breaking bugs that have been in for the past month and a half, this is the first dev response I read in weeks.

You guys killed your own server.

[Billbike]

The population will stabilize.

Once an ambient environment is sustained, word of mouth will bring back many players.

The population will slowly build back up.


Y'all act like we've never seen this process before...http://www.gold-speculator.com/attachments/clif-droke/6314d1262375181-prospects-economic-recovery-2010-copper.gif

Stop all this doom and gloom now before stupid people actually believe you.

[Juugox2]

its a weekday and ppl work plus ppl live in other timezones lol no clue why ppl think server is dying. i knew it was gonna be around 200-250 at night since beta

[Juugox2]

think about this way pretty much 30% of red players use to play blue since if you noticed blue and pvp combined was about what blue had pop wise before this server released

[Nirgon]

Amidst all the hacking, exploiting, boxing, and game-breaking bugs that have been in for the past month and a half, this is the first dev response I read in weeks.

You guys killed your own server.

Hackers banned.

Exploiters, oh you black little kettle you.

Boxing? Eliminated in any obvious cases I saw, ample warnings given. I'm sure if any are left, they will not last very long.

Game breaking bugs? The ones you guys were so willing to post for all to see, right?

How about instead of making uninformed and hypocritical posts you stick to cleaning up some of these bearded dwarf corpses of yours that have been littering up the beautiful lands of Norrath. Bro.

[nilbog]

Amidst all the hacking, exploiting, boxing, and game-breaking bugs that have been in for the past month and a half, this is the first dev response I read in weeks.

You guys killed your own server.

You're funny.

[billyinorganic]

WTB more low leveled players so I have someone to group withhhhhhh

use magic noob

[Doublestep]

But guys, Slave says hardcoding teams -now- will fix everything

[billyinorganic]

Hackers banned.

Exploiters, oh you black little kettle you.

Boxing? Eliminated in any obvious cases I saw, ample warnings given. I'm sure if any are left, they will not last very long.

Game breaking bugs? The ones you guys were so willing to post for all to see, right?

How about instead of making uninformed and hypocritical posts you stick to cleaning up some of these bearded dwarf corpses of yours that have been littering up the beautiful lands of Norrath. Bro.

Hell im camped out ready to pull naggy solo and bug it out ftw..

Shit got real.

[Doublestep]

Amidst all the hacking, exploiting, boxing, and game-breaking bugs that have been in for the past month and a half, this is the first dev response I read in weeks.

You guys killed your own server.

What are the devs supposed to respond to? "WHAT CLASS SHOULD I ROLL" and "I STUCK MY DICK IN X'S DEAD CORPSE" threads? You guys have maybe one legitimate thread in a mess of dick stroking and retardation

[billyinorganic]

p.s ....

since the "game is on now" and all legit dragon kills are.... not even worth time, it will be a race when naggy pops agian to see who can bug it out ftw first.

And next time dont even try to send the whole crew, just have them all protect the zone while one or 2 dudes solo dragon.

why not spam to every person in the game in a guild besides holocaust or nihilum how to bug out dragon?

Hell we got about 100 solo dragon slayers on the server ready to get REAL WORK DONE.

So someone clear the giants for me or ill just have to have some bard kite around the whole zone

[Nirgon]

Cracks starting to turn into crumbles over at team Nihilum.

Tell us how much you guys suck and and couple them with your bragging posts from earlier.

[billyinorganic]

its not a train brow, we were kiting sol b with a bard

[Dfn]

Pretty sure I'm the only person who has consistently said to start banning these types of posts. I've been it doing since week 2 - reporting and making petitions.

Either way, the population is fine and it will grow with time. What doesn't help though is stupid threads like these. Just ban all the forum posters that lut up this shit. Ip bans across the board - done

[HippoNipple]

WTB more low leveled players so I have someone to group withhhhhhh

This is a mistake most people make when starting out on a pvp server. More people around just means more people to kill you. Perfect number of people in a zone would equal the amount of people in your group, which is a hard number to get. It doesn't happen often, it is either over or under populated.

I spent my first 12 levels in steamfont completely out of view from everyone else 90% of the time. I would level up in discrete locations and med hidden. Then I would wonder out and pick and choose who I wanted to kill when I needed plat for spells. It seemed like people didn't expect to get pked standing out in the open. Maybe these are the people who quit that don't understand what a pvp server really is.

If you want people to group with you have to figure out a way to organize it. You can't expect to just go into a zone and find 5-10 friendly people to choose from to form your group. If you have that many people on a pvp server there should be 2-3 people backstabbing you and killing your group while you level.

This is why there are less people on pvp servers. It is why having less people is okay on pvp servers. It is why end game pve is that much harder, and that much more rewarding. I like the current population when in game. I don't care what the number says when I'm logging in. I like how the game feels right now with the current population. It shouldn't be filled with people, everyone should be an enemy unless you have an alliance previously, and you should be able to seek out people in your range if you put in effort.

[Dfn]

It's a cycle and a self- fulfilling prophecy that only exists because of shit like this. Look at how many people quit because of exploits - a ton. Were there really that many exploits? Were there really any exploits not fixed? No and no.

Peoplr quit because they believe what they read on the forums. Its why I said there shouldnt be troll threads by cast, lulz, random idiot001, etc that last for a week. Its the same thing now, all the whiners that complain about exp being rough or exp loss or whatever make threads about how the server is dying. People see it and they stop playing. If you dont like the game then quit, good riddance - but stop shitting up the forums with your whining about server population because the server wasnt catered to your every whim.


Tldr: stfu. Ban trolls.

[Reikerx]

You're funny.

http://www.project1999.org/forums/showthread.php?t=59507

[Reikerx]

Cracks starting to turn into crumbles over at team Nihilum.

Tell us how much you guys suck and and couple them with your bragging posts from earlier.

I've pretty much quit at this point when Holocaust is allowed to exploit everything on the box and get away with it. It's too much like VZTZ #348 to me. Consider it a victory if you'd like. On a legitimate PvP server you guys would get your shit pushed in. Unfortunately, there hasn't been a legitimate PvP server yet on emu.

[Massive Marc]

you guys can fucking QQ all you want about these topics in General Chat, but this is fucking RNF, deal with it.

my problem with the current attitude towards population numbers is the "sit back and do nothing" mind frame. there should always be a push to improve numbers not just sit and post "Nothing is happening, its not bad, stop posting"

are you people really that daft ? when you see this amount of QQ on a topic, it usually has some legitimacy. You're gonna be sitting here in 2 months with a population of 100 saying "IT WAS ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO POSTED DOOMSDAY THREADS THAT KILLED THE POPULATION" when it's our faults for not trying to fix the problem.

Its fucking sad.

[Littlegyno 6.0]

I've pretty much quit at this point when Holocaust is allowed to exploit everything on the box and get away with it. It's too much like VZTZ #348 to me. Consider it a victory if you'd like. On a legitimate PvP server you guys would get your shit pushed in. Unfortunately, there hasn't been a legitimate PvP server yet on emu.

Lol. god damn dog. Now Holocaust is xploiting everything and have ruined the server less than 2 months into it!

[Reikerx]

Lol. god damn dog. Now Holocaust is xploiting everything and have ruined the server less than 2 months into it!

Not much you can do when Holocaust recruits up to 3x the size of any other guild and has paladins soloing Nagafen while the rest zerg you at zone ent.

Precedent has been set for a dead box.

[Doublestep]

zerg invite excuse is bullshit because you could have done it too.

[Reikerx]

zerg invite excuse is bullshit because you could have done it too.

You could say the same thing about having someone solo Nagafen. We could have done that too, way earlier in the day after we cleared fire giants. But instead we waited to get a larger force on. That was a huge mistake. Cast was right about one thing: exploit anything you can. No one cares.

But the thing is, I don't want to play under these conditions. I want to play EverQuest, not Call of DutyQuest. We could have half the server pop, one-man-kill every raid target, and declare ourselves the victors like Holocaust plans to/wants to do. But this isn't fun to me so I can happily bow out now if I'm not having fun under these conditions. Contrary to popular belief, my life will go on after EQEmu.

[engelbert]

Shutup, elven nerd overlord.

[Massive Marc]

But this isn't fun to me so I can happily bow out now if I'm not having fun under these conditions. Contrary to popular belief, my life will go on after EQEmu.

you know, if this is legitimate, then good on you.

GG

[billyinorganic]

my problem with the current attitude towards population numbers is the "sit back and do nothing" mind frame. there should always be a push to improve numbers not just sit and post "Nothing is happening, its not bad, stop posting"


Wise words.

Just saying...

I have seen lots of higher levels in many guilds sittin on their asses bitching.

There are... things which can be done to keep the server population growing, things which come down to the player base it self.

Interacting with people, especially people new to the server can help keep the population alive.

[Snufz]

Reika griefed off server by lvl 43 druid bindcamp CONFIRMED.

[fiegi]

Knew the bluebie reika wouldn't last after a good dicking via bind camp

[Slathar]

reika confirmed crying in ventrilo

[Xantille]

Knew the bluebie reika wouldn't last after a good dicking via bind camp

[fiegi]

Reika probably shouldn't of gargled Lovelys man juice while burning his bridge with my pal Smedy's crew

[Humerox]

you guys can fucking QQ all you want about these topics in General Chat, but this is fucking RNF, deal with it.

my problem with the current attitude towards population numbers is the "sit back and do nothing" mind frame. there should always be a push to improve numbers not just sit and post "Nothing is happening, its not bad, stop posting"

are you people really that daft ? when you see this amount of QQ on a topic, it usually has some legitimacy. You're gonna be sitting here in 2 months with a population of 100 saying "IT WAS ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO POSTED DOOMSDAY THREADS THAT KILLED THE POPULATION" when it's our faults for not trying to fix the problem.

Its fucking sad.

What's really sad is that if as much effort went into posting in the constructive thread as has been put into the "omg itz dead the population sux i cant take the hard old grind" threads, things might be different.

negativity breeds negativity, wouldn't u agree?

[Reikerx]

The bind camp thing was actually pretty entertaining to me, watching you guys click root nets on me so I'd go from 100% into 50 to 82%. I was about to plug but then I was like "lol."

[Xantille]

The bind camp thing was actually pretty entertaining to me, watching you guys click root nets on me so I'd go from 100% into 50 to 82%. I was about to plug but then I was like "lol."

Don't flatter yourself. No one had root nets, and even if we did, they wouldn't be used on your droolcup ass.


Anyway, thought you quit bro??????????

[fiegi]

The bind camp thing was actually pretty entertaining to me, watching you guys click root nets on me so I'd go from 100% into 50 to 82%. I was about to plug but then I was like "lol."

Too bad nobody clicked a root net on you since nobody in the guild actually felt the need to camp one.

[Vile]

so Lovely was banned for duping and Reika bind camped off server?

x2 BPA

[Xantille]

Don't flatter yourself. No one had root nets, and even if we did, they wouldn't be used to bindcamp your droolcup ass who decided to bind far away from a zoneline.


Anyway, thought you quit bro??????????

[Vile]

x3 combo post ^^^

[Rust1d?]

x3 combo post ^^^

Bring back crucify?

[Darwoth]

server is fine, population has stabilized pretty much exactly where myself and most with a realistic expectation thought it would be at this point.

the reason there are not an extra 100 players on at a given time has more to do with new releases and betas along with epics on the blue server than anything else, if the server had been kicked out 6 months sooner and everything else was identical the population would be 350 - 400 a night this many weeks after launch.

[Cast]

Its why I said there shouldnt be troll threads by cast, lulz, random idiot001, etc

mad, as, fuck

[Zalaerian]

server is fine, population has stabilized pretty much exactly where myself and most with a realistic expectation thought it would be at this point.

the reason there are not an extra 100 players on at a given time has more to do with new releases and betas along with epics on the blue server than anything else, if the server had been kicked out 6 months sooner and everything else was identical the population would be 350 - 400 a night this many weeks after launch.

[Massive Marc]

server is fine, population has stabilized pretty much exactly where myself and most with a realistic expectation thought it would be at this point.

the reason there are not an extra 100 players on at a given time has more to do with new releases and betas along with epics on the blue server than anything else, if the server had been kicked out 6 months sooner and everything else was identical the population would be 350 - 400 a night this many weeks after launch.

Your expectations of a stabilized population was 150-200 ? I guess thats OK ?... (pop:137 as I type this post)

You do understand that new game releases haven't and wont stop, and that new stuff on Blue99 (Vel/Epic/etc) will continue to happen as well ? This is a weak argument. ( I will accept it may have some impact, but not nearly enough to determine this as the underlying reason. People will play EQPVP if they want to play it)

If the server was kicked out 6 months earlier, you'd still be talking about the same problems.

Fuck, maybe you're right and it's as simple as people having a higher expectation for the server population then it seems to be now.

I believe there's more to do with it, then just other games being released.

[Massive Marc]

Your expectations of a stabilized population was 150-200 ? I guess thats OK ?... (pop:137 as I type this post)

You do understand that new game releases haven't and wont stop, and that new stuff on Blue99 (Vel/Epic/etc) will continue to happen as well ? This is a weak argument. ( I will accept it may have some impact, but not nearly enough to determine this as the underlying reason. People will play EQPVP if they want to play it)

If the server was kicked out 6 months earlier, you'd still be talking about the same problems.

Fuck, maybe you're right and it's as simple as people having a higher expectation for the server population then it seems to be now.

I believe there's more to do with it then just other games being released/Epics on blue.

[Massive Marc]

fucking nob i am. 3 post for the win, fuck yall.

[Cast]

can you confirm Holocaust victors of the server, Massive Marc?

[Massive Marc]

can you confirm Holocaust victors of the server, Massive Marc?

Any team with Knuckle is pure win.

[Cast]

sig

[Nirgon]

You do understand that new game releases haven't and wont stop

Ones that I care about in the foreseeable future have stopped bro.

Sad to say I'll miss out on Call Of Duty 4-25,000 before I die, along with all of the great innovations seen in the Madden series and of course the WoW clones.

What a way to go, eh? At least the EQ is here to keep me company until Rogean and his Goblin get a briefcase thrown at them.


I'll be there for them though bros.

To bomb the court house.

[purest]

Having threads like this since day 1 of the pvp server launching probably didn't help you guys.

New players must visit the forums to get patch files, and while they are installing Titanium they probably read the pvp forums and never finish lols.

someone who likes eq pvp enough that they actively sought it out on an emulated server 13 years later is pretty determined to play eq pvp, they are not going to suddenly change their minds because they see a troll thread

people have seen 0 dev attention, 0 development since day 1

but ya, keep thinking its all the community's fault

[steakshop]

month old thread bumper for the lose

[PVPBetaChamps]

Having threads like this since day 1 of the pvp server launching probably didn't help you guys.

New players must visit the forums to get patch files, and while they are installing Titanium they probably read the pvp forums and never finish lols.

delusional administrator

[Harrison]

It is 100% this worthless ungrateful child-like community's fault.

Cheating.
Griefing.
Flooding forums.

Yup. 100% vztz scum.

[PVPBetaChamps]

The population will stabilize.

Once an ambient environment is sustained, word of mouth will bring back many players.

The population will slowly build back up.


Y'all act like we've never seen this process before...http://www.gold-speculator.com/attachments/clif-droke/6314d1262375181-prospects-economic-recovery-2010-copper.gif

Stop all this doom and gloom now before stupid people actually believe you.

[Nirgon]

Lol high grade copper.

[Slug]

It's funny how the expectations of server population is extremely high for the blue server players, who left red - yet the people who lobbied for the red server in the first place are completely content with the population, and are not at all concerned.

You guys have your own P99 server, stop worrying about the population of the one you couldn't continue playing on.

[Nirgon]

But haven't you heard? People have to run crying or boasting to the forums about everything.

There isn't much of a healthy "blue" or "anti-pk" base here like I thought there would have been. One side destroys the other, server is won etc.

On RZ at least, the top guilds were not completely random pk or griefers. It's like of like what live would have been like if I went back in time and gave all the random pkers the repeatable quests, tricks, exact spawns etc we have now.

Welcome to the alternate 1999, where "the Biffs" have taken over.
http://jstacer.myweb.uga.edu/alternate%20biff.jpg

[Within99]

Red99 FOR LIFE!

[IronLikeALionInZion]

would of never given u spell money if you were going to go to the brotherhood. join a guild like velocity bro. they are actually trying to help the server.

nips is a jerk, cant pvp for shit, has delevled from 42 to 40, and PURCHASED his character with blue platinum.

[Avon Barksdale]

http://i1188.photobucket.com/albums/z408/heartbeats99/EQ000033.jpg

Nips and Sassy, redcon druid and shaman already owned once by Filthed and myself. After begging me for a LnS, which I allowed against my better judgment, they tried to jump me at 40% hp. How'd that go?

Oh yeah I forgot to click off that Eyes of the Cat.

[Avon Barksdale]

Actually several Brotherhood griefed out of Oasis tonight. I'm sure Big Filthed cooking up a thread on it.