I considered red.

Scowling, ready to attack. I guess I need to do more faction work

Is that two boys in your avatar?

Yes

Ill join red if you prove to me that a level 60 can kill a level 1 in kael drakkel.. Because that actually isn't true. Prove me wrong ;)

I played red for 3 hours when log in server for blue was down. Me and 4 other guildees made bards (all of us) and had a bit of fun. Leveling was stupidly fast for better or worse.

Then blue server logins came back up and global red population dropped back to 30.

No thanks. It’s a ghost town.

In my final 2 hours on red I encountered 2 different low level fungi twinks in Gfay killing naked level 3-6 toons and another different one in Crushbone.

No thanks. Fair and actually pvp is unlikely to be had.

Would genuinely like to play red if I had a couple friends who were willing.

I have a 44 warrior I'd love to continue to level

Stoppinswords was a cool dude! (I think that was his name, right enj?)

Yep that's me!

Been collecting dust in CoM for a while now /:

A lot of effort was put into the start of this thread, respect.

Red EQ is so much better and too many blue players have incorrect viewpoints about it. The biggest one seems to be people looking at the server population and immediately assuming Blue is better since it has much higher numbers. This is a bad assumption, as Blue is too overcrowded and Red has global /ooc. The whole community being able to interact (and thus form groups) with global /ooc actually makes a Red server with around 300 people feel much more alive than a current Blue server with 1,500+ people. Those people on Blue are mainly just crowding around the same areas and locking out content from others, so there are tons of ghost towns and artificial bottlenecks, whereas on Red you can go to any zone in the game, have the chance to compete, and still be able to interact with the community if you want to play in a "dead" zone. This feature hearkens back to MUDs from the 90's, which is was Everquest was based on in the first place, and it feels great.

It's actually much higher than 50% when grouped. Leveling on red is so much better than blue. Don't act like everyone doesn't love the exp bonus weekends that blue server gets from holidays. The game is old and can become tedious; being able to grow characters faster (but without use powerlevel/twink cheats - actually just playing the game with other people of your level) is a much better feeling in this day and age. Note that Red is inherently more difficult though, because of the PvP factor. So while it has this exp bonus, it's also there to offset the time you will be engaging in PvP, which doesn't give exp. The PvP makes the game feel so much more alive and it's generally not much of a factor during the low/mid levels - the tales of twinked people going around killing lowbies are vastly exaggerated.

What the server needs is an entire guild to migrate from Blue to Red. In the past there were big superguilds that blocked new guilds from becoming competitive enough on Red, but currently that is not the case, it's now very open. If a sizeable guild (or multiple!) were to move from Blue, they'd be able to quickly level up to 60 together on Red and start engaging in real competition for the high-end content, instead of the shitshow that Blue server is. I strongly encourage some of the "non-uber" or "second tier" Blue guilds to move over to Red, you will be able to experience the game in a much better form.

Haha as somebody who just started on red, plans to spend a majority of his P99 time on red now, and loving it.. There are things to take away from all this. 1- Yes the population number is a huge factor... And the thought of boxing steered me clear. But now that i'm on red, i could care less who's boxing..

The blue server going down brought some fresh life over here, but it needs more. Red players need to log in and play red now, or come back from their breaks. Blue players need to keep chugging along with their friends that made toons on red. And the folks grinding red every day need to keep being polite and patient. Everybody has been great on red so far. For people who are super casual- Red is where you will flourish! I saw consistent 70-80 pop on there all weekend!

As somebody who played only blue.. Nows the time for red, it has momentum.. Push!!!!