Interesting. At this point, 33 players have participated in this poll. I'm not sure if this is a representative sample of Red99 population (and, bear in mind, it's only forum-goers), but it's all I have to go on at the moment. To summarize:

Over half (52%) of the 33 players said they are sticking with their current guild.

2 players (6%) have said they are here for other aspects of EQ anyway, rather than for guild PvP. I wonder if they're into solo PvP mugging, or just PvE, or what.

4 mysterious "none of the above."

And, counting the first three responses together, 10 players (30%) said they'd be interested in joining a promising new guild. If almost a third of Red players are hungry for a strong contender guild, then new guilds should have a good chance of attracting members.

Ah. Good points. Thanks for the perspective. Maybe there aren't enough players to sustain a healthy number of guilds.

I thought Red recently reached 300 players online at one time, which would indicate a player base even higher than that (surely not every single player was online at once). I wonder how many players have logged in in the last 30 days.

The next question is, how do we foster a larger population here on Red?

And that would be <Azrael>, I presume.

So you're saying there are no PvP-oriented guilds currently recruiting?? On Red server??? Sounds like a niche waiting to be filled...

And by the way, I think you missed <Suave>. But that's still only ONE guild recruiting with intention to contest.

Praise the population increase. And may there be ever more players to play with and guilds to choose from.


By all the Gods, that sounds epic!!! I hope to see that myself.

Perhaps a Blue savior will come. Though I think those of us interested in contesting content and experiencing large-scale PvP should get together and make it happen.

Anybody reading this who's looking for that kind of PvP action, send me a message so we can start playing together.

I am unguilded, I would like to see humble, and/or limited role-playing guilds who focus on mid-lvl-pvp.

By humble I mean, the guild doesn't promote itself as the next top pvp, top raiding, and/or solution to the current top two to guilds. This is basically the opposite of Suave's arrogant pixel dreams (a variation of pipe dream) and the relentless defense or slander of all yellow text in ooc. That shit is so annoying when it goes beyond "pras".

By limited role playing I mean that the guild recruits based on faction (light / dark / neutral) and pvps based on alignment, but does not require members to say stuff like "Let the Light of Mithaniel Marr banish you evil foe!" or "Me empty, me want eats gnome or halfer for lunch." That just isn't the average red players cup of tea. It's not hard coded, and hard coded teams are not needed to have faction based pvp.

How about a neutral faction guild that acts as a vigilante law enforcement against "toxic" players. IMHO if you are getting "greifed" you are doing something wrong or taking this game way too seriously. However so many new player simply don't read LnS rules and just get upset and quit to quickly. It's unfortunate but whiners are going to whine, so why not try to hold their hands and show them that pvp is good times win or lose. Why rely on rules and petitioning and the limited time of staff? The community should be able to support new players without whining and running to the few folks who care and wield the ban hammers.

Sorry for the wall of text, but that unguilded option about raiding is not my concern nor goal. I would like to see more mid level pvp, since I really do not want to raid, and the 300 population is too few or too focused on end game fantasies for what I see as fun. So there are my 2 cps.

Now here is my complaining wall of text:

I've played on this server since 2012, played on VZ/TZ emu before that. Admittedly I never played pvp live before the Zek merged server, so I never got to experience faction teams or player enforced rules. I didn't start playing eq until about Luclin.

I love EQ, fucking love it, and I only ever leave because RL doesn't allow me to poopsock everyday all day. If I leave, I will always return at some point as long as this server exists. I don't have a lvl 50+ neckbeard, and there is enough content to satisfy me without raiding.

You all act like you got to rush to the raiding scene to have any fun, and then you bitch and moan when you and your pals ain't getting pixels. All this appears to lead to forum/ooc flame wars, delvled epiced twinks, more rules, and more bans.

Its your whiny neck beards and dick holding that keeps the population growth at a minimum. Everyone settle down, hold hands with your enemies from time to time, its just a 15 year old game after all, stop acting like guild tag means everything, and then we can make this the best Norrath it has ever been.

I motion to start <Precious Little Snowflakes> high elf only guild, wood elves and light class gnomes considered, but I won't be the leader some other white night will have to take that responsibility.

<Flowers of Happiness> DGAF.

Would like to see all of the various cliques I hear about in holo split into smaller factions for the remainder of kunark, they can totally reunite when that drops but it would be a lot of fun for the next few months if we had ~10 guilds all capable of downing mobs with small numbers.

Communist alert.

I'd like to see more people making their own guilds happen by focusing on their own guild instead of what anyone else is doing.

You're interpretation of Suave is all wrong. I'm not claiming at all that we will contest or be in the mix to be a big name guild. Would I enjoy that? Of course.. Is that a reality at this point? No. We do what we can with the playerbase we have and I believe everyone in the guild understands and accepts that. We have no batphone, we have no sperglords, and we have no affiliation to azrael despite what the holo trolls claim. Our teamspeak is Bella laid back and were a chill group of guys to hang with. Pixel gains are already coming in as we have epics and our first raid last night. Great group of guys all around IMO and I hope people stick it out and we continue to grow. Suave crooting~

Trash drops should be rolled on... Anything else should have a loot council. Once velious comes... People gona get real butt hurt when the top guild gears the shit out of 2-3 tanks while all other melee suffer.