There was a population. They fucked it up by amongst other things handing the decision keys to people like Sirken and Derubael who made such shockingly bad decisions that it made people like me question if i should invest time at all on a server where it looks like either A) The decisions are made consciously to wreck the population, for some opaque reason. B) They are just clueless, with the same results.

With a good start theres no reason i couldnt see the server's 600 pop staying close to that. On day 1 i realised they were going with xp loss in pvp and i couldnt believe it. It was obvious it was going to kill the pop, and it did. Just when the server gets a breather, Sirken comes in during Kunark like lulz i know whats the problem, xp is too fast. Im gonna nerf it, population is going to dip but get better afterwards. Like wtf was that. Things like that slowly eroded people's faith that the server was ever going to pick up.

Eq pvp died because WoW (and other MMOs) came out and siphoned the population. It was a much better pvp game. EQ can still be fun, but yeah.

Luclin AA .

Reset sleepers tomb periodically.

Post sleeper apocalypse content.

Oh and unroot dragons on red....

Thanks for voting at this point I think its conclusively concluded that the next red p99 server should be fully stock rallos zek item loot vanilla locked

Legacy items in place permanently possibly at custom drop rates after a given period of time.

No deleveling, and added level req's on non droppable planar type stuff so its only 46 + that have "elite" gear.

That way when I am casual player for the rest of my life I can hop on and do some PVP in greater faydark in my dreams.

RoT can't even break 100. Doubt it even on p99

I voted for custom because I couldn't vote for both. Probably custom would be better but by 10-15 percent on average, depending on the idea.

Red re-opening would need at launch

1. anti plug/zone dancing solution (zone dancing really is the worst part of everquest pvp)
2. nerf of insta cast farmable items (already on current red)
3. re-calibrate resists for classic eras (should have good data to do this properly without a lot of fiddling at this point)
4. new anti hax that doesn't infringe on your privacy by looking at your process window names (wtf, hello?)
5. an agreement among men to not default to the winning zerg (zerging is the second biggest issue with the design of everquest pvp)
6. probably a no rules server, gms cannot enforce the rules 100% of the time, welp then no rules is the way to go to avoid and issues like that

Number 6 is the biggest for me. The anti-hack system would take care of any 3rd party programs and the only other thing that should need reported and checked up on is 2 boxing. That is the only thing that a player should be reporting about another player.

To fix zone dancing there is a clickable item that can only cast on players who have zoned more than twice in the last 4 minutes and is an instagib.

Zone plugged (logs show they have zoned more than twice in last 4 minutes) toons can't log in for 2 hours.