My Plight...
 

I need many of you to come to RED. Red is great. The exp is better. More camps are open. Pvp servers are more fun. Period. Grab your friends and come in en masse. Start your own guild. I use to play blue servers back in the day. Not as fun as a good pvp server. A lot of people aren't total PK dicks, lots of opportunity for pve on red, but the added pvp gives a special dynamic. Exp loss in pvp death about to be removed. Put on your cool pants and come to red.

if they wantd to play on red they see it on the server list dude no need to bug 'um

Yeah, red has a population of 3 because bluebies simply don't realize how much more fun the game is when someone kills you at your bind spot over and over until you have no choice but to quit. Seriously, try it, it's a blast.

QQ. When sleeper opened and i announced it in EC tunnel on blue to see how many people were planning on rolling over there, someone charmed a ghoul and rooted it at my spawn point OMG DONT PLAY BLUE I QUIT BECAUSE OF ONE RETARD ONE NIGHT.


OP, like many others, is probably late to the party and isn't aware / attempting to gloss over the fact the raid scene on Red is even more fucked than blue. 60% of the server is in 1 guild, 80% of the 55+ are in that guild. Red is a failure. Since day one of P99 i waited for a PvP server with the quality gameplay that the P99 server offered, and like the other 649 people that came there on day 1, I was stoked about the server. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand we saw how that went. Same retards using the same tactics to shit the pop off of the server. It's just the next sequence of VZ/TZ, LoZ, EqEmu pvp servers that have a pop of 40 because of the people who occupy the server are the scourge of the internet

Red reminded me a lot of RZ live (I never played during classic era I admit). In other words, Red was pure garbage. You probably would find better end game PvP in VP on blue. Everything else is just those same players griefing the clothed newb players trying to solo their way to 50's (with a non-existent economy).
I loved SZ live, but you'll never see that kind of PvP on emu. There simply isn't the kind of player base needed to populate 3-4 competing guilds. I don't think there is anything anyone can do to bring that kind of player base back to classic EQ....maybe 7 years ago.
When push comes to shove the vast majority ether:
A) value PvE more than PvP (join blue or play as if you're on it)
or
B) value PvP more than PvE, so they play one of the 20 better PvP focused MMORPGs.
PvP is based on competition. 100 people isn't going to cut it.

No thanks, I actually gave it a shot not too long ago with some friends. We were griefed off of the server in the newbie zone by some twinks that have been around along time. This is why that server will eventually fail and be turned into something else. No one cares to be griefed by individuals they do not have a chance against.

As a noob weakling, would you possibly be more interested in dealing with this kind of action if there was item loot, which would mean if you could overcome your aggressor you could get an awesome item and sell it and buy some nice weapons or whatever?

Additionally, other strong guys might (are very likely to) want to kill him to take his good armors too?

Do you think losing EXP upon your death, and gaining nothing upon your victory is a really really really stupid way to handle PVP system?

Honestly curious what you think. I'm a proponent of rallos zek style item loot, because it made it worthwhile to fight level 1-50 which is where most people will burn out.

At present only reward is pride, and newbie level 8 getting gangbustered has no pride, and will just revert to blue.

Eq pvp sucks shit through a straw, always did. No class balancing makes it literally some of the shittiest pvp action, unless you're talking 2 ppl of the same class dueling eq pvp is shitttttttttttt.

Honestly, ignore the forums and give it a try... it's different but its fun.