I played on VZTZ and just began on Red1999, I recently leveled my Shaman to 49 and I've made some friends who I group with on a regular basis. On the other side of the coin, I've ran amok of a few people who ganked me while canned down 40+% hp after soloing some stuff, such is the life of a Shaman.
VZTZ was great, because there were several guilds competing with each other - whether it be PvP, or for killing Trakanon, or Inny, or CT. There were 10 v 10 - 20 v 20 guild on guild fights, probably due to the large experience bonus in combination with not being able to hide under an anon tag. Everyone could see who was in a zone, and as they leveled up, made friends who then made guilds together. Lots of fun PVP all the way up to level 60 on VZTZ. I had my epic, pox, bane, and I think I also had torpor, too. I was relied on by my guildmates to provide them potions, or be an integral part in group PVP.
P99 red is just one guild who is monopolizing every single raid mob, resulting in a huge gear gap between people who want to even fight them, and they just end up absorbing the people who give up and want to join Nihilum. Everyone else has seemed to have either taken a big hiatus to see what the health of the server is going to be like, or are doing other things like WoW Emu - I would truly like to see this place become a thriving community like VZTZ was, I had fun during classic, and even more when they released Kunark.
A lot of great ideas in this thread, in particular heartbrand's struck me as a great way to inject more population into our RED box. There's 1000+ on Blue, a lot of them might check out red if the "relaunch" happens, and if the server passes 250 population at peak of REGULAR players, I think the server will begin to renew its playerbase over time until perhaps 400-500 - think of all of the action when Velious hits with those numbers. Kael, Skyshrine, or Thurgadin aligned guilds all duking it out in the icy wastelands of Velious.
It would be pretty fantastic if this all happened, get to work boys.
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Retired P99 player
P99B Strazha (60 Warlock) [Iksar]
P99B Sstrix (60 Warlord) [Iksar]
P99B Sickjams (5 Bard) [EC Mule]
P99G Sauna (51 Channeler) [Gnome]
P99R Sseri (54 Mystic) [Iksar]
VZ/TZ '08-'09 Lurgort (60 Shaman) [Barbarian] <Eight Inches Unbuffed> |