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Originally Posted by Colgate
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you have incredibly thin skin
no wonder you hate red99
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Not really I dont think. But compared to you lot at the top end of red, yes I do. I really dont have the time or patience to put up with forumquesting in equal parts dedication and timesink as playing the actual game.
And your server population seems to think that a good proportion of other folk also feel similar or could agree with some or a majority of my points considering the very broad stroke I just brushed.
When it comes down to it, there's a few of you with no jobs, no life, and have been committed to this game for years and are in a vicious cycle living vicariously through your characters triumph. Maybe the same cant be said for the majority, and that majority has spoken in droves of footsteps out the door. People just dont want to put up with that kind of shit, I'd imagine the average age is 28-35 here and most guys I know just cant be fucked anymore.
The vocal atmosphere is toxic, and if population numbers and empirical evidence based on a fairly logarithmic trend of people leaving and forum description of the high end play is accurate then I'd be fairly certin in saying there is a problem that needs addressing. Root cause analysis is something I dabble in (and get paid a lot for) and if I had to put my finger on a cause it would be the players being forced to play that way, due to the environment and ruleset they are shoehorned in to.
So I digress, I dont think I'm particularly thin skinned. Just certainly not at a level of ambivalence tending towards narcissism and straight out misanthropy that is abundant on red99 towards your fellow players. It's as if there is an end in sight to the server and double parking on your neighbours car, cutting off your friends in traffic and speeding somehow gets you to a podium, when in reality the server has potential to be one really long drive thats enjoyable by a majority not a minority.
Why make player attrition the key attibute, where survival of the fittest the name of the game when that very specific gameplay actually shortens the life of a server; and more importantly it makes being better than everyone else at PVP an inconsequential achievement when your playerbase is 40 not 400. Isnt being the best the whole point of a PVP server, when you can dictate on your terms what you want by killing others? Why go so much further and drive them off the server in the process.
When's all said and done, at this rate nihilum, and a few individuals can admire their crowns while the tumbleweeds fly past; because no manastones and rubicite dropping is going to encourage people to go through all this shit again when the core problem isnt addressed.