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Originally Posted by Motec
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Hope more the server can find a medium that is sustainable, high pop and allows people like me to want to play there.
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Motec, I would love it if there was a server where you and I would both want to play. You seem like a stand up guy. Your graphic was hilarious. So here are some facts.
1. Rogean feeds hamsters
2. We are the hamsters
3. Rogean fed the hamsters rat poison
4. Rogean said "oh shit... I killed most of the hamsters... I like hamsters!"
5. Rogean began to wonder, how can I get more hamsters after I killed off most of the hamster population?
So now we've identified the issue. Rogean cut off his nose to spite his face. Whether he's getting kickbacks from RMT, at the very least the one benefit he stands to gain for all his efforts is an audience. And he killed most of that audience.
I write for ESPN TrueHoop Network. I don't get paid for it, but my site is linked by ESPN.com and that gives me an audience. I love it when people post comments on my site saying I don't know shit about basketball. I would rather have people tell me I'm an idiot than wonder if anybody is reading any of it. I like having an audience.
Keep in mind, I was Cynthia in Nihilum. I had enough raid attendance that I was getting loot. I quit immediately after Kunark release because I never saw PvP. Poopsocking raid content uncontested did not interest me. I'm stating all this publicly so even if I remember Cynthia's password eventually, I won't be welcomed back.
Now Sirken wants to discuss the relative merits of Red99 and VZTZ. Well, I can tell you straight up, the GMs showed favoritism to the cheaters in the top guilds on both servers and punished the cheaters in the challenging guilds on both servers. The difference, and what made VZTZ so much more entertaining, were the regular wipes. Yes, the GMs showed favoritism to the dominant guild. But the dominant guild didn't stay dominant forever because there would always be a wipe and a fresh opportunity to race to the top and have real competition.
There will NEVER be competition on Red99. Any possibility for that was destroyed by Rogean's rat poison. But do you want to know why a third server won't happen?
It's not because it would cost Rogean money, because if he announced it today he would have over $1000 in donations by the end of the day. It's not because P99 lacks the staffing because the idea of a third server would be extremely limited GM/developer intervention.
The reason a third server will not happen is because it would take Nihilum's audience away. I said earlier they want a server with no competition but that was hyperbole. What's the point of uncontested poopsocking when there is nobody around to be jealous of your uberness? If a third server with a race war or rallos ruleset with item loot was launched, nobody would be jealous of Nihilum... we'd all be laughing at Nihilum on our 600+ population server while we had a blast competing with each other.
Nobody would pay $100-300 for a CoF or a fungi on a server where you could lose it to PvP. The market for RMT would bottom out. With 300% xp and a double-speed timeline we would plow through the content and everybody could reach max level and compete over raid content. Nihilum would lose its membership because everybody would be playing on the fun server. That's why it will never happen.