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Old 08-26-2013, 11:14 AM
Elderan Elderan is offline
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Originally Posted by Drone [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
not sure why trying to improve the pvp experience is bad for the pvp server

and next time you quote me, don't filter out the inspirational dwarf head copy/paste kk
There is no point improving pvp unless you can bring in the people to support pvp. This is why I have stayed away from resist/item suggested changes.

Got to understand that EQ PVP as a whole was a limited player base. At EQ1 peak there were 500k active players, of that 25k were PVP which represented 5% of the EQ player base. So if blue has 1k nightly players then you cannot expect more then 10% or 100ish players pvpers on red. You need to entice people to come to play red even if their primary love isn't pvp.

There is a small group of pvpers who have been going from server to server for years now. The VZTZ LOZ groups. These are the people you don't want to cater to as most are burned out at this point anyway and would never last long term.

Red needs to attract a lot of blues over population. There needs to be a reason for people who are tired of blue or quit there to move to red. The ideas I mentioned above would be very enticing for a lot of those people.