It has its pros and cons, and EQEMU is vary flawed and heavily favors the cons of team pvp, single character, single account, single person would be ok... but no matter what you tie accounts to, unless you collect drivers licenses and verify their authenticity it will always be questionably easy to forge new accounts. If there was a good work around. It wouldn't be that bad. I don't think many people invested in cross teaming that much in WoW when I played during openworld pvp.
Then again. Maybe if the no 2 boxing rule was heavily enforced cross teaming and multiple characters would not rate that high of an issue. Because people would have to focus on one character at a time. Nullifying the overall benefit of being able to back stab your teammates. Not to mention if someone has a character known for backstabbing it will be shunned pretty fast.
I don't see it as impossible to deal with. The original point of SZ style teams is to get multiple tiers of characters involved in playing in a zone together. It really is bad if you have no allies on a team. Which judging by this server... is probably how it will be most of the time due to population alone. i.e. SZ worked because out of 200 people on a team, 20 would spend time defending newbie areas at least. I don't know. I don't see that deep level of investment on this server from anyone. Unrest changes hands based on who desires to PL the most there. Or its in the hands of an individual "twink pk guild(TM)" because thats who has invested the time to park a character there 24/7. It would be kind of funny if high levels could run in and steamroll "Knights Templar, or Unrest County Police" or whatever. It would require them to level up for sure. Rather than just stay level 18 with a fungi and MOSS.
Its not impossible to level on a purely no level range server. Although its extremely tedious at times. A server like that will definitely favor Nihilum like players the most.
However at best, for most of SZ's existence the only way to have BIS characters was to be team evil. It seems 90% or more on EMU servers play to achieve BIS gear on min/max toons. They don't RP or immerse beyond pixel hunting very well. Handfuls of players on both servers just play "to be their character" or their on line persona.
Maybe TLDR... but at release WoW was not a bad example of teams working, it was one of the good ones.
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