It's pretty clear that most of the people in Nihilum are defending the status quo on Red completely out of self-interest. I mean, there's no defensible argument in favor of a server where half the players are in a single guild and have no real competition. They're basically just playing on their own private guild server. Literally every other non-Nihilum could disappear from the server and they'd still probably still have two dozen guys logging on to raid and collect pixels to show off to each other.
I'd have a lot more respect for them if they would come say flat out that they enjoy raiding uncontested and having the occasional PvP steamroll for kicks. Because pretending that they're playing there because they love PvP or competition is completely laughable, and it's obvious they don't even believe that themselves. There's literally nothing more blue than raiding uncontested with half the server in your guild and rolling over unorganized opposition wearing Planes armor while you're fully decked in VP gear.
The funny thing is, I guarantee that 90% of Nihilum would actually have a lot more fun on a Teams server. They've got to be getting bored as fuck with the current state of Red. Yeah, you'd lose your pixels starting over on Teams, but so would everyone from Blue. And once you saw how exciting the Teams environment is, you wouldn't miss them. At least, not if you're the type of EQ player who values friends/fun/PvP/excitement more than simply acquiring pixels. And I think that's actually most players, even the ones currently hoarding pixels on Red.
Red is basically stuck in a rut and will never emerge, because there's zero incentive for any new players to join the server. It's on a long, slow death spiral and will continue that way. It will just be Nihilum raiding, one decent sized "opposition" guild that picks up the scraps, and a handful of PvP guilds of half a dozen people or less who run around randomly trying to pick people off. It will never get any better because no one wants to play on a terrible server like that except Nihilum and a few die hards who have already leveled characters and log on occasionally just to look for fights.
If you actually want a functioning PvP server, and not just a Nihilum raiding sandbox, you should support a new PvP Teams server with these proposed rules.
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