Weekapaug, vanilla SZ just won't work at this point. At the very least, you'd have to address the prospect of dozens of hardcore Red players who would intentionally try to grief new players off the server during the first week. That is not conjecture. That is the stated intention of more than a handful of current Red players from their own mouths. They want to see the new server fail and would intentionally try to do so by abusing the shortcomings in any ruleset. With SZ rules, they'd simply poopsock past most players in levels, then camp newbie zones. It doesn't matter that they couldn't do this forever, only that they could for the first few weeks. If you allow them to do that, the server will die in its infancy because hundreds of potential new players will decide the server sucks and give up on it.
This is why I say that the choice is between a modified ruleset or no server, because while you technically could make a vanilla PvP teams server, it would quickly turn into the new Red (a wasteland).
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