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Originally Posted by Weekapaug
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I was pondering this a bit more last night and it occurred to me that a lot of these problems go away if you just make it a straightup light vs dark 2 team ruleset. I prefer 3 teams, myself, as I'm sure most do, but if there was any problem with SZ that was, arguably, it. Evil will most likely be the most populated team, so not watering down the two opposing teams, which are basicly the same anyway, could go a long way to offsetting that. The only people that really effects are those who actually enjoy the challenge of playing the underdog goods.
Not my personal preference but, yeah, that's one simple, open, basic ruleset deviation from SZ that might go a long way towards offsetting the evil advantages. Maybe throw evil FFA in there as well. And you don't bastardize the entire game into something unrecognizable from real EQ in the process.
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As much as I hate the idea of changes (as I've said already) from the familiar formula we had on live, this is probably the one I think I could tolerate the most. If I really had to see the devs do something custom, it would be to somehow allow Neutral and Good to combine forces. Rolling them into one team could be a suggestion, but even just hardcoding teams for Evil and allowing Neutral and Good to group/guild might help. All it would take is some coordination to really challenge Evil, and if they decided not to...well then they could still PvP with each other.
But again, I'd prefer one small change to how teams interact (coding them together, FFA on evil, whatever) than hard leveling caps, customized starting stats, creating items that don't currently exist, or what have you. We can tweak and change all these things but all the 30+ years of gaming has proven is that people will always find a way to work the system. If Evil is going to dominate teams99, it's going to dominate. Unless of course they align teams in a way that has nothing to do with race or deity, in which case none of this is even relevant.