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Originally Posted by Kergan
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You're kidding right? Hate (and Ruin before them) had a bigger stranglehold on that server than TMO or Nihilum have here, and with dozens more raid targets. Through PoP neutral never made it to the elemental planes and barely touched VT. Goods had it even worse...ask Nizzar. Did the good team ever kill any raid target in the current tier in the first 2 years of that server?
Neutral was pretty much held to raiding current content several tiers behind, Velious targets, etc. Luclin and PoP were pretty much the easiest expansions ever to control as everything had huge timesink key entry (VT) or "achievement" based progression (PoP). You could choke off entire tiers of content or entire raid zones by cockblocking a single mob like Emperor Ssra.
In every sense we do NOT want T99 to turn out anything like SZ did from a competitive standpoint. As Hate held exclusive access to more and more content as expansions were released their gear advantage grew. This led to good/neutral people quitting or rerolling evil perpetuating the advantage.
The only way other teams were able to compete was to pay the $40 transfer fee to go to Legends, get geared there off instanced content and then transfer back. That of course is not an option here.
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If you take training out of the Equation, SZ ruleset is perfect for the crowd that WANTS to play Red99 as a PvP server, not as a secondary Blue box.
Neuts, who I was with from the beginning, were behind. But Neutral to Evil was never as bad as Nihi vs Server is here on Red99 (Yes, Goods were so far behind, but that was due to no strong guilds/players). Sure Speedd with MQ and Warping (and others from Neuts, myself included) were able to stop raids. But you take straining and MQ out of the equation, T99 with no limit PVP will work fine with Velious.
Velious is the FIRST expansion when EQ could truly support a PvP server. There simply isn't enough content for teams to progress through and stay relevant. One team can lock down the entire server (Look at Mage/Wizard Epics and all stuff off of CT/Inny that Nihi has on complete lockdown) when there are only a few GOOD Raid targets. Velious was able to add many more targets, and the gear "Tier" was not that hard to overcome. Kunark/Epics were still very very competitive with Velious gear (Got real out of hand during high Tier PoP/PoTime zones) and no one team could lock everything down.
You talk about people quitting/rerolling from Good/Neut to evil, but more people have jumped onto Nihi than ever quit SZ because of gear/guild advantage.