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Originally Posted by RoguePhantom
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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.
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I don't think removing training would have done much. Hate would have just used force to hold the choke points. As much as Speedd did to hold down the good/neutral teams, training actually benefited neutral more than anyone. They didn't have the numbers and gear to take anything by force from Hate.
And the only reason SZ didn't end up exactly like R99 is because of the hard coded teams. Had neutral/good people been able to freely move into Hate it would have been Nihilum on steroids there. As it was, Hate still controlled the end game content to a Nihilum/TMO like level and that was with probably 10 times the raid content in the PoP era.
I think we can all agree we wouldn't want T99 to turn out like either SZ or R99 correct?