Prices mean newbies can't afford fungi tunics, but it also means they can deck themselves out in tolerable quality mid-range gear for stupidly cheap. I'd say if anything it's easier to get up to speed as a new player on P1999 than it was on Live during the Velious era. I ought to know since I never stuck to a character and often started over on new servers.
I'm not sure how Red can be called a failure when it seemingly attracted about the same proportion of players as the historic EQ PvP servers had. Most EQ players don't enjoy EQ-style PvP. That's just how it is and no amount of blue forum recruiting will change that. Want to make Red grow? go to *other* boards and spread the word about P1999. Make the entire community grow and some proportion of them will migrate over to Red.
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"Limit everyone to 1 character"
How would you accomplish this? Accounts are free.
Danth
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