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Originally Posted by iruinedyourday
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I played on Red from rallos zek launch to P99 and as much as I would like to join red cus everyone says its so great, I cant stand how much I love sitting down at a zone line and leaving my apartment to get pizza and coming back to find my character still sitting there, un-faceraped.
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The only EQ PVP servers I have ever played on have been Sullon Zek and Zek. Red99 does not compare to either of these servers (or other live PVP servers I imagine) for a wealth of reasons. The two biggest of which are: the massive exp bonus, and the distinct lack of PVP.
AFK for pizza is definitely a piece of utility I hadn't previously considered and in that way you have discovered (and revealed to me) one of the perks of playing on the blue server. A lot of the people I have met playing games like this have been largely loot motivated, regardless of whether the server was PVE or PVP. For players who are largely loot-driven (very common in players of MMOs/RPGs) the red server offers a sickening level of loot saturation on a per-player basis that is quite easily acquirable... at least relative to the blue server here. I say this both because of the insane EXP bonus on red which empowers newcomers to blitz to 60, and because there is essentially only one raiding guild on the server.
No idea how many guilds currently compete for raid targets on the blue server here (since I've never played there), but I have to imagine that one guild has not taken 90-100% of the end-game bosses week after week for the majority of the server's history. This is what I am more specifically referring to when I use the term "loot saturation."
But the pizza point was a really good one, something that didn't even cross my mind when I was comparing the two servers.