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Originally Posted by stormlord
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What you have here is the fact pvp in the open world (in EQ classic especially) is unpopular. You can't make it popular without making this into a completely different game. Don't use EQ in the same sentence.
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What?
How is pvp in the open world unpopular?
The rest of your post makes sense if you want "classic" to mean how the mechanics worked back in the day, but there's so much more to it than that. You played RZ so you know the classic FFA social scene involved a big anti-PK movement. Plus there were a lot more players to xp with back then. So the PKs were generally well-known and ostracized by the community, and there were plenty of groups happening within the anti-PK circles.
I don't really like having an xp bonus at all, but it's hard to argue that it doesn't bring players together as it is now. Which is more in line with the classic experience than having everyone out soloing on a dead server and getting those easy kills on rogues and warriors whenever they're seen.
The real problem is the low population, not any particular xp system. Honestly I'll never understand why the blue server gets so many more players than red.