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Originally Posted by heartbrand
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It has "died down" because of this unique phenomenon on red99 where "not doing" pve is somehow cool. On Live, as well as on other MMO's similar to EQ such as EQ2, there's multiple guilds trying to contest each other to slay the dragon. Somehow on Red99 killing the dragon is maligned as something embarrassing. As long as the so-called "hardcore pvpers" have this attitude, then there will continue to be a dearth of meaningful pvp that doesn't involve bind points and catching solo people out during Euro hours. Simply wiping the server will only provide 3-4 weeks of that initial excitement before it turns into the same thing all over again.
Red99 needs another guild or two who are interested in actually playing EverQuest, and a continual flow of PvE progression things, such as AA's, which gives incentives to people to keep logging on and playing, thus creating more PvP opportunities.
EQ is a game about PvP over PvE. Not throwing down in EC for the hell of it. It's also comical to hear all these hardcore pvper's talk as though they're here for the pvp, when they can't be found in open world PvP without a gank squad and multiple clickies searching for guaranteed wins.
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PvE is only embarrassing if you win it by throwing numbers at it, where's the sportmanship or challenge in that? Were all excited to compete yet there are people on the server ready to throw everything down the well to gain advantage and secure uncontested pixels. It's essentially the fear of losing that put us here, the server could have been amazing and the population easily supports 3 guilds going at it, but the fear of losing and having an actual challenge has came in the way of that.
Trying to start something up now knowing that you'd be ridiculed and have empire snatch every member that's worth a damn after a couple of weeks of "trying" isn't something anyone in their right mind is going to do. The best you can do is stick to your friends and play with them and snatch a couple of yellow texts here and there.
Got to embrace the challenge if you want the challenge bro, can't recruit everyone and run around with a 90 man zerg and think people going to stick around to get stomped, that's not how this works, it's only fun if it's actual somewhat fair. The only people who could essentially "fix" the server is the core of empire at this point, you'd need to drop the warm bodies and somehow figure out a way to make things fun/interesting again.
You know in sports the teams have equal numbers on the fields, that's because it simply would not be interesting watching a match where one team outnumbered the other team 3 to 1, same goes here...