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Originally Posted by Fame
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Haven't seen or heard anything new since the discord troll. There is another server growing daily that seems to have listened to the player base and created a system designed around player input specifically intended to increase pvp activity. The economy is taking a shit and it's pretty obvious that any new blood has dried up.
You killed red to blue transfers because of a few bad apples and now we're headed back to the breadlines.
We just rollin with this or does anyone actually give a shit anymore?
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I have posted about my experience on R99 before and I came back to say that yes indeed this server is not for many new players. The reasons for this should be clear to most players.
#1 The server population is brutally low which makes groups very difficult to form at the best of times for new players.
#2 Some in the community who are heavily twinked, take great delight in getting YTs off poorly geared new players to the point of corpse camping and even ignoring LNS. To these players I say lol enjoy the dead server.
#3 Gear... It is so difficult for a new player to jump in due to a variety of factors.
A) Not everyone wants to kiss serious butt of total strangers to get gear good enough to be viable in PvP.
B) Most viable pvp gear drops and epics require a lot of help from older players, of which this server has very few who are interested in helping at all and which also ties into (A).
C) The PvE grind towards gear seems far more tedious than it is worth due to #1 and #2. The PvP along the way usually consists of a new player getting #2'd day after day after day with no real help except to be told not to PvP in zones where the #2 culprits love the stalk newbie victims. In other words, there is no real PvP @ this point, just simply being fodder week after week so some nerd can brag that he has the most YTs this day or week.
The alternative is to PvE for xp and gear in places where gear you will want does not drop and where the exp and grouping are sub par. People often do not exp in groups in Highpass Keep due to the distance to get there. Often after getting there and seeing just how slow the exp and loot drops can be a player then sees LFM in MM or Unrest etc. This means finding a port and often running all the way back across multiple zones just to get one.
#4 Some people here are so toxic that it just makes reading /ooc terrible. Don't get me wrong, it is not nearly as bad as Warcraft but at times its so bad that /ooc gets turned off or the ignore list gets so long that /ooc does not make sense due to not seeing what 30% of the comments are that get replied to.
In short, not enough people, not enough helpful people, not enough paths to getting viable pvp gear and enough toxic members in the community to make it worthless.
I have started playing on Zek and so far I have enjoyed it 1000% more than my time on Red1999. This is with a lvl 20 cap to start in the 1st week, no twinks and no cities captured yet for Good or Evil. Zek will have some issues but so far it is night and day vs Red1999.
Peace.