[Slathar]

Originally Posted by Grandbeard [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I will go further than this. Fungi twinks do this a lot, making some of the most interesting and FUN zones to level in, nearly impossible. They also get buffs for these twinks which only makes things so much harder.

I know in Thunderdome we were told repeatedly in Guildinfo and in guild chat to avoid Crushbone, Unrest, Mistmoore and CoM. Now all of these zones are fun to level in and often the only place that is viable to find a group (due to major low population).

Once you get past Crushbone, Mistmoore and Unrest, many people group up in City of Mist due to the cool loot drops and the exp. In this zone you can still get hardcore griefed by players who level up, then Delevel so they can be super twinked in ToV gear etc.

Also bards tend to come in the zone who are OOR and they intentionally train lower groups so they can maximize their aoe bard kiting. OOR monks have also trained groups in CoM with FD. I have died just as much to intentional training from OOR players than I have due to PvP, so it can get pretty bad. Then the person who trained often logs in an in range toon and starts picking off naked toons on a CR, for YTs, until those on a CR call LNS. Considering the brutally low server pop, this is beyond annoying. It can take an hour to get a group going, if not more. Players end up losing experience and end up LNS from the zone.

So when you are a new player, all the fun quickly gets sucked out of the game. Most people like a game because it is fun. Sadly the Red99 community has a fair sized pool of people who are intent on destroying that fun.

They only think of themselves and could care less if the server population drops below 60 during prime hours. They are so desperate for YTs that nothing else matters. New players will almost never be able to compete against this due to the vast difference in gear, dps and resists.

This server does have some decent and fun people but with such a low population, the options for grouping are very low and for some classes, soloing can be brutally painful.

The best thing they can do to revitalize Red99 is an announced server wipe with staggered expansion progression. Perhaps only to Kunark if the server population can't handle another 20+ empty zones.

On the other hand, you could join the server as is and experience all this "fun" for yourself.

I have a fungi twink in CB, Unrest, MM and CoM. Stay out or I'll put you down, boy.