New players that get grief (which we all did when we started) try to level the meta path.
1-10 newbie zone
10-25 unrest
25-40 mm
40-50 CoM
50+ solb
In unrest, mm, CoM, and solb are your highest concentration of twinks. So you gotta think outside the blubie meta mindset to level.
For the most part low level twinks generally are players that cant kick it at 60 i.e die alot (think players like Hekktor or Sixx both great geared rogues who are meh players ) so their only resolve is to make twinks and gain a massive mechanical advantage over new players and sit and wait.
Sixx was griefing new players by having a toon in the nub leveling guild and finding out where they were leveling then getting his monk/buffed ported to them (probably thru boxing half the time).
This is griefing and a reason why the server pop is low as most probably his behaviour forced a few people not want to play red99.
Now you multiply that by the 10-15 people that have done the same thing over the past years and boom the pop is -100 already.
Having a twink in mm and logging in once a day to pvp isnt really grief, there is a huge difference. I have leveled a few toons in my time (8+ level 55s) and most mm twinks are there to have fun, get some kills then bounce. Players that go out of their way to sit on groups till they break up and people log out is where the problem is.
I've said it since day one, and it stays true till now. If you don't give new people a chance to enjoy the red99 server for it's PvE spiced up with a bit of PvP then they just simply stop playing because of the various griefing twinks. When I starter playing I had people root me on naked runs then agro mobs and root them next to me to xp kill me but I pushed thru and found it to be a fun server albiet super low pop.
On red99's the super griefers (players like Sixx) are the main reason this server is 100-120pop at peak because they deny potential players a chance to enjoy the server when they first join just to pad some imaginary score on a leaderboard.
(It is another reason why yt's shouldn't even be announced till 55+ that is the players both have to be 55-60 for a YT to be announced)
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