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Tuis? He was in KotWR before jumping to PDM lol....sad day.

I loved the PvP aspect of the game. Everyone talks about the negatives - the training, the corpse camping etc. But in the early days of TZ people respected each other so much so that we had "Player Written, Player Enforced" Play Nice Policies. It had nothing to do with being blue - it was just simple courtesy shit. Hey I killed you, I'll let you get yer corpse, you leave the zone for at least an hour.

There's no "challenge" in killing someone nekkid 20 times as they try to retrieve their corpse. Just like there is no challenge in bind rushing an oom wizard that just kicked yer ass and you KNOW he doesn't have the mana to do anything but gate.

NOT knowing is what made PvP exciting. You jumped into situations, whether it was in yer 20s ganking a group of darks at the treants in SK (which we lovingly called the ATM), or whether you were roaming around Kunark in the open lands in yer 50s on the prowl that pumped adrenaline and gave the game a challenge level you can not achieve fighting _a_random_mob_002.

That being said however - the PLAYER BASE is what will determine whether or not a Red99 succeeds or fails. No amount of server coding or GM intervention is going to be able to ensure a sense of "community" that makes people want to stay and progress thru the good and the bad.