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Originally Posted by stormlord
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The reason pops have come down is rooted in two or more reasons. First, Velious released a year or two ago. I think that influenced the pop. Players rushed to try out the new content in a way only p1999 offers. Pops on blue were as high as 1600. This lingered for some months before settling down to ~1000 pops on blue. Another factor is time. More time means more twinks and raid players. The longtime players are going to rule the roost and make it tough for new players to level up and participate. Open world PvP in MMORPGs always suffers the most with time as result of the top heavy nature of progression MMORPGs. As example, I played mostly on Sullon Zek, and its pops fell dramatically over time to a trickle. This is true too for PvE servers, but not as severely, and for different reasons.
If It were me here's what I'd do:
1) Wipe (this is probably the single biggest beneficial move)
2) Add teams, like Vallon/Tallon or Sullon Zek (this eases the PvP strain; increases RP I think too)
3) Reduce Play Nice rules, but increase attention to hacking or boxers
4) Increase support for any kind of leaderboard or PvP point system (no in-game benefit)
I think this server is trying to avoid a wipe and increase Play Nice rules, but I don't think it's as effective. Why? Because this is Everquest. It's open world PvP. Too many rules are incompatible. What's it going to do, start forbidding winks from attacking levelers? Raiders prevented from attacking non-raiders? When will it stop?
It'd be interesting to hold a poll for all players currently playing actively on red and ask whether they think a wipe is appropriate. But how to ensure it's red players who're voting? And what about all the players not present to vote? It's always a tough choice to do a wipe, no matter what. Espeically with MMORPGs, PvP or not, progression is so important to many players. Everquest is a special case, due to its longterm progression nature.
If nothing is done I'm ok with that. We all have to realize Everquest is almost 20 years old. Even if Red deteriorates slowly to nothing, what's that but the ultimate fate of all old games?
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97% of current players and former players including shitcans like me would love a wipe. I actually want to experience a classic non geared pvp server where root still counts coz everyone has 45mr.
The 3% that dont want a wipe have sexuality issues and like wood elf female druids for reasons only they know.
You cant salvage red99 anymore and at best if you did everything humanly possible to up the pop I doubt it will ever go higher than 120. So why waste all that effort for an additional 10-20players when you cohld easily have a 300-500pop server again in a weeks notice.
All the ideas floating around to salvage this server are remedies. Agnars dropped this server a bit since velious dropped on that server and luclin will drop it again because thats content people havent experienced yet. Agnarr has quite alot of red99 players on it coz they accidently reveal thrmselves by saying pras in groups or in the global channels. Have a chat to em and they all say the same thing..."wipe this shit server and I will be back in an instant".