i havent played eq in 7 years until the last week or so tooling around on p99 in order to get reacquainted with the game in preparation for the red server, since being here i have stumbled onto 5 old school pvpers from rallos and sullon that are doing the exact same thing.
in short some folks are only here at all given the announcement of the red server and a good 50% of the playerbase however large or small it winds up being will not be from the folks like yourself nor the people regailing tales along the lines of......
"9 years ago i played on rallos zek for 3 days and it was neat. then i got pked and lost my bonechips and never went back. gee golly mayhaps i should have sallied forth and given it a darn good second try chap, if they make this new server team based, remove any penalty for dieing and make your corpse teleport to you when you die i do say i may indeed get a character to level 9 this time before quitting"
what you seem to be missing in your zeal to bloviate about how all pvpers are hackers is that the majority of people that will be drawn to this server are folks who played on one of the previous pvp servers in days past, which means that a ruleset mimicking something along the lines of said servers is what they will largely want, if the server does not have said ruleset and instead caters to players like you the majority of the playertype who would have played on it, (like myself) will not and the final population will be much lower than it would have been if the server catered to pvpers at the cost of snubbing those like yourself.
as an aside while i played eq the only hacking i ever stumbled onto were occasional shitheads with showeq, which was annoying but they were still just as killable as anyone else. on discord (the permadeath server...... oooooh scary scary i know) the hacks got downright stupid at week two and that was my first experience with teleport hackers and double bardspeed shadowknights etc, it ended up that way because the server was completely void of any GM attention whatsoever. hopefully this new server has a solution to do away with hackers as that is the single largest threat to its success that i see.
it is certainly not whether the pissy britches blues that think the most fun method of playing the game is to argue about who has camping rights to a gm or debate whether or not it is acceptable to refuse buffs to some mouthbreather screaming "sow plz" decide to play on it or not.
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