Much of the community is dogshit right now. Between greed, competition over camps and spawns, and level/achievement racing, everything good about old EQ communities has been thrown out the window and the bad stuff has been amplified tenfold. Everyone's just trolling and memeing in the thread, but if OP's point continues to hold true you'll start to hear about it more and more.
All the forum troll brigade is painting blue as the toxic place, but it used to be any new player posting here or on reddit would rave about how great the community on blue was to them. I realize the raid scene was pretty diseased in a lot of ways, and there was a lot of exploiting and cheating in blue's past...but the state the server had settled into felt far more like an old school EQ server during Velious than whatever's going on with green right now resembles a classic server dynamic. The dude comparing it to live Velious in some thread today was dead on, I played then too. Yes blue's had far higher levels of twinking and alts and raid bot toons, but the feel of the server's pulse was still quite accurate.
This feels like the beautiful thing that was P99 has been turned into just another progression server. Maybe as some player attrition happens this could turn around, but I'd expect that to be three months at least or as much as the seven when the legacy items are gone. I guess things also might get sorted more once the playerbase settles into a farm routine in the 40+ scene and staff starts to ban people for boxing, training, ks'ing etc. Right now though there probably isn't enough coverage to push out the negative elements through bannings and discipline.
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