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Originally Posted by Solist
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No rules is fine. Let people camp wherever. Zero rules..
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I'm in agreement but that isn't how the staff feel. I have played on a lot of emulated servers across a dozen games and one thing that is mostly constant is the staff interfering with a heavy hand in game disputes. Classic EQ if you petitioned someone kill stole you or took your camp or whatever pretty much nothing was going to happen. You weren't going to get an answer.
On P99 though bans are handed out like candy for this kind of stuff. It's probably related to the small player base emulated servers have. On Live you had one server GM for 3-5,000 players across an even larger player base that wasn't logged on. On P99 for example there are multiple server GMs, devs, guides, etc for 2 servers now with <1k players and most of those people are playing both servers and they are very active players where they basically make up the playerbase there is a much less significant long tail of offline players.
I've been a game server admin before and resisting the temptation to fuck with your player base is hard. Both good or bad fucking with them it's just hard to keep your hands off because you think you can make things better by interfering. Takes awhile to learn that sometimes it's better to keep your hands off. P99 has catered to an audience now that expects rule lawyering and hand holding from GMs so if they ever went back it would probably dramatically impact the population as all the people who don't like that environment don't play here anymore.