I played on Vallon Zek when they switched to item loot, and let me explain how this was good and bad. It was amazing fun because I got to actually use the gear I worked hard to obtain anywhere but in a PvE situation. It was bad because it promoted low level twinks running around in fungal tunics as melee and ruining the experience for low levels.
Teams pushed teamwork, and it worked amazing. It worked so well there were raids where one side would invade another region, again lots of fun to be hard there. Teams also pushed cross-teaming but back then the Vallon Zek and Tallon Zek code wasn't like Sullon Zek. Had TZ and VZ (not that abortion free server that keeps popping up like a strange plague) actually had this coding I believed the server would have been so amazing.
A lot of people complained (read whine) that if they can't group with their friends then the server sucks. Well I would suggest you coordinate with your friends so you all end up on the same side. (But what if they don't want to) then kill them, pretty simple isn't it?
Teams PvP promotes community and promotes teamwork, FFA pvp promotes guilds, nothing more. Teams PvP promotes area domination and also promotes fighting for land, you can't have that on FFA.
All I know is, if red 99 ends up being another FFA PvP server with no item loot / coin loot and what have you, I won't be playing there. I am looking forward to a teams based PvP server, something that hasn't been done as of yet. If I want the same old hat VZTZ, im sure another server will pop up in a week.
4 Teams PvP
Item Loot
Coin Loot
No Xp Loss / No Xp Gain
Just like it was on live. It worked EXTREMELY well there, and thus I think it will work extremely well here.
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