I was personally excited about the pvp server opening up. However as someone who has played eq on and off for 11 years starting on Tallon Zek, I know that the exp loss is going to make the server less enjoyable for the majority of players.
I as a solo player however will not even consider playing on this server when other players have the ability to make the gruesome task of leveling in everquest even harder. To say that there is no penalty for death in this game without experience loss is just ludicrous.
I see the people making this arguement and recognize that none of them are going to be starting on the server by themselves. None of them will be in the position of being in a dungeon with the couple of friends they have managed to make on this server only to get steamrolled by an angry group of top tier players. None of them will then be forced to wait until that group is tired of harassing them so they can resume playing the game.
Everquest is already the most hardcore unforgiving mmo to have ever existed. Pretending that there needs to be further penalties to the exp bar is bonkers. I'd be very surprised if this server doesn't experience a fair amount of griefing aside from the experience loss on pvp death.
I see plenty of the players from VZ/TZ playing here and I know from experience that those people have no problem sitting on zonelines raining people who try to enter so that they can't even zone in without immediately dying, pulling trains, hacking, and any form of grief they can think of sending your way. That only led to more of the same on that server and eventually it ruined it. Adding more grief to a game already filled with ample opportunity to grief is in my opinion self destructive.
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