A server has to have a solid backbone of anti RPK playerbase to be healthy. I't can't just be a bunch of random people running around constantly ganking for no ingame reason and survive. This is why all 4 (5) of the EQ pvp servers died.
Its also why Shadowbane died out, eventually the GM's there stopped doing in game events, then the "roleplay" lore guilds left, then the anti RPK guilds left, and what you had left was the dregs of the servers, lore-less RPKs who attracted (like they always do) a larger percentage of cheaters and dupers. Then the game shut down, as the warefare and pvp became nothing but one giant Epeen flameware contest.
We honestly need more guilds that are anti RPK like grindcore. What we really need is one or several of the big PvE blue guilds from blue99 to move to red.
The griefers must be a minority of playerbase for the server to be healthy, period. I've seen the same thing play out over and over again since the late 80's.
Has there been any rumores within the big blue99 guilds of switching over? Even they have to see its better to fight over Trak then sit around for 15 hours and petition a GM.
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