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Originally Posted by Slave
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Unless they are out of pvp range for you... which is just all too likely here, because INEXPLICABLY THERE IS A LEVEL RANGE FOR PVP, allowing all sorts of faggotry like out-of-range healers.
Remove the PvP level range and Play Nice, add teams, add item loot, remove No Drop tag.
I would go apeshit to play on a server like that, and damn the exp.
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Obviously you have never seen a book on gamedesign. I dont mean to attack you personally but i can tell you if you do that you will have a huge drop. First of all play nice policy? Who will enforce it? The one GM ? She has already enough to do with all the other crap thats going on. How long do you want her to be online? What about us Euros? Shall we wait till late at night to log on so we can petition if someone is breaking the rules? How about we use recordings everytime we play so we can "prove" if things go wrong when a GM aint online.
I dont mean to disrespect you its just a friendly discussion.
@Hotstud All these "free" mmos are buisnesses and will suck out your money faster than any subscription based mmos. EQ Red is a hobby and will not attract anyone who hasnt any kind of relation to the game.
I personally would exchange some expierence with similar games on PvP basis that are emulators of old mmos. There are UO Freeshards for over a decade with hundreds of players based on Felucca PvP Setting ( Blank loot victims, stat lost etc) or the DAOC emulators. One in particular named "Uthgard " where i played on has arround 1000- 1500 players. I remember they had a very rough start too and as far as i can tell they did they following:
Staff got harder. If you break the rules or used "exploits" they would roll back the characters. If the people complained on the forums and bitched about it they were bannded. At first the server population dropped but word got arround and people started playing. What players need is a straight and firm line of rules, not many but which get dealed with.
They filtert the wayne from constructive feedback, which is done here im sure. They have a clear and easy access to patch information with all changes.
Moderated the forums. After all this is where people look first. They didnt banned players but they certainly wipef the forums clean from all the BS that was posted under false sections and warned people to keep it that way.
They were very strict at beginning but people adapted to it and new players came and knew only these rules and nothing else.
Well the server poped from maybe 100 active up to 1000 it was so successfull that even non-german speaking people started to play so they even opend a international sections in the forum also moderated by english speaking people which added another 400- 500 acive players.
Last but not least they have very strict rules for their staff interacting with players. I know lots of you have friendly ties with the staff here which is ok but naturally you let some people easier from the hook if you have known them for years rather someone who is totally unknown to you. Still if a server would work, staff has to be hard and fair.
I dont say the same could work with red99 but it worked for them. They have a very healthy Server even running in game events maybe some of the general ideas would work here too.
Here the link:
http://uthgard.net/en/rules
I must admit thought the rules are very "german".