As you can see, every time I type out a thoughtful and insightful post aimed exactly toward drawing the vast, basically uncountable PvP crowd that is now forlornly surfing the internet, wondering what to do next, the bluebies go absolutely apeshit wild... it's the worst idea they've ever heard, or some equally spiteful thing.
This means that we are absolutely on the right track, guys.
PvP has been systematically disenfranchised by the hordes of new-blues, people who have been brought up thinking that World of Warcraft is the baseline for MMO and PvP. They get into forums and they shit them up with name-calling and misdirection at any hint of mechanics which would provide a rallying beacon for the MASSIVE amounts of homeless PvPers. Their numbers are legion; they are like mindless zombies swarming the few survivors after the apocalypse.
But there is a cure.
The price of PvP is eternal vigilance. Even after a real, actually PvP ruleset is implemented (which is absolutely the one and only way that R99 will ever thrive), there will be more whining than you have ever seen in a forum by blues who want blue server with the ability to attack someone off their camp every now and then (God forbid they ever get attacked themselves, then the exp loss of 1-2 ticks is totally insurmountable and prohibitive).
I have a few words for you bluebies: you already have a server. PvP now needs theirs.
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