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Old 04-14-2012, 04:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Tradesonred [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
It is of the essence of the server, because of pvp xp loss, that you need to zerg. Holocaust did it first, and they lost the zerging game.
Exp loss is a red herring.

This same shit happened on VZTZ and when it comes down to it it's because an expedient way to win control of the server.

Heresy and later Hand Picked did the exact same thing, then when numbers dropped and there was no one left to compete with (like HP and the last days of 3.0), they just kicked out the cannon fodder and retained the core crew which spent their time farming raid mobs.

The problem is zerging is an easy way to win guild wars and no one is willing to stave off the temptation to resort to it.

By all rights Nihilum should cut their numbers and allow others to form new rival guilds and keep things interesting, but they won't because the competitive streak is too strong in most people that play on PvP emulators.