Originally Posted by HippoNipple
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To Supreme
Just because there are a group of 10 guys killing bosses on a server with a population of 20 doesn't mean things are okay. They are only okay with a very small group of people that are happy to have their own box. If devs want a high population obviously they have failed. If they want to make a server for you and a couple of their friends then they got what they wanted.
To Heartbrand:
I agree with almost everything you have said. It speaks volumes that LoZ has the population it does when a server this sound is up. I know you can take the population of LoZ and multiply it by about 60% to get the real number but it is still way higher then red99.
Everyone has their idea of what the server should be. If I could make my perfect pvp server, that would sustain with the current population and interest, it would be red99 server with LoZ rules, minus the crazy exp. If red99 allowed you to 2box, had the pvp stat system, yellow text, hotzones (lower bonus but something to get players in the same area), I would play on red99 no question.
People on red99 have become very bitter it seems, yelling at anyone suggesting that this box with 20 people on isn't the best, and anyone saying otherwise is soft. Trying to call out people saying if they quit playing red99 it is because they can't handle it and are not hardcore enough.
Technically all of us have quit every game we have every played that we are not currently playing, and the reason is that they are not fun for us anymore. I didn't quit playing Rift, Tera, or Super Mario Brothers because it was too hard. All of us came from the original Everquest servers, did you quit them because they were too tough for you? People came here because they wanted to play a server like it was back in 1999. To some of you that means grinding like you did back then, to some of us it means having more then 2 players in your zone. You can make all the classic rules you want but having a population is the healthiest thing for a server.
I think the devs have gotten to caught up with the classic theme. The only thing that needs to be classic are items, zones, npcs, quests, coding, resists, melee dmg, no hacks allowed, etc. Things like 2 boxing, yellow texts, global ooc, pvp stats are just healthy additions that help add to the population. This server has 0 ability to adapt either because of stubbornness or lack of effort.
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