1. yellow text, world-wide, zone info included. Why: gives everybody a piece of the action. makes server feel more alive. deters bind camping? (mostly). lets ppl know the truth about who is killing who. gives the glory of PVP to the victor. cons: might make ppl feel embarrassed if they got killed, which could deter them from playing on the server. however, this is a PVP server; you gonna die sometime. it happens.
2. keep a high exp rate - the +50% seems good at 50+. below level 46 it should be an additional +25% (so +75%, in addition to the scaling exp bonus that applies as you level). i was one of the ppl who championed shit-slow exp, thinking it would deter hackers because their accounts would get deleted. but i was wrong, the hack detection on this box is so good that... NO ONE HACKS. so there is no reason to keep the grind so dire. - also publicize how easy the exp is, letting blue players log on red as a breath of fresh air and knowing they can level quickly. ppl have jobs etc. they can't devote their entire lives to classic EQ grind. some ppl try, then burn out.
3. remove pvp exp loss. i like it but a lot of ppl don't. they want to be able to afk/fall asleep at the keyboard. BUT if you remove exp loss, there still must be a penalty for dying/bind rushing. so there should be, as someone else mentioned above, a res-timer type effect. I'd say it should be a 20 minute timer which renders you "frozen" - motionless, immune to pvp, unable to cast any spells, etc., but still able to speak in OOC. but also include a spam-filter if ppl putting out too many lines of text.
^^edit: unless you got resed. and keep a 30 minute res timer on PVP corpses.
4. keep global OOC.
5. resists.. i dont know about resists. i would keep them the way they are right now, except to make it easier to get partials on nukes? havent really tested it
6. playerbase has to not be douchetastic to anyone new. ppl ask "what is a good solo class that can also pvp on this server" answers: rogue, warrior, etc. come on ppl... you WANT to have some challengers, right? why are you here?
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