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Originally Posted by Toehammer
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Agreed with most everything, transfers from blue would be pointless and are unwanted. I leveled a character post 50 here on red. I prefer to keep the servers separate... don't even like cross-server trades on forums. Red has risen from the ashes of 20 online prekunark to ~50-70 online post kunark... improvement is good regardless. We will most likely never see average numbers above 100 (primetime maybe). Just accept it. If you don't like playing on a sub-100 population server, play somewhere else. I don't mind too much.
Sure it would have been nice if it was > 200 playing, but that just doesn't happen when a server has some serious flaws from the start and people actually take pleasure in "winning a box." Apparently winning EQ is griefing others off a server, wasting everyone's time, avoiding good PvP except if you have numbers, exploiting mage swords/guard assist/wands, or, currently, recruiting anyone and everyone so there is one powerhouse guild with ZERO competition. Like Sirken has said, the Red community caused the low population on its own (minus the broken game mechanics).
I am having fun with the dreadfully low population. EQ is still fun soloing, just not AS much fun.
Most importantly your thread (ForeverLost) in the blue forum had completely the wrong message... merge servers into one PvP server? [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] That is just crazy. Red just wasn't tested well, launched well, managed well, and played well. Population is low, it might creep back up, but we just have to keep playing and hope for the best. I know I am! |
Thank you for being constructive. Most people didn't seem to realize that my post in the blue forums was more tongue-in-cheek than it was serious, seeing as it's not going to happen ever.
I guess the low population really is a turn-off for me. The red community did cause the low population, the server's mechanics are surely playable. I saw that blue players really would play here if allowed their blue characters, and I saw some hope. Really I had no idea that the average red player would be so against the idea; I figured they would be elated to receive a population increase. Since the population will forever be this low, I have to say that I am leaving for blue (level 15 so far, doing well I guess!) for good. It was a lot of fun playing with you all during the IF days, suppose that was EQ PvP's final hurrah.