I imagine the new regime throwing out bans as often as possible doesn't help the population either. It's nice that people spend their time trying to regulate the behavior of the players here but beggars can not be choosers and if you have less than 200 people and you decide to go nuts on them with bans and suspensions you are going to do more harm than good if you go out and push 30 people away. More than that I think the willingness to broadcast their desire for heavy handed intervention has been heard by everyone here and repeated by people complaining about being banned.
a hypothetical if someone might indulge me.
A new player comes to Red99. He notices that the experience bonus that brought him here has evaporated, can't find a reason, can't find a statement about what the reason might be, if it will continue to be or not. When deciding if he wants to put a month into the box before running into another person he jumps on the forum and reads that people are being banned rather impulsively. He also finds a community not very welcoming. A new player stops playing.
I understand that the staff here has a vision, and that they are trying to force us to get on board. They need to understand that we are not going to get on board. We all want to pvp so bad that we play even though we don't agree with your decisions and in return we get very little for being passionate about everquest. In fact throughout the history of the server it has been my opinion that the red community has been made into pariahs for doing exactly what should have been expected of them.
I think it is time for some change on both sides of the fence but the unfortunate problem is that it can't start with us. We are a symptom of our environment and unfortunately we haven't been provided with an environment where we can behave differently.
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