It is apparent the vast majority wants something done. There are always people complaining about something but I think this subject is legit.
You want a sting with PvP death to discourage people from throwing themselves at you constantly ruining raids/PvE.
You want healthy competition between guilds. Everquest is hard enough as it is to achieve this. When there is a guild that has a core built during a time with 0 competition it is even harder. If a couple guys can sweep through and destroy 5 hours of PvE progression with no effort or required skill, it is too discouraging. There needs to be if anything an illusion of hope that another guild can rise and compete.
You still want to maintain the essence of Everquest, which is tough leveling with hours of grinding. If I have to decide between 4 hours of leveling in an open area with little risk over 3 hours of leveling in a dungeon with risk, I am likely to choose the open area. When you change this to 20 hours vs 15 hours it starts making sense to do the dungeon. Same ratios but there is a difference in how it effects decisions.
You want a healthy population of people making alts. This not only encourages classes to be made that require groups but it gives people starting out some allies to fight the twinks. People don't like the twinks, but there is no way around it. They were on live and they are here. On live all the noobs would gang up or get help from white knights. The only way to decrease the amount of twinks is for item loot to be implemented but that causes a whole other set of problems.
Rogean, Sirken, etc. are smart guys. They may not understand exactly how the server plays out because they don't play it but it looks like they are aware of what people are saying with this issue. They are meeting about it according to Sirken. I honestly have more faith in them coming up with a fair solution than most of you. Everyone thinks they are right but if half the ideas implemented in this thread happened it would just make more problems.
If they were clueless on what to do about it I assume they would ask us. From what I know of Rogean he doesn't seem to be the type to ask for help from us since it seems he doesn't respect most of the community. There are a lot of trolls here but then again it is a product of the harsh server the devs created. Losing 5 hours of progress to a no talent dip shit will instill some hate and hostility towards the server/community/devs.
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