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Originally Posted by Swyft
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I fail to see how one guild comprising 2/3rd's of the server's pop and regularly camping all the high end content can be considered competitive.
If literally every player that wasn't Nihlium became one guild they would still be outnumbered and outgeared. Any guild who even downs trak a single time considers it a major victory that's the dismal state of affairs currently.
Sullon Zek suffered the same fate, the evil team was simply so large that every player who wasn't evil was forced to go to Legends just to get competitive gear. And sullon was intended to have pvp item rewards that's why every player dropped a coin.
The only reason sony didn't institute the rewards was because they were making too much money off Legends transfers to put anything in the game that would discourage that.
I'm not QQing or Whining this is just the way things are currently. If raiding encouraged pvp then why do we never see regular pvp groups of Nihi in the world. No farming encourages farming and that's all it is, rewards encourage pvp and would reward skill in pvp.
It doesn't seem to make much sense to have a red and blue server where on both your only rewarded for blue activities.
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if youre not the #1 guild on the server, downing trak IS a big deal. especially if it's not something thats done often.
if i understand the second bit correctly, your argument is based on the fact that Nihilum doesnt have roaming pvp squads / gank squads (whatever u wanna call them). well, not every guild does (or did) that. i've been in guilds that went looking for pvp, and ive been in guilds that only pvp'd for reasons like taking a camp/raidboss or preventing enemies from having a presence in certain zones, etc. (on Vallon Zek only one guild was able to even hunt in sebilis until some time after the first warrior botb)
fact of it is, there's more than one way to play EQ. if you're chosen play style is less rewarding than you'd like it to be, then maybe it's time to mix things up.
and lastly, the red server is essentially blue with pvp turned on. what i mean by that is EQ is primarily a PvE game. and so even with pvp turned on, EQ is still a PvE game, it just also includes PvP. the main focus of EQ will always be PvE. the main point of PvP imo is to lock down PvE content to prevent your enemies from getting pixels that will help them destroy you for that same PvE content later on. Roaming ganksquads serve absolutely no in game purpose (your enjoyment is out of game), and so they yield no actual in game rewards.
other servers in the past (like VZTZ) have taken the approach to improve upon EQpvp, and work their server the way they feel things would have gone if pvp was a bigger priority than pve. but R99 is not one of those servers. R99 is trying to re-create a pvp server that has a bit from each of the 3 classic pvp servers (admittedly some servers more or less than others). you can love it or hate it, but because of that PvE will always be the largest focus, and will always yield the biggest and the best rewards on this and any live like EQpvp server.
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