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Originally Posted by Cars
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Listen man, your wrong. Nihilum is not the problem for NEW players, they are a problem for level 50+ chars that want to loot high-end gear or enter the raid scene.
Anyone joining this server knows that you have 3 choices that should determine your end-game expectations. You can join Nihilum and farm pixels hard on sundays with little competition, then PvP with huge advantages. You can Join Nihilum's competition which are outnumbered and outgeared knowing the only way to beat them will be to out-number them eventually well picking up a few boss kills here and there. Or you can gather the best gear you can find outside of Boss mobs and run around the world PvPing exclusively. But all of that is END game and has no place in a thread about getting more NEW people to the server.
New player's need incentives that are provided in lieu of a greater population. Where on blue you can get xp groups easy, ports easy, binds in cities the moment you get there for melee's, etc, etc. Red doesn't have these things because of the population and that is a huge detterent to new players as this is where I imagine most of the grief happens, atleast the grief that gets people off the server. Assholes know that player's can't easily speak to the community at large until lvl 10 (Global OOC activates) and you see twink PK's crushing kids that just took a 45 minute boat ride to a city, just to be merc'd before they could get a bind. High level Bards cock-blocking mobs in newbie zones or higher level monks, Sk's and Necros FD training etc etc. THAT is the shit that gets people off the server and I guarantee you that nihilum is doing very little of it.
I say all this as a Blue convert, that came to the server without any inherited currency from blue, I have levelled my own char from scratch and I have no intention of joining nihilum. I am practically your target market.
I would limit global OOC and make it activate at lvl 5.
I would add yellow text.
I would add a group experience bonus (1-2 players get the server 25%, 3 players 35%, 4 players 45%, 5 players 55%, 6 players 75%)
Then I would wait and see what happens.
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100% this. The majority of my gear has come from kind Nihilum players, and their presence has done nothing but encourage me to play. What has bothered me (beyond the low population) has been low level fungi twinks like Dareal (who never managed to PK me but was a nuisance) and being FD trained by Azrael while I was trying to exp. I guess they thought I was a spy watching them buff before going after Vox, but does that give them the right to train? Why are the needs of the high levels more important than some random 20-something that
might be a Nihilum spy? It doesn't bother me when people attack or kill me via PvP, but I was under the impression that training was not allowed here. There are already FFA zones that basically make good pre-50 exp zones like perma off-limits; why train the newbies medding to kill more mammoths in EF?
Anyway, I've met very kind and helpful people in both Azrael and Nihilum, and I'm sure it was an isolated incident. There's just an air of paranoia surrounding everything that happens here, and if training is considered a viable tactic at the high-end (outside of VP) then I don't think I belong here.