Discussion on R99 vs VZTZ **POSTPONED**

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I have a sincere question.

Why does everyone bring up Nihilum's advantage in gear and control as the major negative of the server?

Almost every single other person either bailed on the server or got banned. I ran across continents and didn't see anyone. There are far more voices bitching about this being the main detractor of the server than there were playing prior to Kunark.
The advantages Nihilum has because they spent all that time raiding is also likely the only reason the Red server still exists.

Are you truly and honestly mad at Nihilum because they are ruining what you think a pvp server should be, or because of what they have done to you ingame? I've gotten to see how deep down the animosity against Nihilum goes.

They can be beaten. It's not a matter of leadership or whatever else, it's a lack of experience and cohesion with one another. If you have 12 people who know and like each other and have months/years worth of experience playing together, you can accomplish an incredible amount in EQ.
Along with 5 friends I made a guild on the Live servers and we took casual players with little or no raid experience and after a few months, often frustrating months, they became a well-oiled machine and accomplished more than I expected.

It takes months to work like that, and if you aren't prepared to wait that long I hear there's a WoW emu that will give you instant gratification. Everytime you guys start to get better as a unit, I log in and there's been some catastrophic event and either there's a mass exodus or the whole guild is gone and there are 2-3 new guilds.

There are a ton of new players. I know this better than anyone. Stop killing them and start training them to fight. If some people spent half the effort improving the guild that they do trying to show off their e-dicks in ooc, everyone would be the better for it. Find your core of loyal, determined and dedicated players and build around them.

I constantly go out of my way to help everyone I can, almost always at my own expense. I've PLed people I'd never met, I've given out tens of thousands in pp and gear to new players because a little help and encouragement goes a long way when that person wonder if it's worth it to keep playing. I can't help them all, or remember them all, but I doing more than my share to benefit the server.

You may dislike my method of operation, you may irrationally hate me because I am friends with Northwest and always will be, and you may even detest me because I play a halfling and midgets are low to the ground and therefore closer to Satan, but it's ok, I'll get over it.


I play on a damn dial-up connection (Who's classic now, huh?) and I have done whatever I could to improve the server without it benefitting me in any way. What the fuck have you done that wasn't in your own interests?