PVP Talks tonight decide Red99 fate

[Pudge]

A lot of ppl who haven't logged in, even for a long time, will be there tonight. Server needs some big changes. Or a wipe and remake with teams.

Before the server opened ppl were arguing for things that were similar to vztz. Staff said "this isn't vztz shitbox" - and basically dismissed years of evolution of emu PvP servers. These same ppl (currently stasis) have tried repeatedly to give advise on what needs to change. The biggest problem of the server is really the staff. Staff need to LISTEN to complaints instead of writing them off or telling ppl "SHIT'S CLASSIC - DEAL WITH IT." Nothing changes on the server and it's mostly because of Rogean. I know he's generally awesome for doing this project and all but Rogean, you guys obviously can't handle it all on your own. You are like 3 ppl coding changes for 2 servers that were serviced on live by like 20 ppl each. You need to delegate responsibilities to ppl who can get shit done, and have the power to say "yes, not showing LD over a player's head on a PvP server is classic (as evidenced by the post and link to eq patch notes). Let's implement that change. Oh, I see someone from the community has already posted the code necessary to achieve this, *copy, *paste." Obviously that guy would have to know how to code, but ppl have stepped up to help you on this project and been shot down or ignored (I'm thinking of Alekta here).

When it's starwars time, there needs to be someone who can approve changes. Also, someone who can implement non-classis balance changes, such as making golem wands have a 2 sec cast time (... like they did on vztz). Change the water spell dodging to classic, address resists, etc. If you had listened to the community and responded to problems as they arose, and not 2 years later, maybe things would be different and we wouldn't need some kind of overhaul. You really need more ppl to code, because it seems like you guys just don't have the time.

The fact that you guys have recently been paying more attention, being more amenable to change (bonus exp, YT, PvP exp loss), and are now engaging the community in this (these?) talks are encouraging and giving ppl hope. But changes need to actually happen - code needs to actually get written/deciphered (nulls) in order to bring the server back.

I'm hoping for teams at this point. Sullon was awesome. Wipe probably ain't gonna happen, but if you do it, it would instantly bring the pop back to like 250 every night, which is sustainable number for teams. Then you could remove ooc in favor of team chat, etc... at this point I'm just fantasizing so I'll end my wall of text.

Holding out to hear what this discussion gonna be like tonight.