[Poll by Post] Red99: A short questionnaire for our Blue community members

[iruinedyourday]

My experience with pvp in eq in 15 years of live:

On blue, you're in a zone camping something, someone zones in and helps you.
In red you're in a zone camping something, someone comes in and kills you.
in blue you're trying to xp, someone helps you
in red you're trying to xp, someone tries to kill you.

In the end, red is so far behind blue in groupable equipment that you have 2 top tear raid guilds and the rest just struggle to get their class armor.

PvP is a greeeaaaaat fun way to enjoy the game, but when you want to progress it makes it very, very difficult especially for the non hardcore players.

I love pvp, I've been doing it for a long time but If it wasn't for my guild and the time I put into it, I would have transferred my live characters to a blue server long (ironic that in 24 hours after reading about 1999 I bailed faster than you can say, 'CC?'... goes to show how awesome the devs are here, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! but I digress)...

I had a guildy transfer once and I thought I'd never see him again, he came back 4 or 5 months later with devastatingly far better gear than our main tank guild leader. And we were the 3rd highest rated guild on the server and we had to work SO HARD to get there! It was very demoralizing.

EQ was never designed with PVP in mind, so it will never really function well with it, you can try, but it makes the game very difficult to play the way it was intended.. that may be a good thing for you, it may be a bad thing for you, thats for you to decide.

For me, its a bad thing. I am so happy to be able to log on and sit down and not keep my eyes peeled on the screen at all times so I can make a sandwich in the kitchen while I wait for a re-spawn without the fear of being KOSed.

For me, I think PvP would be more fun, if i could swap to a PVP server to enjoy hunting and pvp, give me a penalty of some sort, single item loot, XP loss on death, I don't care. Then when I'm done PVPing I could swap back to my blue server. You can disagree with me that's ok, the only thing that matters is that I am not moderating this awesome project 1999 so it doesnt really matter that this is my opinion, it just is [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But mark my words, no matter how exciting and big the red server seems right now, if you're playing the long game, it will be a playground for the committed 24hr eqers and a nightmare for the casuals.

(fyi saying CC in a zone is a way to find someone to grief without using Mutieq.)

I don't mean to rain on your parade Red, but I've seen this happen over and over for 15 years.