Why is Red Dead?

[Zuranthium]

Originally Posted by White_knight [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Empire leaving mobs up helped keep other guilds alive.

Empire did not at all help to keep other guilds alive. They choked the server and it died. When you are already far overgeared as compared to the rest of the server, and have a huge numbers advantage, who cares about the other guilds going for the Kunark-level content when you can just lock down the Temple of Veeshan and Sleeper's Tomb drops.

If Empire had split its raid force in half and actually did contest things fairly, THAT is what would have kept the server alive. Because then the <Friends> guild could have actually tried to contest the primary raid force of Empire, while the secondary raid force of Empire could have been contested by whatever the 3rd ranked guild of the server was (or <Friends> still, if that's the raid force they wanted to target on a given day).

Those "lesser" guilds would have been able to get wins sometimes and that would kept things healthy across the entire server and actually kept PvP constantly relevant. Instead, Empire just wanted no competition (thinking this kind of cheating was "winning") and turned Red into essentially a bad Blue server, hence its predictable death.

Originally Posted by White_knight [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

When you're on a 120 pop server and you're clearing Trakanon with your 80 member guild so that the other 20 member guild doesnt get a deepwater BP you are far worse than anything you said in your post.

...this is exactly what Empire did, as someone else pointed out. Everything important during Kunark era was locked down and they actively tried to keep the numbers vastly imbalanced so that there would be no real competition.

The server had a way healthier population than 120 too, it was regularly at 400+ people. It could have been a good server for everyone and possibly kept growing and attracting more people who were bored with Blue. Instead, it turned to shit. I brought this up many times during both the Holocaust and Empire eras, but the evil dictators could only see pixels for themselves in their eyes.