Hey GM's!

[heartbrand]

I GREATLY disagree with your 250 pop assessment. If anything, red may dip even further as people flock to blue. On blue, there's plenty of content to satiate a shit load of players in Velious. On red, all it takes is one group with faction to completely cock block and shit on people farming Kael arena / halls of testing, etc., etc. The massive amounts of grief possible in Velious will scare off all but the most bearded of necks.

p.s.: this was predicted and already covered by the CLASSIC rallos zek PNP which forbade the engagement in pvp of another raid force, if you're engaging force was insufficient to kill the mob you were cock blocking

[Agatha]

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

I GREATLY disagree with your 250 pop assessment. If anything, red may dip even further as people flock to blue. On blue, there's plenty of content to satiate a shit load of players in Velious. On red, all it takes is one group with faction to completely cock block and shit on people farming Kael arena / halls of testing, etc., etc. The massive amounts of grief possible in Velious will scare off all but the most bearded of necks.

p.s.: this was predicted and already covered by the CLASSIC rallos zek PNP which forbade the engagement in pvp of another raid force, if you're engaging force was insufficient to kill the mob you were cock blocking

you notice you had 70 now ur down to 30, the atmosphere in the guild is not conductive to progress. azrael is toxic as fuck.

[heartbrand]

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

you notice you had 70 now ur down to 30, the atmosphere in the guild is not conductive to progress. azrael is toxic as fuck.

I get that you're incredibly butt hurt by the actions of a few individuals. However, we still regularly have close to 50 people for our scheduled nightly raids. Lite barely plays. No one has been "toxic." You talk about loot and what not, but yet 90% of all loot has gone to Red Dawn players, though there is no real distinction anymore as we have merged under one flag. We're all on the same team. Those who are playing are committed to our team, and understand we're only as strong as our weakest player. I get that you like to embellish and fabricate agatha stories for enjoyment, but there really is not an ounce of truth to anything you stated. I control the DKP system, the website, the scheduling of raids, administration of guild such as who is invited or booted, etc., etc. The buck stops with me. You can claim there's a secret cabal or what not, but it couldn't be farther from the truth. Also, please stop talking about how Azrael is toxic when half of Azrael is currently tagged Nihilum. Thanks!

[Kergan]

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

I GREATLY disagree with your 250 pop assessment. If anything, red may dip even further as people flock to blue. On blue, there's plenty of content to satiate a shit load of players in Velious. On red, all it takes is one group with faction to completely cock block and shit on people farming Kael arena / halls of testing, etc., etc. The massive amounts of grief possible in Velious will scare off all but the most bearded of necks.

p.s.: this was predicted and already covered by the CLASSIC rallos zek PNP which forbade the engagement in pvp of another raid force, if you're engaging force was insufficient to kill the mob you were cock blocking

There are a lot of 55+ characters sitting dormant. I doubt anyone is coming back to grind up on a low exp rate server when they have a perfectly good high level character sitting on red. I just don't see how adding content is going to cause people to leave red, maybe I'm wrong.

[heartbrand]

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

There are a lot of 55+ characters sitting dormant. I doubt anyone is coming back to grind up on a low exp rate server when they have a perfectly good high level character sitting on red. I just don't see how adding content is going to cause people to leave red, maybe I'm wrong.

Because adding content really only helps one guild on red99, Nihilum. If you're not Nihilum, it really doesn't do a whole lot. Yes, I get that Red Dawn will get some more mobs in Velious, but the amount of them is greatly exaggerated, and if Nihilum wants to, they can probably still cockblock about 85% of all content in the game with ease. This was the exact same scenario with Kunark, where Ender and Arzak came to these boards with prophecies of 200+ pop for Kunark. Yet it never occurred. The pop didn't even really go up significantly [a point brought up on Nihilum's internal forums which you can read for yourself].

[Kergan]

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

Because adding content really only helps one guild on red99, Nihilum. If you're not Nihilum, it really doesn't do a whole lot. Yes, I get that Red Dawn will get some more mobs in Velious, but the amount of them is greatly exaggerated, and if Nihilum wants to, they can probably still cockblock about 85% of all content in the game with ease. This was the exact same scenario with Kunark, where Ender and Arzak came to these boards with prophecies of 200+ pop for Kunark. Yet it never occurred. The pop didn't even really go up significantly [a point brought up on Nihilum's internal forums which you can read for yourself].

15% of 40 (rough estimate on raid targets) is a lot more than 0% of 20 (or however many raid targets there are now).

Plus there is a TON of 2 group type shit. Plus a ton of quests that give good gear. Also, Kunark will be more open outside of VP, and maybe even VP will be open sometimes.

[heartbrand]

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

15% of 40 (rough estimate on raid targets) is a lot more than 0% of 20 (or however many raid targets there are now).

Plus there is a TON of 2 group type shit. Plus a ton of quests that give good gear. Also, Kunark will be more open outside of VP, and maybe even VP will be open sometimes.

Unfortunately, a lot of the "2 group shit" such as skyshrine armor, etc., will likely be perma locked down for the first six months of Velious. I get what you're saying, but I think it's GREATLY overstated the amount of content opened up to tier 2 guilds in Velious.

[Not_Kazowi]

I can’t log in at 6am EST, or usually any sooner than 4PM CST during the weekdays. I would love to wake up and raid if I didn’t work but I have a job that requires me to be in a respectable state of mind when I show up in the morning. Would be nice to see the repop happen at an hour where some of us can actually show up and compete for the dragons.

Currently I am never online for any of the spawns. I wake up and see bat phone messages for dragons but I can’t log in to do it. It’s sad bros, I don’t think I have ever even seen pvp over innoruuk/severilous/VS the entire 2 and a half years of my on and off playing here. The server should be about PVP, whether RD wins the mob or not. Some of us just want to be able to show up and be a part of large scale PVP.

I get it though, Nihilum favors having mobs at uncontested hours because there is 0% risk of losing the mob to pvp. Smart tactic sure. For the sake of PVP I would like to see things spawning at more reasonable hour but know it probably won’t happen.

[Gustoo]

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

p.s.: this was predicted and already covered by the CLASSIC rallos zek PNP which forbade the engagement in pvp of another raid force, if you're engaging force was insufficient to kill the mob you were cock blocking

This PNP will probably have to be implemented here for the reasons you have given.