Rallos Zek, first server to kill the Sleeper :)

[taxi2]

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

Come on now... I understand the limitations of only being able to pvp, and group with people of your own faction. But atleast you didn't have to worry about getting your gear jacked from you when you got PK'd. Dude from 6-30 my cleric was almost full cloth with some crappy earings/rings that I didn't mind if they got jacked. After I hit 30 I spent an ENTIRE month in Skyshrine camping Guardian Armor because it was No Drop. Do you think dying and losing experience was reason to rage enough? Try getting PK'd and losing your brand new chest piece you bought for 500pp! lol

Man I was a pro when it came to bagging my gear when a PK was kicking my ass. Now Rallos Zek is a real mans server where you seperate the boys from the men. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I rolled a toon first on Sullon. Ill take losing a piece of gear and having to try to find no drop gear any day of the week over getting corpse camped by a lvl45 wizard in Blackburrow, which is what happened to me and made me switch to RZ. RZ was cool as hell but lets not kid ourselves here, SZ was much harder to play on.

As for Pk/anti-pk its simple. View it as "good vs evil". I was an Anti-pk. That doesnt mean i didnt pvp. It meant that guilds like flowers of happiness were KOS to me. I had that list people talked about. Someone killed or attempted to kill me, he was then added to the KOS list. I had plenty of people to kill only days after starting out so again its not like anti-pk meant anti-pvp.

[loneless999]

i remember this was in the bazaar was chatting in the serverwide necro channel and someone said RZ were doing sleeper so i joined another channel filled with people all wetting them selves over the fact he might be killed and what he might drop was exiting

on a side note there must have been some people casting rain spells over sleeper for fun
and people setteling some scores getting him hits in on other players

[Japan]

Anti-PKs were probably the best thing about RZ. I doubt we're going to see a PK vs anti-PK dynamic like that in MMO gaming ever again, unfortunately.

[Djanis]

Originally Posted by taxi2 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I rolled a toon first on Sullon. Ill take losing a piece of gear and having to try to find no drop gear any day of the week over getting corpse camped by a lvl45 wizard in Blackburrow, which is what happened to me and made me switch to RZ. RZ was cool as hell but lets not kid ourselves here, SZ was much harder to play on.

As for Pk/anti-pk its simple. View it as "good vs evil". I was an Anti-pk. That doesnt mean i didnt pvp. It meant that guilds like flowers of happiness were KOS to me. I had that list people talked about. Someone killed or attempted to kill me, he was then added to the KOS list. I had plenty of people to kill only days after starting out so again its not like anti-pk meant anti-pvp.

Sullon came out after the prime time of Rallos had come and gone. I played on both, and I don't think it was harder on SZ. SZ already had preset territory and teammates (whether you wanted them on your team or not) right from the get go. Everybody was a potential enemy on RZ. I think original RZ was the hardest, although I'm sure it can be debated forever. One thing is for sure, safe zones ruined pvp for everyone, no matter what server you were on.

Lots of old names in this thread. Brings back some memories. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[SoulLeech]

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

Sullon came out after the prime time of Rallos had come and gone.

Certainly.

The concentrate that was Rallos that had been thoroughly diluted before Sullon popped up in 2001. By that time, that players, guilds and feuds that had funneled together into Rallos from UO, M59 and wherever else had already dispersed to TZ/VZ, left for AC, turned blue or sat anticipating DAoC.

That was the great thing about Rallos in the spring/summer of '99, the group of players it forcibly brought together. It was playing in a league where every third player was a past or future hall of famer.

Without those players what did you have?

A decent standalone PvE work with PVP tacked on as an afterthough that became a game about grinding between raids with PVP as a complete orphan.

Sullon was actually the ultimate confirmation of that fact. A physical manifestation of the admission that PVP was broken, they weren't going to fix it and they were fed up with hearing about it.