Let me tell you about a time.

[Tomdottington]

I have fun working on my box, and although if it were 200 people 3 guilds PVPing I would feel it's a success, I don't care much for people and probably would just keep doing my own thing.

That being said, I surely wouldn't talk about it as often if there was one good PVP server currently.

Most boxes, traditionally, would have high population early, relatively, and then once the main guild won and consolidated etc the pop would die off into a solo guild raid box, and then die completely when they finished.

Which is why ROT has endless seasons, with brutal EXP rate, to keep people logging in day after day. One expansion per month, unlimited grind. I mean where does it stop. People that like that are in for the social experiences and connections or w/e. I'm here for the PVP.

So it's really, even if I succeed it will be temporary most likely. I would be OK with seasons and what ROT does, if the grind wasn't so god awfully slow, also their content is just total garbage for the longest time it was just ROZ(Image DB) they like content locked shit one box, the PVE is broken, it's empty, I mean it just is the state of EQEMU.

Sorry morning coffee got me RAMBLEN.

[Tomdottington]

Due to highly accelerated EXP rate(3.5x) I found personally testing my box it's really hard to motivate myself to level from 1 in the noob area, scraping together some coppers, buying a few spells, going back out scraping a few more, buying a couple more spells etc, running back and forth to town wasting a ton of time in not a fun way.

I decided to add back my Boost script, which will auto level people to 20/spells/skills, you can sell your noob robe for 1 malachite, Necros can farm a bone chip etc, Melees will need to be twinked regardless because it's very close to Red99 functionally, you'll be swinging for 8 dmg with your rusty sword. Which is all classic and good.

I just found the early part, with accelerated EXP, and attempting to be an end-heavy PVP box, the very early part doesn't really function and I'm OK with that.

[Jimjam]

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

Due to highly accelerated EXP rate(3.5x) I found personally testing my box it's really hard to motivate myself to level from 1 in the noob area, scraping together some coppers, buying a few spells, going back out scraping a few more, buying a couple more spells etc, running back and forth to town wasting a ton of time in not a fun way.

I decided to add back my Boost script, which will auto level people to 20/spells/skills, you can sell your noob robe for 1 malachite, Necros can farm a bone chip etc, Melees will need to be twinked regardless because it's very close to Red99 functionally, you'll be swinging for 8 dmg with your rusty sword. Which is all classic and good.

I just found the early part, with accelerated EXP, and attempting to be an end-heavy PVP box, the very early part doesn't really function and I'm OK with that.

The best part of pvp servers is getting started, scraping gear together, battling darky assassins while trying to xp in crushbone.

Why would you remove that just because high level xp is slow?

[Tomdottington]

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

The best part of pvp servers is getting started, scraping gear together, battling darky assassins while trying to xp in crushbone.

Why would you remove that just because high level xp is slow?

Didn't attract people, no ones interested in it, been done before a bunch, and there's other options for grinding. Believe me I'd love some CB/Blackburrow PVP, it's just not possible.

I would fill any PVP niche, but honestly I just don't think I can expect people to grind on my box? Farming gear/doing content is actually fun especially if you can just que up a 60 mage/cleric, or a torpor shaman etc etc, I'm hoping people will get immersed and it will lead to guild vs guild PVP.

I also joined a guild on Red, so I believe in diversifying your EQ portfolio.