Item loot for server growth

[Vohl]

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

As a relatively new player on this server please let me be the first person to tell you this is the worst idea I've ever heard. If you are trying to get new players to join a server with an established population (and established twink population at that) why the hell would you think item loot would work? The neck beards at the top can already just create untouchable low level alts to rape newbies in cloth armor for giggles. How much fun do you think it would be for that newbie to lose the bronze weapon he worked so hard for? The cracked staff? Gear is hard enough to acquire in EQ without the threat of losing it to better equipped twinks.

EFF.THAT.

100% agreed. Item loot for server growth is like fucking for chastity.

[Spike Spiegel]

I guess maybe you guys haven't leveled a noob for a while? Its a wasteland. No one wants to play with zero population. Then you get to unrest and die and lose exp. It is the worst of both worlds. No reason to PVP + severe penalty.

How you earn your chastity is your own business

[Something'Witty]

In my opinion, what is killing the server is everyone talking about how it is dying. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

Small changes to tweak game mechanics are good; you wouldn't change the fundamentals of the server, just iron out the kinks. However, big changes like item loot might drive more people away rather then attract new players. Speaking for myself and the four other RL friends that play on the server, if item loot was implemented we would quit. In fact, if the server had item loot from the beginning, we would have never even started on the server. Hence why we played on Vallon and not Rallos back in the day.

Oh and one last thing, y'all do know that the player base with which 99red or any other EQ PvP server recruits players from is incredibly small right? I mean, do you really think that putting in item loot or any other large scale change would suddenly draw in 100+ new players? I doubt it. I bet the best way to aid the server population is to release velious. Again, just my personal opinions.


TLDR:
1) Talking about the server dying is killing the server.
2) Small changes = good
3) Changing server fundamentals = bad

[Visual]

server's dead its a wrap son nail in the coffin flatlined RIP hasbeen more like never was sayonara sucka

[Faerie Blossom]

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

In my opinion, what is killing the server is everyone talking about how it is dying. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

This guy gets it, as do most old VZers. Server is fun, don't need to drag it all down in negativity. Having threads complaining hardcore about mechanics like xp loss and "YT", which are slated to be addressed with the very next patch, is kinda ridiculous.

If you really wanted to see the server grow, you would do what you can to nurture the community (be nice to people, maybe give away some old gear, etc.), but instead we see people declaring that the server is dead and telling everyone to abandon ship.

Sometimes it's hard to be positive, but if we really made a conscious effort I bet we could help the population a lot more than something dumb like "YT" ever could. Let's talk about why the server is great!

I've made some very nice in-game friends since I started up here again, and have had a lot of fun with the 1-55 PvE content so far. There's been some really great pvp too, and I got to kill some people who were being mean to me. On my paladin, I RPed a little bit with some guy. Why has the game been fun for the rest of you, lately?

[Vile]

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

TLDR:
1) Talking about the server dying is killing the server.
2) Small changes = good
3) Changing server fundamentals = bad

lol @ #1.

RL friend who recently started and asked me if people in OOC were serious about server wiping and merging with blue.. community making it worse here every day..