Teams - whats better?

[s1ckness]

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

I love PoP just not those instaclick books nigs ran too

make PoK a pvp zone

nexus and bazaar should be only safe zones for new players to use the wiz spires

[Runya]

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

3 Teams is best for a very good reason...

If you have two teams there is always the chance that one team can completely dominate. If you have 3 teams it allows for two of the weaker teams to temporarily form an alliance to dethrone the dominate team.

This always worked well in DAOC and if you look at at the other 2 team games often there was constant balance issues that would damage long term morale of one weaker team thus fueling bandwagoners to reroll on the more powerful team. This would then just make the issue worse.

I say go with Good, Evil and Neutral. Just be sure to not allow X-Team heals and such because that was the inherent flaw with servers such as Talon Zek.

If you have 3 teams theres a chance one team will Dominate even further since the other 2 teams will be weak.......spreading the pop too thin......i remember sz newts/goods rolling evil.....once one or two teams are shit stomped they stop logging in making the already jacked team more powerful....anyone have the live ratio on sz? Felt so bad for the good team......in fact so did the evil team and so they rampant crossteamed while kills the idea of teams itself

[Gustoo]

the only thing I could see staff doing is making some custom post velious content once velious has been out for like 2 years here.

[Runya]

What about altergate? wasnt that a team server? i see they back on server list but locked.......how did they fair?

[heartbrand]

why does every1 cry about the books in PoP? all the high level shit was taking place in the actual PoP zones, not in fucking nektulos or some shit where books were clickable. I don't give a fuck if you can AFK in PoK all night long, when it's time to raid or group you gotta zone into somewhere where you can be killed. If the issue is buffing and shit in PoK then just prevent spells from being cast there or fuck it make it PvP flagged w/e.

[Stinkum]

To all the "What if ___" people.

Nihilum already no-life'd their way to the top. No matter what ruleset you put in, you can't stop a neckbeard from giving up his worldly ambitions for pixels. These creatures have no ambitions IRL, no desire for the company of the fairer sex, nor employment, or a social life.

I can't stress enough that their entire lives revolve around EQ. They have each geared out their 7th and 8th level 60 alts with VP gear by now, and they will keep doing this until they have 18 EQemu accounts full of useless dragon armor.

The server can't possibly get any worse than it is right now.

Wipe it, delete their armor on stream in front of them, and laugh merily.

[nilbog]

Has any server done region-based teams?

example 2 teams.. this is a rough example, plz excuse bad photoshop

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West side:
Erudites
Barbarians
Humans - Qeynos
Half Elves - Qeynos
Dark Elves
Ogres

East side:
High Elves
Gnomes
Dwarves
Trolls
Wood Elves
Half Elves - Kelethin
Iksar

Freeport - Point of contention. Humans spawning here can ally to either side.(?)

Just curious how this would play out.

[Faerie]

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

Has any server done region-based teams?

example 2 teams.. this is a rough example, plz excuse bad photoshop

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

West side:
Erudites
Barbarians
Humans - Qeynos
Half Elves - Qeynos
Dark Elves
Ogres

East side:
High Elves
Gnomes
Dwarves
Trolls
Wood Elves
Half Elves - Kelethin
Iksar

Freeport - Point of contention. Humans spawning here can ally to either side.(?)

Just curious how this would play out.

Maybe an emu server has tried it at some point, but I doubt it. But this makes absolutely no RP sense.

EDIT: And this looks too much like EQ2.

[Kohedron]

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

Has any server done region-based teams?

example 2 teams.. this is a rough example, plz excuse bad photoshop

[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

West side:
Erudites
Barbarians
Humans - Qeynos
Half Elves - Qeynos
Dark Elves
Ogres

East side:
High Elves
Gnomes
Dwarves
Trolls
Wood Elves
Half Elves - Kelethin
Iksar

Freeport - Point of contention. Humans spawning here can ally to either side.(?)

Just curious how this would play out.

I like it.. Although maybe it could be Erud/Antonica vs Faydwer/Cabilis.

Or even just Antonica vs everyone else

[nilbog]

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

But this makes absolutely no RP sense.

EDIT: And this looks too much like EQ2.

Yeah, east v. west side not very roleplay.. but along those lines, I could type up 5 paragraphs about how the continental divide amongst these races has made them regionally love each other.

Not sure about the eq2 reference. I beta tested it for 2 weeks then quit. Never played it live.

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

I like it.. Although maybe it could be Erud/Antonica vs Faydwer/Cabilis.

Or even just Antonica vs everyone else

Did not want to put ogres and trolls on the same team.


Mostly I was just curious if it had ever been considered.