[Poll by Post] Red99: A short questionnaire for our Blue community members

[Swish]

Originally Posted by no chewie dont [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

using gear gap as an excuse is kind of ...blue

Totally with chewie on that. Chances are when you see another level 5-6 character XP'ing they'll be as naked as you....maybe they'll have a cracked staff though [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You won't win every fight, but you won't win any fights if you sit in the EC tunnel watching auction spam and sow requests go up the screen.

[Juevento]

Fix your LnS rule. It's not classic at all. If you die you should be out of action.

That's the kind of simple stuff that will make red more attractive.

Also hard code groups (or better yet guilds) as immune to PvP.

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

Fix your LnS rule. It's not classic at all. If you die you should be out of action.

That's the kind of simple stuff that will make red more attractive.

Also hard code groups (or better yet guilds) as immune to PvP.

I think that's 50/50, change it and the other half who are okay with it won't like the "fixes".

[NegaStoat]

Reasons why I wouldn't play on Red.

1) I wasn't here at the start of P1999, but I understood the colossal effort involved with this project the moment I set foot in here. Recapturing the look and feel of classic EQ is a massive, simply huge effort that is shared by both the staff and the players in terms of research, locating bugs, and getting the bugs fixed to make things as perfect as possible.

During the early server phase of development after launch, there's going to be bugs. And exploits. And it's up to the honor and integrity of the players seeking that classic play environment to step forward and help the staff - not exploit the system for the best loot. But that's what FAR too many players on Red did in the early days, with the goal being early dominance over enemy players due to the PvP setting.

2) The experience bonus removal was mostly enacted as a means of countering the quick leveling of banned players that would return on fresh accounts. Recovering maximum level in as little as 3 weeks (or 2 weeks, depending) meant that bans were futile.

The return of experience bonuses when grouped will mean a return to banned players emerging on the server once more, with the provision that they must be grouped to gain that leveling speed being a laughable 'setback'. I sincerely hope this is being watched closely.

3) The only way I'd play on a Red EQ server is with teams, with some sort of Houserule settings being used for determining the teams as the classic good / neutral / evil teams were broken with the advent of Iksar. Ovethere Hammer = our raid force is mobilized, have a nice day!

But here's the problem. Even if a new PvP Teams server WAS launched, it's been Set In Stone that the new server would only last for 6 months, and then the two Red servers would be merged. Meaning all the tainted bullcrap of the first server would be lumped into the pristine launched server.

No. just, no. I hope my thoughts don't offend too badly, and please, I really do appreciate the incredible work the staff does.

Edit - freedom of being able to type whatever a person wants into a global / zone chat without repercussions isn't my cup of tea either.

[Jauna]

Considering I dont remember any Red advertizements on Blue servers back on Live, this is pretty bad and hope you all stop with it soon. You all have your own server, you all have your own forums, you even made Legends Status and right next to our server name. Your OOC is filled with WoW-barrens level chat and greatly unappealing. Whenever I see the weekly "Come to Red!" threads people never start out by saying "Come, exp for a little while in a brand new* world with other people in crushbone while a twink epic level 10 rogue waits for your party to get low hp to ambush you to make your life worse" Sorry but "Blue" is popular across all MMOs for a reason to not worry about getting ganked for being afk, just got out of a rough battle or having to worry about getting ganked in a dark alley in freeport after wanting to buy something off someone.

For all you people complaining about a gear gap, get used to it. They will never wipe Red, for if they do all the people who traded Blue>Red plat/gear will be pissed the fuck off.

Also I really hope after this week long thing is over you all tone it down, I mean its getting silly. You all remind me of that one kid who is too good at King of the Hill on the playground and shouting at kids to come play with him when no one wants to. You can give out rewards all you want, as many events as you want or even give out free VP geared level 60s... but once is all said and done you are still on a PvP server that has been proven time and time again to not be popular or wanted by 4/5** or so of your playerbase

* = new to you, people have been here for years waiting for you to show up to kill you
** = During primetime I see roughly 1100~ Blue Players, and recently 200~ Red players

[Valere]

I played PvP on live and have no interest in Red99 here due to the toxic community that is the core of Red99.

[Softcore PK]

Originally Posted by no chewie dont [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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Simply beautiful.

[NegaStoat]

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

. Also I really hope after this week long thing is over you all tone it down, I mean its getting silly. You all remind me of that one kid who is too good at King of the Hill on the playground and shouting at kids to come play with him when no one wants to.

I made a new chat window, assigned System Messages to it, and then shrank it down and moved it to the screen border. Server Announcements are a tool imparting information to a captive audience. If it's repeatedly used for something not pertaining to my play server, I shut the stupid thing off.

[jaybone]

Originally Posted by Tasslehofp99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I was just on red the day of the patch/changes and /ooc was still littered with venom. Need to start handing out 6 month bans for people using "******" and "Faggot" in /ooc.


I'm not particularly offended by it but it is really annoying to log on that server and know I'm sharing it with such pieces of trash.

1 month ban for tmo cheating but 6 month ban for ******? Get real dude.

[jaybone]

Originally Posted by Tasslehofp99 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I was just on red the day of the patch/changes and /ooc was still littered with venom. Need to start handing out 6 month bans for people using "******" and "Faggot" in /ooc.


I'm not particularly offended by it but it is really annoying to log on that server and know I'm sharing it with such pieces of trash.

1 month ban for tmo cheating but 6 month ban for ******? Get real dude.