Current State

[Bboboo]

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

This is the key.

If you took a poll, I would almost certainly guarantee a higher percentage of red99 players would say they are having fun than blue99 players; the inequality of fun would be even higher at the max level.

Seriously think about it - there is a 20 page thread right now on Server Chat that is about buying a new server just so players can actually play EQ and have fun.

Actually playing Everquest is the goal, not litigating raid disputes through essays and fraps replays

Measuring fun status between games is the most pre-school shit 'gamers' do.

333 people voted in that thread. 200 of which voted yes which is arguably 1/6 of the blue population, and almost all of the red population. Who's to say any of those 200 people actually play blue/stillplay/are just voting for the fuck of it.

I see all this stuff about raid disputes with Velious on the horizon. Probably better to look for land before jumping ship first.

[Nirgon]

Before player grief too much and no one will play server

Player too nice now and will not play

Is it pixels on blue you will not leave? pls tells us

[Jimjam]

On TZ I enjoyed the time spent at low level fighting in crushbone, making raids against misty thicket and so on.

On r99 the XP is way too fast and you miss out on the tweenie pvp experience, which is what I always enjoyed most [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

[Swish]

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

On TZ I enjoyed the time spent at low level fighting in crushbone, making raids against misty thicket and so on.

On r99 the XP is way too fast and you miss out on the tweenie pvp experience, which is what I always enjoyed most [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.].

Taking the old XP bonus out crashed the red pop once and took Red Dawn with it, I don't think they'd do it again unless... I hope not at least [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The bonus is there and designed to get you to the higher pvp levels fast. Hitting people with rusty short swords in Gfay is fun but the real pvp is at the top end <3

[Buhbuh]

The end game PvP is what most people enjoy, hence the exp boost.

There are a lot of silly things in EQ that were painstaking and awful that the Red server eliminated. I think I didn't hit 60 on live until Luclin, and I started the day Kunark dropped. Exp was ridiculous, and most of the lower level stuff isn't terribly exciting.

There truly is a reason why WoW altered that slow moving experience from their game, and it's probably a big part of why they're the most lucrative MMO.

Medding with a spell book open? Awful classic aspect of EQ. First person old school UI? Also awful.

If you haven't PvP'd at the high end, you lack almost all credence to comment on how shitty PvP is. The OOC can certainly be a problem, but it can also be turned off.

[Nirgon]

How many corpses with plane of mischief cards will you make in project 1999 Scars of Velious in server where u cannot pvp

tells us here

[Daldaen]

Yep and I'd like to be able to play the game and camp Hiero or do my epic without someone coming in and killing me after I burned all my mana breaking the camp, just for them to get the named I was camping.

Blue is nice that way. Heaven forbid you may have to wait your turn or (gasp) figure out something else to do until it is open.

[Buhbuh]

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

Yep and I'd like to be able to play the game and camp Hiero or do my epic without someone coming in and killing me after I burned all my mana breaking the camp, just for them to get the named I was camping.

Blue is nice that way. Heaven forbid you may have to wait your turn or (gasp) figure out something else to do until it is open.

Never happens on Red.

[Bboboo]

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

Never happens on Red.

Then what's the point of red? You guys are selling red as a PvPless server but saying all our issues on blue would be solved with PvP.

[Buhbuh]

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

Then what's the point of red? You guys are selling red as a PvPless server but saying all our issues on blue would be solved with PvP.

It will. How does not going into the Crypt to kill someone equate with PvP not solving a camp you want?

The crypt is a bitch to get to, and you need a rogue. People don't generally push into the crypt just to kill someone when they can just gate when you arrive and re CoH back in with their mage parked at the safe spot.