Give Red 10% of your population

[Bionic]

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

Wouldn't be surprised if many of the people who make these "try Red" threads are the very players controlling those deleveled uber-twinks just looking for some fresh meat to grief.

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[Zuranthium]

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

Twinks equipped with full best in slot NTOV gear then deleveled to 30 who run around in packs AND have level 60 druids buffing, healing, and porting them.

Nobody does that anymore. Such a thing could and should also be stopped with Level Req's on gear.

[Imago]

I haven't seen any uber twinks in a very long time in the major XP zones.

Honestly, Red is probably at one of it's best time to start up fresh and make some inroads into the community, at least in a long time. Tempest stays mostly at the top end and >50% logs on exclusively for raids. Treason PvP only exists in the 50s range. T-Dome is leveling up but has plenty of people sub 50 to group with, and oftentimes would rather group than gank.

I would be very willing to start a legitimate Red recruit off with some gear and some plat, as I'm sure many Red veterans are. Come check it out!

[Sage Truthbearer]

I don't know why Red players seem to think the reason their server is dead is due to lack of publicity or misinformation about the server.

Red's been out for 4-5 years now. The vast majority of people who were legitimately interested in it have already tried it, and made a decision to not play there.

[Metalopolis]

Can we get this thread moved to RnF where it belongs please?

[Brut]

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

I don't know why Red players seem to think the reason their server is dead is due to lack of publicity or misinformation about the server.

Red's been out for 4-5 years now. The vast majority of people who were legitimately interested in it have already tried it, and made a decision to not play there.

It had tons of people trying it out at the start, but they patched epic quests on blue like a week after red was launched, so alot of the people trying it out went back to blue.

Plus some really lousy things that didn't get fixed until later, ie. no guard assist in cities, broken summoned mage swords, spawning full mana if you died in pvp (resulting in casters binding near camps and just grief bindrushing people who challenged them for said camps), exp loss for pvp deaths.

The dedicated VZTZ derps who formed gank squads and killed random newbies at their bind for hours didn't do much good, either. One of the dumbest things about red was that the forums throughout beta were full of VZTZers bragging how they'd grief all blues off "their" server. And then they lost to Nilly and got banned for exploiting Nagafen.

[Halfelfbard]

I tried red, got griefed on a corpse run, and i never returned...im pretty sure my corpse rotted. I got to lvl 56?

Red was ok, we did some kiting in OT and leveled pretty fast with duo bards and cleric aoe when you needed teamwork a red player usually knows there class pretty well.

Did a few raids, but I dunno man...It was the people that made it great, and made it a horrible place to play.

[EQBallzz]

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

Is it just me or are a majority of blue players retarded? Everquest without the option of pvp is dogshit

On a second note if you're thinking of trying red Don't unless you legitimately want to experience everquest pvp these threadspromote the wrong kind of population growth and make us collectively as a community look like desperate grovelling retards

So who are the retards again? Red for making these desperate grovelling threads or blue for not wanting to play red? SO CONFUSED!

p.s. Calling people retards is a *great* way to entice people to play with you. It doesn't play directly into the stereotypical toxic PvP mentality or anything. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Face the facts: if people aren't playing red by now it's never gonna happen. Give it up.

You did get one thing right..these threads are desperate and pathetic!

[HippoNipple]

Originally Posted by Parz77 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

no one likes red. not even the people that play on red. the ridiculous amounts of begging for people to come play there, in game recruiting attempts, covering fp in tryredserver corpses, stink so badly of desperation. If it was any good people would play there, you wouldn't have to beg nonstop in every conceivable way possible.

They want enough blue players to come over to help them kill PvE targets so they can then use items from the PvE targets to grief the people that come over. It is a sad attempt to stay relevant after the server was already won by another guild that has now quit.

I hope this helps with your decision on whether or not to abandon your blue characters and start fresh on Red99.

[Bardalicious]

Red will never recover unless it is wiped. The server is far too top-heavy at this point for any new players to break in. If you're lucky, you might join with a group of friends to level with or just by chance catch someone leveling their 12th alt to xp with. Otherwise, you'll be playing SoloQuest 90% of the time until you start hitting 50+ where you'll be met by swarms of bored players that have farmed the server for years already, that are looking to entertain themselves at your expense.

Red had it's chance to see a meaningful population boost when TMO came over from blue, and they ruined it by actively griefing their members and their raids. And in the end, the server got what it deserved when the number 1 raiding guild (Empire) pulled out of the server and quit after TMO was already dead.