What made Red fun?

[AzzarTheGod]

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

You ain't seen nothin

*daps fist* was wondering who's post disappeared from another thread, because the post order and thread alignment was altered.

was giving me fits trying to figure it out.

[Beastagoog]

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

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lol this is pretty funny

[Sear]

The first few months of the server were the closest this ever came to being fun, when there were actually players in the zones + pvp was an option without a 200+ hour barrier to entry of grinding levels/gear/keys.

Even then, the R99 launch was marred by the [unnecessary] custom resist system being a complete mess and crippling classes that were already weak in vanilla.

If they ever relaunch this thing, it'd probably go much smoother w/ the positive changes (to resists, exp rate, chat, etc) that have been made since then. I think it was rushed out of beta testing back in 2011 and didn't get a proper launch. I don't have to tell you guys how damaging that can be for the long-term prospects of a MMO (see: Vanguard) - even an emulated one. I checked out a few months in after I was tired of waiting for someone to change the five lines of code in spells.cpp so I could play a version of Everquest where I wasn't perma-rooted by an earth pet while wearing full resist gear.

[Gustoo]

Yeah all custom aspects of server were a disaster from ruleset to resists they were flat out bummers all the time. Bad custom setup. Needs straight rallos zek and good launch. Beta was out forever but no changes were ever made and then they launched it while I was still waiting to test out changes in beta. So weird.

Then go and ban a couple of biggest guilds and set server into dark ages x2

[AzzarTheGod]

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

Rays of light shining down from the heavens!

drugs

[Doctor Jeff]

Real answer in troll thread: My favorite thing to do was always hanging out in like mistmoore with some mild resist gear and helping people level, and then when a twink would come I would convince them to group up and try to kill him. Pop was around 300ish at that time and you could easily have 3 or even 4 groups in mistmoore.

[Sear]

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

Yeah all custom aspects of server were a disaster from ruleset to resists they were flat out bummers all the time. Bad custom setup. Needs straight rallos zek and good launch. Beta was out forever but no changes were ever made and then they launched it while I was still waiting to test out changes in beta. So weird.

I would have had no problem helping beta test if I hadn't been working 60+ hour weeks at the time.

I could understand the "well, you didn't help us test it, so deal with it" response we got from the staff, but there's no point in assigning blame for a bad launch. It was what it was. The first year or two of the server ended up being an extended beta. It's just unfortunate that a substantial number of players had the first impression of a server that was still WIP and probably haven't bothered playing since then.

If the server in its current state had launched back in 2011, I think it would have had a better chance of keeping momentum and retaining more players.

[Krieger]

drugs

[AzzarTheGod]

i took 30 days n 30 nights over some bullshit post i had made 2 weeks ago that wasn't even bumped.

llandris aint playing fair on the racism bans. some nerd must have reported it

[Tassador]

Yeah I never been banned I have a shit load of forum accounts. I use to do the starting on red trolls man those were great. Always would get these long winded posts on what to do and where to go. Also always got like 2k in items from Andian. Server to ez