How to save red

[Squire]

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

While I didn't mean to suggest Red had only one problem or only one cause of it's problems, it does have a single core problem: low population. I honestly don't know if the toxic community is the biggest factor contributing to it or not, I just know that Red will have a very hard (maybe impossible) time reaching sustainable population as long as the community remains as toxic as it is. It's just hard to add people to the server when they keep leaving because they got repeatedly killed by de-leveled griefers, were offended by the talk in OOC, or were horrified by the "the vocal minority of Forumquesters".

There's nothing wrong with pontificating about how much better the server would be with this rule added or that rule removed. But none of those suggestions (that I've heard) in any way address the toxic community problem. The simple fact is that a lot of Red players live for schadenfreude (I'm sure a lot are also like Swish; not trying to paint the whole server as toxic). Those people scare (many) people who aren't like them away from the server, and this limits the server's potential population. Whether or not that's the only problem, it seems like one that must be addressed if Red is ever going to succeed.

We can't change the core red player's psyche. We can change server mechanics and policies.