Deep thoughts by Stasis

[captainocd]

I'm astounded by how frequent suspensions happen here and how casually people discuss them. You'd think they were chatting about their car being in the shop.

Why not make an effort to be better people? If you REALLY are so in love with causing misery, you should go play EVE.

PvP does not excuse being a shitty person.

[Palemoon]

Well to be fair red99 has a very long history of people being suspended for the most trivial of things. Remember Tune being suspended because he auto attacked for exactly one hit on a player in lavastorm that was "looting and scooting", in the middle of mass pvp.

With the sheer volume of suspensions (and permanent bans) given out, one should reassess the rules in place. If these many suspensions are given out when GMs are "on the scene looking" how many times are these "rules" being broken at other times?

Like prohibition, when laws are constantly being broken by so many people, its time to discontinue the law.

There are still many dozens of good players that were here from day 1, that won't log in because of this issue.

The solution? Go back to the server rules that server launched with. In game systems should be used when ever possible to achieve the server behavior GMs are looking for. That is simple, fair, and applied equally.

tl;dr: scrap the play nice policy and reinstate early server life game rules and mechanics. (xp loss on pvp death, increased level range at the higher levels, etc)

Current GM is already in the process of being burned out (the signs are there for all to see) on red99. He will be replaced at some future date by a new GM who will come in, met out a couple dozen suspensions, tweak the rules as he is lawyer quested to death, then burn out in his turn. Rinse/repeat as we have seen since 2012.

Stop the madness and return to the golden age.

[captainocd]

The current active player base has not demonstrated that reversing the PNP would lead to a more positive experience. They have a hard enough time obeying LNS (hello, Smallmee!) as it is. Removing the rules that keep these sadists at least sometimes-civil would be dangerous for the new player experience.

The golden age didn't have de-leveled twinked alts in every major leveling zone. It was also considerably less toxic.

[Gustoo]

The golden age here was beta.

Twinks being unlootable hurts the game. PNP has nothing to do with low level game. No policy on this server has ever been made based on improving low level game except the PvP level range.

[HippoNipple]

The people that are turned away from this server from others breaking rules have already left. Then after you chase away the sane people GMs come in and fuck with the people that stick it out. It is best if GMs stick around from the beginning and police the server correctly without interruption or just leave the server alone completely outside of minimal service /petitions.

With all the strict rules this small server has a GM can probably go into any zone with 10+ people in it and find a reason to ban someone. Boxing, training, dispelling mobs, PnP and now I guess making fun of people is even bannable.

[captainocd]

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

The people that are turned away from this server from others breaking rules have already left. Then after you chase away the sane people GMs come in and fuck with the people that stick it out. It is best if GMs stick around from the beginning and police the server correctly without interruption or just leave the server alone completely outside of minimal service /petitions.

With all the strict rules this small server has a GM can probably go into any zone with 10+ people in it and find a reason to ban someone. Boxing, training, dispelling mobs, PnP and now I guess making fun of people is even bannable.

How is difficult to avoid doing ANY of those things?

As for new players, you should have a chat with Sanctuary. New blood is coming in steadily. The only reason I've seen it leave was because of toxicity.

[Gustoo]

Yeah that's pretty funny. All of those are blatant violations

So many rules.

[Slathar]

Bring back exp loss and I'll delevel people from 60 to 42 I swear to Bertoxxulous.

[Retticus]

If you've never been bind camped with exp loss you ain't fully initiated

[Gustoo]

EXP loss is so hilarious.

It keeps pvp having zero reward whatsoever at all levels (but especially at low level)

and makes it even more punishing.

Probably the ultimate hilarious dumb idea that came from someone who never played rallos zek or even any lesser eq pvp server.

Custom 99 = always fail

If this server emulated any ruleset from any classic server it would have been better than it was.

now it has basically late game sad days edition "zek" ruleset.

On live, all teams server were failures due to the way teams work / dont work
On rallos, you could buy fungis and cloaks of flame for pretty cheap because they were lootable.

Good times on rallos.

WTB classic