TEAMS pvp, Please?

[torr071]

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

Diety doesn't make sense unless you use it as a red vs blue indicator and use it to indicate the starting city and stuff.

Not sure how I feel about all races / classes being available to each team vs the slightly more nuanced teams Nilbog made in east vs west in Old PVP's sig.

At least no one could claim it wasn't balanced, but it also makes it less interesting.

I don't care if it tanks in a year or two or three, it just needs to be new and fun for vanilla and kunark and probably hopefully never go to velious and preferably never even go to kunark imo.

Gustoo,
Ive played diety, I was there. it had a population that was larger than any server in EQ at the time (including Povar), and Smedley ended it for whatever his petty non business related reasons.
That said, I've been playin most mmo pvp games since. in regards to EQ the 2 teams version died, but had a life slightly better than FFA. which was what killed all of EQ pvp when Smedley decided to roll all pvp onto the least popular rules server, basically ending pvp. cause Smedley hated pvp.. Brad liked it, and thus you understand EQ politics.

deity pvp there are 3 teams (good/neut/evil), so much like DAoC.. one of very few pvp games where you need to be always watchful of the AssJam from the 3rd team.

So we can theorize all day and night, but the fact exists that the diety server was the most popular server ever made for EQ, more popular than anything anyone had created up to that time in any game. Everything else non team eq pvp created has not held a candle to that server, not even close. So yeah theres a good reason people keep saying bring back diety pvp... it had the numbers.
Theres 1 game like diety pvp and thats DAoC..and thats popular enough to run 2 versions atm (live and phoenix) with thousands online in both after 20 years.
not a single ffa pvp has had a run like that. our EQ diety server today might still be active if not for smedley being smedley.