Who will be going from Blue99 to Red99?

[mitic]

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

Honest question: What's stopping you Red99 fanatics from just turning in your Tome of Order and Discord today and PvPing on the original server?

just one of those quadrillion of reasons why not:

2 red endgame guilds fighting over a dragon, blue guild comes in, lawls and kills the dragon, loots and moves on while those other 2 guilds keep killing each other

[SearyxTZ]

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

Honest question: What's stopping you Red99 fanatics from just turning in your Tome of Order and Discord today and PvPing on the original server?

I've thought about this a bit and only really came up with two ideas.
1) Clean start
2) So you can "fight" over camps and spawns

1) Do you think there will be any fewer cheaters on Red99 than there is here? From everything I've been reading cheating is more prevalent on PvP servers than anywhere else. If this server is going to be administered by the same people running Blue99 are you actually expecting different results?

2) Is there actually going to be enough people to even compete for spawns on Red99? If you had similar prime-time numbers to Blue99 sure, but I'm thinking you won't.

Why not just turn in your books and duke it out now, as-is? Just a little tired of the same 15 people on the forums only ever having Red99 related material flying out of their pie-holes.

Did you miss the memo from Rogean where he tracked down and banned cheaters? He has a nice solution to that problem already. Besides that, most red players are used to dealing with it and things being unfair. Killing some MQ abuser just made it all the more satisfying for me (obviously not an option on blue servers).

PoD books flag you as FFA to anyone, and cannot be healed by other players. The difference between blue (PoD books and all) and red servers = night and day.


70'ish people online concurrent is the minimum for things to be competitive, and this server pop will dwarf that. After the initial spike I would expect Red99 to hover around 40% of the P1999 number. This will be an overall gain for the devs here in terms of how many people are playing on their servers, even if P1999 takes an initial minor hit from curious bluebies jumping ship to red.

[Demetrium]

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

PoD books flag you as FFA to anyone, and cannot be healed by other players. The difference between blue (PoD books and all) and red servers = night and day.

If this is true someone should have brought it up sooner. If two players hand in PoD books can they not heal each other?

[Slave]

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

Did you miss the memo from Rogean where he tracked down and banned cheaters?

I must have missed it; all I saw was painstakingly tracking down cheaters, then letting them go with a slap on the wrist because the developers didn't anticipate the gigantic groundswell of popular outrage that they didn't follow through on what they said they were going to do in such a situation.

[vinx]

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

Do you think there will be any fewer cheaters on Red99 than there is here? From everything I've been reading cheating is more prevalent on PvP servers than anywhere else. If this server is going to be administered by the same people running Blue99 are you actually expecting different results?

I dont think anybody is expecting "different" results
There is the same amount of cheaters on blue as their are on red imo (maybe even more)

You only notice it more on a pvp server where you actually see or are more involved when someone uses cheats against you on a pvp server
(track/map/bard speed/buffs/scripts etc)
On a blue server you really need to be next to the person to even realize they are using (track/maps/scripts)
bard speed and other noticeable uses arent usually used in view of raids on a blue server.. and never noticed when grinding

[wrxBRAH]

Server pop will be dependent on timing of server release. If its anywhere close to Swtor or D3, I highly doubt pop will get over 100 people regularly.

The challenge to level up with regular xp + variables like item/coin loot is also going to decide the population.

[bigups43]

This is no place for logic

[purist]

purist will stake his claim to internet fame on red99

[Kruel]

need a option for "play both servers while poop sockin...

[Cippofra]

I think at least 30% of the blue community will move over. All of these high end people that dont have much to do because they've done everything several times will go over there. People that want to enjoy the game without being harassed by 8 year old kids on a power trip will stay here.