How do we get more players?

[Sirken]

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

sirken touched my weiner

SS or it didnt happen

i think most of you missed my post regarding these xfers:

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

also, nobody ever said this was happening, and i wouldnt count on it happening. im just saying how it would be done.

so everyone relax

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

I think you misunderstand. What I mean is, account A belongs to red player F. Red player F trains with account A, and purchases account B from player G. Also applicable is account B is bought for the sole purpose of being used for high risk activity such as boxing, hacking, training, whatever.

you sir need to have a bit more faith in us than that. we obviously would take certain precautions, and it would have only been a 1 time thing (not an ongoing option).

[Holey]

https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/i...YZyTIwZSoUJjdw

does this count? (just trolling)

[Heavydrop]

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

good start

3. stop griefing new players u see running around in cloth
4. stop using ooc for real life attacks and dumb spam
5. the PLAYERS need to create an environment that is actually friendly (appealing) to new players
6. let blues COPY over (without coin or droppables so they cant have a negative impact on the economy.
7. PvP text

What he said.
Not that I'm saying there needs to be character copy/transfer, etc.
I don't care about that personally.
Red has a bad image and some of its players calling those of us who play on blue
names and unmanly and all that doesn't help the cause of red.
I've done my time in EQ pvp back in the day.
I played on Rallos Zek, and admittedly I wasn't very good at pvp, but I still played
there.
I can't devote the time and energy to that like I used to.
I need to be able to go afk and not worry that I'll get ganked, therefore I don't
play on Red.
Of course that is the nature of the beast. PvP will happen.
Most people don't want to bother with it because its the unknown and too many
things can happen.
To me the exp loss on death isn't that big of a detractor. Not when there is
such an exp bonus in effect, right?
I'd rather loose some exp than some expensive item.
I have guys on Red but for now they stay camped

[Smedy]

Allowing blue to transfer to red with their no drop gear would immediately kill red99 (kill as in the state the server was in 6 months ago).

Looks good on paper yes, "wooah more pvp, and more players!!" Nope.

Reality: They would all join nihilum and only logon for the raid sunday securing the fate of the server once and for all.

This is what nizzar wants, don't get trolled that this is actually a good idea.

[YendorLootmonkey]

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

I CANNOT stress enough this is the WORSE idea for this server.

Well then, enjoy your 77 average players server.

If everyone on blue is horrible at PVP as you reds claim, what's the big deal? You don't want an influx of players from the playerbase most likely to create that influx for you when its not easily killable newbs wearing cloth?

[Smedy]

How to increase population.

1. Introduce yellow text
2. Greatly increase grouping experience between 1-50 (200%+)
3. Increase grouping experience 51+ (ya make it worth grouping for high end too).
4. Remove hybrid SHARED group penalty, let hybrids suffer their own shit, don't let the rest of the groups suffer for their sins, then people will group with them.
5. Don't grief newbies, unless you're in rags yourself, aka not heartbrand style lvl 24 epic rogue with fungi.
6. Stay competitive, don't join whatever guild is on top just to get a quickfix, server would be a lot more fun if there was 3 big guilds competing...

[Smedy]

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

Well then, enjoy your 77 average players server.

If everyone on blue is horrible at PVP as you reds claim, what's the big deal? You don't want an influx of players from the playerbase most likely to create that influx for you when its not easily killable newbs wearing cloth?

All you blue fucks would do is joining nihilum and claim you did something in pvp.

If they can manage someway to hardcode all the blue players into their own guild so that they would HAVE to compete with the rest of the server then sure, go ahead... hell transfer over with full gear for all i care, as long as you don't join the already huge zerg.

[Smedy]

There's a reason there huge pressure from blue wanting to transfer over to Red right now...

Few weeks ago they made a patch that widen the random spawn timer window making it possible for mobs to skip spawns for hours thus resulting in horrible poopsocking events that will last for days.

Blue people finally cave in and want out of that shit, meanwhile on red99 the exiled blue pals (who were banned on blue) are thriving in pixels from mobs these blue people could only dream of seeing without sitting and waiting for weeks.

I don't buy any of that shit bros, population is great, but only if it actually spreads out and creates a new faction

[Twain]

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

Allowing blue to transfer to red with their no drop gear would immediately kill red99 (kill as in the state the server was in 6 months ago).

Looks good on paper yes, "wooah more pvp, and more players!!" Nope.

Reality: They would all join nihilum and only logon for the raid sunday securing the fate of the server once and for all.

This is what nizzar wants, don't get trolled that this is actually a good idea.

You do realize with more population, we would be able to stop recruiting heavily. The reason we recruit so much is because of the turn over rate of new apps. Every month we get 5+ new apps. Next month, we might have 1 of them still playing. The last few raids we have rangers or monks tanking and 4-5 dps classes lol. We have not even finished VP so why would we quit recruiting. If we had say 20-30 people switch over from blue, sure we would get a few apps out of it. We would be able to pick and choose a few key classes that we need though. We wouldn't just take anyone because we wouldn't need them. Increase in pop is increase in pop, however you look at it. What kills pop is the exp loss on pvp. I could careless if I died because I'm max exp on Twainz. My biggest problem is the opposition running and plugging every chance they get. PvP is so boring on this server that I created alts just to PvP. The only time I can get PvP on my main is if I attack a group of players or if I can find someone in the middle of a zone. If we removed the exp loss, I'm sure people would stay in fight. No one wants to PvP for hours just to have to exp for days or weeks to get back.

[Smedy]

oh ya actually forgot about the xp death on pvp, that needs to removed as well for increased pop

i see what you're saying twainz but comments i've gotten from people inside nihilum echo in my head about "recruiting until we can take down AOW is our goal".

To me that means you're looking to field around a 100 strong.

Even on blue99 that is considered a zerg, so if you go for that youll soak up pretty much all of the new people.

I want more factions, more people fighting for the same shit.