Would you donate for a new blue server?

[Doil_Boil]

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

What the whole "new server" idea sounds like is simply a desire to not associate with certain players.

Yep. Don't want to "compete" with neckbeards that have 16+ hours a day to camp a mob. Want to experience the high end raid environment, and *gasp*, share it with others. Don't even want to monopolize every spawn. Shocking stuff.

[Naprox]

It's not about the pixels. It's about people wanting to be rid of playing amongst the caustic players. Most of us are well into our adult lives at this point. We deal with toxicity on a daily basis in our professional lives and we play this 15yr old game to not only relive old memories, but to escape the toxicity of the human rat race known as adulthood.

The problem is a new blue server would not achieve the desired result of excluding players with no integrity or moral characteristics of any kind. Hell if I thought for one moment that it could I'd pay for the latest and greatest server hardware money can buy completely out of my own pocket. The problem we have here is a cultural one and no amount of money or new servers will ever solve it.

[Alarti0001]

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

It's not about the pixels. It's about people wanting to be rid of playing amongst the caustic players. Most of us are well into our adult lives at this point. We deal with toxicity on a daily basis in our professional lives and we play this 15yr old game to not only relive old memories, but to escape the toxicity of the human rat race known as adulthood.

The problem is a new blue server would not achieve the desired result of excluding players with no integrity or moral characteristics of any kind. Hell if I thought for one moment that it could I'd pay for the latest and greatest server hardware money can buy completely out of my own pocket. The problem we have here is a cultural one and no amount of money or new servers will ever solve it.

Bingo

[kaev]

Originally Posted by Alarti0001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Bingo

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[Hailto]

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

It's not about the pixels. It's about people wanting to be rid of playing amongst the caustic players. Most of us are well into our adult lives at this point. We deal with toxicity on a daily basis in our professional lives and we play this 15yr old game to not only relive old memories, but to escape the toxicity of the human rat race known as adulthood.

The problem is a new blue server would not achieve the desired result of excluding players with no integrity or moral characteristics of any kind. Hell if I thought for one moment that it could I'd pay for the latest and greatest server hardware money can buy completely out of my own pocket. The problem we have here is a cultural one and no amount of money or new servers will ever solve it.

Personally I just want a server with a fresh start, if I have to play on a rotation server for that I would be fine with it. EQ is so fun before the server stagnates and gets top heavy. I don't have any illusions that this server would be full of angels.

[wwoneo]

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

It's not about the pixels. It's about people wanting to be rid of playing amongst the caustic players. Most of us are well into our adult lives at this point. We deal with toxicity on a daily basis in our professional lives and we play this 15yr old game to not only relive old memories, but to escape the toxicity of the human rat race known as adulthood.

The problem is a new blue server would not achieve the desired result of excluding players with no integrity or moral characteristics of any kind. Hell if I thought for one moment that it could I'd pay for the latest and greatest server hardware money can buy completely out of my own pocket. The problem we have here is a cultural one and no amount of money or new servers will ever solve it.

+1 However, I still want to enact change. Change doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be better than the status quo.

[Daldaen]

Getting a fixed rotation and no training Juggs, or planar trash to leapfrog another guild would help the culture a lot.

Forcing people to share, and interact with the understanding that not playing nice (IE trying to disrupt the rotation) would be harshly penalized by the GMs... Would also be a decent change a pace.

There's still the matter of people being greedy douches though... But let's take one step at a time.

[Genedin]

Eh. This game really shows you how adults will act in private when self interest is concerned.

Kind of sad to see it is the same on both servers...but not surprising in the least.

At least I can slay those people on red otherwise I don't think I'd be here still.

[Dizey]

I would donate and move or start over on a new raid rotation based server. To be honest though, I'd rather not have to. Id rather see the staff revisit the current C/R/FFA (VP to C Only) rotation, including variance, and their philosophy/vision behind it. I'd rather see the P99 blue community stay intact, but there is something fundamentally wrong when the vast majority of the server is constricted to such a small portion of the raid scene just because they don't want to conform to an extreme play style. It's been almost a year now in the current raid structure, and none of the guilds in the class R rotation are using it as the intended means of breaking into class C, and that speaks for itself.

I can't speak for others, but my personal reasons for not moving to class C are simple. I want to play, and be in a guild with, the friends and people that have helped me along the way here on P99. It's not that I don't want competition, or want my loot handed to me out of a vending machine. I just don't want to participate in the poopsocking and shenanigans that ensue as players find new ways to violate the spirit of the raid rules put in place in order to gain an unfair advantage over other guilds. I don't consider that to be competition.

[squarez]

'No, I'm quite happy with the way things are'

is a loaded response btw. Some people might care, not be happy, and not like the proposed solution.