tribute to HB

[heartbrand]

There are a lot of things that make leading or helping to lead a guild on red99 unappealing, at least for me, in no particular order:

1) the staff have given up on red99 and what you is what you get

2) the low pop that makes recruiting for a guild and retaining members incredibly difficult and a 24 hour a day job

3) the low pop also incentivizes the top guild to prey upon the lesser guild as a school yard bully because there's no one else to pvp and use your shiny weapons on

4) the constant drama amongst those who consider themselves "the resistance"

5) the fact we are about to be going on year 3 of Kunark and the game is incredibly stale

6) the constant forumquesting and ooc questing over every fucking thing and the lawn mower man approach where people can't distinguish between real life and elf sim

The box sucks, has sucked, and will continue to suck. Variance, exp, level range, whatever, none of it is going to do shit. A pvp server needs three to four if not more guilds all duking it out on a nightly basis. The reason that isn't happening isn't nihilum. It's because the launch was botched and no one wants to play here except people looking to experience uncontested raiding, people who enjoy solo pvp quest, and those who didn't realize how much this server sucks until they were play committed and decided to stay plugged in. Nothing short of a complete relaunch or new server, maybe blue transfers, will so anything to change any of this.

What you see is what you get with red99. First impressions are everything. Red99's first impression was a steaming pile of shit. You can only keep trying to put bandaids on bomb wounds for so long (though even bandaids are in short supply as of late).

I have no ill will towards nihilum. It's a guild of 15-20 life committed people to the game and box, and then a revolving door of random people checking out end game eq and then peacing out. Is that surprising on a progression locked server where within 2 months, if that, you reach a point where you can no longer progress your character? At that point you either become a sicko and level 17 alts, or you quit. Content is king. If there were more content, more guilds would thrive. If more guilds would thrive, less people would flock to the top guild. If less people flocked to the top guild more pvp parity would be present. Not rocket science.

[Tradesonred]

Originally Posted by Stasis01 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Cause Lite is still too upset that HB is a superior leader.

For real, the only thing i could fault HB for really is putting Pyro as an officer, that guys large ego gets bruised so easily and he holds a grudge for a long time.

Nizzar probably knows the game better than HB? But still the tantrums he throws and nobody saying anything cuz everyone too afraid for their pixels, pretty bad.

Its really a shame that xp nerf killed red dawn

[Sheriff]

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

There are a lot of things that make leading or helping to lead a guild on red99 unappealing, at least for me, in no particular order:

1) the staff have given up on red99 and what you is what you get

2) the low pop that makes recruiting for a guild and retaining members incredibly difficult and a 24 hour a day job

3) the low pop also incentivizes the top guild to prey upon the lesser guild as a school yard bully because there's no one else to pvp and use your shiny weapons on

4) the constant drama amongst those who consider themselves "the resistance"

5) the fact we are about to be going on year 3 of Kunark and the game is incredibly stale

6) the constant forumquesting and ooc questing over every fucking thing and the lawn mower man approach where people can't distinguish between real life and elf sim

The box sucks, has sucked, and will continue to suck. Variance, exp, level range, whatever, none of it is going to do shit. A pvp server needs three to four if not more guilds all duking it out on a nightly basis. The reason that isn't happening isn't nihilum. It's because the launch was botched and no one wants to play here except people looking to experience uncontested raiding, people who enjoy solo pvp quest, and those who didn't realize how much this server sucks until they were play committed and decided to stay plugged in. Nothing short of a complete relaunch or new server, maybe blue transfers, will so anything to change any of this.

What you see is what you get with red99. First impressions are everything. Red99's first impression was a steaming pile of shit. You can only keep trying to put bandaids on bomb wounds for so long (though even bandaids are in short supply as of late).

I have no ill will towards nihilum. It's a guild of 15-20 life committed people to the game and box, and then a revolving door of random people checking out end game eq and then peacing out. Is that surprising on a progression locked server where within 2 months, if that, you reach a point where you can no longer progress your character? At that point you either become a sicko and level 17 alts, or you quit. Content is king. If there were more content, more guilds would thrive. If more guilds would thrive, less people would flock to the top guild. If less people flocked to the top guild more pvp parity would be present. Not rocket science.

Was taking a shit and read. Good read. Totally agree with HB on this. Classic EQ pvp would honestly bring everyone plus some back.

[Vamael]

hey heartbrand your wizard is in jeopardy of being banned. message me.

[Jib]

that PM was 2 months ago and DEFINITELY NOT THE LAST TIME WE SPOKE.....

but glad to see the old sane HB back. we lost you for a bit there.

[heartbrand]

Just a small addendum. None of this means as a new player you can't start up here and have a fun two to three months. It's just that around that time is when you hit the brick wall. Also none of this is directed at people who enjoy scouring daytime 35 pop for that one person in level range that they can shit on.

[Vamael]

He fully agreed to trading me his port bot, for another one. He only cared that it was high enough level for translocates. I also give him jboots, and lev cloak and seb key. I gave him an account with NO sms, and i have the email that isnt attached to anything but the account. He had full access, and security to the wizard i leveled him. After being booted from nihilum, he sms'd his wizard back from me, and deleted the one i leveled for him.

[Vamael]

What was your reason for killing the hours, money and life i told you i wasn't gonna do unless i traded you another wizard for. Then, in return also deleting the one i leveled for you.

[Vamael]

You're wizard has an RMT trail, i dont feel like throwing this in your face. I'm not pulling a sektors on you. I deserve a bit of reasoning of why you did so.

[Tradesonred]

Vam, are you the guy i played with in HS, that has like 4 wizzes or something?