State of Red 1999

[Colgate]

outlawing cross-server trades was the nail in the coffin

but this has been a repeating theme of red99: server is thriving until a decision by the staff throws us back into the dark ages

we saw it happen many times, for example the several times the exp bonus was nerfed as the population was building up, and within a week the average primetime population would drop by 50-150

cross-server trade removal didn't cause anyone to quit, but it killed off pretty much the only avenue left for recruiting new players to the server, so now the server is slowly bleeding out numbers

[Grandbeard]

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

outlawing cross-server trades was the nail in the coffin

but this has been a repeating theme of red99: server is thriving until a decision by the staff throws us back into the dark ages

we saw it happen many times, for example the several times the exp bonus was nerfed as the population was building up, and within a week the average primetime population would drop by 50-150

cross-server trade removal didn't cause anyone to quit, but it killed off pretty much the only avenue left for recruiting new players to the server, so now the server is slowly bleeding out numbers

I am all for a PvP server with Players. In your opinion, would cross server trades boost the player base again?

[Colgate]

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

I am all for a PvP server with Players. In your opinion, would cross server trades boost the player base again?

slowly but surely yes

[Speedi]

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

outlawing cross-server trades was the nail in the coffin

but this has been a repeating theme of red99: server is thriving until a decision by the staff throws us back into the dark ages

we saw it happen many times, for example the several times the exp bonus was nerfed as the population was building up, and within a week the average primetime population would drop by 50-150

cross-server trade removal didn't cause anyone to quit, but it killed off pretty much the only avenue left for recruiting new players to the server, so now the server is slowly bleeding out numbers

Everything you said is probably accurate. But one thing that would help your server is for people to stop the trolling and griefing the new blood on your server. Without that new blood, red99 *WILL* die. Myself I have *never* played on red99. But I read the forums. I know everything is not true, I am not that naive. But when you have 15-20 people all saying the same thing, some of it has to be true. Maybe with your guilds influence on red99 you guys could help with the griefing and trolling. Maybe new players could ask empire for assistance to run a griefer out the zone. That's an example of course. Maybe you could come up with something even better. Just a thought! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Sage Truthbearer]

I'm shocked that no one wants to play on a single player version of EQ where a single guild farms raid content with no one in the common areas.

[Colgate]

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

Everything you said is probably accurate. But one thing that would help your server is for people to stop the trolling and griefing the new blood on your server. Without that new blood, red99 *WILL* die. Myself I have *never* played on red99. But I read the forums. I know everything is not true, I am not that naive. But when you have 15-20 people all saying the same thing, some of it has to be true. Maybe with your guilds influence on red99 you guys could help with the griefing and trolling. Maybe new players could ask empire for assistance to run a griefer out the zone. That's an example of course. Maybe you could come up with something even better. Just a thought! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

the only way we could "run a griefer out of the zone" would be to make an army of twinked alts to cover all level ranges

or people could actually listen to the very commonly spoken advice of "level in zones other than unrest, mistmoore, and city of mist"

in any case, most people who cite red99 griefing refer to higher level pvp taking place.. at which point you just simply don't like pvp to consider getting attacked grief

[Baugi]

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

in any case, most people who cite red99 griefing refer to higher level pvp taking place.. at which point you just simply don't like pvp to consider getting attacked grief

"higher level pvp" on the server is pretty much all griefing now, yes. I've never seen someone initiate PVP with the goal of contesting a camp or taking a spawn or even pocketing the guy's wallet. It's all just breaking up groups and getting easy kill messages because EQ PVE requires too much resource investment to be PVP'ing simultaneously.

[Baler]

Let's be serious. Shut down blue.
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[khysanth]

Consider blue

[Ragnaros]

I do not recommend this server, stay far away from it. There is no raid pvp and its currently peaking at 100 people primetime when the top guild isn't raiding. The top guild raids with 150 people uncontested and the next thing to competition is lower guilds that cant even field 20. Server is dead and not worth rolling, the community is also very toxic. Stay far away.