Patch Notes: Monday, February 18th, 2013

[Justown]

^truth

[Tippett]

Also with the exp loss being 4-5% post level 55 you do realize 1 pvp death will be equal to about an hour of more of grinding on a low population server where groups are rarer then fungis

[Nune]

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

Also with the exp loss being 4-5% post level 55 you do realize 1 pvp death will be equal to about an hour of more of grinding on a low population server where groups are rarer then fungis

When Red launched, it had around 600 people. I played starting at minute one. Over time, I watched the same core group of people grief, exploit, and corpse camp that did it on every other EQEmu PvP server I've played on. I think the results were pretty responsive. Took a month for population to peak at 200-250. Granted, EQ PvP is rough and many people just QQ back to Blue, but my point is this.

We guys were given this big awesome server that the devs were shoulder deep into making work, and then shit all over the people who came to enjoy it too. Now you're back to the same 120 people who were here before Kunark, and you all sit around and bitch at nilbog about how broke everything is. If you feel as though Red, or Red's players, aren't a priority in the GMs eyes perhaps you should reflect internally, because that server is long past a means to get new players to stick around and the handful of you that are there haven't made life for the staff very easy.

[Purplefluffybunny]

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

[...] that server is long past a means to get new players to stick around and the handful of you that are there haven't made life for the staff very easy.

I disagree. There are ways to increase and maintain a healthy server population. However, I agree that the behavior of certain people is one of the major reasons why the server population, has been as low as it has been.

[Nune]

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

I disagree. There are ways to increase and maintain a healthy server population. However, I agree that the behavior of certain people is one of the major reasons why the server population, has been as low as it has been.

The point isnt that devs shouldnt get their xp bonus or whatever back in, more so that there are people /wristing about a feature that isnt even classic being gone and the playerbase does little to warrant effort towards them.

You want xp bonus so you can level -> gear -> PvP and/or Raid

the same way

Blue wants an xp bonus so they can level -> gear -> raid / hold down torch 1.

Cept Blue has numbers, so not having a bonus is offset by lots of groups being avaliable at all levels (for the most part, 20-40 is slim pickins less you want to xp in 1 of 2 spots). Red pissed their numbers away, so they're only left wth the xp bonus so that killing light blues for 5 hours is actually meaningful xp. Just seems like Red created it's own problem, and have 1 lifeline to mitigate it (a lifeline thats, again, not classic, more a favor by the GMs who implemented it in hopes to bring people in and keep the people who are there happy, which in turn is ruined by said bad apples)

[Tomatoking]

arent you guys tired of begging them to fix stuff thats wrong?

why bother , they obviousley dont care. Either play

or dont

[Tippett]

bump why no response on exp

[Tippett]

ur post makes no sense

can we get exp fix now plz pop was almost 200 but now no one wants to level while exp is broken

[Nune]

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

my learning disability makes forumquest hard

tl;dr

stop being a bunch of faggots. The patch updated the entire R/B99 server experience to be more classic and youre spamming about xp bonuses.

[Etorryn]

I started playing about a month ago fresh on red99. I was on when Nilbog suggested taking away ooc after the recent patch. I would be ok without having an XP bonus if the server population was around 600. Currently even with /ooc finding a group can be rare. If I do find a group, most the time I have to travel 45 minutes. I don't have 6-7 hours strait to play everynight (more like 3-5). If I could /ooc in a zone filled with people around my level, than it might be a differn't story. I understand it's not "classic", but 150 people on at peak isn't "classic" either.