The Next Fix: Blue Copies

[Genedin]

This is why I refer to Chewie as the AIDS of the box.

"After Chewie enters the server, it piggybacks onto a T cell and works its way inside of that cell. Once inside, the virus completely takes over the T cell and uses it as a virus-making factory to make a lot of copies of itself. The newly made viruses then leave the T cell and go on to infect and destroy other healthy T cells as they continue to multiply inside the body. T cells invaded by the virus can no longer properly fight infections."


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Can't argue with it. It doesn't think, it doesn't reason. Its soul purpose to exist is to harm and spread its decaying infection.

[big mouth chew]

Know how I know im great? Even people that dont play on my server have crushes on me

<3 u 2 random forum dweller!

[heartbrand]

There's no gimmick left in the bags that can bring a massive influx of new blood. Wipe? Not happening. Exp boost? Brings a few, not many. Velious? Will also be out in blue so will serve to only bring already existing red players back.

My desire is to see this box average 300-350 players a night. Who cares if it's "blue players fucking around"? Great! That means pvp, exp groups. It means they might enjoy it and bring their guild over and their friends. It means a massive amount of new players!

[Kergan]

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

There's no gimmick left in the bags that can bring a massive influx of new blood. Wipe? Not happening. Exp boost? Brings a few, not many. Velious? Will also be out in blue so will serve to only bring already existing red players back.

My desire is to see this box average 300-350 players a night. Who cares if it's "blue players fucking around"? Great! That means pvp, exp groups. It means they might enjoy it and bring their guild over and their friends. It means a massive amount of new players!

That's not what it means at all. It means a bunch of level 60s (why would you copy here pre 60 and level up while getting PVP'd?) with nothing better to do then fuck with people when they're bored. Everyone trying to level up legitimately would get pounded on by PVP bots naked who don't give a shit about their reputation or anyone on R99.

It might mean PVP but it wouldn't be good PVP. It would be like squashing an unending stream of cockroaches that offer no challenge and are nothing but a nuisance.

You might gain a few players but you'd lose a lot more.

[heartbrand]

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

That's not what it means at all. It means a bunch of level 60s (why would you copy here pre 60 and level up while getting PVP'd?) with nothing better to do then fuck with people when they're bored. Everyone trying to level up legitimately would get pounded on by PVP bots naked who don't give a shit about their reputation or anyone on R99.

It might mean PVP but it wouldn't be good PVP. It would be like squashing an unending stream of cockroaches that offer no challenge and are nothing but a nuisance.

You might gain a few players but you'd lose a lot more.

People pvping and being lame without fear of their reputation? Sounds like red99 already.

[HippoNipple]

I played on blue before red opened and I hated how crowded the server felt. I think it would be nice to even out the server population for both communities.

If there are 1300 people logged in I think everyone would enjoy both servers more if it was split 800/500.

I don't condone any changes to be made to make the current red server anymore blue than it has become but would like some creative solutions to get some of those players to join Red.

If players are copied I would love for those to have the opportunity to give red a try. I would not like the influx of characters brought over by players already playing on red though and I am one that would do this personally.

[Infectious]

Our server has no population because of a couple simple things. 1) No gms ever on. Person gets corpse camped for an hour by someone, that person logs off and goes to the next server/game. 2) Bugs are never handled. Resists, Los and so on. If you expect this server to have a decent pop you atleast need some gms. Look at blues bug forums and look at ours.

Its no mystery that gms dont give a fuck about red. So just end the red server or have atleast 1/2 gms to show up each day and police this bitch. Its sad when you petition ingame for a week, no response. Petition on forums to get a reply and week and a half later. Then the response you get by a gm is they will handle it next time their on...

Well I guess that gm dont play no more, cause that shit was a month ago and the problem still aint handled. So yes I know this server is free and yes I know you dont make no money from this project. Dont advertise for people to play and get a moody when asked to fix something. Dont ask for donations to a server that is broken, been broken over a year and spin it like it happened an hour ago when we all know resists been broken the last 2 years.

Red server will always be the projects and the blue server will always be the suburbs. So Yes! We saying f#@k da police!

[Tradesonred]

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

Why: Because this server needs an influx of new blood. Unfortunately, due to the essentially ghost town scenario that new players enter into when they roll here combined with the small but vocal toxic masses, most people don't survive here. This would provide an influx of new players, lead to more guilds, more pvp, more exp groups, a better economy, and a more mature player base.

How: Naked. Plenty of people will be ready to toss items out to those who copy over. While personally I don't mind if people had items, this is the best way to minimize tears. Limit copy to one character per emu account.

The negatives: people are sitting on dozens of characters and could copy lots of characters over. However, I think this negative is a bit overstated since there's already an abundance of characters on red there's just no drivers for said characters.

The positives: instant pop influx. More mature player base.

ForumQuest Engage!

Maybe have one character per month being able to copy or something

[heartbrand]

Listen, there are definitely drawbacks to this, I admit it in the OP. This isn't an idea situation to be in. But when you're facing a 100 pop server that's critically ill, you need to pursue some risky treatment like you would if you were facing terminal cancer. It's my opinion that is rather sacrifice some of the "integrity" and deal with the side effects of copies or transfers if it meant doubling our pop potentially tripling it. I think the good would outweigh the bad. Maybe cap the copies at level 50 then? I'm not a fan of that but I think it could be a good compromise.

[big mouth chew]

Hey its not your box, why not "play or dont" like he rest of us and keep your grubby mitts off dev decisions FOR A CHANGE!