sup with red99?

[Dullah]

cwall corpse camped daily on forumquest, rages and feigns ignore

[Toehammer]

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

just came back to check the server and its pretty much dead. where are all the former vz/tz garage box players? i rly dont get this, 20 players? everyone wanted this and noone is playin on it wtf! garage box had 200 (granted, with boxes) ....

ps: no, i dont want to read the whole forum just to get a clue what happened

I will try to be non-annoying like everyone else.

In all seriousness, the server is fun to play on if you solo. I have a 44 mage, working my way up.

But as far as a good, high population server is concerned, it is probably dead. There are 3 reasons why:

1) some big flaws during startup: no guard assist (lost 1/2 population within a week of server launch), resists were messed up, huge exploit problems (redwood wands, mage sword proc rate, pathing) let certain people "level up"

2) some things got fixed (guard assist) but most were ignored so guilds continued to exploit and people got banned (for good reasons)

3) critical mass... people were leaving for blue epics, and the server was getting DDOSed, forum trolls, etc. it just became a crappy community

I still play here, but it is sorta dead.

The unfortunate thing is that everything could have been resolved by a wipe in the first month. Call it Red99 Beta 2.0

People still calling for a wipe are just as delusional as the people saying population will stabilize in triple digits for Kunark.

Basically 1), 2), and 3) caused population to plummet, however the real reason probably has to do with my first sentence "I will try to be non-annoying like everyone else." The majority here are d-bags.

Join the server though, if I see you around I can give you free stuff and maybe even plevel, send pm!

[Dullah]

I bet all my 50s that kubark will stabilize at triple digits if they do it now, and spend an hour adding a couple of the other suggested features the community has offered.

[Supreme]

What really saw a huge drop was the release of Epics on Blue99 like 2 weeks after Red99 opened.

That hurt.

[Labanen]

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

The majority here are d-bags.

I think you used to be right, lately i think the few people that are left begin to understand that it doesnt help population to grief the shit out of new players. And i am enjoying the server alot more than i did 2 months ago. Only problem is that work is keeping me increasingly busy so i get to play less than i did [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[JayDee]

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[PhantomRogue]

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

What really saw a huge drop was the release of Epics on Blue99 like 2 weeks after Red99 opened.

That hurt.

Riiiiiiiiight.

Because the people on Blue99 are the targeted demographic for Red99.

It couldn't have been the IDIOTIC way it was ran for the first few months. Moronic GM involvement/bans/etc, massive exploits. And the stupidity of the ruleset.

Just Let Go.

Red99 failed, enjoy your Nihilum sandbox.

[Tr0llb0rn]

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

Riiiiiiiiight.

Because the people on Blue99 are the targeted demographic for Red99.

It couldn't have been the IDIOTIC way it was ran for the first few months. Moronic GM involvement/bans/etc, massive exploits. And the stupidity of the ruleset.

Just Let Go.

Red99 failed, enjoy your Nihilum sandbox.

One second you complain about massive exploits, then the next second you complain about GM invovement and bans.

you dum

Just Let Go.

[Dullah]

Thinking there wasn't plenty of red players who chose to play blue over all the shitboxes that called themselves "EQ" pvp server is erroneous. I played vztz for a day before realizing it was not even close rallos zek and quitting. I had never heard of p99, but I'd certainly play on blue over something that doesn't represent the spirit of EQ, while calling itself EQ.

EQ pvp was about pve as much as it was about pvp on RZ. The fact that you still don't understand this only serves as a tribute to your stupidity.

[Brut]

Server was a riot when it was populated, no doubts there. It's just that there's so few people bound to stay here from the get-go. We have the newbies who are testing new waters coming from blue, who all quit come more content for blue99 (epics) - or just generally got griefed off/fed up. And then we have the veterans who used to be on the top on WhateverZek and came here convinced that they'd be leading all the pvp charts, end up getting disappointed not becoming the #1 monk on server, and thus quit.

Stupidity of mage summoned swords and no guard assist played a part in all this, yes, but it wasn't all that big a deal imho. Community was a bigger problem to me; we had 95% people who want to kill&corpse camp every random joe at sight, 5% people who send a tell "y u kill me????!!!1" after dying; a complete opposite of how live pvp servers were. It's just an equation that can't work out long term.

Personally would like a wipe just because of the pure awesomeness and fun of a fresh, new server. Early beta and early red99 were just great: craziness all over, people you don't know/trust at all, making patchwork, excitement of picking up a non-tarnished weapon for 9pp off a vendor, random PK for some guy's 400silver... This gets stale fast when everyone's lvl50 rolling about Antonica lookin for some unguilded spec camper to mug.