Day off - Saturday - What's happening on Red99 - Nothing

[Holey]

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

if variance is put in. 5 of my Rl pals would come back. server would thrive. with fungi tunics + heiro cloaks

I SOLD 2/3 fungis i got already LOL.

[krazyGlue]

yes ^ I cant wait I would love to play on a box where there is more then 2 highend guilds. imagine. a warzone in ej.tt/ over trak between 4 guilds

[krazyGlue]

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

I SOLD 2/3 fungis i got already LOL.

I have 7 left. I sold 4 and I gave one away . me and madude was duoing fungi at launch of kunark. invis pulling ftw

[Not_Kazowi]

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

yes ^ I cant wait I would love to play on a box where there is more then 2 highend guilds. imagine. a warzone in ej.tt/ over trak between 4 guilds

That existed at one time, on VZTZ.

Greatest EQ experience of my life.. 4 major guilds all mass pvping over control of Sebilis.. And Trakanon was not even coded into the server at that time yet. Epic shit.


Add variance to this shit hole. Nihilum does exactly what Stasis said. They log in on tuesday morning at 3AM and raid until 7AM uncontested with 50 members. Then people wonder why the server sucks and theres a low pop.

[Holey]

the fuck yall talking about we had about 2/3 of the server in ej/tt/seb like 2 months ago. if yall stop bitching about loot and aruging over dumbfuck shit, yall woulda already be running the server.

Praise the fucking duke nizzar.

[DrNarcisse]

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

the fuck yall talking about we had about 2/3 of the server in ej/tt/seb like 2 months ago. if yall stop bitching about loot and aruging over dumbfuck shit, yall woulda already be running the server.

Praise the fucking duke nizzar.

It doesn't matter if the zerg incumbent is named Nihilum, the whole point is that to rule the server you simply have to do it by numbers. There is no competition, it's zerg or be zerged. When the only objective in the end game is to log on as many players as you possibly can in a single 3 hour window one time per week to kill all the mobs, the system is broken. That is a much different task than logging in the same zerg every day of the week to contest for a single mob (or a few mobs, depending on 12 hour variance spawn windows).

[Holey]

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

It doesn't matter if the zerg incumbent is named Nihilum, the whole point is that to rule the server you simply have to do it by numbers. There is no competition, it's zerg or be zerged. When the only objective in the end game is to log on as many players as you possibly can in a single 3 hour window one time per week to kill all the mobs, the system is broken. That is a much different task than logging in the same zerg every day of the week to contest for a single mob (or a few mobs, depending on 12 hour variance spawn windows).

VARIENCE its a word that say "recruit more people"
same shit as whats happening now no? ..
im tired of seeing the same shit over and over again and its not going to happen for months maybe a year.

[Dullah]

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

I have 19 online friends waiting to rejoin and make a guild. We will be able to compete with 20 players when we're online. We'll even steal away some members from Nihilum. It's time to thrive.

Cool story.

I have 19 friends waiting to join for velious permitted there isn't variance.

[Not_Kazowi]

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

the fuck yall talking about we had about 2/3 of the server in ej/tt/seb like 2 months ago. if yall stop bitching about loot and aruging over dumbfuck shit, yall woulda already be running the server.

Praise the fucking duke nizzar.

yeah praise some dude that has made this eq emu server his life. cant wait for the server to shut down and he inevitably realizes what an empty of a shell his life has become.

[DrNarcisse]

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

VARIENCE its a word that say "recruit more people"
same shit as whats happening now no? ..
im tired of seeing the same shit over and over again and its not going to happen for months maybe a year.

No, variance is not about "recruiting more people". Recruiting more people is necessary in the current system. If Nihilum showed up with 20 players on their raid day (a day in which every raid mob on the server spawns within a small window), another guild would log on 40 players, kill Nihilum, and take every raid spawn on the server. If Nihilum wanted to compete with the new guild the following week, they would recruit and bring 60 players. The following week, the other guild would be forced to bring 80 players to kill Nihilums 60 players. Eventually, you hit a point where there are simply no players left to recruit. We've had 18 months of this cycle (most of the time a cycle of only Nihilum recruiting and no other competition available). There is no one left for another guild to recruit and overpower Nihilum on their raid day.

Variance changes the dynamic of that greatly by randomly splitting up the spawns in the week. No more raid day with a 3 hour window that spawns every raid mob in the game. Therefore, just recruiting warm bodies who are capable of showing up in that environment is a wasted effort. My estimate puts atleast 70% of Nihilum members in that camp. It is going to be interesting to watch not only the turnout but also the talent displayed by these players when they're forced to log in on a day that only spawns 1 raid mob (likely with items they haven't needed in over a year) to fight active, agile smaller guilds that know how to and enjoy pvping. Nonvariance is like the british soldiers in the revolutionary war. Lining up on a preestablished battlefield clashing with another huge zerg army. Variance is like every war after that. Guerilla war tactics, no more predetermined fighting, fun.