Increasing Red's Population

[no chewie dont]

as much as i like to take credit for the drastic population reduction in early months perhaps guards not assisting had a little to do with it?

[Bazia]

a level 12 mage could wait for you at your skill trainer or bank and delevel you for hours with an earth pet if they found your bind

[Potus]

Guards not assisting. EXP Loss for pvp death. No exp bonus to compensate. Horrible resist coding. An insane number of bugs. Little to no GM support.

I think there is other stuff I'm missing. Having people sitting at character creation spawn point and perma-rooting level 1s to death was just dumb.

[Eslade]

People that don't group deserve to get less xp. Of course Hateraid would want more solo xp. Nobody good wants to group with him.

[Mac Drettj]

rushing to 60 is a huge let down

thats why the pop sucks

enjoy the ride

the journey

embrace it

[Eslade]

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

rushing to 60 is a huge let down

thats why the pop sucks

enjoy the ride

the journey

embrace it

This
I don't know why you'd want to race to 60 as a new player. If you hit 60 too fast you're going to be an undegeared 60 on a pvp server. Good luck with that.

[Telron]

Its not that people choose not to group its that there is literally not a whole lot to pick from.

Only thing that makes EQ PVP Fun is players playing. Otherwise its a shitty version of blue with no one to play with.

[Beethoven]

What we need is a zerg of noobies, who can level up easy, who by the time they level up to 50+ they are literally stuck and don't want to play any other character/server, because they LOVE the char they made HERE and want to KEEP pursuing the work they've put into it because after getting over 50+ they can AND WILL see how fun and serious business this server can and WILL be

[Beethoven]

What needs to happen is this server has to be created into a "more than blue" friendly server. By that I mean that it has to entice people MORE than the blue server does. Ppl who are casual or noobie players go on blue simply because there are more people to group with at ALL times, thus easier to level at all times. There needs to be SOME incentive besides just PvP to bring people here or else it will always and forever be a sub-population server....

Think about it GMs.... This is the actual FUN server, yet no one plays here.... why?? Because there isn't a great population.... there is a GREAT core pop, but not enough to make the average Joe come here over Blue. I seriously HATE to say it.... because i don't believe in EQ fun unless there is PvP involved, but there HAS to be a reason OTHER than PvP for people to join this SPECIAL (And it is Freaking special compared to ALL other EQ servers) server.

The DEVs and GMs can make this into something that has NEVER been seen before in the history of Private Everquest PvP Servers.

This server has INSANE potential, because it's more than just pixel gathering. Uber 1337 people from Blue WISH they could play here.... i know it! But it's just Too Easy to choose the Blue path when looking at the population


Make this into something better than Blue and it will become more than you could possibly imagine!

/seriousness_off

[Eslade]

This just crossed into TLDR territory.