TLDR Brainstorming Red99's future and why Red is not Blue

[heartbrand]

The biggest problem red has always faced, other than a stagnant end game, is that rolling here as a newbie is incredibly difficult and unenjoyable. Contrast this with blue99 where there's even today tons of groups everywhere to be found, Orc Camp groups in EC etc., it just feels more like classic EQ. Here when you click enter world, you enter a barren wasteland with no one to play with, and when you finally find someone else, you probably don't have the right class composition to do anything, and when you do, you get a faggot like Maximilien there with his deleveled VP warrior to kill you.

[Gaffin 7.0]

i just dont ever see red getting anywhere near blue's numbers, lets break this down

20 blue servers back on live

1 red

x10 more players on blue

same as here

play with what you got and make it worth it, need a guild like red dawn and not faggot hokuten who quits within a month after stealing pixels with no spine

[Doors]

Yeah they had 72 hour variance on blue, it was fucking awful and ruined the entire game, which is why it was removed.

[SamwiseRed]

The difference between you and I are that I am looking at the pros and cons of boxing. The idea sounds great on paper, IE able to port yourself and pals, able to rez self and pals, ect ect. The problem isn't those situations where'd it benefit everyone. The problem is that people would abuse it. Whether it be multiboxing, ISOboxing, immortial healers, ect, I can think of a lot more ways it would ruin the play experience here rather than enhance it.

[Stasis01]

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

The difference between you and I are that I am looking at the pros and cons of boxing. The idea sounds great on paper, IE able to port yourself and pals, able to rez self and pals, ect ect. The problem isn't those situations where'd it benefit everyone. The problem is that people would abuse it. Whether it be multiboxing, ISOboxing, immortial healers, ect, I can think of a lot more ways it would ruin the play experience here rather than enhance it.

This is where if we were talking to each other in RL, I would want to rip your fucking face off.

How do you survive being so fucking stupid.

[Verde]

Server's fine for new players, and the lower pop is a positive IMO. The problem is that most people either think that EQ pvp is shit or just have no interest in it.

[Stasis01]

The only idea behind variance is splitting mobs up throughout the week instead of back to back 1 day, and to make it random hours that the biggest guild can't bring more numbers and just take it with ease.

However way you can get creative with it is just a bonus.

[Colgate]

Originally Posted by Stasis01 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The only idea behind variance is splitting mobs up throughout the week instead of back to back 1 day, and to make it random hours that the biggest guild can't bring more numbers and just take it with ease.

However way you can get creative with it is just a bonus.

you don't need variance to accomplish this

you literally just have to have the guild in power(yours) not want to kill it all back to back like nihilum did

i tried reaching out multiple times to lite about pushing timers back at least to a more sane hour of the day, but his final response was "dude 10 AM isn't even bad" despite the fact that it's 7 AM for some people

ya no one gives a fuck that you leave trakanon or talendor or gorenaire up all week, the only mobs 99% of people care to kill are venril sathir, severilous, innoruuk, cazic thule, phara dar and they're all back to back on sunday

[Stasis01]

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

you don't need variance to accomplish this

you literally just have to have the guild in power(yours) not want to kill it all back to back like nihilum did

i tried reaching out multiple times to lite about pushing timers back at least to a more sane hour of the day, but his final response was "dude 10 AM isn't even bad" despite the fact that it's 7 AM for some people

ya no one gives a fuck that you leave trakanon or talendor or gorenaire up all week, the only mobs 99% of people care to kill are venril sathir, severilous, innoruuk, cazic thule, phara dar and they're all back to back on sunday

This is why I focused on variance, because I don't see a guy like Lite or Nizzar just giving it away, or you for that matter.

I think I'm going to just walk away before I rage on all these other kids I agree with you though in a perfect world we would do it ourselves.

[Colgate]

have played on a dozen servers with 2boxing

these things you talk about samwise happen almost never