State of Red 1999

[AzzarTheGod]

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

The only way to save both Red and Blue is to use Red as the prison/containment server.

Repeat offenders against the Play Nice Policy get sent to Red with little to no chance of returning.

Blue players rejoice at a cleaner, more efficient server
Red gets their lambs to slaughter
Everybody wins.

And release Luclin on red.

[Baler]

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

Repeat offenders against the Play Nice Policy get sent to Red with little to no chance of returning.

That would put a REALLY great image on red. A bunch of degenerates who can't play nice.

Anyone who says it's that way now has never spent large amounts of time on red. There are some really nice people who are willing to help you out. not everyone is a cutt throat murdering two timing yellow belly dirt bag.

Idk maybe i'm just lucky but most Red players aren't the people who forum quest and RnF all day. This is in my experiance. But I like red so maybe i'm bias, idk.

I find red to be the opposite of blue. You're better off trying to communicate and talk with people, actually be social. Blue is so anti social it's painful.

[Jauna]

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

Lol

Honestly if I was into PvP in MMOs I would be all over this idea. Have the GM/Guide have a little ceremony about it, Broadcast it to Blue to scare the buttnuggets strait and transfer/copy the offender to Red and announce it in a generic "Welcome to Red, fresh from Blue, heres some new meat for all of you, welcome %t" fashion you see in TV/movies all the time.

Id have to buy me one of these shirts just to wait for said announcement.
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[Jauna]

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

That would put a REALLY great image on red. A bunch of degenerates who can't play nice.

Thats.. the point of Red.

Have an argument over a spawn? Kill em
Have an argument over some loot? Kill em
Have an argument on whos elf looks the best? Rants and Flames

These folks on Blue who dont wanna play nice but are also protected under the no Blue umbrella?

Take away the umbrella and see how they really do.

[Baler]

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

Thats.. the point of Red.

It is not the point of red from my understanding to be a prison that smells like piss and shit.

If you send the lowlifes on blue to red. They wont magically become nice people. They'll continue their trash on red.

[Jauna]

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

The point of red is not to be a prison that smells like piss and shit.

And from the sounds of people always making threads here to recruit people to red
People making "tryredtoday" alts and dying in newbie areas
And that one guide Dababell or something really pushing it
And adding massive exp bonuses
And adding protection to newbies..

And all of those attempts failing..

Well, let me just say Red does not sound like sunflowers and sunshine

[AzzarTheGod]

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

And from the sounds of people always making threads here to recruit people to red
People making "tryredtoday" alts and dying in newbie areas
And that one guide Derubael or something really pushing it
And adding massive exp bonuses
And adding protection to newbies..

And all of those attempts failing..

Well, let me just say Red does not sound like sunflowers and sunshine

You know why Derubael was recruiting so hard?

Well I'm not gonna tell ya. Looking back on the recruiting spree and using the /BROADCAST system to advertise for red99 and making big changes to red99 to grow the server (new players buy new gear hint hint)

Wow.

[Jauna]

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

If you send the lowlifes on blue to red. They wont magically become nice people. They'll continue their trash on red.

PvP was ment to be cutthroat.

If you want gentlemanly duels at dawn to decide who gets to kill/pull/loot Emperor Crushbone, you can do that on blue with the /duel command.

And lets face facts, this is a population issue, back then, PvE servers dominated population, even now I think EQLive only has one PvP server out of like the 10 they have now, not many people loved the idea of getting ganked. Even now on Blue people even hate the chance at dying with a long corpse recovery, now throw in the awkwardness of having a group disrupted by an epic'ed rogue slaughtering mid 20s groups out just because.

Look at the people who hunt in Mistmoore, Karnors, CoM. Easy zones, binds nearby, always people around.

People DO NOT WANT the added stress of wiping or getting killed while exping, because that is not the EverQuest most people remember as they played on blue servers back on live.

[Baler]

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

PvP was meant to be cutthroat.

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[Jauna]

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

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Taking little potshots at my typing will not spark interest in Red99.