Secret Regrets....

[Jimjam]

Rolled up a half elf warrior of innoruuk on the red server. No regrets there, it was the reddest combo I could think of!

Having out levelled decaying skeletons, now rocking a two handed sword and cloth armour, I wanted to try my lucky at the zombie camp. There was already someone there. It was a dark elf, so I played nice as it was nek forest and he was a favoured of innoruuk; I asked if he wanted to share.

He said there were only enough zombies for one and he was agnostic. Naturally, while his pet was fighting a zombie I killed him and took his camp.

I don't actually feel bad about that; this is how I view red is meant to operate: play normally and resolved disputes with pvp.


Another time, me and 2 friends were playing high way men at the sisters camp in lesser fay. We'd plug away at bandits while someone else in zone did the sisters. When we felt they had accumulated sufficient platinum we would head over to their camp and demand their money or their life.

They would never give their money, so we always took it (and their life). One guy was so rustled that all his hardly earnt plat was taken he rolled a level 1 wizard and trained the dark elf camp on us. This was during the Eunomia period, so we ate the train and petitioned him. Never saw him again. I think we got him banned for training. That part I do regret.

[Kowalski]

I regret reading this post

[Swish]

I like it. Yeah he probably lost that account but he probably rerolled also. Red isn't supposed to be about playing too nice unless you're XP'ing together to grind up to the 50s.

People used to build reputations on being uncooperative. Chewie in Lower Guk if you ever met him, did so much to keep people out of there it was funny. I think he had a few SKs that covered most level ranges in there. Not sure if he got banned for it but he used to fear the undead frogs and start a train with them if he was out of range.

Food for thought if the discord server ever launches (no staff interference, if you die you're dead however it happens and however "illegal" it is on blue)

[Swish]

^^ careful not to cut yourself on that edgy edited post there

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[bum3]

My first duel on live. I feared the person and they ran halfway across zone into a sand giant. Lost exp. A year later I triggered the giant spawn in Velious and they ran right to a group. She was in it. A few years later I married her IRL.

Not sure which one is the biggest regret.

[Secrets]

picking this username

[nectarprime]

Yes, that is a far better game than p99 red

[Vandil]

When I was new to EQ and playing a Wood Elf Druid, I was exploring WC, enjoying my new SoW spell. I accidentally wandered too close to the shadowed men camp and they almost killed me as I trained them to the WC/Kith zoneline. It was night time.

As I'm about to zone into kith, a group of low health players zoned over and into my train. I zone into Kith and see the departing (and thankfully not aggroing) bunch of dark elves walking back into the forest.

Then came the /tells from the people that zoned into WC, saying I killed them with my shadowed men train.

Alas, all I could really do was offer SoWs and teen-level druid buffs for their CRs.

[Cwall 146.0]

not really a regret but i got away with countless bannable offenses on red99 by befriending the GMs/guides which ultimately probably led to dozens if not hundreds of people quitting the game forever

actually kind of proud of that

[Jimjam]

I like in EQ how you are not the protagonist, but they do provide some ideas of what to do to get started.

You spawn with your newbie tunic quest. That quest takes you to an area with a bunch of NPCs, where some will give you quests to get out in the field and get killing. That gets you a bunch of drops like skins and stuff which you realise you can turn into armor, etc.

I know people don't like hand-holdy games, but I tried Uthgard the other day and you just spawn there with no 'hey head to this area to get started' note. I walked around trying to talk to NPC but there were no obvious tasks (turns out one npc you could whisper 'task' to even though he had no text to prompt doing so). I found it hard to get into a game where there was no immediate motivation provided to me to get stuck in; I was quite happy /dancing at the city centre with nothing to do!

I'm a big Warhammer (tabletop) fan. I never got into Warhammer online because I knew there was server problems, etc at launch and by the time I was interested it had shut down. I'd give that mmo a go if an emu came out, I watched friends play and it seemed pretty darn fun!

I don't tend to enjoy the games where you are lvl 1 newb in an MMO and the first NPC says to you (like every other new starter) OMG it's Anakin Skywalker, here to return balance to the force! You the awesomes! Go kill this wolf!