Prime time population...

[Ragnaros]

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

Couldn't agree more.

Wins PvP over mobs for the 1st time in their history: pushes timer so far out of peak time that when they log in to kill said mobs they are 60-80% of server pop.

Yerp opposition really looking 2 help progress server.

Naw pushing timers on mobs to give yourself an advantage isnt really what i meant, its tactical and smart IF your guild can constantly sustain a raid force at that time to down it. It takes 15 players to kill dracolich and even less for the golems.
Behavior that is really killing the server is the #1 guild is fielding 50+% of the level 60 population while another issue is that there isnt another guild that is even attempting to grow and progress and/or even attempting to kill things in NTOV with a dedicated effort. Shit was left up for weeks, Friends isnt a raiding guild but if anyone on the opposition is complaning about not getting raid mobs ( casual scum included) then look in the mirror and put some work in because its certainly possible. Ikatar can pretty much be killed with 20 people maybe less. Dain can be done by 40

[Seltius]

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

WALL OF TEXT< I DONT FEEL LIKE TROLLING TODAY

No one denying that other games suck even more, thats why some of us are still here, lol. There will never be another good MMO created, most of us know that . They don't make any money.

Pay-to-win, or super ultra care-bear worlds with instances like you said. The future is bleak for MMOs.

We could make this server fun, and actually create some sort of challenge, but people not really interested in that.

1. Guild cap at 45 members in a zone at one time , or adjacent connecting zones. Banhammer for any guilds that try to use un tagged members to rule lawyer numbers.

Keeps pvp and PVE more challenging. Put aside your hate, even colgate knows this is the way to go. Now that he is BIS gear he probably even agrees more !

2. Active GMs

3. Blue/red Xfers allowed, who cares about some idiot making 5 dollars a week on this game.

4. Actual set of rules, posted, set in stone, bans handed out by the active GMs that witness events. Replace sirken with someone who has actually played on an everquest pvp server. Nice guy and all but its too easy to "lobby" him.

5. Increase raid LNS timer to 4 hours.

6. GM rezs for anyone below 25, anyone cought trying to exploit GM time, by chain dieing/ rezing a character to train with gets all accounts banned.

7. Get caught lying to a GM you get banned, every account on your emu.


8. Forum accounts with posting privileges linked to in game characters above level 50, everyone else is only allowed to post in the trading/guild forums eliminates all trolling for fear of in game ban.

9. Tripple exp on Monday and Friday for anyone below level 25, more low level GM events advertised on Blue server and other websites. Plenty of things you can do to motivate people to play. It's a proven model on the pay to win games.

Basically its all the same, you need a handful of GMs that just like the game, don't have some weird problem with authority and work for free.

Above ideas are just a few, I don't personally like every single one, but I know how to create a better atmosphere for casuals, without destroying the game for more hardcore gamers.

I like some of the suggestions in your post. Actually most of them minus the ones that mean a GM would have to log time on this game like it was a career because that is going to be very hard for a volunteer to commit to long term. Thank you for putting some thought and posting a constructive post instead of just trolling.

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

Naw pushing timers on mobs to give yourself an advantage isnt really what i meant, its tactical and smart IF your guild can constantly sustain a raid force at that time to down it. It takes 15 players to kill dracolich and even less for the golems.
Behavior that is really killing the server is the #1 guild is fielding 50+% of the level 60 population while another issue is that there isnt another guild that is even attempting to grow and progress and/or even attempting to kill things in NTOV with a dedicated effort. Shit was left up for weeks, Friends isnt a raiding guild but if anyone on the opposition is complaning about not getting raid mobs ( casual scum included) then look in the mirror and put some work in because its certainly possible. Ikatar can pretty much be killed with 20 people maybe less. Dain can be done by 40

Pushing timers is a legitimate tactic. It forces the other guild i.e. Empire to field a force during off hours which is the same it seems that Empire is doing during primetime US hours. Since their opposition plays during Euro primetime it seems. I am not taking sides on this because both sides griefed the hell out of my guild while we were building on the server. At the same time I don't blame either guild beyond stating the obvious.

[Redi]

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

eliminate YTs. People so hung up on stupid board kdr. Is why newbie groups get killed: people want to pad it. Its why binds are camped. Eliminate YT and pvp board pop will go up. people will stop hugging ZLs and battle because there wont be the kdr thing over their heads. Fights become fun and not on a permanent record and people won't grief to pad their numbers.

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

but yes i agree the current oppositions attitude is THE MAIN issue of the servers state

[Videri]

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

eliminate YTs. People so hung up on stupid board kdr. ... Fights become fun and not on a permanent record

I would love this. I would rather take more chances and get my licks in.

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

the server does not work because everquest requires full time GMs. In this case, probably around 4-6 GMs to ease the work load.

Everything else is just a waste of time to think about until there is server support.

I think Barcode is right about this. It would be great to see an active GM presence. It is probably the only thing that could improve the culture of the server, too.

[Videri]

Also, <Friends> is not "the opposition." The guild does not exist to oppose <Empire>. It's just for friends to have fun playing Everquest and PvPing. We kill raid mobs when we have enough online to take down a mob that's up.

[Ragnaros]

The way the server works is that if you arent willing to hold peoples hands and feed them gear then you will get recruits at a lesser rate. It kinda sucks but thats the way it is, and carrying people isnt interesting to alot of people.

[Bundy]

yea who knows maybe then people will contest and not be like "nah dude too risky, dont want to screw up my kill/death ratio".... they might actually attempt to contest. even if they fail can just get their corpses and not have the record kept (yea someone could still take a screen shot but it's not going to blow up globally, except ooc hearsay accounts, or be kept as a statistic on another webpage to reference). can give it the old college try. people thought nihilum was unbeatable and holo/empire eventually took over. just trying to help here. cant win if you don't try.

TLDR version: eliminate YT and at least try contesting. or don't and basically live at the POM zone out tree and sky shrine zonelines

[Bundy]

and i agree with Rag. that stuff was left up. could have banded together to kill it. CS and friends could probably kill some of that NTOV stuff. especially if so many weren't SKs and made clerics and warriors for CH chains and defensive discs.

[Smedy]

40 pop @ eurotime, check
no 2 boxing, check

whats the point
check

[Ames1]

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

40 pop @ eurotime, check
no 2 boxing, check

whats the point
check

That has been the story on and off since 2012. Why do people ever expect this to change? The fact is that only 300 or so people want to play classic everquest pvp and nothing will ever change that. You have to just take this server at it's face value and enjoy it for what it is, or get your nostalgia fix then move on with your life.