Why do you think the population is sinking once more ?

[Kergan]

I'm going to do my best to give you an intelligent response so you can at least have one of them to go along with the troll posts.

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

Definitely do not want a wipe, I just finally started getting somewhere!

I just started playing and I made it into my 50's now, I am leveling slow intentionally to collect a little bit of equipment as I move along. I noticed a lot of people that I was grouping with and exping with from level 20 up until about level 40 have stopped playing. I am pretty sure that it was the non stop thrashing twinks liked to come and lay down on the under geared new players.

I don't doubt this has an effect on people. I have my own supertwink (currently lvl 19) and I have never attacked someone that hasn't attacked me first. PVP is the primary reason to play on R99 but tbo it doesn't get very interesting until 50+. I'd personally rather avoid it rather than steamroll someone who might quit. Not everyone feels this way.

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

I was really looking forward to some old school pvp as I was leveling up but unfortunately it did not happen, the only pvp was an extremely one sided gong show of twinks slaughtering new players. The irony of this is that the new players would take their death and be forced to loot and scoot from their exp zone but if they teamed up and managed to almost kill one of the twinks they would zone plug or suicide on mobs (lol). If the new players would have maybe been able to get a kill without the twinks suicideing or zone plugging it might have been a bit more fun but the pvp was absolutely ridiculous.

Before Alecta (PVP dev) went MIA he was working on some anti-plugging code. While this was pushed mostly by the high level population I can see it greatly benefiting the low level population for this reason. Honestly, I believe there is a significant amount of newer players here who don't know you can plug. I was fighting a Hokuten guy a couple weeks ago on my 51 monk and he kept zone dancing between LS and SolB at low health, and finally made a run for SolRo temple...couldn't figure out why he didn't just plug and I finally killed him...I almost felt bad knowing how easily he could have escaped.

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

Anyway.. the long and short of the story is a small percentage of people on this server ruined it for themselves and everyone else by chasing away 80 percent of the new people who actually wanted to give it a try. I do not understand why they would do this, I am guessing that they are just that stupid that they did not realize what they were doing.

I have to be honest here, if you can't deal with that stuff a little bit it's going to be tough to stick it out here for the long haul. I find a big part of the problem is people play on R99 like its P99...they congregate in the most optimal zone like Crushbone, Unrest or MM and never utilize underpopulated zones in the same level range like RE, Paw, Befallen, etc. The supertwink pvpers are like sharks coming in looking for the schools of baitfish. Don't be a baitfish.

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

I think the only solution to this would be to change the play nice policy to allow for new players (somehow flag them???) or to put a level requirement on items that someone below level 50 should not be able to wear. A level 20 monk should not (without twinking) be running around with a fungi tunic, t-staff (or whatever op weapon they had), full diamond gear and whatever else they were twinked out with.

As someone with more than one max level character, I have to disagree here. I understand the intent, but you're removing a lot of the replayability (i.e. twinking and lvling up) of EQ because of a few bad apples.

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

I am enjoying this server, I played on good team sullon zek from the start and it was way more difficult then this server because there was no level limit and goods were way out numbered. I wish other new players would have been able to stick it out... Or there were less retards on this server.

And... I am anticipating that same small percentage of people to respond to this with something like go back to blue you panzie.. or QQ more puss... But this is the truth about why the server population is the way that it is...

Some people will respond with that. Keep in mind you're not dealing with the majority of the server on these forums. A large percentage of people who post here a ton don't even play, they are just trolls. I can tell you that the largest and most powerful guild on the server (Nihilum) has a strict anti-griefing policy and doesn't allow people to plow through new players with supertwinked characters wearing guild raid loot. It has happened and it will happen again, but it is still punishable within the guild and I've personally seen people kicked out for it.

[Clark]

Wipe it for God sake.

[georgie]

I think it's the 1 guild. Lots of casuals can't compete with nerds. Haven't you seen revenge of the nerds?

[georgie]

It needs a wipe now that I've played soloing an sk. It needs a server wipe and maybe a 1 or 2 day of no pvp so bluebies don't get griefed in freeport and leave the first day.

[georgie]

I will remain anonymous just in case I need to use u. And betray u later

[Nizzarr]

whats ruining this server?

Ooc and lvl 14/20/30/40 epic rogues with fungis.

[Bardalicious]

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

whats ruining this server?

Ooc and lvl 14/20/30/40 epic rogues with fungis.

Which guild hosts the highest number of epic, fungi and dragon / god / VP geared lowbie twinks on the server?

[Gaffin 7.0]

community option winnin, pretty much why most dont play here, toxic people

[Clark]

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

I think a better compromise would be a Discord style box that reset regularly, rather than wiping red99 which will result in 3 weeks of fun, if that, before it turns into the inevitable "all the hardcore poopsockers have reached 50 and are locking down all content" status.

This or wipe it clean.

[R Flair]

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

Which guild hosts the highest number of epic, fungi and dragon / god / VP geared lowbie twinks on the server?

As someone who just leveled 2 characters up to 50+ I can tell you its not god/vp geared characters killing lowbies. In fact, half a dozen nihilum have anti-pk twinks just to grief the griefers. Unfortunately this servers PNP and LNS policies are more conducive to PKs than anti pks, because on live people that spent their time trying to grief other players ended up getting corpse camped off the server. On red the good guys would get banned.