Solving The "Blue" Issue.

[shovelquest]

p99 Mischief server when

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[Wildino]

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

Eve Online is 10x more that and has 18,000 people online right now. there's like 10 other games built from the ground up for PvP that also has people playing them.

evequest has 6 people

only thing EQ has going for it is nostalgia cause people plugged someone in freeport 25 years ago and laughed their ass off about terrible game design that someone spent 5 minutes on to try to get some UO players to buy their MMO that they assumed would be dead within 1 year.

I wish you spent hundreds of hours in trakanon teeth with a druid to monitor the arrivals of other guilds in sebilis, which we had prohibited access to anyone outside the guild for over a year like I did, you would have a different opinion of pvp in EQ.

Certainly some mechanics are not suitable for pvp, but... omg [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

(A short Vallon Zek story, 12p for life)

[Pint]

You have to be on the spectrum to argue that classic eq is a good game and you basically have to have downs to argue that eq PVP even qualifies as a bad game

[tycohunden]

The reason I think it would work on blue is because of the large population of inactive but geared characters, it would start running. Sure the red psychos would probably be an issue but with large population their impact would diminish. Just a new well of content for people who already have other things to play. Raiding would have a new dimension too.
EQ is a great pvp game! It's just a huge barrier of entry on red. I think it would revitalize blue. The issue is the admin staff not being able to see it. What's the worst that could happen, blue would die? Who cares.

Make Blue Purple.

[Duik]

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

Whoops my bad. I forgot that because I didn't code it myself and because I don't run the project I'm not allowed to question or criticize all the decisions and changes that run completely against the stated point of the project. Won't happen again.

You are soooo close.

[Reiwa]

Adding red to blue would be functionally equivalent to wiping blue.

Nobody wants to play your way.

You've ruined your own lands, you'll not ruin mine.

[Jimjam]

Okay, lets ignore the issues of whether always on pvp is something blue would even be intersted in.

If the premise is that blue is hermoraging players, how on earth is a one time boost of +6 players going to actually help with that?

[Tethler]

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

I wish you spent hundreds of hours in trakanon teeth with a druid to monitor the arrivals of other guilds in sebilis, which we had prohibited access to anyone outside the guild for over a year like I did, you would have a different opinion of pvp in EQ.

Certainly some mechanics are not suitable for pvp, but... omg [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

(A short Vallon Zek story, 12p for life)

Wait wait wait, did you type this out as a reason that people would enjoy EQ pvp? Spending hundreds of hours just sitting at a zone entrance as a hall monitor? That's your pitch?

My guy, lol

[Duik]

I think *some* pvpers believe their skillz translate to IRL awesomeness. Only bluebies call they mummies and daddies to fix the sandbox.

[Wakanda]

I actually love playing on Blue because it's so easy to get most camps at most hours. Even if you can't get a camp the people are generally so chill that they will probably legit give you the camp since most of them are playing AFK anyways.

That being said, I would like to see either a new server and/or merge of P99 blue and green. Like the game doesn't even feel like WoW now, most of my groups are in full Skyshrine and Dragon Loot. They telling me not to bother CC'ing or slowing mobs because they can't hurt our tank anyways and would rather just toss out a complete heal every so often. And they aren't wrong.

For me the real EQ is when y'all are struggling to do MM CE with a full group.