As opposed to 1 hour of pve, 5 seconds of pvp (getting killed by some nerd's twink alt), 1 hour of corpse retrieval, 30 minutes of pve, 5 seconds of pvp....

Red is like one giant collective bruised ego. The competition there is unbelievably fierce, and it just drives them nuts that no one cares. Like, literally no one. Out of the 7 billion people on the planet, maybe 50,000 care about classic Everquest, and out of those 50,000, maybe 200 care about P1999 red. I think this constant conflict between the huge amount of time they put into the box and the total lack of interest anyone else demonstrates is an open sore on their egos. This frustration is why they grief each other so much, and its why they emit a constant stream of posts desperately pleading for someone, anyone, to come to Red . . . so they can grief them. The whole business is just silly.

Nope. It's what Splorf said.

Me? I have said in the past I would like to experiment with what works the best. The problem I have with variance on the pvp server are the effects I have seen it have on the pve server. I do not think it will lead to more guilds getting raid targets; Nihilum will do the same thing throughout the week instead of on a single day. If the rest of the server can't gather together at a known time... how could they in a short amount of time? I have to wonder if people are suggesting it to time-grief Nihilum into needing to log more hours for the same result.

With that said:

I'm down with experimentation. This change will allow us to dynamically turn it on and off. For rule changes, I need agreement from the the rest of the staff that actually deals with the pvp players. So, I'll talk with them and see what they think. But, if that [variance] doesn't yield the results players think it will, I surmise a new "all we need to double pop fix" will become the flavor of the week.

In my opinion, the best 'raid fix', for both servers, is simulated patch day respawns. I want this a lot and we are trying to knock out other issues to get it done.

You don't need imagination. Numerous red players are fucking sociopath retard motherfuckers whose lives are hollow and meaningless unless they get to make fun of blue players enjoying themselves on blue. This thread made it only a few posts before they showed up and started trolling.