Here is my observation from the beginning....

A sum up of forums from the beginning of red99:

(A typical blue forum post) "Hi all, welcome to the server. Enjoy your time in Norrath. PST to blah if you ever need help

(A typical red forum post) "You bluebies suck, get off our server, go back to blue, blah blah blah)

Now fast forward to present....

(A typical blue forum post) "Hi all, welcome to the server. Enjoy your time in Norrath. PST to blah if you ever need help

(A typical red forum post) "Where is everyone at? What happened to our population, we need exp bonus, global chat, anything to get blubies to come back.....

<Insert random troll response from Harrison>

20-30 replies of "This message is hidden because Harrison is on your ignore list."

Conclusion:

The Red Player base has gotten exactly what it wanted and what I warned it would have from the beginning... the same 100 assholes bitching back and forth at each other.... Anything that is done to revive the server at this point is going to be too little too late, sorry guys. I wanted to believe in a resurrection, but its not going to happen.

For the future, I hope everyone learns that PvP needs to have a certain degree of "honor" in it. Also, be careful what you wish for, because you may get it. Enjoy the Red, I am going to to enjoy the community in blue! Ok bye bye now.....

lack of attention, lack of server specific features, meddling GM staff and the fact that i have already killed pretty much everyone on the server worth killing multiple times.


another huge one for me is the carebear demeanor of the server, we still dont have a set of rules but amelinda is eager to swoop in doling out suspensions for a multitude of activitis that should be legal (training, ninjalooting, tradeganking)


since players lose absolutely nothing when you kill them unlike classic, and the option to create scenarios where you could actually get one over on your enemies (ninjalooting, tradeganking) has been deemed unacceptable in addition to the low playerbase and other issues i have mostly lost interest in the server

if i wanted watered down zero consequence pvp and GM meddling/hadholding i would fire up a wow emulator or something with vastly greater population and not spend 15 minutes out of every 60 buffing/medding.

Bullshit

I don't think a friendlier player base would help


its a pvp server.. people are going to be dicks


what they need is a way for gear / grind (you know all the PvE stuff) be less of a requirement to PvP



I think full loot takes care of the gear requirement.. somebody can't just buy best gear in game then reign supreme for ever.

exp boost would be nice also.

I think it's funny how divided opinions are and how everyone wants every which rule tweaked to the way they like it.

I think one of the larger problems the server has is the forum trolls and the constant reminder of doom and gloom and how bad the server is etc. this forum is the first thing a player looks at before deciding to join it or not. based on what I see, I'd just move along if I was a random/non referral.

nothing is really as bad as people try to make it seem. there's some angry/butt hurt folks that stick around to constantly remind us of things, but it's really not a true representation of the server. it's like a review of anything in life - very rarely will anyone stick around and post about how much fun they are having, but everyone that wants to vent and bitch will air it here frequently.

Being able to fight back against trolls without sinking an incredible amount of time into PvE would probably help some.

so if i understand most you; most of you do not actually enjoy playing EverQuest. instead you would prefer to be given a lvl 50 character with uber gear and spend all day running around fragging each other. im sorry, but thats not EQ.

it seems none of you came here wanting to meet new people, make BOTH new friends and enemies. none of you came to grind it out, to crawl through dungeons, to try holding camps, all while dealing with other players trying to stop you via pvp.

if you came here expecting call of duty, naturally i see why you would be upset. but if you came here expecting EQ, then i look forward to seeing you all on the server.

<3
Sirks