what about an idea for another server?
 

This is just an idea so please don't flame me. But what about making a pvp server. I know how pvp has a bad rep, but its not as bad as everybody thinks. I have played on pvp servers in eq, daoc, wow, warhammer, aoc, and can still say that eq was my best experience. I know that people hate pvp servers because of some of the people who play on them, but in my experiences the good outweigh the bad. It is fun to band against these people and finally bring them down. It also adds a little excitement to the game. I am currently playing on this server and i am liking it a lot, but i feel as if something is missing for me. Not that the server is bad or anything, i just miss the classic eq pvp. I was just wondering if there was ever a chance that regein would put out a pvp server, it would be a neat thing to see the differences between the pve and the pvp server. Thx and i know there will be some flames but thats not why i posted this :)

unfortunately, given the costs of operating a server and the fact that we're playing for free, this will never happen. it's been brought up in huge 10+ page threads loads of times.

i imagine the closest we can get to having a PVP community is simply having people go discord. sure it'll only be a tiny minority of the server that does it, but every now and then your red group is bound to run into another red group.

not sure how much interest there is in this idea, though. my group definitely wants to go red at 45ish.

If the game were balanced for PvP it might be fun, but as is it's kind of lame IMO.

Balanced PVP? Wow fan boy? PvP is better when it isn't balance - more satisfaction when you beat out the cheap ass overpowered classes.

I think it would be cool though if PvP battleground zones were introduced. Like the arena....but more convenient to access. I know it's not classic, but I think it'd be a cool feature that wouldn't detract from the general PvE classic world.

EC tunnel - NPC that teleports you to the battleground.

ah i didn't know that it had been brought up before. I guess i should do my research. But its funner unbalanced it makes you learn to play your char that much better and group. Wonder if they would let somebody use the code for a pvp server if they didn't steal it for their own gain. Eh just thoughts.

EQ pvp was never terribly unbalanced; any class could kill just about any other class, assuming the person playing wasn't shit and understood how to properly gear out and use clickables/terrain to their advantage.

that only changed much later on when wizards/necros would instagib someone and then gate back to town for an hour while their CDs came back up.

It was extremely gear/aa dependant

I remember coming back to Tallon zek after like 4 years on stormhammer and completely decimated entire groups of end game players with almost no required skill. Just burn the rezzers/healers down fast and clean up after.

From what I've read in some other threads the EC Tunnel is a battleground.

WoW is a PvE game just like EQ. PvP is an afterthought in both games and it shows.

Not entirely true, Blizzard makes sweeping changes to classes in an attempt to balance Arena pvp. Those changes frequently buff/nerf classes in PvE unintentionally because they thinknof the changes with their blinders on. PvP in EQ though is surely an afterthought, just I wouldn't make the same
assumption about WoW.