Were there cultural differences between servers on live?
 

Just curious if anyone had any observations when switching and whatnot.

Honestly not really. I just recently quit within the last year. I haven't noticed much of a difference.

Edit: provided you were talking about live servers currently.

Ehh, meant more back in the good ol' days, but I appreciate the input nonetheless.

I'd say there were some. Consider the difference between the few servers that had raid target rotations and the majority that did not as one example. But a lot of it probably got blurred over the years of mergers and shrinking population.

One thing comes to mind... EC Tunnel vs Gfay for the auction gathering.

Krey

Xegony was known as a shit hole of drama

That might have varied on server. EC tunnel was auction gathering on live for me too.

Tunare was Gfay, many others were EC. Of course Tunare had a EC scene but the GFAY scene was where it was at. 200+ at a time was common.

Tunare also had a Public raiding and lots of alliances. I personally was in Justice League of Norrath as my first guild. We did a-lot of alliances in the Classic/Kunark frame. I used to lead Public Hate raids myself.

When Velious came out PoG raids were ran public on forums for a long time.:D

Tunare also had a large Asian community specifically Hong Kong (HK) and the guild STARS. They were the most notorious for using Zerg tactics in Velious to down Kael mobs, getting some server firsts over Talisman (who had Game Firsts of their own).

On Veeshan and I think a couple others it was NFP ^^

Auction zones during classic: Gfay, ECT, NFP.
Group loot rules: NBG, random, alpha plat items, cleric get and splits at end of night.
Randoming variations: 1 -1000, 0-1000, 0-100, 1-100.
Raid etiquette: rotations, FFA, fcfs, train wars, first in zone, actually clearing to cazic and Inny before engaging.


Camp names and boundaries.