Speaking as a new player, more people will not play if they can't find groups, auction gear, and get ports on a nearly unpopulated server. Global ooc is needed badly to alleviate the symptoms of low population. The population has been growing steadily but due to the amount of zones in game, especially with the pending introduction of velious, the population is fragmented on the server. I played classic pvp on RZ since vanilla before kunark. If the population was as low then as it is on r99 now it would have been nearly unplayable. There's a reason red doesn't have afk players and bazaar in ec and everyone unanon like blue does and those two things will not change as long as it's a pvp+ server.
If you don't play on red as your main server then shut the fuck up about red, tbh. If the GMs/devs think ooc is toxic then ban the people that make it that way, don't collectively punish everyone. Minus a few assholes who have to let everyone know their every pixelated move/victory, there are actually quite a few great people in the community and ooc really helped foster that especially when it came to helping new players such as myself.
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