As someone who played red awhile ago with a static, up until mid 40's, I will say that having completely open camps everywhere is great. Wonderful to be able to pick what you want to camp without fear of someone already being there. Although if you want to get camps in popular zones, then you will have to expect to deal with annoyances...
Literally, the server was boring when there was barely 100 ppl on, I can only imagine what it would be like now with 40 people typically. That said, the zones people would want to themselves is where the twinks and griefers hang out looking for fresh meat. So your still going to out of the way locations, like on blue.
The only real difference is rather than interacting with other people to buy,sell,xp, etc. as you would on blue, you end up only interacting with people when they try to kill you. It gets really boring after awhile, especially when those people attack you mid pull. So huge, wide open places making it feel like an empty world other than the things that wanna kill you.
All in all, I'm amazed that the staff has allowed the server to remain. That they haven't taken the server, wiped it and recreated it as some form of team server that everyone seems to want is amazing. It really shows a lack of appreciation for EQ PvP (Which really only works in a team format) and a lack of caring for what the future of the overall P99 community is. It's theirs to do what they wish with but certainly not caring about improving things.
Why not try red? Cause vast open spaces with no other people to interact with other than those that want to shit in your cereal isn't fun or engaging. (Not that doing the same content in pvp or pve is either but at least on blue you have some people to meet and interact with in more than just 1 way, while doing the same content over and over and over and over and over and over again.)
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