Lies and Delusional concepts

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I've thought about what happened back during the Nagafen fiasco, and I've come to the conclusion that it ultimately made no difference for a variety of reasons. The main two points made about what was, still in my mind pretty terribly botched, is that it hindered Holocaust's ability to recruit during the ban and the gear advantage became insurmountable.

1) The two week suspension stopped Holocaust's momentum and prevented them from recruiting during this time.

Holocaust had no leadership, no formal recruitment. You couldn't apply to Holocaust because they didn't recruit. So this claim is false. It wouldn't have mattered had there been no suspension, holocaust wasn't recruiting.

2) The gear advantage was insurmountable.

Really? Two weeks of bladestoppers was too much, on a server pre-damage nerf where wizards were one shotting people? Lol.

The reality is Holocaust was always destined to fail. They failed to bring over the majority of their core to red99 from the get go, the class distribution was awful, and there was no leadership or recruitment. But beyond all of that, as they still were winning the pvp, it was a guild founded upon grief. Do you think had holocaust not been suspended for two weeks they'd still be here playing? Of course not. Nihilum was able to recruit because it's a guild formed to play EverQuest. The majority of the members came here to experience classic EQ without having to wait in a line to do so. When holocaust would win a pvp battle or grief, they would log off and simply kill the dragon later. They were here for EverQuest. Holocaust couldn't compete against that. The better recruiting message was come join us to raid and get loot, not hey we don't recruit you're a faggot n****r and we're going to corpse camp you and lol about it. This is why all of uprising ended up joining nihilum rather than ally with holocaust even for one raid. They were never going to "win" this server.

Does this mean the way it was handled was ok? No, Rogean admitted it was done poorly, but let's not kid ourselves as though this changed forever the destiny of this server. Had nihilum also been suspended, they would've mostly all came back. Holocaust for the most part didn't. Even when holocaust had uncontested opportunities at Vox, what happened? Lady Vox at the zone line of permafrost camping all of their corpses. It wasn't going to happen for them folks. It doesn't mean there weren't some fun and lol worthy moments in holocaust, but on this server, it just wasn't meant to be for Holocaust, despite the Nagafen fiasco.

As to all the other so-called GM Favoritism, really? Killjoy, nihilum member, banned. Fallen, banned. Sektor, banned. Bahamut rage deleted never restored. Bruuce, banned. Shocker ate a suspension while in nihilum, I think beovvulf did as well though not sure.There's plenty more but I can't recall them all off the top of my head. Plenty of people were banned for cheating/boxing.

If anything, not enough people are banned for boxing nowadays as opposed to when Amelinda was here. She didn't go about things the best of ways, hehehehe, but at least people were a bit scared to box back then and tried to hide it. Now people just openly do it with no remorse or fear.

Nihilum hardly has Rogean's ear, he ended up forcing them to delete loots from several dragon kills that the whole wall issue was never even used for. If there was a secret bat phone to Rogean, the AE dispel issue would've been fixed five months ago. The only bat phone Rogean has is a lightsaber pals, and he isn't wielding it over here on red99, despite what your guild tag may or may not be.

So while people can continue to cry and complain and bitch and moan, know that GM favoritism has nothing to do with why Nihilum is on top of this server. They are on top because of excellent leadership by Nizzar who understands classic EQ content, and because the members are here to play EverQuest and progress.