Heartbrand's Immersed How To Improve Red99 Thread For Devs & Players

[heartbrand]

Many a cool event have I thought of while taking a quality shit. So many cool zones, so many possibilities, like having to defend the king of neriak or felwithe from invaders.

[Aenor]

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Let's make it a classic 4 up 4 down level range.

Blue server is waiting with open arms for those who don't like PvP.

[Langrisserx]

yo guild sucks, you suck, you suck at sucking... ima let you finish but remember im letting u

[Nads]

Originally Posted by Langrisserx [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

yo guild sucks, you suck, you suck at sucking... ima let you finish but remember im letting u

This dude is all over HB's nuts.

[Langrisserx]

with balls that big how can u miss? right, NADS

[Nads]

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with balls that big how can u miss? right, NADS

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[Cid]

Originally Posted by heartbrand [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

1) Institute classic level range for PVP. The no level range limit of Sol B / Perma etc., is non-classic and just results in newb groups getting steam rolled. The ability of level 60's to drop Sunstrikes on level 52's is retarded. Let's make it a classic 4 up 4 down level range.

Even dropping it to 4 isn't necessary. A +/- 6 range would be better. The majority of casters get their first good kunark spells at 54 like Scars of Sigil, Deflux, etc, and the priests all have at least Superior Healing at 53. I think 50+ would be better at 6 levels than 4 but from 1-49 a 4 level range works. Plus 6 is a smaller change for those who enjoy killing the helpless to cry about.

2) As a playerbase, let's respect Loot n Scoot. This would go a huge way to creating a more enjoyable play experience.

3) Let's respect the winners of the pvp battle for targets. If one guild wins the battle, let's not have the ten hour fights that drag on of train wars and back and forth. This can only get worse in Velious.

This is a pipe dream at best. Anger and vengeance are emotional responses and not subject to logic, reasoning or forethought. You have a better chance of starting a Nihilum/Azrael raid alliance than to get everyone to play nice.

4) Remove hybrid exp penalty a year ago.

5) Change exp bonuses into grouping bonuses.

6) Maybe reduce some exp bonus and put in hot zone bonuses, particularly in some fun under utilized zones.

Yes, fuck no, yes. You can't take away the basic xp bonus. It seriously hurts Euro and Aussie players who can only play at the low population times. Others just like to solo. They already fucked over pets and dots to make soloing much more annoying and a little more difficult. How classic is NEVER seeing a druid or necro snare kiting?
The Hotzones are a great idea if possible and I think that the zones currently set as no level restriction would be perfect. A bonus in SolB would help a lot of 40ish people get a group there.

Edit: I like the group bonus idea, just not taking the overall bonus away in favor of them. A reduction to the 200% in exchange would be reasonable, but not a complete removal.

7) Any chance to get more GM events that are more RP based? Such as city wars where there's a defending team in neriak and an invading team? Could be a lot of fun, but I understand it depends upon GM free time. Is there a way to recruit Guides who like the current guide program don't deal with CSR but can help with these types of events, or being "hall monitors" for OOC?

If I ever get better internet in this deadzone I will likely apply to be a guide. I don't know shit about coding but I have tons of experience mediating conflicts and babysitting adult-children.

8) Seems like a non-starter, but please re-consider two boxing [incoming entire thread focused on this issue]

No, no, no. How about we crackdown on the people using the IP Exemption for their "spouse" as a way to box. Institute a random box screening policy like drug testing at work. Any IP running multiple accounts is subject to random summoning and testing to prove they are different people. It's easy to catch someone boxing.

9) A debuff upon dying in PVP. Right now, it's not a huge issue by any means, but there are a couple of melees who are bind rushing in zones like City of Mist. While EXP loss was too steep a penalty and led to people actively avoiding PVP, a 5 minute melee debuff seems sufficient to stop someone from being able to bind rush.

A debuff is a really good idea. It would help fix your point on #3 without trying to change how people are. Casters already have to med but it would help with the melee zerging. If possible you could even add in an pvp invulnerability to prevent bind camping where the respawned person cannot be attacked for a couple mins but it break on a detrimental spell cast or melee attack.

I know a lot of people here hating reading, and some think anything over 141 characters is a novel, but there are some good ideas here that would help the server gain new players, keep more of the current ones and maybe even bring some back.
Tweaks are needed for some, compromises for others, and while I am wholeheartedly against some like boxing, we need as many rational opinions as possible from more than just us no-lifers with multiple 60s.

TL;DR How about you not join fucking messageboards if you can't be bothered to read the posts?

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