Sullon Zek Sunday

[Cykubis]

I too played Rallos for several years and Sullon for a few months when it first opened and will have to go with the rest of the replies here and say that the idea is pretty bad.

It's not that pvp created some terrible environment or anything like that, I actually quite enjoyed the player base of Rallos and even Sullon before MQ became widespread. If you want a taste of what pvp is now in EQ, feel free to pay for a month of live and log into Zek (If the server even exists, last I heard a few months ago, they were looking to merge it into another blue server). No one gets into a pvp conflict without a massive rage about who is using hacks regardless if anyone is even doing so. I remember a guy putting it rather eloquently in general chat on Zek once, "Using hacks means that you won the fight".

To say that this would reduce stress is laughable, far too many people take this game too seriously for that to be true. Did you seriously have more than a handful of people you pk give you some sort of positive response? Don't get me wrong, I saw a small minority of people act like grown ups and be cool about it - most everyone else reverted to derogatory statements, in game threats to log on their alts or even quite a few death threats, for myself and most of the people I knew that would actively pvp, this was a big part of the fun. You know as well as I, or anyone else who played pvp, that pvp was the single largest reason for drama on these servers. Personally, I loved it - the vast majority of the server that doesn't have a character on tz/vz will probably hate it and I know the GMs handling the crying petitions will hate it.

I really can't think of a single compelling reason that this should be added.

I guess when it comes down to it, the single, most stand out reason against this is the fact that it is really in no way classic. We already have arenas, we have duels, we have consensual pvp. There is no reason to implement a feature that existed on special rule set (and lowest populated) servers.

PS. I think your bashin' iggles friends accounted for a good 10-15% of my enchanter on Sullon's experience from me memblurring their mobs and KSing them whenever they'd come in with their stupid "Iggles Iggles Iggles" mantra.