What made Red fun?

[derpcake]

getting a pvp kill in inferior gear

winning group skirmish pvp for a camp

being a newb, losing 14pp to ballstomper, only to be given a free port and 100pp from Casey, pras his name

being a 4% RA raider in empire and still obtaining stuff that previously was out of reach

jibekenns genuine disbelief that someone on r99 has a job

Eunomia telling me she'd ban me for suggesting she speak to people involved in a petition (fun way to let go of the server in an easy way)

thats about it

[derpcake]

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

Running around unrest with the first level 20 epic rogue

ah yes

hows the recruitment going

[Qtip]

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

Running around unrest with the first level 20 epic rogue

Between your rogue in unrest and chewie in Lguk is what made the game fun for me lvling up a couple toons. The element of surprise when you pull 3-4 mobs and chewie logs in and starts fearing all the mobs you have aggro on.

[Heebo]

My favorite part of red is knowing all of the personal details of everyone on such a small box (Elemtal's apartment being invested with rats, Quil being physically abused by a woman and posting it to Facebook, Akinn being 5'3" and shopping for clothes in the children's department, etc.) so that when you kill somebody you know exactly what sort of RL attack to use on them in ooc.

[Jazzy]

Best thing about r99 was the community

[Gustoo]

Lol good posts

[Retticus]

What made red fun was every zone having people in it. When people had similar gear, before raid content was on farm.

It was at its peak in classic: highest pop + several guilds + least amount of zones + classic gear disparity isn't a huge jump.

It was in its "mid-fun" early kunark: population resurgence + several guilds + new continent of zones. This era introduced twinks, but they weren't running rampant. Group farming could compete with raid farmers.

It was at its least fun in velious: only 1 raiding guild and very low to no ability to contest, purely PvE progress. Gear disparity at its greatest. Gear farmers cannot compete with raid farmers (unless you just want to spend 12 hours looking for people running to raids and alone).

The end of kunark was a Baron wasteland of alt farming. Velious put the nails in the coffin and solidified the box as a non social PvE paradise. PvP is mostly dead and one sided and time investment is huge.

TLDR red/PvP is fun when there are multiple guilds able to do the same stuff, or there is large enough population to support all level ranges, IE thriving newbie zones, mid level dungeons like guk. It's not fun anymore because that statement doesn't apply any more.

[Tassador]

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

Running around unrest with the first level 20 epic rogue

Mad props for the unrest county police. You did some good work there.

[derpcake]

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

What made red fun was every zone having people in it. When people had similar gear, before raid content was on farm.

It was at its peak in classic: highest pop + several guilds + least amount of zones + classic gear disparity isn't a huge jump.

It was in its "mid-fun" early kunark: population resurgence + several guilds + new continent of zones. This era introduced twinks, but they weren't running rampant. Group farming could compete with raid farmers.

It was at its least fun in velious: only 1 raiding guild and very low to no ability to contest, purely PvE progress. Gear disparity at its greatest. Gear farmers cannot compete with raid farmers (unless you just want to spend 12 hours looking for people running to raids and alone).

The end of kunark was a Baron wasteland of alt farming. Velious put the nails in the coffin and solidified the box as a non social PvE paradise. PvP is mostly dead and one sided and time investment is huge.

TLDR red/PvP is fun when there are multiple guilds able to do the same stuff, or there is large enough population to support all level ranges, IE thriving newbie zones, mid level dungeons like guk. It's not fun anymore because that statement doesn't apply any more.

Mistmoore was fun for a long time, even without guild involvement.

Its too bad people keep going for the high end, the mid game is so much more fun.

[Jazzy]

Would personally donate 13 bucks to rogean if he setup a classic box from scratch