Legit Reasons to why you don't play Red99 (This is not a RNF Topic)

[Drfishback]

Back in their prime the Zeks had upwards of 1k on and you had some good folks mixed in with the poopsock/exploitz crew. Now nearly all that remains is the bad. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[arsenalpow]

Going to preface this with that I played on Sullon Zek from the beginning to just after PoP so I love me some EQ pvp

Low population

Resist checks are completely broken (whirl till you hurl is legitimately good?? Really???)

Not enough guides/GMs to enforce the ruleset and catch the exploiters

The majority troll rule (at least on SZ the population was pretty big so you could drown out the trolls, this server is 200max so the 50 or so trolls are a large and vocal portion of the community and one can only take so many "U MAD BRAH?? BRO U MAD?? CONFIRMED MAD" tells)

[fischsemmel]

I think the issue with a shitty (relatively speaking) community on EQ PvP servers is that EQ isn't a PvP game.

I'm not talking about that in the sense of "well EQ isn't balanced for PvP so its PvP is no good" ... I'm talking about it in the sense of "EQ attracts a certain kind of player in general, and a disproportionate number of EQ players who gravitate towards an EQ PvP server are messed up little people."

I guarantee there is more per-capita griefing (and general annoyingness of oh, so many people) on any of the PvP EQ servers than there is in any of the MMOs that focused on PvP (Dark Age of Camelot, Shadowbane, Eve, etc).

[eqravenprince]

No desire to play against other players, too stressful, I already have enough stress outside of gaming.

[Savok]

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

No desire to play against other players, too stressful, I already have enough stress outside of gaming.

[SCB]

I don't pedal a bike with my hands, and I don't PvP in a PvE game.

If I want to PvP, I've always got SWTOR or LoL.

[Acillatem]

1) Don't have the time
2) I played on Tallon Zek from Classic to OoW (or GoD can't remember) and can already tell the community on Red99 is picking up where I felt the community on Live was dropping off. Which isn't a jab at anyone - it's just my personal preference was centered more towards respected and spirited competition. And the "respected and spirited" eventually got replaced with a "do as I please" and "I will fuk you over" attitude. Anyone who played on TZ saw the change. Classic we had Player based events (ie the Freeport/Neriak wars every Friday night). People played and people fought becuz it was fun. And then it became "People griefed, and people talked shit" becuz it's fun. Just turned into a diff server that I no longer enjoyed.

[Nizzarr]

I dont play on red because theres no variance there, and I like variance.

I also hate how I can play the game instead of sitting my characters at dragon spawn point and waiting for my phone to ring.

I hate having to kill lenfer over and over!

I hate camping manastones and guises for my alts -- im really not looking forward to gear those characters in lustrous russet.

[tekniq]

I was pretty active on RED, grinded 1-50 with my buddies and PvP is a lot of fun and a different experience on blue.

First, I enjoyed it and got hooked because it was harder. No AFKing, hiding in random spots to med, always checking who's in zone, etc...this was refreshing.

I honestly stopped because there's really nothing to do after 50...PvPing is always fun, but after a while I feel like I justed wasted an hour and a half of my life trying to fight some fool who keeps running away. I mean theres two raid targets, and I personally don't want to join Holocaust/Nihilum for my personal reasons. No Planes yet, No Sol Ro...what else is there to do besides farm a guise/manastone.

[Rusl]

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

No Planes yet, No Sol Ro...what else is there to do besides farm a guise/manastone.

Exploit dragons?