What do YOU want?

[nabsev]

1. Yellow Text
2. Yellow Text
3. Yellow Text

[Pudge]

1. yellow text, world-wide, zone info included. Why: gives everybody a piece of the action. makes server feel more alive. deters bind camping? (mostly). lets ppl know the truth about who is killing who. gives the glory of PVP to the victor. cons: might make ppl feel embarrassed if they got killed, which could deter them from playing on the server. however, this is a PVP server; you gonna die sometime. it happens.

2. keep a high exp rate - the +50% seems good at 50+. below level 46 it should be an additional +25% (so +75%, in addition to the scaling exp bonus that applies as you level). i was one of the ppl who championed shit-slow exp, thinking it would deter hackers because their accounts would get deleted. but i was wrong, the hack detection on this box is so good that... NO ONE HACKS. so there is no reason to keep the grind so dire. - also publicize how easy the exp is, letting blue players log on red as a breath of fresh air and knowing they can level quickly. ppl have jobs etc. they can't devote their entire lives to classic EQ grind. some ppl try, then burn out.

3. remove pvp exp loss. i like it but a lot of ppl don't. they want to be able to afk/fall asleep at the keyboard. BUT if you remove exp loss, there still must be a penalty for dying/bind rushing. so there should be, as someone else mentioned above, a res-timer type effect. I'd say it should be a 20 minute timer which renders you "frozen" - motionless, immune to pvp, unable to cast any spells, etc., but still able to speak in OOC. but also include a spam-filter if ppl putting out too many lines of text.
^^edit: unless you got resed. and keep a 30 minute res timer on PVP corpses.

4. keep global OOC.

5. resists.. i dont know about resists. i would keep them the way they are right now, except to make it easier to get partials on nukes? havent really tested it

6. playerbase has to not be douchetastic to anyone new. ppl ask "what is a good solo class that can also pvp on this server" answers: rogue, warrior, etc. come on ppl... you WANT to have some challengers, right? why are you here?

[Yukahwa]

You are right that there should be some consequence to PVP. Maybe the leaderboard would be enough. I'm a fan of rallos zek style item loot (single item not bagged not held or range slot) and all coin. But besides that, maybe just make bind rushing bannable and then the PVP board can be reward enough for good PVP encounters.

[JayDee]

leaderboard turns most people off (almost single handedly put vztz down for the count at one point) and it is always exploitable

[Yukahwa]

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

leaderboard turns most people off (almost single handedly put vztz down for the count at one point) and it is always exploitable

Maybe dont make it a leader board, just an hourly or 2 hourly updated PVP records board..not showing highest kills or whatever, just showing battle details. Shouldn't be exploitable.

[lite]

a limit on how many times a player can zone back and forth in a certain period of time would be great. zone ponging I do not believe was meant to be a form of defense...
aka, if you zone between 2 zones more than 6 times in less than 2 minutes and you were just engaged in pvp, you should be temporarily unable to continue zoning. either plug, or fight. I am not absolutely certain on what the limit should be, but if the server is detecting that you are spending less than a second before zoning again, and you've done this consecutively. place a cap.

[Smedy]

Priorities:

1 Yellow text.

2. Bump up group experience by atleast a 100% (to encourage grouping, no one wants to group with me even though i'm actually an "Ok" class for dps, cuz i suck down the xp to much from their solo shit.)

3. Bump the resists curve for crowd control spells in pvp such as root, snare, stuns. Don't think any changes are needed for dots,nukes.

4. Keep doing what you do, eventually server will grow, there's a dip right now due to GW2.

5. Summon a Tstaff to my inventory.

[JenJen]

Get rid of hybrid penalties. encourage grouping, with any group makeup. keep xp bonus. yellow text.

[Tradesonred]

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

i've been reading many, many pvp threads. and quite honestly, they are pathetic. most people (not all) like to blame the staff yet fail to realize that they are their own biggest enemies, and their own biggest roadblocks (ie: wanting a bigger pop, then griefing players off the server). however, if u really want to continue to blame the staff, i'll gladly make Rogean apologize for providing the most legit EQpvp server that has ever graced the EQEmu project.

Im glad devs made the effort to make this server happen.

With that out of the way, you cant blame the players for griefing people off the server.

Thats like giving someone whos not quite all there in the head a big shiny knife and saying "but dont hurt anyone with it, ok?"

Its partly some people's fault but it didnt help that you gave em the tools to grief.

Server should have been no xp loss and item loot. Yeah it would have been painful a bit until people wrap their heads around the concept of being naked, but would have been like rallos.
Lots of casters, and melees the ones that can roll with a crew. Coulda done some events where no drop gear dropped, like what happened on Rallos. These events in turn would have created organic pvp content that didnt require rigid awkward blubie duel stuff like amelinda did as people would have fought over event mobs.

By trying to customize with xp loss, they created a load of other problems (the xp loss griefing, a pvp server where people dont pvp... much, the people who will never ever lose their gear edge, unkillable low lvl twinks that even if u get 4 noobs together and kill em 4v1 they dont lose gear, people owning raid zones for months unchallenged, casuals getting xplosslulz zerged off the server by gank squads when server launched, no economy for low lvl gear, not being able to have strictly pvp low lvl alt twinks unless you wanna keep grinding PVE for multiple alts)

Not going to bother with a detailed xp loss rant since I havent seen a dev come to the forum and explain the rationale behind it beside "we dont want counterstrike EQ" and bother giving any sort of feedback to people on my side of the argument. (We really do need a "this will never happen, this might happen" stickied somewhere)

Problem is they dont play the box, lacking perspective of putting the time in and understand why it is people do not pvp and didnt analyze the feedback some players like me gave em on a silver platter. I know i can be ranty sometimes but i do provide feedback and its the server's loss if you cant take the feedback because people said it in a pissy way. Your job as a pro should be to get the feedback even if its done in a ranty way, though it wouldnt hurt to be able to give level headed pro feedback either.

Problem is they designed the box for PVEers first in mind (pvp xp loss poopsock camp control mechanic) with regular, often occuring pvp an afterthought.

Problem is they got trolled by Zerg PVEers and Griefers into thinking this was a good direction for a pvp server

[Doors]

yellow text
Remove hybrid penalties

OR

up experience gains

Maybe a leaderboard.