The real reason the population is declining is...

[heartbrand]

Everytime I engage in PVP all I think about is, wow it's really going to suck grinding this EXP back later. Even with the 25% bonus exp was still too slow. This is coming from an embarrassed diaperquester who has spent way too much time on this server trying to get to 50 and is now finally a level away. God help me had I rolled a hybrid or a troll. I got literally 0% movement in 45 killing dark blue mobs solo. It took 2 mobs to get a tick.

[Nirgon]

Yeah people who can't organize or have terrible motor skills posting troll threads as a weapon against the server.

[funhorroryes]

well, i have been a pvp god now for about 12 years now but unfortunately this server is just not working out for me. EXP is too slow, the average player is a douche (thats fine, i am too) and the average level just seems to keep going higher and higher.

This server wont see anymore new players in the next 3 months, literally 95% of the people who would come back to do EQ one last time have discovered the server due to really good advertising and word of mouth. everyone will eventually be high level, and this will punish authentic new players from leveling because they will have no one to level with. the only real melee classes will just be twinks of mages

everyone knows the game, there way through solb, guk and hate. just increase the exp rate, its unbelievably slow. you will save more players. There is more replay value at higher levels than p99 because of the ability to pvp, and i think the logic of when people get to 50 they will quit shouldnt really apply to this server as much as p99b.

[Dfn]

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

well, i have been a pvp god now for about 12 years now but unfortunately this server is just not working out for me. EXP is too slow, the average player is a douche (thats fine, i am too) and the average level just seems to keep going higher and higher.

This server wont see anymore new players in the next 3 months, literally 95% of the people who would come back to do EQ one last time have discovered the server due to really good advertising and word of mouth. everyone will eventually be high level, and this will punish authentic new players from leveling because they will have no one to level with. the only real melee classes will just be twinks of mages

everyone knows the game, there way through solb, guk and hate. just increase the exp rate, its unbelievably slow. you will save more players. There is more replay value at higher levels than p99 because of the ability to pvp, and i think the logic of when people get to 50 they will quit shouldnt really apply to this server as much as p99b.

While I agree with upping exp, it's unlikely to save newer players. Melee's, hybrids, etc will still suck to solo - but thats part of eq and something people should consider instead of making a melee then playing the woe is me im entitled to something card.

[Humerox]

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

well, i have been a pvp god now for about 12 years now...

You played SZ and although I associated your name with god, it wasn't because I thought you were one.

Why u arguing all this ez-mode xp stuff? you got soft~

[fiegi]

pop declining because Lovely got banned for cheating, and Reiker got bind camp griefed off the box.

[Slave]

As you can see, every time I type out a thoughtful and insightful post aimed exactly toward drawing the vast, basically uncountable PvP crowd that is now forlornly surfing the internet, wondering what to do next, the bluebies go absolutely apeshit wild... it's the worst idea they've ever heard, or some equally spiteful thing.

This means that we are absolutely on the right track, guys.

PvP has been systematically disenfranchised by the hordes of new-blues, people who have been brought up thinking that World of Warcraft is the baseline for MMO and PvP. They get into forums and they shit them up with name-calling and misdirection at any hint of mechanics which would provide a rallying beacon for the MASSIVE amounts of homeless PvPers. Their numbers are legion; they are like mindless zombies swarming the few survivors after the apocalypse.

But there is a cure.

The price of PvP is eternal vigilance. Even after a real, actually PvP ruleset is implemented (which is absolutely the one and only way that R99 will ever thrive), there will be more whining than you have ever seen in a forum by blues who want blue server with the ability to attack someone off their camp every now and then (God forbid they ever get attacked themselves, then the exp loss of 1-2 ticks is totally insurmountable and prohibitive).

I have a few words for you bluebies: you already have a server. PvP now needs theirs.

[Dfn]

Does anyone read Slave's posts anymore?

[Softcore PK]

I agree with Wolfram. Not about us bluebies running you off the server (this was a tongue-in-cheek comment that went over a lot of your heads), but about red players being too soft to make it in EQ. Since the server has been released, a good portion of you have been whining incessantly.

"It's too hard to exp!"

"Please dumb down the pve for us, we're red and red players are special; we deserve to be pampered and catered to!"

Sorry to so harshly express myself, but this is how I feel. You were griefed off of EQ by your sense of entitlement and unwillingness to play the game. There's nothing wrong with it, no one's saying you have to like EQ. But EQ is not meant to have accelerated xp. It's a social game, and you're supposed to care more about making/playing with friends and enemies than you are about reaching max level, imo. You remember being max level on live, and that's what sticks out in your minds the mos, and it's what you're striving for here. Do you even know why you don't like being level 20? I had a LOT of fun at level 20 on live.

If you don't find leveling to be enjoyable, the problem is not the game. It's you, and you should accept the fact that EQ has become too hardcore for you to play. Stop complaining, move on to an easier MMO and get on with your lives. Please. Because you're scaring away other players, who may actually enjoy playing EverQuest.

What I think is way funny is that a lot of these players that have quit or are whining are people that told me I couldn't survive here. Softcore is lots more hardcore than y'all [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[gloinz]

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

I agree with Wolfram. Not about us bluebies running you off the server (this was a tongue-in-cheek comment that went over a lot of your heads), but about red players being too soft to make it in EQ. Since the server has been released, a good portion of you have been whining incessantly.

"It's too hard to exp!"

"Please dumb down the pve for us, we're red and red players are special; we deserve to be pampered and catered to!"

Sorry to so harshly express myself, but this is how I feel. You were griefed off of EQ by your sense of entitlement and unwillingness to play the game. There's nothing wrong with it, no one's saying you have to like EQ. But EQ is not meant to have accelerated xp. It's a social game, and you're supposed to care more about making/playing with friends and enemies than you are about reaching max level, imo. You remember being max level on live, and that's what sticks out in your minds the mos, and it's what you're striving for here. Do you even know why you don't like being level 20? I had a LOT of fun at level 20 on live.

If you don't find leveling to be enjoyable, the problem is not the game. It's you, and you should accept the fact that EQ has become too hardcore for you to play. Stop complaining, move on to an easier MMO and get on with your lives. Please. Because you're scaring away other players, who may actually enjoy playing EverQuest.

the whole leveling is enjoyable aspect is malarkey because it takes 2 hours to get a decent group together thus the problem is the game
just as eq is not meant to have accelerated xp it is also not meant to have 1 player in all mid level zones kthx