Best Classic Experience

[Swish]

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OP says it all really, it's something different... something new, something to try <3

[maskedmelon]

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

You can't sell me on a ruleset server when I said I don't like the ruleset lol. Its never going to work.

Honestly, the 'try red' campaign probably does work for some. Its worked for you, as you've said. But for people like me who have no interest in pvp? No amount of promises about newbies wearing banded in Unrest is going to matter, and the fact that it comes across as desperation is even more offputting.

I understand where you are coming from and can't really blame you since that was pretty much my position since I've been here.

I was fully expecting to have the nostalgic revelry of my fire beetle slaying interrupted outside the city gates by some roflstomping degenerates wearing fungies and CoFs, but have (thus far) avoided entanglement in any such shenanigans. It's been a pleasant surprise.

Sorry if my post came across as desperate! It was more honest surprise, which compelled me to share ^^

[bktroost]

I have no qualms with PVP. The reality is that the people on Red are more polluted in personality than Blue, there is just far less of them so you don't have the rule lawyering and insta FTEs that is such a problem on Blue. I can't stand the never ending bragging and chest pounding that is constantly slapping you in the face through the global chat.

On Blue there is an atmosphere of banding together to take on bigger and stronger challenges as a team. On Red the atmosphere is more about making sure you have the largest, most visible genitalia to swing as you happen to be killing dragons.

The server looks like someone spilled a big bottle of testosterone supplements and smells like the inside of a boys locker room, prior to the discovery of deodorant.

[am0n]

Seems like now is a good time to have this one moved to the Red RNF.

[Gilder]

Bk Troost, I agree that the global chat on Red is abysmal... but that's what new chat windows and minimizing are for.

Just don't look at the OOC. That's what I do.

As far as the testosterone stuff and people thinking they're God's gift to the world, those kinda people are just as insufferable in real life as they are in this game. Just use /ignore.

Yes, it sucks there's people acting like buffoons, but there's still some cool people to talk to and group with.

[Swish]

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

On Blue there is an atmosphere of banding together to take on bigger and stronger challenges as a team.

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That's gold Nemce, gold!

[captnamazing]

the charm of red usually wears off within a couple of weeks

[Shjade]

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

OP says it all really, it's something different... something new, something to try <3

Hang on: is it a classic experience (what the OP said), or something different and new (the opposite of "classic")?

You can't have it both ways, Swish. :|

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

Bk Troost, I agree that the global chat on Red is abysmal... but that's what new chat windows and minimizing are for.

Just don't look at the OOC. That's what I do.

As far as the testosterone stuff and people thinking they're God's gift to the world, those kinda people are just as insufferable in real life as they are in this game. Just use /ignore.

Yes, it sucks there's people acting like buffoons, but there's still some cool people to talk to and group with.

So in order to play on Red you have to 1) disable/ignore the only reasonable means of forming groups since everyone's Anon 100% of the time, and 2) ignore the most active players on the server?

Sounds legit.

[Swish]

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

Hang on: is it a classic experience (what the OP said), or something different and new (the opposite of "classic")?

You can't have it both ways, Swish. :|

Yes I can, because you're typically leveling with people who have no twink items on them...and to most people EQ pvp is something new and different. Not the same old tunnelquest/camp lawyer stuff.

Watch this if you haven't already seen it. Was grouped in Unrest with some people and none of us had anything above our level.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq_q-hioGkU

[maskedmelon]

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

On Blue there is an atmosphere of banding together to take on bigger and stronger challenges as a team.

This is what I've found on red and highlighting it was the purpose of my post. Sounds to me like the problem for you lay more with the company you keep than the greater server community. I think blue suffers equally from asshats as red does. That is evident in our raid scene as well as xp and loot camps. Too much lawyer quest.

The venom some peeps spread about red just isn't representative of the whole. Perhaps it has some Merritt with regard to a part of the community, but not all or even most of it.

Beyond the community and more to my original post, the red experience is far more classic than blue. It hasn't experienced the massive inflation and content dilution that blue has. Things are still a challenge.

I suspect I'll encounter more toxic aspects of the server as I explore it, but I think that May be part of the reason for the outstanding community that I have landed in from the get go. Good people band together to check the advance of the wicked ^^

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