The real reason the population is declining is...

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...because red players are inferior to blue players. I knew it the moment they started flocking to our forums after Rogean announced he might start up a red server. The inescapable truth is that classic exp and classic mechanics in general were too challenging for most of you. You can try to make all the excuses you want, but in the end the blue server is still doing very well and will always have a higher population, even though the exp rate is the same on both servers.

Blue players are much smarter and better at this game. There is probably not a single red player who is better than even the worst blue player (it's unclear who the worst blue player is, but we know it's a close fight between Xosire and Hasbinbad). This is why former VZTZ players get repeatedly dirtnapped by the bluebies that migrated over just to humiliate the red population. This is why you see constant complaining about the exp rate on the pvp forums, but never do you see anyone complain about the exp rate on the blue forums. This is why red players are mostly illiterate apes who can barely form sentences, while blue players all write extremely eloquently.

Red99's population was over 600 at its peak. The bluebies literally drove over 400 red players from this server by embarrassing them and griefing them whenever we saw them. Without your hax and your fast exp you're nothing.