Red99 would be fun if

[magnetaress]

If I had the skills and $$ I would launch my Vanilla server using the Titanium client and classic resists.

Can't download the RoF client.

[Disease]

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

If I had the skills and $$ I would launch my Vanilla server using the Titanium client and classic resists.

Can't download the RoF client.

There's red99, there's roz and there's a team pvp server. Thats 3 pvp servers... Not one has over a 100 people. Eq sucked then and sucks now. It would be a waste of time and money.

[Gustoo]

The focus of the EQ EMU community has allowed P99 to thrive as a gold standard server, while significantly weakening the non P99 servers. The non P99 servers don't really represent the total interest in another PVP server. The people that play a new PVP server every time are (in my mind) true pvp guys and really like to have fun. At the same time when they thought that Red 99 was going to be their sandbox and they were beat back by classic everquest blue style play (lots more people, lots more hours) it was kinda sad to see them eventually complain and leave.

I'd bet my life on 2 or 3 solid years of a new red 99 progression server which is exactly as long as the first 3 versions of the game were intended to last.

best option would be discord like they originally intended to launch, with regular resets and experimental rulesets, and permanent winners being memorialized on the p99 site somewhere. No burnout, you win or lose and you try again next time if you feel like it.

[Gustoo]

The request is for a new server so that there will be pop for X amount of time. Ideally there is good pop for a long time but worst case scenario, a few months or a year. That’s better than 5 years of flatline.

[Baler]

How about a UO style pvp server,.

Everyone starts Blue, and after 3 player kills you have 3 long term murder counts.

All city guards will attack you on sight if you're a murderer.

[Gustoo]

I would support literally any PVP ruleset on a fresh wiped server.

The 3 player kills (possibly resetting after a long period of time) would go a long way to making a more normal PVP community and by normal I mean live-like

But with multiple free accounts and so many ways to get into the game now it would be easier than the past to just be a murderer forever and have a non murderer alt do your city-work.

[Baler]

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

I would support literally any PVP ruleset on a fresh wiped server.

The 3 player kills (possibly resetting after a long period of time) would go a long way to making a more normal PVP community and by normal I mean live-like

But with multiple free accounts and so many ways to get into the game now it would be easier than the past to just be a murderer forever and have a non murderer alt do your city-work.

Yeah on live uo, it's 24 hours of in game time to burn off 1 long term murder count. On some private servers it's 72 hours for 1 long term murder count.
To no longer be a red you'll have to drop below 3 long term murder counts. However some murderers enjoy stacking up long term murder counts as a form of bragging rights.
You can only gain murder counts by killing blues, killing other reds doesn't reward murder counts.

The whole idea being is to separate pks from blues. It helps build communities around the two activates. Some enjoy being blue others enjoy being red. you'll find the group you fit in with quick. Then one side hunts the other sides,. aka a teams systems without having a teams system.

[starkind]

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

Yeah on live uo, it's 24 hours of in game time to burn off 1 long term murder count. On some private servers it's 72 hours for 1 long term murder count.
To no longer be a red you'll have to drop below 3 long term murder counts. However some murderers enjoy stacking up long term murder counts as a form of bragging rights.
You can only gain murder counts by killing blues, killing other reds doesn't reward murder counts.

The whole idea being is to separate pks from blues. It helps build communities around the two activates. Some enjoy being blue others enjoy being red. you'll find the group you fit in with quick. Then one side hunts the other sides,. aka a teams systems without having a teams system.

Absolutely yep.

[Gustoo]

Yeah its basically a hard coded PK / anti PK relationship in UO and that all translated to Rallos Zek but definitely not to Red 99.

Could be OK, anything is better than leaving red 99 flatlined for another 10 years. I guess deleting the server and not making a new one would be worse? Dunno.

[JayDee]

Sorry to say, but I don't think enough people would play at this point. I don't blame the current red population, but they are their own worst enemy. Rogaen could prolly wipe with a clear conscience if there were 0 players.