[Poll by Post] Red99: A short questionnaire for our Blue community members

[Barkingturtle]

If you played on Red 1999 in the past, why did you quit?

I have barely played Red. I don't mind shit-talking. Shit-talking is good. But I don't tolerate the words '******' and 'faggot'. Without fail, the few times I've logged onto Red these words have been used in ooc.

What did you like about the server?

In my experience nothing positive really distinguished Red from Blue. That is, I liked it as much as I would like any low-pop blue server -- which is quite a lot. I like to solo and I like Everquest. Granted, I think I've only leveled to 5 or something.

Would you want to play again?

Yes. I prefer PvP in any game I play because I am your stereotypical Alpha and I find the best means of expressing my dominance is through computer gaming.

[Tankdan]

Like most people, I believe PVP and EQ do not mix, it's an absolute joke.

[Kika Maslyaka]

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

Like most people, I believe PVP and EQ do not mix, it's an absolute joke.

+1 classes that are disbalanced as is, even more horribly disbalanced for PvP

At least make teams server.

But truly - meh. When I want to kill other people I play Unreal Tournament.
Or Guild Wars 2

[gummab]

First off i got to say i love pvp,just not eq pvp it is truly unbalanced.

If you played on Red 1999 in the past, why did you quit?
Well i did try a few months back,but lasted 20mins /ooc was colorful to say the least reminded me of when i was back in school.

What did you like about the server?
was not there long enough to like anything.

Would you want to play again?
On a fresh server maybe

[Derubael]

Thanks for the input everyone, keep it coming!

We've addressed most/all of the issues you guys have brought up so far, but we're still working to improve the enjoyment everyone gets out of the box!

[qombi]

Reason I left:

The reason I left red previously was being harassed off the server when a few friends and I joined. We were accused of being a boxer and then proceeded to be killed over and over again until we quit by a low level twink.

We also quit because the low population and at the time the long xp grind. The xp grind on blue is bad enough but also on red you are being hunted by other players slowing you down.

We really wanted to enjoy PvP. It just isn't fun being extremely out geared to the point you have no chance of competing.

Would I play there again:

Yes if there was a bounty system I would. Then the high level players would have incentive to kill Pk'ers.

[no chewie dont]

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

Reason I left:

The reason I left red previously was being harassed off the server when a few friends and I joined. We were accused of being a boxer and then proceeded to be killed over and over again until we quit by a low level twink.

We also quit because the low population and at the time the long xp grind. The xp grind on blue is bad enough but also on red you are being hunted by other players slowing you down.

We really wanted to enjoy PvP. It just isn't fun being extremely out geared to the point you have no chance of competing.

Would I play there again:

Yes if there was a bounty system I would. Then the high level players would have incentive to kill Pk'ers.

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using gear gap as an excuse is kind of ...blue

[Glasken]

As part of our ongoing promotion of Red 99, I would like to pose this question to our blue community members:

If you played on Red 1999 in the past, why did you quit?

To answer this question, I'll tell a short story:

I play during off-hours mostly, any many of the guilds I had talked to at the time were not interested in a recruit unless you were: "Level 55+, and keyed for HS, Seb, and VP".

I had leveled a necro on red up to 40 and was enjoying some time at the spectres camp near the fear portal. I was mostly naked, aside from some newbie quest items. Didn't even have a robe.

Over the course of a weekend, I had been attacked by: a wizard, a bard, a shaman, another necro, and a shadow knight. All were significantly higher level than me, none were the least bit interested in the camp I was at, and all were from different guilds. In short: they had nothing to gain from the PK, yet continued to do so (the bard seemed to be happy just corpse camping, for zero reason). After attempting to fight back and discovering that I was severely outclassed, there wasn't much more to do but leave the camp and find somewhere else to go.

To me, that is not what the PvP scene should be. Walk up to someone far worse off than yourself and punk them? GG. I'm glad you feel better, but that behavior is the reason red was such a low pop for so long.

PvP to take a camp from another group. To stop another guild from taking your content. To try and best someone for bragging rights. But randomly killing someone just because they aren't in a guild, or because you were just passing through, they were in range, and couldn't stand a chance against you? No thanks.


What did you like about the server?

At the time, the exp bonus was attractive. Further, so many posts on blue forums stating how everyone should "give red a shot" and "we support newcomers" blah blah, you've seen them all.
I like the idea of being able to fight over a camp or settle raid disputes without crying to GM intervention, I saw none of that. Maybe if I was to get to 60, gear myself, and get keyed like all the guilds asked I might have been able to see the benefits of PvP.


Would you want to play again? If not, why?

Teams99. Make it, merge it. I'll be there.

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To clarify: I know the PvP game is cutthroat compared to blue, I get it. What I did not expect was the prison shank mentality from so many of the players there. Complain of low population and then gank the newbies into oblivion with your MQed rogue, or taunt newcomers mercilessly in the global ooc (which is some of the singular, vile conversation I have seen online, not winning points there), not really helping your cause.

I see reds population holding in the upper 100's. If it stays there, and the resulting population dilutes the shit to a reasonable level, I might decide to come have a look.

Red's biggest issue? Culture. I came, I gave it a shot, and your red "community" showed just how little interest they had. Message heard, loud and clear.

[sox7d]

I didn't want to play a solo class.

[Tasslehofp99]

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

If you played on Red 1999 in the past, why did you quit?

I have barely played Red. I don't mind shit-talking. Shit-talking is good. But I don't tolerate the words '******' and 'faggot'. Without fail, the few times I've logged onto Red these words have been used in ooc.

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

Thanks for the input everyone, keep it coming!

We've addressed most/all of the issues you guys have brought up so far, but we're still working to improve the enjoyment everyone gets out of the box!

I was just on red the day of the patch/changes and /ooc was still littered with venom. Need to start handing out 6 month bans for people using "******" and "Faggot" in /ooc.


I'm not particularly offended by it but it is really annoying to log on that server and know I'm sharing it with such pieces of trash.