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[Servant]

Red is fine. If you can't take the heat, such as it is, you're a pansy. Just like the real world, treat people with respect and friendliness, and that's what you'll get in return. The "Toxicity" of the server is totally overblown.

- Servant of R99

[Gustoo]

That's why it would be better without ooc. It offers an inaccurate representation of the server that is offputting to anyone considering red vs blue.

[Xaanka]

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

There are a lot of people on blue server and I talked to some of them and they are having a fun time, but these are probably not raiding players.

Word on the streets is that seeing /ooc on red makes people throw up and quit instantly. Maybe a good idea to implement the regional OOC or standard classic EQ ooc system.

Just speculating here.

if red server /ooc makes you quit it's not like you were going to last longer than a week 50+ on red anyways. so who cares.

[Gustoo]

Its ridiculously easy to avoid contested pvp zones and troublesome players on red level 50+ especially with velious + kunark. Only big money areas and now faction grinding spots are ever very occupied because they put dinner on the table.

So yeah a lot of potential players that leave because OOC makes them think this server is super nasty would probably stick around and have a great time cruising through the game with occasional pvp.

+ by the time they get to 50 they are unlikely to jump ship.

+ if they are going to 60 they will enjoy joining empire or its equivalent and getting lots of loot.

So no problemos.

[abbud]

No, you are wrong.

If you can't handle the truth play on blue. You are being really weird right now.

[Agatha]

all of you trying to get rid of why i play on red server are a bunch of faggots and should kick rocks all the way back to blue server.


faggots.

[Shrubwise]

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

That's why it would be better without ooc. It offers an inaccurate representation of the server that is offputting to anyone considering red vs blue.

This is where I disagree with you, Gustoo. I think it offers quite an accurate representation of the server.

[Gustoo]

Okay so now lets talk about item loot

[grannock]

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

I fully agree. People will respond to this by saying those who don't like OOC should just put it in a separate window and minimize it. That does not, in fact, solve the problem. The problem is that OOC gives people a very negative impression of what people are like on Red. Most people don't want to play on a server that contains some of these OOC garbage talkers. Plus, seeing people act like jerks in OOC gives other players permission to act like jerks as well. It reinforces itself. Finding a way to separate out the garbage or perhaps eliminate a completely global chat channel would allow Red to become a better place.

Tala maybe you should talk to Slathar then? Dude spends 6 hours a day spaming ooc with jibberish in an attempt to troll people. It really doesnt help the server to spread lies and try and accuse people of all kinds of shit, when newer players to the server might not realize hes just a drunk troll looking for laughs.

The reality is that 99% of what you see in ooc and read on the forums is bullshit but it takes most new people to the community months to figure out, and some get overwhelmed and just leave before it gets to that point.

[Cherry23]

I am fairly new here, coming from live..

I would agree the /ooc channel is disturbing, I see people named fandango and engelburt spamming ooc with how th are the best players on the server in caps locks over and over and even on their alts, their guild leaders do not seem to care or punish them for their ignorance and I thought being a guild leader meant that you took actions to promote growth of your guild and server health not only getting picks at all costs..


Then you have people typing song lyrics out and spamming, talking about sex and other none EQ topics...

I almost quite after 3 months on red being forced to read this garbage have me a headache, the only way to ignore it is to become ignorant yourself and use apathy... I mean how could you not care when people say offensive things?

And don't get me started on the spam of people selling items and spamming the same item every 20 seconds !

I'd like to se at the very least a global auction channel and enforced ooc bans for people selling in ooc..

Or maybe we could open a second channel for everything and anything that could be ignored or turned off and that way ooc was for game related topics like seeking ports, lfg, asking questions, ect