Who will be going from Blue99 to Red99?

[Vondra]

I think there should be a pretty good population on it at least for a while. If it was JUST existing p99 players then no, but I'm sure there's plenty of people that don't play here/post here that would be interested in playing on a promising new red emu server.

Ever have some upcoming game/gaming project that you don't follow closely but just kinda check the page on every few weeks to see what's going on? I have. There are non p99 people doing that with red99 I'm sure. When it releases, they'll be here to check it out.

GETTING the players should be successful. The issue is how to keep them.

[Extunarian]

I'm certainly going to give it a shot.

[Coridan]

I'd do Sullon Zek ruleset. That was fun till PoK ruined it.

[Crenshinabon]

PoK and somewhat Luclin killed pvp. Shit, and EQ in general as its classic form.
Ill play Red, I played non pvp for a bit, got a decent level and got kinda bored. Pretty sure pvp would hold me again.
I would love some kind of non weapon item loot, but will play anyways.

[mwatt]

My guess is that they will see 300 to 400 during prime time in the beginning. A lot of people who are curious will check it out and of course there will be the PVP lovers. In the long run, I expect population to decline to around 200 prime time. Most "classic" EQ lovers will grow tired of the antics and smack talk that will be SOP there.

[mitic]

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

Honest question: What's stopping you Red99 fanatics from just turning in your Tome of Order and Discord today and PvPing on the original server?

just one of those quadrillion of reasons why not:

2 red endgame guilds fighting over a dragon, blue guild comes in, lawls and kills the dragon, loots and moves on while those other 2 guilds keep killing each other

[SearyxTZ]

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

Honest question: What's stopping you Red99 fanatics from just turning in your Tome of Order and Discord today and PvPing on the original server?

I've thought about this a bit and only really came up with two ideas.
1) Clean start
2) So you can "fight" over camps and spawns

1) Do you think there will be any fewer cheaters on Red99 than there is here? From everything I've been reading cheating is more prevalent on PvP servers than anywhere else. If this server is going to be administered by the same people running Blue99 are you actually expecting different results?

2) Is there actually going to be enough people to even compete for spawns on Red99? If you had similar prime-time numbers to Blue99 sure, but I'm thinking you won't.

Why not just turn in your books and duke it out now, as-is? Just a little tired of the same 15 people on the forums only ever having Red99 related material flying out of their pie-holes.

Did you miss the memo from Rogean where he tracked down and banned cheaters? He has a nice solution to that problem already. Besides that, most red players are used to dealing with it and things being unfair. Killing some MQ abuser just made it all the more satisfying for me (obviously not an option on blue servers).

PoD books flag you as FFA to anyone, and cannot be healed by other players. The difference between blue (PoD books and all) and red servers = night and day.


70'ish people online concurrent is the minimum for things to be competitive, and this server pop will dwarf that. After the initial spike I would expect Red99 to hover around 40% of the P1999 number. This will be an overall gain for the devs here in terms of how many people are playing on their servers, even if P1999 takes an initial minor hit from curious bluebies jumping ship to red.

[Demetrium]

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

PoD books flag you as FFA to anyone, and cannot be healed by other players. The difference between blue (PoD books and all) and red servers = night and day.

If this is true someone should have brought it up sooner. If two players hand in PoD books can they not heal each other?

[phoenix182]

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

I'd do Sullon Zek ruleset. That was fun till PoK ruined it.

This. It's why I quit EQ originally actually.

Just a question that I must have missed the answer to: Is there 'official word' that there's even going to be a Red server? I mean, we're still dealing with bugs and issues from initial EQ launch, never mind Kunark/Vellious.

[Crenshinabon]

Originally Posted by phoenix182 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Is there 'official word' that there's even going to be a Red server?

We have a couple devs that say it is almost complete and is happening.
Unfortunatly the only thing Rogean has said really seems to be about pvp rules. No promises made about server release. He has also said that in IRC he talks about updates. So pretty sure one is coming. Just not sure when.