Rep Yo City 4.0: Class balance without non-classic elements

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Human team:

Qeynos
Surefall Glade
Halas
Erudin
Paineel

Evil team:

Neriak
Grobb
Oggok

Elf/shortie team:

Rivervale
Kaladim
Kelethin
Felwithe
Ak'Anon

Contested city:

Freeport

The following race/class combinations woud be allowed to start in Freeport that are not part of the human team:

Human bard (Evil team)

Human monk (Elf/shortie team)

Barbarian shaman (Elf/shortie team)

This would be the same as the map below except that Freeport would be contested by all three teams, not just Human/Elf as noted in green.

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There would be no customization (such as trainers or spell vendors added to Freeport) to make Elf team shaman viable. If you walked around Halas saying "I like faries and midgets," you would be exiled. If this is the combo you choose to play, then finding a way to get spells and training is your problem.

If you are an Elf team shaman, the names of all Human team shaman will appear red to you and vice versa. Same for Evil team bards and Elf team monks. Anyone creating a character in Freeport should receive a message stating that Freeport is a contested city and characters from all three teams can be created there so that they are warned of the possibility of low-end PvP within their starting city.

Following are optional rules that could be implemented for the Classic era, then removed according to a timeline similar to the removal of item loot on Vallon and Tallon Zek:

1. Item loot

Single item loot existed on the teams PvP servers until June 22, 2000 according to this, shortly after the release of Kunark on April 24, 2000. A similar timeline for Teams99 would be completely classic.

2. Rep Yo City

The majority seem to want hard-coded teams, and the above setup provides that by dis-allowing guilding and grouping across team lines. However, Rep Yo City is a great compromise between the failed Sullon Zek experiment (fully-hard-coded teams) and the vastly more-popular Race War ruleset (soft coded teams).

Players would still be restricted from grouping and guilding across team lines, but would be PvP+ against players that start in a different city. In other words, Human team players who start in Paineel would be PvP+ against Human team players from Erudin, Qeynos, Surefall Glade and Halas.

I suggest that the city-based PvP component be removed around the same time item loot is removed. On Vallon Zek, the teams fought among each other for a time before settling into a light vs. dark dynamic that lasted until shortly before the Zek merge. This would allow for a similar "Wild West" feel during the early stages of Teams99 before settling into a more-rigid Sullon-style teams structure as the server ages.

Sirken has stated that his non-classic ideas to work around missing classes for the various teams were shot down. The above contains no non-classic elements. Bards were allowed to play on the Evil team and human monks could pick Good or Neutral on Sullon Zek.