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Old 10-15-2017, 05:59 PM
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The only thing I remember about TMO is the ridiculous ass rape they received on Red. I've never been more ashamed.
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Old 10-16-2017, 11:09 AM
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The only thing I remember about TMO is the ridiculous ass rape they received on Red. I've never been more ashamed.
It was a brief period and a good while ago (before velious ) but I remember at the time TMO was dominating blue? There was another guild who I forget the name of too. The bit about red doesn't surprise me. PVE is very different that PVP.

I feel a little bad for TMO, all those pixels and no one to tell their story. I was hoping for a epic tale of salt and tears.
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Old 10-15-2017, 06:11 PM
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I remember how Red had a relatively... thriving population at the time and you retards did everything possible to get rid of it.
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Old 10-15-2017, 06:18 PM
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Yeah I remember a 300-400 pop in 2014 sometime. A shame how the minority population ran everyone out. The losers that think griefing 24/7 is the way to play EQ PVP.

As someone who is an RZ native it killed me to see the spike in pop. They let the basement dwellers win.

PVP in the game isn't polished or even that good, but if the community was even remotely civil, it's a better ruleset than the pissing and hollering match on blue. Just in my opinion.

Not to say the Blue community is better, and in many ways it's much much worse.
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Old 10-15-2017, 06:30 PM
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Yeah I remember a 300-400 pop in 2014 sometime. A shame how the minority population ran everyone out. The losers that think griefing 24/7 is the way to play EQ PVP.

As someone who is an RZ native it killed me to see the spike in pop. They let the basement dwellers win.

PVP in the game isn't polished or even that good, but if the community was even remotely civil, it's a better ruleset than the pissing and hollering match on blue. Just in my opinion.

Not to say the Blue community is better, and in many ways it's much much worse.
Make (teams) pvp great again
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Old 10-15-2017, 06:49 PM
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the ironhand of tmo did not allow rule lawyering about lodizal

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Old 10-16-2017, 12:22 AM
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the ironhand of tmo did not allow rule lawyering about lodizal

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Ya they did:
"TMO guy: I'll sell you my Lodi FTE for 10$ U.S.
Random guy: isn't that against the rules?
TMO guy: nah, I'm a lawyer, don't worry about it."
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Old 10-16-2017, 12:32 AM
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Ya they did:
"TMO guy: I'll sell you my Lodi FTE for 10$ U.S.
Random guy: isn't that against the rules?
TMO guy: nah, I'm a lawyer, don't worry about it."
How did you get my logs? Damn TMO guy passed the P99 Bar!
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Old 10-16-2017, 11:45 AM
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Yeah I remember a 300-400 pop in 2014 sometime. A shame how the minority population ran everyone out. The losers that think griefing 24/7 is the way to play EQ PVP.

As someone who is an RZ native it killed me to see the spike in pop. They let the basement dwellers win.

PVP in the game isn't polished or even that good, but if the community was even remotely civil, it's a better ruleset than the pissing and hollering match on blue. Just in my opinion.

Not to say the Blue community is better, and in many ways it's much much worse.
It is 100% on the Devs to create a server that keeps a high population, not the community. Red started with bugs, cheats and soon made server rules that made the raid scene all about zerging.

You can't expect a community to go against the natural rules of the server to create an environment that is favorable for everyone. The server rules do not promote multiple competing guilds. There is no penalty on death and you can't expect the server to pretend to care about PvP death just because that makes the server better.

The issue with Red is that the rules favor zerg mentality. It is a winner takes all environment so there can only be 1 end game raiding guild. You can't have 3 guilds in an area trying to do a first to engage. The zerg kills everyone else and takes all the content. There is no penalty on PvP death so the zerg will just overwhelm everyone else. Once the zerg wins they can sit on corpses and camp them until people get frustrated and quit for a couple days. It is why TMO had no chance on Red. Once a guild has taken the top spot there is nothing another guild can do until the number 1 guild gets banned or quits.

Top guilds:

Nihilum - banned
Holocaust/Empire - banned/quit
Apex - Current guild

Current issue with Red that will never be fixed by a community:

60 members of a guild looking at 20 members of a competing guild full of vets and highly skilled players. The 60 know they could take the 20 but might suffer 2-3 deaths a piece until their zerg finally overwhelms the 20. The zerg will not hesitate to throw away 2-3 deaths each to beat the 20, so the tight group of highly skilled 20 members eventually join the zerg if they want to do content and progress their character. You have to join the zerg no matter how much you dislike them or you just quit the server.

There is a way to fix it.

You can have item loot so small PvP guilds that focus on high kill/death ratios have something to do. This promotes anti-pk guilds. Top guilds wanting to zerg will not work because the losers that keep dieing over and over to get a dragon will lose items.

You can also hardcode it with teams but there still has to be some penalty on PvP death. Even with hardcoded teams people must have a need to protect their team from deaths.
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Old 10-16-2017, 12:14 PM
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Top guilds:

Nihilum - banned
Holocaust/Empire - banned/quit
Apex - Current guild
This is why Nihilum was top guild for so long, it was the marketing genius of their recruiters.

Nihilum/Red recruitment video on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydjnPheTIhQ

If Cylocke and other Red recruiters really want Red to succeed and are serious about recruiting, I suggest they create some entertaining recruitment videos like this one!
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