to gank and to win camlann *long opinion*

[Lusse]

Well. As you can see on other posts and on the server itself. People love to gank others. Jumping grey cons, exp killing, bind camping... well you name it.

Now, why do people gank and state that all they want to do is scare you of the server and return to your normal pve server?

I'll tell you why. For the people who has played EQ (everquest) this will sound like a dejavu. If you take the perfect example off Sullon Zek. The server was devided into 3 alignements. Good, neutral and evil. Evil being about 65% of the population leaving hte rest to a majority of newts and the smaller part of goods. So the evils totally aimed to gank goods and newts. And I do mean gank. If you happen to fall asleep and you are bound nowhere safe, you can count on being bindcamped until you wake up. Several players got bindcamped from lvl 56 to 51 and even worse, down from 60 to 48 (yes, in EQ you can deDing)

And why did they do this? I promised you an answer. Well, because the guilds that dominated the servers could then do all the really fun mobs by their selfs. In EQ you have several number of dragons and giants to kill. Not just one silly dragon and one silly legion. To get gear, epic and such you need to have control of the zone. If you are fighting a huge mob for a sweet drop, and then some other guild comes, kills you and gets it. Kinda pisses you off. But if you have scared away the majority of the server away, you get the server foryourself and can do the great mobs and have great fun on the server. (in their opinion) And offcourse, there are still guilds left on the weaker sides. Im myself was the second highest shaman on the good side left and it was indeed a bitch to exp there. *edit* Why the guilds did this, is because in a blueserver (non pvp) the competition is HUGE to kill the big Gods in teh game. If you play on a pvp server and scare off everyone, you'll be able to have it all for yourself. *edit*


So my point is..... in EQ you scare away people because you want the mobs for yourself.

Why in earth do you want to scare people off i daoc? To kill legion and the 3 dragons? like.... cmon, isnt that doable without scarying the people away? The fun of the pvp server would be to have like the population in Rallos Zek which is exactly the same as camlann. Just pure pvp with no teams whatsoever. They have a lot of politics with nonpk and pk and well you name it.

So whats the point of all these big guilds that says " we will -->fuck<--- you up until you leave the server"... to get a complete empty server to do teh sucky pve of daoc?

Cause lets face it, pve in daoc is so bloody boring. I'vent met a single lvl 40+ that enjoys the exp spots nor final mobs. Its just to simple. But the pvp stands up for it. Its fast and bloodrushing pvp. EQ has a totally GREAT pve world, but the pvp is somewhat gimped. A lot of uneven classes and bad code.

So whtas the point of ganking a server to the death when all there would be left is pve? is it just a penis contest?

Well, so far Im glad with my post, think I've some vital points here. But im truly sure that Im wrong and i'll be flamed till my eyes hurt. But hey, its a forum Speak your mind off

 

[Bebopbo]

well said

 

[old.chesnor]

Originally posted by Lusse

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So whtas the point of ganking a server to the death when all there would be left is pve? is it just a penis contest?

Yes. If you assume every guild sets out to hassle everyone off the server. Not sure if it could be said this is happening on Camlann though.

 

[Devine_G]

I agree totally...

There are some nice guilds out their and some shitty guilds(FruitSkald comes to mind oh and Nemesis and Red Hand, being the less than honourable ones).

 

[Lusse]

True, I apologize that it sounded like I ment all guilds... and maybe I did Im glad to hear that the situation is better than I thought tho

Still, needed to breeze off after reading some posts.... All the badass "we will scare you out from camlann" talk. Makes you wanna take a deep breath and siiiiiigh

 

[Thorgald]

Lusse, its not THAT good.. i havent seen a single guild that has _NOT_ bind camped and greykilled...

most of the time i see maybe 1 or max 2 FG of the same guild having a "event" at some bindstone just for "fun"

ppl are already quitting the server, i could even login today on primetime.. was like 100 peeps short of the max limit...

so its not good..

 

[old.Maronan]

In order for a PvP server like this to be stable and fun for the majority, there needs to be a balance.

I would say, that we would need around 3-4 groups (guilds alliances) that fights each other. Those alliances could then go up against each other, or turn against each other. This might create a stable situation, where the guilds would try to recruit new players to the server in order to grow their own strength.

Remember, the day the lowlevel zones gets deserted, is the day the server seriously are starting to die.

It is no fun constantly fighting the same opponents, and no matter what, people grow tired of the game. So, if there is no new blood on the server, the game dies.

Remember that next time you go to a lowlevel zone and 'ganks some greys'. That grey you just killed, might leave the server instead of growing up and becoming a decent friend or enemy you could have fun with, playing this game.

 

[old.Pascalean]

People/players will always abuse, exploit and fuck up a good thing they are given if there are no rules to keep them under control. Many players don't think about the future of the server, they don't seem to have any notion of the spirit of play or sportsmanship, or even basic manners. The plain fact is that they are just wankers. I'm sorry I can't think of a more scientific reason.