Hello, Nostalrius PvE community!
I used to play on Nostalrius from day one for some time, until the server population ..well, went our of control, if I may say so. My gaming experience was ruined by ever increasing lag, fire-brigade-style twinking/nerfing game components (respawns, reduced distance),pointless ganking, corpse camping, tea-bagging and such. It didn't make my game more fun or challenging, it just added the 'annoying as hell' factor in it.
By the time i joined Nos, 'the older vanilla' server was dying off. Fresh start was okay and entertaining. After the overcrowding, lag, gank galore etc happened it totally killed my game immersion,so I quitted Nostalrius and started on 'The Newer' vanilla server. No overcrowding there, and smaller peak population as it is, was not all that bad, at least 5 and 10 man instances were fairly easy to find/join.Guilds are raiding and everything seems to work.
Sadly, the ganking seems ubquitous on all private vanilla servers, which almost all are PvP (Does Ascension WoW still exist?), Since sex sells, violence sells, PvP will 'sell' too.. The 'normal' WpVp has its reasons to exist I suppose and the not-so-frequent clash between players of similar level/equipment is acceptable and probably helps to develop better skills and all that. But griefing corpse-camping and overall sadistic outbursts just for the sake of getting off and ruining someone's play time..sucks.
The possibility of joining the first serious PvE server is thrilling to me beyond words.
Forgive my ignorance but I am failing to understand why those PvP..er..'fans' are opposed to the PvE project?
They often advocate 'do not spilt Nostalrius population', failing to understand that it already is split in more ways than one. Some players left because of the overcrowding, some due to ganking/griefing, some would like to leave but have no real alternative and continue and bite the bullet every day. Why should some PvP fan even care about some non-pvp player leaving to..wherever? If the PvE person is unhappy on the pvp server, he/she does not belong there anyway. So, give people the power of choice. Choice is good, forcing people to stay in places they hate is not. Why not import a few carracks of black slaves from Ivory coast to keep the 'player base' large then? Comeon, quit moaning about 'doomed server' and be happy for the minority that will finally have 'a place to call home' like you, the majority do and make 'your' PvP server breathe easier.
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Thanks for reading, to the rest of you. See you on Nostalrius begins PVE!