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Greasygypsy posted:

im ready to stop playin to be honest. This current community doesn't seem to like pvping, even during peak hours.

As best I can tell, the current population is using this as a lower population PvE server:

They farm keeps for glass and scales

Raid ML10 with other guilds for loot

Make necros to farm mobs in isolated locations

Help new players way too much with free gear, scales, and glass

Yes, I understand that helping people out with gear will help attract people to the player, but people do not create characters on this server to gear them; we make characters here to PvP. And PvP is the one thing I'm not seeing on Mordred.

Due to being a Catacombs class, I leveled from 1 to 50 entirely solo and only saw one other player during this time. It's common sense that this is a low population server, but from my perspective, almost no one is out to PvP.

Areas I leveled in due to hoping to see other players:

Darkness Falls

Entrances of each realm's level 35+ dungeon

Areas with blue through red mobs in the dragon zones of both Albion and Midgard

Avalon City

By all measures, these should be high traffic areas for other players leveling from 40-50 and out to farm scales, however almost no other players are to be found. The scale loop on in level 3 of the Labyrinthe is the only place I've encountered other players post 50, and both times it was 2 other players plus their bots.

Based on these experiences, I can only assume that people leveling up or farming scales are either leveling in isolated areas, receiving a lot of power leveling, or simply being given XP scrolls and scales by veterans on the server. None of these activities are healthy for the server's population. People come here to PvP, not to receive free hand outs while never encountering other players.

If you really want to help Mordred's population, here are some suggestions from a player who started here at level 1 with nothing and farmed every single piece of glass and scale I needed:

Rather than giving free handouts, suggest places for new players to level up and farm their own glass and scales - this will help them encounter other players to PvP against.

The key to reviving Mordred lies in the new players actually having someone to fight and giving them free things (other than advice!) is counter productive in this goal. We coming here to fight other players, not to join guilds* and gear up a character that has no one to fight.

* Yes, guilds are important, but having other players to fight is more important. What use is joining a guild on the PvP server when your guild is 50% of the non-anon population?

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