Legit PvP servers on EQEmu are a massive pain in the ass if you have any intention of integrity. Since the EQ client is so easy to hack (and I use the term "hack" very loosely - since the vast majority of it is MQ, with a few people fucking with their spell file mixed in), you spend all of your time chasing down these loopholes and exploits, and trying to implement server side counter-measures for them. After expending all this time and effort trying to make the field more level, the staff realizes that they just spent an absurd amount of time, and still have not refined the mechanics or content for which they had set goals.
Every player to plays PVP doesn't hack, but most of the names that you see frequently on the forums do. It's not necessarily because they are bad people (though I wouldn't rule it out), but it is so easy and so tempting. Once other players get wind of it, they start looking for ways to hack as well, then the average new player needs MQ just to compete.
VZ/TZ did not suck when it was actively being developed (though it was FAR from perfect). VZ/TZ sucked when the developers burnt out from dealing with this bullshit day after day, month after month, and year after year.
The P1999 staff are not green, and they know what they're doing. To the rest of you entertaining the idea of starting a PVP server, if you want your developers and staff to stay, either 1) avoid building a PVP server, or 2) expect to spend a sizable chunk of time combating MQ2 and other exploits (and still being told that you are a useless fag for not addressing all of them).
THAT is why you don't have any PVP Servers to play on.
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Dax
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