Realm imbalance and player trends

[alienthree3]

I'm writing this post at the request of a friend. I don't want to write this but I'll try my best. Here goes.

I play on Ignis on the Horus server and my main character is Ronas. Since I started playing I've noticed a trend in our realm on Horus. People reach level 50 and then leave, switch realms, or servers. I didn't understand this but now I do.

It's normal for us to be outnumbered 4 or 5 to 1 anymore. The realm imbalance just gets worse daily. I spent money and time to level my character to 50 and the game is becoming unplayable as I can do nothing against the hordes of enemies. Many times the army we are up against outnumbers the total number of Ignis online even counting the lower levels. And it's rare for us to get any new players anymore. After waiting for months the situation only gets worse and worse.

While it is true that we have a decent number of Ignis online in the evening hours at this time there seems to be no enemies to fight online. Most hours of the day there is very few Ignis on. The paltry RLM xp bonus that NGD has offered does nothing to alleviate the problem.

The game just isn't fun anymore. I will miss the friends I have made here but I see no other choice but to leave the game. It also makes me feel bad for the others staying as I know when I leave a lot of other Ignis will also leave including most of Apocalypse clan. I'm not the only one who feels this way.

I only hope that NGD will do something to make the realms more balanced.

Sincerely,

Ronas

[makarios68]

It shouldn't be underestimated how much realm imbalance can be unpleasant.

It has recently been a real problem for Alsius on Ra.

I rarely play on Horus, but it seems that it is a problem there too.

[mcfs85]

i totally agree with u alienthree3

alsius has the same problem too. we just got a chance against syrtis, when we got our "root group".
i dunno why everybody is joining syrtis. is it the influence of "Lord of the Rings"?
"i wanna be the next legolas! oO" idk.. i have no idea.

Our clan/ppl switched to horus, because we had exactly the same problems on the german servers.
Syrtis had everywhere the most players. ON EVERY DAMN SERVER!!!! but why??
anyways i think NGD has to stick to unbalanced realms and has to act!!!!
the RLM isnt helping in any way, before the rlm bonus is up, the most ppl changed the realm.

but there is still another problem, because of the new rp system more and more low-lvl players are joining the warzone.
of course its kinda nice for them to see "new places" instead of the default inner realm area's but the thing is, that the "low against highs" unbalanced damage isnt fixed in any way.
i mean i felt it myself. i was hunting around with my marx and finally i found an ignis player, also a marx.
he was "UNCHALLENING" for my l46 marx, but did the same dmg as i did. thats not fair.
at least with the new rp system its a waste to fight against them because ure loosing more rp's than he does.
Yeah the most ppl are commenting now "i dont fight for rp's, i just wanna have fun while im fighting".
in my opinion u are fighting for rp's to have fun!

ive talked alot with my clanmates about this problems.
some of them got the same argument. some of them are waiting for the invasion.
i personally dont know every new feature of that update, but i think it will make our life much more harder!

anyways im loosing all the fun in regnum. so i got no other choice to just wait for games like Runes of Magic, Diablo III and Final Fantasy XIII.
i hope it will bring me back the fun of RPG's/MMORPG's!

[Cuchulainn]

Yeah the fort wars on Horus very often really frustrating. Only very few good, balanced fort wars and many more imbalanced ones or no fort wars at all, because of the lack of wz-active players.

NGD should take further steps to improve the realmbalance in RO. I would also appreciate further steps to increase the number of active players on Horus.

I still playing on horus, on ignis, but decrease my activity on the server as long as the big imbalance between the realms remains.

[Gideon_Slack]

There are a couple of issues in this post:

1) Level 50's leaving the game.

This has happened to some of the people in our clan (Alsius/Horus). It seems to be mostly the non-hunters (or non-hunter players who don't like to hunt) that stop playing at lvl 50. With the current lack of fort wars on Horus, I guess they aren't having the type of fun they want.

I assume this is an issue that will improve in the long term.

2) The time zone issue.

This is probably the single biggest problem with realm imbalance. Since Horus is an international server, there seem to be rotating dead times. It is probably the worst for Australians and west coast North Americans. (At the time I play 8pm-2am Pacific time, Ignis usually outnumbers everyone else).

I don't see how NGD could solve this problem other than adding "region-filters" for realms, or adding region-specific servers (probably not possible). Though hopefully with more people, the situation will improve.

3) Balance is always a problem with online pvp games.

Almost every online team-based pvp game suffers from imbalance at one time or another. Most online shooters though don't have persistent realms, so you just switch sides once the current map/mission is over. Other pvp MMO's used closed/instanced "battlegrounds" or "scenarios" to balance sides.

But RO is open, non-instanced RvR pvp. How do you get balance in that situation?

Don't ask me, I'm not a professional game designer.

[mute]

I agree to Ronas post.

For example yesterday, there were 6 Ignis players fighting against 25 Syrtis players at Samal. Of course Ignis had no chance. The Syrtis then came to the save, killed some of us there (again and again). Most Ignis people logged out after that.

I heard many people say that they leave either the Horus Server or stop playing Regnum Online. Some people have the luck to have a Level 50 char on RA.

I think the server should be opened now for every player including the spanish speaking. Maybe we get some new players then...


If there won't be any changes, there will be no Ignis and Alsius people online anymore...


Greenbolt - Ignis - Marksman

[Llayne]

I like being in the underpowered realm. It makes victory all that much sweeter.

[mute]

It's OK if you have a chance, but 6 against 25 is quite unfair. Yeah, we killed a few enemies who haven't been careful enough yesterday, but that was no fun for me.

[Leadoffhitter]

Originally Posted by mute

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I think the server should be opened now for every player including the spanish speaking. Maybe we get some new players then...

Asking for it for a long time, but no answer yet

[mute]

2nd idea:

Giving us back the Realm Chat for better communication.

3rd idea:

Unite all Ignis Clans, so we have our "Realm Chat" back...