[Horus] New Player - How's Realm Balance?
 

Got RO running nicely on my iMac, so I'm looking forward to getting involved. I was just wondering what the current realm status and trends tend to be for Horus.

I was a Hibernian for many years, so Syrtis seems to be the logical choice... how's the population on Syrtis? Good guilds? Good RvR leadership?

Mostly, I just don't want to join the realm that tends to be overpopulated and rules RvR...

I would advise against Syrtis if you don't want to be in the overpopulated realm.

Their RvR leadership is non existent from what I have heard and they all end up arguing instead of doing anything meaningful. This is hearsay though, mind you.

I personally chose based on landscape. I played the other two realms and I just did not like the feel of the game anywhere but the realm I chose.

So Syrtis is overpopulated but doesn't compete very well? Odd... I figured the zerging from an overpopulated realm would be a problem. Do they just not RvR very much?

Also, I did start up a character and noticed a lot of people complaining about "spies" in general chat. I'm taking it with a grain of salt, but I guess in DAOC you had to pay another sub to have a spy... here it would be free. Would you say that its bad enough here to affect balance or just a nuisance?

Syrtis has the biggest population. Even then, coordination isn't that good and tends to rely more on zerg tactics. We do have our moments though, particularly when the various clans get together and cooperate in organized joint attacks.

Alsius is middle ground. Once the underdog, they are waking up as a realm and is gaining strength in war. ATM it seems they are highly active in the warzone too.

Ignis seems to be the least populated. However they seem to be the best in coordination particularly when it comes to area chains. They currently hold the lead in successful invasions.

Every realm has good guilds. The community in this game is one of the best I have seen so far.

Looking forward to seeing you around.

You chose Ignis as "best landscape?" meh whatever.

Syrtis has the most players, and occasionaly some great drama, providing your not involved in it :)

Ignis invades the most but I dont realy like the landscape, they have the best/only "leaders" and organise very nicely most of the time. :)

Alsius is waking up lately and is becoming a strong realm, but have yet to open their portal, just a matter of time though :)

Everyrealm has great clans and great people but also their fair share of idiots and assholes as to be expected, just dont let them run off on you, quite often I see on realm chat "your assholes im joining another realm" or "X realm are all assholes so im joining you" just /ignore them :P

In warzone alsius is underpopulation,i think it's for that the hadest to play.

This is just if you want balance population in the game

Ah, good to see another veteran DAoC-er. Likewise I was in Hibernia back in the days of the Nimue server. Over here, on Horus, I'm in Alsius myself. Call me a glutton for punishment if you like, but we've been picking up lately and making some pretty good progress I think. We've got some good people over here, and there (usually) isn't too much int he way of dram-o-rama.

Bring a fur coat though. It's cold!

"Best" is in the eye of the beholder as I thought anyone could discern from what I wrote.

Could you point out where you saw the word "best" in my post? Are you unfamiliar with the use of quotation marks or just plain dishonest?

If it is the former then please allow me to be of some assistance to you.

Example:
"I did not like the feel of the game playing on the other two realm's landscapes."

Note the similarity to the original intent of the writers words. You can get away with changing the words up a bit, direct quotes are ideal but in cases where you may need to paraphrase this is fine. You can not, however, insert words that completely change the writers intent and still use quotation marks in any honest debate. You will simply look like a fool or a liar. Luckily you have me here to help you avoid such unpleasant circumstances.

If you would be interested in the next lesson we can dive into just why you would would put a period after a gem such as "meh whatever." Perhaps we will start by capitalizing the word "meh" so the rules of proper English are recognized at the beginning of your supposed sentence. This will help those that speak more than one language recognize that "meh whatever." is indeed intended to be the King's English.

Please forgive me for not adding your entire post to the small quote I have added here but the less of that stuff we spread about the longer the English language endures.

I would not have went off like this but I do not care for dishonesty and this rubbed me the wrong way. That and I was bored.

LMAO. Awesome post Kal :) I didnt know people still used the term "King's English" :p

Well we have a Queen for now so it’s sort of the "Queens English" right now :} unless (god forbid) she dies and Charles takes over.

Thanks for the English lesson but in my eyes I’m on an online forum not an English exam. So I’m not bothered by my lazy typing crappy spelling and "Just writing from the top of my head" style.

you guys are making such an excellent flame to welcome the new player and all he asked for is realm balance.

join syrtis and flourish. nah srsly, if you want to get good quest items and level relatively fast then go with syrtis, if you want your leveling to be painfully slow (due to broken quests and lack of quest mobs) and boring (due to realm design) accompanied with mostly crap quest items then go ignis. if you on the other hand want to gain mad levels in few days, go to alsius.

realm imbalance is not an issue anymore, so no need to worry about that.

Sweet... I did end up rolling on Syrtis with my wife. I pretty much let her decide based on look. I was ready to go with Alsius (Hib was my favorite realm, but Skald was my favorite class).

Anyway, no worries about the English lesson. It was very informative. Being an American, I am still recovering from Bush's English. :looking:

Oh Vaylos, I was also on Hib/Nimue until the population dropped! You like it here pretty good? Were you Vaylos there?

Thats acctualy very accurate :)

Welcome to Syrtis!

If you want to join a clan, come check us out at www.claninquisition.org. We are always open to mature, open minded players who just want to have fun.

Cheers!

yeah i hate to agree with NC, but ignis is incredibly hard to lvl in comparrison to other two realms, i think its cuz NGD has favorites, but thats my opinion. If you want a challenge go to ignis (as far as getting crappy jewlery and broken quests are chalening?), if u want it easy chose either of the two realms.



-glulose

I dont like to think NGD have a fave realm, and even if they do they would never admit to it :)

Ignis is closer to the 2 castles which gives them a slight tactical advantage in the Wz, that partly makes up for the rubbish leveling, I havent played very deep into Ignis but if the warzone is anything to go by good leveling spots are few and far between.

To answer your question, yes I was Vaylos in Hib as well. Think I got up to an RR5 Nightshade as my main. I ran with Raven Wing for a time. That was probably back in 2003 or there abouts. I also had a BM named Caldamus, but he was stuck back in his 30's I think hehe. I quit around when Darkness Rising was coming out.

And yeah, I like it here pretty much. Most the community is pretty good too. It's also nice seeing devs who actually listen to their community :) Marek is my main here. Lv 36 hunter and climbing slowly but surely.

Alsius if you want to make a better balance in the war zone

oh btw, don't spend xim until you're at least lvl30 (~3 days of normal questing + grinding on syrtis). and when you buy xim buy only 200% boosters for it, they might be the cheapest but they pay out the most. what can i say, i did ~1,5m xp in 4 hrs (lvl 48-50) with 4x200% boosters and did lvl 40-50 in 1 week grinding ~6hrs/day (4h normal +2h boosted [200% again] fatigue).

oh yeah, while leveling find groups, then it goes insanely fast ;)