Allright. Here's my view on the issue. I'll try and explain as best as I can, not being a native english speaker.
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First of all. Yes, there are a few individual loudmouths on realm chat who never seem to bother to come and help with taking even our own forts back. However, and maybe that's due to the fact that they are loudmouths, please don't exaggerate their numbers.
On the other hand, if only one of our forts is taken, and the realm gate is nowhere near in danger (best example, syrtis has trelle :P), I can understand some people occasionally don't come to fight because they want to get some grinding done (in order to finally reach the magical lvl 50).
Note that I make a clear distiction between never showing up, and in some cases
occasionally not showing up (best example, if you're on a grind setup that's useless in war, 10k tnl ...). People should still play this game to have fun. And have
some freedom to choose how they wish to spend their, sometimes little, free time in the game.
Secondly, altough we are usually quite outnumbered. There's also an issue with tactics. To put it plainly, the lack of common sense, imho.
- Rushing to a zerg one by one.
- Fighting a zerg right AT the fort, instead of luring them out abit.
- Half of us shooting at Minamoto on the wall while the rest is pounding on door. (Don't bother, ieti or Vivien will heal his ass anyway
)
I've tried shouting a bit, but I'm not really someone with much authority (nor do I wish to be tbh). So I usually get ignored about this.
As far as I have noticed. Most high level players in Alsius DO switch or show up to take our forts back. (Except for those forementioned loudmouths, which we can do without imho.)
But its the idiot tactics, or complete lack of it, that makes people log off or ragequit, idle at save for a much needed smoke (guilty) or wait until the fort is left empty.