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

[Angelwinged_Devil]

Originally Posted by mcfs85

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!

hi healerous

actually most people think this way, not me, I just like a challenge.

but no it's not because of rps they come to the war zone it's because they are fatiqued, this has happened since the implementation of fatique, they get fatiqued, don't want to level anymore and hit the war zone.

[brumbrum]

Originally Posted by mcfs85

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!

I have left Regnum, for the game World Of Warcraft. It was my way to get the fun back to MMORPG's.

Regnum misses ALOT of things that other online games have:
* When you reach Max level, regnum has nothing more to offer to the players. NGD knows this and are doing there best to prevent people from reaching lvl50.
* The developers dont care about what the players want. They add what they want instead of listening to the people. If people want grinding-spots NGD should just add grinding-spots. If people want a bug fixed, they should fix the bug. If people are complaining they should fix the problems instead of removing the forum-threads.
* The developers dont care about develop the game to become bugfree(TM) anymore, instead they add features you have to pay for, that they later on puts limits to (Xp-boost, and removing grinding-spots for example).
* They dont care about the players and ignore that people really want to level fast and become good PvP-players BECAUSE THEY KNOW that the game has nothing to offer after lvl50 is reached.
* NGD dont care about adding interresting parts to the game. The game has around 70 quests / realm. WoW has 5000+.
* Blizzard adds a new tricky quest every day (known as "Daily quests") to WoW. NGD removes mobs that is important to finish quests (Rune quest for example, missing Igneos, need I say more?).
* People playing WoW are playing even when they reach max level since the game still offers something. People playing regnum leave the game when they reach higher levels...

My suggestion: Make the game more interresting, make the game more fun, dont be affraid of adding new parts to the game. This makes more people play the game and the people playing (the customers) would then buy more xim. If making the game more interresting would add 2000+ new players, maybe 10-20% of these continue to play the game to lvl50 and buy xim during the game-play, and this would benefit both NGD and all the players...

It would also be nice if NGD communicated more to the people. If they played the game themself and talked to people, players and customers. I have talked twice already with gamemasters from Blizzard that wonderd if I had problem since they noticed crashes from my game-client when I played. The crashes was because I have to run the game from Windows Emulation (Wine) in linux, and when I use Wine to run opengl-apps it is not possible to watch movies, if I do the game crashes. They wanted to support me less then 10 minutes after the first crash/problem. In regnum you have to write it in the forum, then the forum-masters removes the thread, and still Regnum dont have that many players as Blizzard has in WoW to support. I have never even got an answer from NGD on my questions in the forum...

Regnum was fun, regnum made me interrested in MMORPG's, Regnum made me meet alot of new online-friends, Regnum was fun intil NGD decided to not care about the players anymore. Now it's not fun anymore... sorry.

I belive the decrese in forum-threads are because people are leaving the game. I left the game, and I probably dont come back to this buggy game with no fun to it anymore.

Sorry NGD, you have lost it all. You started so good, but something happened... Please change your attitude to the customers (The Players) if you want any more players to the game. This is probably my last post... and I know that you probably will remove the post as you use to do with all bad critic you get, but I just wanted to tell my opinion.

Thanks for the good time anyway!

[Angelwinged_Devil]

have fun playing wow

but seriously though, a quest each day? how's that supposed to be fun? Such a thing might as well exist in a single player game, regnum is not about this it's about the rvr.

It's all the grinding which scares people away

[brumbrum]

Originally Posted by Angelwinged_Devil

have fun playing wow

but seriously though, a quest each day? how's that supposed to be fun? Such a thing might as well exist in a single player game, regnum is not about this it's about the rvr.

It's all the grinding which scares people away

Dont know, the daily quests are made for the higher levels. I am only lvl28 yet (lvl80 is cap).

The game is not just about grinding. You can grind, or you can quest your way up to high levels... Your choice!

Also, another thing I noticed playing WoW: The developers allows the people to reset the powers, but it cost some gold. Really nice feature for diffrent setups. You dont abuse it as people did/do in regnum, but you can change if you want and have collected gold for it. Very good feature! :-)

And yes, I really enjoy playing wow. Alot of people online, no buggy game and alot of quests or paths to select to get stronger. Not as limited as Regnum is. You can even change proffesions if you dont like the one you selected from the beginning! :-)