Care about realm numbers - Horus

[Acknor]

Originally Posted by Mattdoesrock

Like when you held Aggers yesterday for hours on end?

Originally Posted by Acknor

Yes, Syrtis is underpopulated during the night crew's shift. We are now outnumbered by both Alsius and Ignis.

I was very specific about the time in my post. I'm glad to see Lumi got the intended humour in it.

[Kralmoe]

Yes, Domino is right. Alsius and Ignis (specially Ignis) are still underpopulated no matter the extra bonus. Many players start with Alsius or Ignis because of the bonus but after a while they change to Syrtis. Why? because Syrtis is green en nicer. Simple as that.

After the whiteness of Alsius -which in my opinion is a bit tired for the eyes- is a relieve the green Syrtis land. Besides the Alsius characters are not really nice to see; few people like to play with dwarves (too short) or with the utghars (ugly).

Ignis landscape with its reds deserts is not bad but still not as beautifull as Syrtis and the sand storms are a bit annoying. About Ignis characters only the Dark elves are somewhat ugly.

So, NGD could work on both landscapes and in the above named characters. I know it will not be easy but this is the key to get a balanced population.

[Kralmoe]

Sorry, mistake, when I said specially Ignis I meant Alsius (really underpopulated)

[LoveleHaven]

You are not able to make alsius char if syrtis, and ignis has lower population? Something like that. I know alsius is not huge on numbers it was just an example.

[UmarilsStillHere]

To be very honest in my time of play often realm numbers seem pretty balanced to me, Syrtis may have more but they spend 80% of their time grinding alts or afking at Cs, its quite rare that all syrtis will show up and our numbers at a fort tend to start quite low (most of the time) and gradually build as the lazies decide to get off Cs and come fight, normaly once it gets to the point of us overrunning any enemy with ease I leave/log off.

No fun to just zerg people over and over.

[LoveleHaven]

Originally Posted by Umaril

To be very honest in my time of play often realm numbers seem pretty balanced to me, Syrtis may have more but they spend 80% of their time grinding alts or afking at Cs, its quite rare that all syrtis will show up .

So true

[Domino_]

But for people that play in peak hours of syrtis it isnt much enjoyable :/
So some short-time tweaking in balance wouldnt hurt the game at all

[LoveleHaven]

Yeah peak hours. Who woulda think about that.

[UmarilsStillHere]

Originally Posted by Domino_

But for people that play in peak hours of syrtis it isnt much enjoyable :/
So some short-time tweaking in balance wouldnt hurt the game at all

Ignis peak hours are not great for Syrtis either, most of our players are in Europe, so in American day our numbers drop a lot, we have a map of some Syrtis players on the Syrtis Horus site showing this, Ofc, we dont have all of syrtis on there but there are around 8 Americans to 16 Europeans, a trend that seems correct.

I think the most we can do with realm balance without getting silly is the current +xp/gold system, which many doubt works properly.

[Arafails]

You should all try playing at Australian peak hours. NPC Guards outnumber us 3 to 1.