Care about realm numbers - Horus

Warthog · 02-21-2010, 06:56 PM

I really really wish people would stop complaining about realm inbalance and start complaining about the actuall problem. You can say what you want about NGD not addressing realm inbalance but to me they have done all they can within realm of semi fairness with the XP and gold bonus to underpopulated realms. The only step they could possibly take to make sure there is realm balance would be to physically choose for everyone what realm they played in. And in this I don't just mean new players, I mean one day your account with 3 lvl 50's can magically be changed to another realm because that past week that was the least populated realm. I guarantee you if they did this you would see the population of this game plummet over-night.....but hey...realms would be balanced with maybe 50 in each one total, and 45 of them under lvl 10.

Now that being said, there will always be farming in this game, because people always have the choice of which realm to go to, so there will never be balanced numbers throughout the day on all sides. At the moment on Horus this is such a big issue for ONE reason only. The reason being there are hours and hours during the day in all realms where a force of not even 10 willing and mid to high level characters can be formed into a war party. So, if one realm manages to get a decent army, it pretty much guarantees they will be "farming" somewhere. This is the bad farming on Horus at the moment, 5-12 people trying to retake a fort vs 25 or more people defending. This type of farming is demoralizing as without pretty much a miracle the smaller force does not even get to kill ONE of the enemies in each engagement.

There also is a fun type of farming (imagine that). I will use an example of Syrtis trying to retake a fort from Ignis on Friday night. The fort was lvl 3 then 4 basically the whole fight. Ignis did have more players and were using the fort protection. Syrtis could easily have just said screw it and went off to do something else. We didn't though, you know why...because it was actually fun. How could dying more and over and over be fun you might ask? It was fun because we actually managed to have a decent amount of people online (20+ I would guess, never had an actuall track) and willing to fight. So while we had a really really hard time, we still were managing to get kills in each engagement. An not just the lucky random one kill, consitantly good amounts of kills. So yes, many times those dead would get back to the fort from there save at samal before we could even manage to break Herbred door, it stilll was fun.

What's my point in all this? Same point I made earlier in this thread...NGD needs to address the fact that as a server Horus is severly underpopulated. If they could actively promote it more or find a willing partner such as Gamigo to promote it for them then the fact that there is realm inbalance will become less and less of an issue. If at any given time every realm could field at least 20 decent leveled people for a fight, it can make even being farmed a fun thing. It is up to those involved in the fight thought to realize the situation and make it fun. Again with my example, if people didn't see killing some as a fact that we were doing well with less people even though it did take ALOT of time to get the actuall fort back, it would not have been fun. So NGD, please please try to promote Horus and grow the population. Horus players, please please stop bitching about realm inbalance...if you really feel the need to bitch....bitch to NGD that they are not doing enough to promote the growth of the server. Give us more people and we can all make even farm fights into fun fights for both sides instead of what it is now where the small group (5-12) has not even a shot in hell of expecting to kill a good part of the enemy...let alone take a fort back.

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02-21-2010, 06:56 PM	#12
Warthog Apprentice Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 90	I really really wish people would stop complaining about realm inbalance and start complaining about the actuall problem. You can say what you want about NGD not addressing realm inbalance but to me they have done all they can within realm of semi fairness with the XP and gold bonus to underpopulated realms. The only step they could possibly take to make sure there is realm balance would be to physically choose for everyone what realm they played in. And in this I don't just mean new players, I mean one day your account with 3 lvl 50's can magically be changed to another realm because that past week that was the least populated realm. I guarantee you if they did this you would see the population of this game plummet over-night.....but hey...realms would be balanced with maybe 50 in each one total, and 45 of them under lvl 10. Now that being said, there will always be farming in this game, because people always have the choice of which realm to go to, so there will never be balanced numbers throughout the day on all sides. At the moment on Horus this is such a big issue for ONE reason only. The reason being there are hours and hours during the day in all realms where a force of not even 10 willing and mid to high level characters can be formed into a war party. So, if one realm manages to get a decent army, it pretty much guarantees they will be "farming" somewhere. This is the bad farming on Horus at the moment, 5-12 people trying to retake a fort vs 25 or more people defending. This type of farming is demoralizing as without pretty much a miracle the smaller force does not even get to kill ONE of the enemies in each engagement. There also is a fun type of farming (imagine that). I will use an example of Syrtis trying to retake a fort from Ignis on Friday night. The fort was lvl 3 then 4 basically the whole fight. Ignis did have more players and were using the fort protection. Syrtis could easily have just said screw it and went off to do something else. We didn't though, you know why...because it was actually fun. How could dying more and over and over be fun you might ask? It was fun because we actually managed to have a decent amount of people online (20+ I would guess, never had an actuall track) and willing to fight. So while we had a really really hard time, we still were managing to get kills in each engagement. An not just the lucky random one kill, consitantly good amounts of kills. So yes, many times those dead would get back to the fort from there save at samal before we could even manage to break Herbred door, it stilll was fun. What's my point in all this? Same point I made earlier in this thread...NGD needs to address the fact that as a server Horus is severly underpopulated. If they could actively promote it more or find a willing partner such as Gamigo to promote it for them then the fact that there is realm inbalance will become less and less of an issue. If at any given time every realm could field at least 20 decent leveled people for a fight, it can make even being farmed a fun thing. It is up to those involved in the fight thought to realize the situation and make it fun. Again with my example, if people didn't see killing some as a fact that we were doing well with less people even though it did take ALOT of time to get the actuall fort back, it would not have been fun. So NGD, please please try to promote Horus and grow the population. Horus players, please please stop bitching about realm inbalance...if you really feel the need to bitch....bitch to NGD that they are not doing enough to promote the growth of the server. Give us more people and we can all make even farm fights into fun fights for both sides instead of what it is now where the small group (5-12) has not even a shot in hell of expecting to kill a good part of the enemy...let alone take a fort back.