Unbalanced population

[Hollow-Ichigo]

It takes skill for 40+ people to invade a realm with ~10.

[Mehran]

Originally Posted by Hollow-Ichigo

It takes skill for 40+ people to invade a realm with ~10.

It takes more skill for ~10 people to invade a realm with +40.

[leafdale]

just posting to mention another possible alternative which i heard about.

What we could have are queues to log into any realm which has a number of logged in players much larger than any other realm. For example if u try to log into Syrtis, and Syrtis has a quantity of logged in players say 50% larger than the combined number of logged in players of the other two realms, then u will not be permitted to enter Syrtis, but u will be put in a login queue for Syrtis.

i also heard that Ra already has a login queue system, but it is on a server-wide basis. good to hear Ra is popular!

i feel this realm-queue approach is also a viable solution to realm numbers imbalance.

[Hershel]

Originally Posted by Hollow-Ichigo

It takes skill for 40+ people to invade a realm with ~10.

It takes skill to do 2 realms v syrtis at imperia (let me add that it's the most unbalanced peninsulae to get reinforcements)

[_Kharbon_]

Originally Posted by Slartibartfast

I strongly disagree with this because:

1. Last night when Alisus was without relics, and Syrtis were attacking Ignis all the time Alsius was dead. Like - all empty. No one online. For hours. No communication, no action, nothing.

2. Sensless farming by outnumbered realm. Many players just give up. Why? Being killed XY times without benefit is - guess what? Senless. People logs off and do some fun thing, like cooking dinner, walking the dog, logging into winning realm...

3. Etc.. We all know it, has been writting many times before on forum.

1. Yes, well you weren't fighting against anything then.
2. Senseless farming does not exist. Just players stupid enough to feed.
3. what?

I still do believe that even when outnumbered you can have fun. You probably won't be able to defend your relic or gems or whatever, but using your brain and skill, you should be able to kill one enemy player here and there. The best fights I ever had were against higher number of enemies than of us. I enjoyed them the most.
With some skill and cooperation it is possible.

[Rising_Cold]

Originally Posted by _Kharbon_

I still do believe that even when outnumbered you can have fun. You probably won't be able to defend your relic or gems or whatever, but using your brain and skill, you should be able to kill one enemy player here and there. The best fights I ever had were against higher number of enemies than of us. I enjoyed them the most.
With some skill and cooperation it is possible.

+1 Fighting outnumberd are the best fights, more of a challenge and everyone needs to play smart

it also brings out the most frustration when you dont get that dispel/heal
or when that barb rushes at a wrong time, when people focus badly..

Still, because they do that, they learn from it, you dont get better when you farm
because who you target does not matter except for the killcount

EDIT: Oh right, the topic, I really like the Real-time relic lock idea,
Im not sure how the que will work other than making people multirealm when they cant get into their realm

[halvdan]

Originally Posted by _Kharbon_

...The best fights I ever had were against higher number of enemies than of us. I enjoyed them the most.
With some skill and cooperation it is possible.

Can't agree more. Just several months back Syrtis was in similar situation as Alsius is now, so i know what i am writing about. Of course you'll get zerged much more than before and your warmonger rating will fall down, but who cares bout that? I still remember fights when we had fun and we did good even with lesser population.

Besides, i doubt cry-threads like this will improve realm balance in any way. If it were so, this could be done last year when Alsius was on top and before when Syrtis was. I just doubt there is some solution to realm balance except time.

Anyway, remember

Originally Posted by Krungle

...Right now, by my observations in game, Alsius is the least populated Realm and is using skills to achieve victory over numbers.

Definitely same situation as before, just use those skills again.

Sorry for my english.

[time-to-die]

OH MY GOSH SYRTIS ITS syrtis! RUN!

[clavinfay2010]

Play hunter like me, you should able to annoy some outnumber brainless syrtis zerg

[NotScias]

Sigh...

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