Alsius Horus status

[UmarilsStillHere]

made a als char on my spare account and took him to level 5, some of the quest ideas are nice, goblors in boxes etc..., but its worth pointint out that for me at least the very first person you talk to has a text error ([err][I_failz][err])

Which is hardly impressive for new players and since this area is so new pretty shamefull.

[DkySven]

When you complain about Alsius being a hard realm to level I suggest you take a look at the current xp rankings of the new server, Tyr. Alsius has 5 people of level 30 or higher, with the highest being level 38. Both Ignis and Syrtis have one level 22 player as highest level player.

http://www.regnumonline.nl/ranking/i...orld=tyr&opt=3

[Erikose]

Originally Posted by Bladnoch

Ive got to agree with the rest, Alsius does support the player xp-wise for the majority of the first 30 levels. At least it does for me, and judging by the others it does for them too.

And...
I picked Syrtis initially because I liked the scenery. Then I went to Alsius because it was the underdog, which is a reason very few newbies have on their minds when first joining Regnum.
People like to go to Syrtis because they like green nature, the like elves or want to be the hero. When a game like Regnum attracts mostly teenagers and yound adults, these reasons arent so uncommon.
People like to go to Ignis because they like to be evil or be dark elves. Again, this isnt certain for every Ignis player, but the reasons to contribute to a certain extent of Ignis' population.
Alsius is the middle-realm. Its neither the hero or villain, just a realm that wants to expand and will go to war because of that. To be honest, its not the best reason to join a realm, but then you have the goats and dwarves characters to compensate for that.

Back to the main point...
http://regnum.wikia.com/wiki/Alsius_Quests This is a link to the list of Alsius quests we have, and since it was last updated only 3 days ago, Im guessing its a pretty accurate one. The vast number of quests on that page contribute to lvl 30's and under, a major quantity dont you think? With the exception of lvl 14 and only two quests at level 20, Alsius really is supportive in the quest part, with only a few quests being buggy.

Ive seen threads before where Ignis players rant and rave about most early quests of theirs being buggy with major gaps in levels, not to mention having to kill hard mobs from time to time, mobs of which are in VERY small quantities. So Ive got to say, Alsius is the best for questing, possibly even better than Syrtis.

Cool link Bladnoch. Thanks. In comparison with the Sytis list it would seem quests are a non issue. Box ticked Nice resource to have as well.

You also make, I think, the "hit the nail on the head" point. Players as you said are attracted to either good or evil especially for the age range playing. Alsius is just....well......er grey.

It would be fascinating to see the age range for the players on Alsius.

How NGD could remedy this without unbalancing the game would indeed be challenging.

[DkySven]

Originally Posted by Erikose

You also make, I think, the "hit the nail on the head" point. Players as you said are attracted to either good or evil especially for the age range playing. Alsius is just....well......er grey.

Well, that's actually one of the reasons because I like Alsius. In my opinion there's no good or evil, so stop acting like there is .

[Erikose]

Had a quick nosey at the list provided by Bladnoch. Thought I would chuck this into the mix.

Alsius levels 1 to 10:
No. of quests = 30
Total quest exp = 8865
Total Gold = 11500

Syrtis levels 1 to 10
No. of quests = 33
Total quest exp = 9875
Total gold = 21350

These figures exclude the exp from the MOBS killed in quests and incidental distractions en route.

I don't know how it balances out at later levels and to be perfectly frank I can't be arsed finding out. Makes interesting reading re who has the better head start.

Apologies if my math is off.

Anyway, I'm going back to Alsius now to satisfy my urge to kill something.

[Bladnoch]

Glad you found my link helpful Erikrose, hope it put aside a few doubts
What I realised when questing in Syrtis is that I always got ample amount of money. Although this was before NGD nerfed the money income, there was a very significant amount of money in my pocket at all times.
I think for Alsius the number of early quests used to be a lot less at first, as the last few updates have introduced new Alsius quests (probably to fit in with the new initiation zone they got), but not for any other realms as far as I know. They might yet still be balancing this out in the next update or they might have stopped now. Looking at their potential stafing in next update, I guess questing is being put on the back tale for Alsius now.
Cheers for the figures Erik, very interesting.

[Kyrottimus]

[sarcasm]
I'm still convinced NGD made 3 secret difficulty levels for the game.

You know, like the old-school Nintendo games

Please Select Game Mode:

Easy (Syrtis)
Normal (Ignis)
Hard (Alsius)

So yeah... haha, Weeee!
[/sarcasm]

[UmarilsStillHere]

Yes your being sarcastic but id still say Ignis is the hardest realm to level in because of many broken quests, for other reasons see Edge's thread "The leveling system is a scam" and read post one.

To be honest in my eyes hours has a decent population, but they are all to lazy to do anything, in "the good ol' days" If your fort was taken you went to get it back over and over and over... even if you died each time each time you got a little closer, and each time you had fun, very very rarely would anyone give up, but (for example) Ignis Samal today gave up after 3 trys and went to Camp shana, I guess because they were scared of an Invasion (yeah like we can invade at 3gmt?)

And this happens a lot, people simply give up and go camp something or take a empty fort, so in my eyes population isnt the problem, its attitude, as those in alsius with the guts to say so will tell you they often have the people, but they are busy grinding alts or trying to get drops. The same goes for other realms, often the syrtis warzone will empty as soon as someone calls "vesper!!" on realm, even if Herbred is packed with enemys.

[Envy]

Originally Posted by Umaril

And this happens a lot, people simply give up and go camp something or take a empty fort, so in my eyes population isnt the problem, its attitude, as those in alsius with the guts to say so will tell you they often have the people, but they are busy grinding alts or trying to get drops. The same goes for other realms, often the syrtis warzone will empty as soon as someone calls "vesper!!" on realm, even if Herbred is packed with enemys.

This is true for many cases, however lately people just use this as some excuse when they are zerging all over =/

One of the things not helping the problem is people leaving and not trying to help the situation. It's like when Horus opened people thought "There won't be much wars, so I'll make a hunter", or the knights dropping auras because they've changed. Just makes the situation worse.

[Paradosa]

Hours Alsius now have +25% xp (it was 10% before) because we are smallest realm. Many players left Alsius