Realm imbalance and player trends

[e30G]

Originally Posted by backe

I was thinking earlier today about how I wished we could transfer characters not between servers, but between realms.

I was toying with a similar idea based on the concept of underdog realm governments attempting to bribe enemy soldiers to join their realm. Here's what I had in mind:

On the most populated realm, an NPC appears in the warzone that NPC gives a quest that will allow the player to move to a lower populated realm. Based on the population variance, the player will receive gold and a lot of xp once he reaches his destination realm's gate.

Here are the restrictions:

- You can not move to a realm with a higher average population (based on the average number of players online every hour for a period of a week for each realm.)
- You can only move once a month (to prevent abuse)
- Players can only leave his current realm once. On the second time he leaves a realm, he may not return. (example: An Ignitian left Ignis for Alsius and went back to Ignis. The next time he leaves Ignis, he will not be able to return anymore. If he keeps transferring realms, eventually, he won't be able to leave his current realm because non of the other realms will accept him)

This will mix up a bit of the inter-realm races and items. Imagine a half-elf Alsirian or a dark-elf Syrtitian. Players who switch realms may also bring along realm specific items. These items will be a rare commodity in other realms, and will be heavily traded.