Realm imbalance and player trends

[Gideon_Slack]

Originally Posted by mute

2nd idea:

Giving us back the Realm Chat for better communication.

How about realm chat for "Nobles of the Realm"?

When you get to level 30, you get access to this special chat channel. These are obviously the serious players who want to experience the war zone. The channel should also be available everywhere, inside the war zone and out.

This would cause less lag than having realm chat for every one. But if it did cause lag, then maybe it can be used on Horus in the short term.

[Angelwinged_Devil]

Originally Posted by mcfs85

Yeah the most ppl are commenting now "i dont fight for rp's, i just wanna have fun while im fighting".
in my opinion u are fighting for rp's to have fun!

hi healerous

actually most people think this way, not me, I just like a challenge.

but no it's not because of rps they come to the war zone it's because they are fatiqued, this has happened since the implementation of fatique, they get fatiqued, don't want to level anymore and hit the war zone.

[Lexen]

I agree with ronas post and i agree with this post.

Originally Posted by Gideon_Slack

2) The time zone issue.

This is probably the single biggest problem with realm imbalance. Since Horus is an international server, there seem to be rotating dead times. It is probably the worst for Australians and west coast North Americans. (At the time I play 8pm-2am Pacific time, Ignis usually outnumbers everyone else).

I think it is the time zone issue. During the day we have pretty much no one on in wz. But at night we have quite a few on.

Originally Posted by mute

I agree to Ronas post.

I think the server should be opened now for every player including the spanish speaking. Maybe we get some new players then...

I really think it is time to open this server to everyone

[makarios68]

Originally Posted by Kaliek

I like being in the underpowered realm. It makes victory all that much sweeter.

I feel like this at times: when you get a victory against the odds it is all the more satisfying.

However, for every time i feel like this, there are many more times that i feel the opposite: frustration at always being overwhelmed, and everywhere you turn there's a bigger, more powerful group of Syrtis (and to a lesser extent, Ignis).

[UmarilsStillHere]

Yeah, I agree open the floodgates and let the rest of the world into horus, Its mostly English speaking and even open to the world unless half of Ra shows up for some reason English will remain the mother tounge for the forseeable future, You knwo this language barrier thing is taken far to hard,

On Ra sure, we joked about the "holas" etc but I personaly never realy cared about the languages, so long as there are people in the clan chat who speak english I couldent are less for the mother tounge of my enemy, and we never used much more than Vida', aca, vamos and the fort/place names to communicate in wars, (the rest I couldent understand, but from the shear volume of it and the number of "jajaja's" I guess its mostly Rubbish,

So to summeraise Yeah, Horus needs more players regardless of language, so lets open the filter and let the world on board ^^

[Caelia]

It's always a bit annoying when people complain of the Syrtis zerg on Horus. I mean, there has been times that every realm has the "zerg". It all really depends on who is on, and the time.

There have been many times that Ignis, and Alsius, have had the many more people against a Syrtis army I was a part of. I don't get why everyone seems to complain about Syrtis all the time, when it seems that everyone has the upper hand at times. It all just depends on who is on, time zones and other circumstances.

I understand the frustrating aspect of it - when we are outnumbered, it can be a morale killer - but it's just part of the game that you kind of just have to get used to because everyone has the "zerg" sometimes, not just Syrtis.

Take care <3

[Enitharmon]

Originally Posted by 210paul

So to summeraise Yeah, Horus needs more players regardless of language, so lets open the filter and let the world on board ^^

YES, please!

This is a problem of general low Horus population that makes for a fragile realm balance, more than anything. Not many weeks ago Ignis held stone with an unmatchable force every night, and before that Alsius ruled the WZ for a very long time.

All 3 realms have big problems with 50's just leaving because of this, since 90% of the time there is just nothing to do once you are (supposed to be) finished with the grinding.

imvho, the patch that made fort doors impenetrable made this problem a great deal worse on Horus, because now any realm needs to gather a big zerg as possible to take any fort, otherwise it is simply not possible. So we get nothing but unbalanced zerg-y fort wars, because the maximum number of players any realm can muster differs too much at any given time. At least before we could decide the parameters a little more. (Yes, Syrtis on Horus tried many times in the past to split up, so we all could have reasonably fun wars)

So I'd like NGD to please to consider this issue, as well as shed light on the statement that was made a while ago; "...soon there will be a drastic increase in the Horus userbase", because our characters there are literally dying to know...

[UmarilsStillHere]

I recently (like yesterday) got my conju to 43 on horus, this is the same lvl as my knight on Ra, I was excited ofc, I could now look at every lvl as "new" and not spead up case of deja vu' So come today I realised something, firstly Xp is still painfully slow (1 pixle of xp per 2 kills woo!)

I only realy need one more lvl on my conju, then im happy with his setup for support and thats all I want him for, I can get my heals maxed, sorcery maxed, mana 15 and Sm on 15, I (for now) realy dont think I need much more, so ofc my lvling enthuissm didnt last long,

Im considering re-makeing my knight but for now my love of real life is preventing me from allowing myself to submit myslef to such evil...

Please remove the filter and let the "international" part of the server name become more meaningfull, Horus is begging for players in the past month I have had 1-2 decent wars, rest were evily unbalanced... (I not long ago left aggers because it was about 20 syrtis vs 7 alsius, and that just aint fun...

[n4gh4sh]

Hi Ronas and everybody here.

I'm quite new to the Horus wz (Ignis is my realm), but I think I can share some of my observations. I'm mostly playing on GMT 10pm to 3am GMT (more or less with breakes). The most annoying thing is waiting. We know that there's not enough of us to attack Herbred, so we wait. And you know what ? Nothing happen. We wait 15mins, 0.5h, 45mins, 1h... Ppl log out because nothing is going on. It's hard to take fort with 6-8 ppl. Then try to defend it. Tell me how? I haven't seen more than 20 ppl from Ignis in one place ever on Horus in wz.

When I was playing in Ra long time ago there where times when we got outnumbered, too. Outnumbered like 20 to 30. But it wasn't 3 to 1 or 5 to 1.

The other thing is Alsius in Horus. I almost don't see them in the hours I play (maybe 1/2 hunter(s) per night - if im optimist). We don't even attack them much just because we know there is much more players in Syrtis.

I like being in the underpowered realm. It makes victory all that much sweeter.

I agree.

I don't get why everyone seems to complain about Syrtis all the time, when it seems that everyone has the upper hand at times.

Because there is more players in Syrtis, so when for egzample Ignis is attacking Herbred it doesn't take long time for Syrtis to take it back. But with the same for Samal it's much harder just cos there is not enough ppl in Ignis to go and help taking Samal back.


Other thing is public chat. After disabling public chat in wz, we can't tell other ppl lvling in inner land to help fight in wz (I know, the aim was to make clans more important in players community), but not everybody is in the clan, some like solo grinding (like me).

Next issue. Grinding. Players have to grind quite lot to even get to lvl 40 (like me). And they got bored with this and quit this game before they even saw the wz. When I was levelling the noob levels I make a few friends - nice talk and a bit of grinding and so on. I've added them to friends list so I know when they log in. And what's now? I see something about 20% of them. The rest has quitted, resigned from playing. Trying to find a quest is annoying, too.

The really good thing was Horus week. It should happen more frequently. Like once a month. I made lvls 30 to 40 in that week playing about 3-4h a day. Let's say - most ppl can/wanna play no more than that. This make levelling painfull for them.

The solution. Regnum doesn't have any advertisement in the NET as I know (tell me if it's not true). And hope it could make the game more balanced.

This few words from me more or less about the topic .

PS. Ronas, don't quit this game. Because of the ppl like u who want to play it having lvl 50 this game make sense in WZ. Even if it's hard now, I hope it will be better in the future.

Regards,
Kosiash Moozgoov

[Gideon_Slack]

Originally Posted by Enitharmon

imvho, the patch that made fort doors impenetrable made this problem a great deal worse on Horus, because now any realm needs to gather a big zerg as possible to take any fort, otherwise it is simply not possible.

I don't if this is true anymore.

Last night, I was in a party of four (2 barbs and 2 hunters), all levels 46-50, and we are able to take both Samal and Herbred. The doors took a while, but they came down. It seemed right after the fort door patch, this was not possible.