Something Needs To Be Done In Horus!

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Originally Posted by Yest

Lets start a secret Alsius-Syrtis alliance! If we'd help each other, Ignis would stand no change! But ssh, they might hear it!

EDIT: I'm not proposing an SSH connection, but instead encouraging the members of the secret alliance to be silent.

We gotta talk in code!

[Ertial]

To the person that gave me bad karma for my latest post: it was sarcasm, aimed at the recent fuss Ignis made when Alsius and Syrtis both attacked the Ignitian frontier.

The problems at Horus are indeed problematic for Alsius. Whereas Syrtis can gather a decent defence force, has Alsius got trouble with even retaking one of its own forts. This is not because they suck and Ignis rulessszzz, but just because there aren't enough Alsirians on Horus.
What could be done against this? At least the RLM bonus for Ignis should be removed, they are already the strongest realm and giving a bonus is just unfair.
This doesn't directly help Alsius -- even though their main opponent gets new high-levels less fast, they don't get anything themselves. I think Alsius should be actively promoted at the character creation screen, but NGD should take care they don't plainly say: Alsius has the lowest population, come and help. Such a thing would scare players away.
Maybe clarifying the Alsirian storyline and give them a larger role in the events, without compromising the current lore, is necessary to make the icy realm more attractive.

[UmarilsStillHere]

The realm bonus's are clearly broken, how NGD can justify Ignis needing it after this is beyond me (I heard it was remmoved, but havent checked)

And make gates HARDER? How would we ever get into Ignis then? Besides towers and guards being buffed wont help with no one on to use them, as I said before Ignis plays RvR defesively and RvNPC's for invasion.

[Wyatt]

Ignis currently does not have the Realm balance RLM bonus we are "balanced" with Syrtis in terms of active players so it seems. We currently have for 1 week a bonus of 15% which started yesterday as far as I know.

Alsius is currently getting a 5% XP bonus, I don't see them enought in warzone and I wish they were more active to enhance the game experience for all of us, not just for Ignis.

Horus overall needs help with the population, the realm balance system was not enought.

Regards.

[UmarilsStillHere]

Well in my eyes the realm balance things are pretty broken anyway if they count all 30+ players, Because I beleive Syrtis has around 1100 of these last check, so about 80-90% dont play. It should be rased to 35+ and count only users that have logged in over the past week-month.

No one can say Horus has "balanced" population with out someone laughing about it anymore.

[Flightcap]

1100 players over level 30? Could that be characters? Even Ra doesn't approach that many in population, and we got quite a few of our players from Ra.

[Miraculix]

Originally Posted by Flightcap

1100 players over level 30? Could that be characters? Even Ra doesn't approach that many in population, and we got quite a few of our players from Ra.

Syrtis has ~1100 characters in clans, Alsius ~500, Ignis ~700, on Horus.

[e30G]

But that doesn't mean they are all level 30 and up. It's interesting that Ignis is now tied with Syrtis in numbers based on the realm bonus. I wonder what the level differences are now.

[Angelwinged_Devil]

clearly when you play in the gam it shows something else e30ernest :/, ignis has way more war ready players than syrtis and alsius combined as they always have a force 24/7

In another post I explained how the realm bonus should work with active players above level 35

[Syd_Vicious]

Originally Posted by Miraculix

Syrtis has ~1100 characters in clans, Alsius ~500, Ignis ~700, on Horus.

This does not count into perspective that most of Alsius clan members are just alternates split between the 3-6 character slots. Even deleted characters still count toward the clan total number if not removed by the clan leader. Even account based would be somewhat eskewed since ppl started multiple accounts prior to the premium 6 slot option being available.

Also Alsius is not getting the realm bonus right now, it might say so on the screen, but it is not reflected while grinding. Possibly due to that oh so wonderful option NGD put in to punish realms that can not defend themselves at night (-15% xp).

Originally Posted by Ramsli11

Last Night Syrtis Owe's Alsuis For Randomly Popping Up To Help

Your welcome, that will be 5 bucks. We would of taken Shaanarid too if that bastard Guard Captain didnt keep disappearing through the walls and coming back with regen'ed health.

Oh here is Chilko's direct response to when I burned the devs on my thread:

Originally Posted by Chilko

We care for this game and its community way more than you guys... it is the work of our lives and we worked almost (if not completely) for free for 5 years to make it a reality and 2 years more after that to make it something that we can be proud of.

anyway, we are well aware of the shortcomings of the game and our company as a service provider.

I can't believe that you guys think that we are either sabotaging ourselves with our decisions or trying to F U to the point of making you guys leave the game. You even keep creating crazy ideas such as Muspell not having the new experience curve or fatigue... ahahaha.

The honest truth is that we are still very small team, (only 10 people) and because of that, we make a lot mistakes and we cannot attend all of the problems at the same time. We are doing a great effort to make this game better. We still have to invest more in money into every month Regnum than what Regnum makes...

We are well aware of the situation in Horus, and we are thinking about how to make it better and we understand the difficulties that the community there is facing. We hope to be able to provide solutions in time, I hope you can be patient.

For me personally, Horus is our most important server right now as it carries the seed of what could make Regnum a success as an international product.

We've been very busy this year, we improved the game's performance, we finally implemented invasions to somehow fix the end game and there is a light at the end of the tunnel in terms of the business model. We hope we can now fix the rest.

best regards,

- Chilko

Personally I would rather see the Gems give -30% or even -15% hp. 1000%hp makes character unstoppable just about (think a knight with 5k hp now has 50k hp - like fighting a dragon). Remove the penalties on other realms for xp, screwing with ppls ability to level in an already 95% grinding game is a ball buster. We have ppl leaving who are already getting a bonus so their is a gameplay problem that is not being addressed. Putting the gems in cities would be a nice distraction, but I do remember that Ignis once strolled through Fisgael during one invasion in Syrtis - so it might be just that a distraction.

Given current Gem bonuses and the fact a camo'ed hunter can stroll into a city undetected and pick up the gem and walk out slightly unscathed it is still a problem (seriously I figured camo was a wilderness skill that shouldn't work in cities, but whatever). The guys that built the game are not military commanders and that is apparent in quite a few aspects of the games design so you can forgive them for that (ie. no guards at realm bridges to prevent unauthorized access, NPC guard archers are not all placed on elevated towers, gates have less guards than a castle, etc..) Also in conjunction slightly with Chilko's statement they are still working on the game and we should see what this Amun patch brings once it is applied to Horus. If it sucks then we can mass exodus (back) to Ra and crash that server lol