Why multirealming is bad

[Rising_Cold]

Originally Posted by Linuxmage

Refine that slightly -- Kill off Haven, Kill off Nemon, Merge all nemon players to Valhalla, and merge all EU haven players to Valhalla as well. Then, merge all US haven players to Pirahna. Job done.

comon Stark.. what would happen to poor me if I didnt have a chance to see
Icy, jesse, fry (insert more names which i otherwise might forget here) and tania
online again

Even if you got lots of friends having something stupid as a server 'merge' take away a few is always..
(well dunno if its the right word but...) painfull

you cant split up our (mostly) awesome community like that
let them complain about timezones..NGD made an international server
if they split it up now they will lose the 'older' players, coz most play for the community

[Lebeau]

Time zone considerations CAN'T be the primary focus for merge options, can they? ... Haven split east & west? ... East goes to Valhalla (Gamego's German Troll Paradise) & west goes into Piranha (Brazil's Fishy Festivale Server)? We might all be online together at same time maybe, but too bad we won't be able to meaningfully communicate with many of our allies. FFS, I don't speak a word of portuguese & many there won't speak much english either. Linguistics matter more methinks.

+Cold & others truly got the right of it imho: as-is community is currently about the only thing holding most of these servers together & keeping them marginally profitable. If NGD's looking to essentially destroy it's existing longterm repeat customer base as well as it's CoR revenue stream, this would assuredly be one way to go about doing so....

Realistically, however, it's UNavoidable. There will be more server mergers (a la Horus/Raven) as time goes on & game winds down .... the current 5 will become 3 or 4 perhaps .... those will become 2 .... the 2 become 1 .... then lights out, party's over .... it IS the traditional mmorpg way-of-things, no?

[Imago-Thunderfist]

The great question is: will Regnum survive the release of a well-known MMO in the near future (mid-late 2013 or maybe early 2014)? Because what I did notice after the releae of GW II was less people, if that happens again...

[Groark]

Originally Posted by Imago-Thunderfist

The great question is: will Regnum survive the release of a well-known MMO in the near future (mid-late 2013 or maybe early 2014)? Because what I did notice after the releae of GW II was less people, if that happens again...

I think that what you mean is: will Haven survive? Regnum will certainly survive. You have only to play a bit in Ra server to see the massive great battles there. They have a big comunity. Haven on the contrary is desolated. Very sad to see how a server with such potential as Haven is going down.

[Linuxmage]

Originally Posted by Imago-Thunderfist

The great question is: will Regnum survive the release of a well-known MMO in the near future (mid-late 2013 or maybe early 2014)? Because what I did notice after the releae of GW II was less people, if that happens again...

It is worth noting that plenty of players that went off to have a go at GW2 did come back to us. I suspect the same will happen with TESO, and as it will not support Linux (which forms a considerable section of CoR's playerbase), we wont be losing any of them anytime soon.

Additionally, a sequel to DAoC is finally in the works, to be called Camelot Unchained. However, it is likely to be 2014/2015 before we even see a Beta.

I am personally of the opinion that unless NGD finds a considerable investor to throw at this game and does something to increase the quality of gameplay in CoR, it will shrink. However, as long as NGD exists, then CoR will go on.

A little bit of shrinkage I believe is inevitable -- Like I say, it will involve server merges, and how that will happen is hard to predict.

[Aries202]

I remember the early days of Ra, when it was still a small server coming out of Beta. There was a lot of friendly people. A lot of community events, GM's were involved. It just had a nice atmosphere, come out of work or school come home and hop onto a game which was fun because of the people.

Sadly, Haven isn't like this at all, there's many battles inside realms too many enemies not many friends. I don't think this server can ever come together and host a server wide tournament like other servers have done in the past. You will mostly see popular people, and by that I mean just familiar faces.

CoR on Haven isn't fun, and that's just the issue. We have too many selfish players and nasty players. People stay in their tight circle of friends and keep others out, anyone new will be frown upon. Then we have such terrible people with shit personalities.

I remember when I first tried Horus, the people there was just terrible. Maybe I was too used to Ra, too many friendly that blocked out the nasty. Here, Haven is covered with nasty, and you can barely see the bright light in it.

Ra is an international server just like Haven, at one point Ra was as small as Haven. If you want to fix a problem, you have to fix it internally. Not these suggestions of time zones and mixing of servers(having so many servers was already a bad idea).

That's just my two cents.

[Rising_Cold]

Originally Posted by Aries202

I remember the early days of Ra, when it was still a small server coming out of Beta. There was a lot of friendly people. A lot of community events, GM's were involved. It just had a nice atmosphere, come out of work or school come home and hop onto a game which was fun because of the people.

Sadly, Haven isn't like this at all, there's many battles inside realms too many enemies not many friends. I don't think this server can ever come together and host a server wide tournament like other servers have done in the past. You will mostly see popular people, and by that I mean just familiar faces.

CoR on Haven isn't fun, and that's just the issue. We have too many selfish players and nasty players. People stay in their tight circle of friends and keep others out, anyone new will be frown upon. Then we have such terrible people with shit personalities.

What you just said was exactly how my first year and a half of regnum on haven were
strangely last halfyear a lot changed (inside alsiusrealm) anyway
I dunno if I just wanst aware of it first.. or that it just changed, but there are lots and lots
of friendly ppl on haven too, and I doubt Ra is still as friendly as it used to be
I knew almost every1 from alsius-(end)horus i doubt i can say i know half of alsius atm..

with a bigger playerbase come certain (to me) negative sides too

[Krungle]

Originally Posted by Aries202

We have too many selfish players and nasty players. People stay in their tight circle of friends and keep others out, anyone new will be frown upon. Then we have such terrible people with shit personalities.

There was a person that came over to Alisis (sp) recently from Ignis and that person said she made the switch because of the nastiness of that realm and was glad she did. Perhaps other realms need to learn to be nice or more nice people need to switch to Goat. Maybe this is why Goats are doing so well atm?

Something to think about...

[bois]

Not really Krungle.

These cycles happen all the time. There is no single reason why it happens. It is usually a cocktail of reasons not always containing the same ingredients every time.
Also, all realms have their good or bad. It would be interesting to note that quite a few moved to Ignis and have had good results for doing so. These players are nice, have good interactions and everyone is amicable. Ignis often gets a bad rap because of a few loud but empty barrels.

The irony also is that Ignis , at probably its nastiest, was doing the best it ever did in war. When it became nicer (and trust me, Ignis of today is very nice compared to the past), it lost that edge.

Most of these things depend on when you log, the players you encounter first when you do and that lasting impression that this minority may leave with you. It's the same for all realms. And I am pretty sure that this is not exclusive to this game.

Oh and please stop stereotyping based on the evidence of one person. Corroborating evidence is always helpful. How are you so sure that the migrant wasn't the problem in the first place ?

[VandaMan]

Ignis is the nicest cuz I'm there, so fuck you