Return of Reckoning

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I've had the pleasure of being apart of a few 12 man cities recently and they were a lot of fun. I was wondering if this could be considered in the future and it wouldn't need a lot of changes as the instances already pop on accident from here to there, simply code it to look to create 12 man instances. Cities already have a lot of issues but I believe this could help out the whole city (shitty) stigma and breath a lil bit of life back into the game.

Thoughts?

Queuing as a 12 man is a good way of having fun when you get paired with a pepega 12 man you have to carry, makes city more interesting. But no, don't limit it to 12 vs 12. 24 is the right amount.

cities are pretty shitty content since it mostly revolves around pve anyway, imo should be deleted or reworked entirely

Evilspinnre wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:27 am Queuing as a 12 man is a good way of having fun when you get paired with a pepega 12 man you have to carry, makes city more interesting. But no, don't limit it to 12 vs 12. 24 is the right amount.

It wouldn't be a limitation it would be an option. The same way in ranked you can que as a solo player or form a group to try and compete against other groups. In the spoiler I state that 24man queing can be kept it would just match you correctly against 24 if the enemy side has 24 to que against. Right now during NA hours its maybe 1-2 organized 24's queing up (sometimes on the same side) so really all they end up fighting against are remnants of 12 mans or 6 mans trying to put together rag-tag teams during the dead hours to put forth a little effort toward gearing characters. As I stated populations during these hours are scarce and city pops are between the 2-4 instances. If a regular 8-10 instances like during EU hours were popping I'd totally agree 24 is the way to go, but I thought it would be an interesting idea or proposal to consider, considering the state of the game currently.

pvprangergod wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 5:08 am cities are pretty shitty content since it mostly revolves around pve anyway, imo should be deleted or reworked entirely

They are pretty bad but that's why I tried to make a forum post to point out an issue and maybe get some community input on how to improve it.

Anything that lessens the chance of an organized 24wb getting a city pop is a bad idea imo.

Maybe open up 12man cities for 1-2* cities? Maybe in the final few minutes? But we already see many cities with no instances till the 5min mark.

They are fun, and maybe should be a weekend SC event for "organized" 12v12 with rewards, but no. WBs come first.

Dabbart wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 7:42 am
But we already see many cities with no instances till the 5min mark.

Wonder why this is and what possible suggestion could help stop this from happening...

variety is always good and 12 man opens up new builds that 24 man does not. in that spirit i also think 36v36 city should be a thing.

Also, the best way to incentivize people into doing premade wb's is putting gear in the gold bags exclusivly for those who premade.

Solo Q'ers shouldn't have the options to do city, nor is it usually enjoyable for them. Let them get the city naschspiel scenario pops for royal shards instead, crumbs for the peasants.

With 12, 24 and 36 city pops they should have an easier time to get into a warband aswell, just my 2c

pvprangergod wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 5:08 am cities are pretty shitty content since it mostly revolves around pve anyway, imo should be deleted or reworked entirely

Make a poll to delete city, go go!!

Stophy22 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 9:11 am

Dabbart wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 7:42 am
But we already see many cities with no instances till the 5min mark.

Wonder why this is and what possible suggestion could help stop this from happening...

We see the same nonsense that happened on live because of design flaws in the system. Live had city dodging because you could create empty instances to farm your gear. Here we need people to fight but because at 5 mins it starts to not care about doing proper instances people game the system based on population numbers.

Usually the over populated side for city has all the control. Sure you run the risk of not getting a city if you wait till the 5min mark but anyone who does get a city on the overpopulated side at the sub 5min mark is almost 100% chance to fight unorganized randoms. This gives easy farm for the overpopulated side that waited to que up. They dodge all the organized wbs that qued early.

The only real way to fix this problem is not have stages of instance match making and just give everyone time to form and have it make all instances at the same time. Either you are in or out. Make it mandatory to be either 6/12/24 man wb. The system would have to match as best it could 24vs24 first, then do 12/12 vs 12/12. Anything else if it couldn't match use 6mans to fill. Minimum city instances would be 12vs12 to start. This fixes the dodging issue and also fixes most of the unorganized farming that happens at the 5 min mark.

Stophy22 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 9:11 am

Dabbart wrote: ↑Thu Jul 22, 2021 7:42 am
But we already see many cities with no instances till the 5min mark.

Wonder why this is and what possible suggestion could help stop this from happening...

Dodging. Its pretty clear at times too. Which is what 12man Qing would assist. No need to ever face a 24organized again.

Edit: Is there a system where 12v12 couldnt be used to dodge, or "steal" instances from 24man wbs? Im not a big fan of the "X minutes to form, and X set of instances created with whats available" but maybe it is the best answer.