Xergon wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 8:48 pm
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population balance cannot and should not ever be impacted by outside (Devs/GMs) things. Its should be on the players to pick which side they want to play. In perfect world you would like to have 50%vs%50% which means perfect balance population,
But Blizz did it, it was even done as far back as 2006 in WoW, Management identified extremely quickly servers that were getting slanted towards one faction (over 65% pop,) realised immediately this was not good for the long term of the game, and acted decisively and swiftly to stop this becoming overwhelmingly unplayable for the other faction, simply by stopping character creation for the larger faction until the population got to within 3% so 53 vs 47 instead of 66 vs 34 or w/e. Over a short space of time, i.e 3 months the server population per faction was equaled up and the issue nipped in the bud.
now im not saying stop people making destro as this was a different situation as ours is more of a time zone and xrealmer problem, and im not saying stop ppl logging in, im saying maybe
put limits on a zone like there are pop limits on a fort.
and put a 24hr lock on x realmers
the nerf button crowd screamed a lot when Nb went, and the xrealm crowd here are goign to screama lot about this too as we are seeing already in the thread responses above but these are 'Self gain > All
' people and that's their nature, if they don't benefit they couldnt give two hoots, if the community benefit but not them they will try to prevent this.
it takes great moral courage and ethical fortitude to implement changes that maybe are to the short term detriment of yourself or a hardcore minority but are a long term benefit to the community and game as a whole.
Pop got up to 72% destro this week, and most of CET GMT time u have 1 order wb (if that) vs 4 to 7 destro wbs.
Imposing numbers limits on zones and stopping xrealming would make the game more competitive and stop the 1 sided faceroll. Would also bring back loyalty to your faction and not yourself which is more true to the heart of the game. So many Order are now simply going destro or logging out in CET GMT time to play other stuff, which is just making the issue worse.
as for Secrets post above, i have always found Dalen calm, fair, approachable, thoughtful, transparent and open, even when not to his benefit. I rate him.