Faction balance.

[Scottx125]

Pop balance fluctuates.
Create/join a group.
Communicate via voice applications.
Alter tactics and movement based on current situation.
Enjoy the perks of being the underdog.

The extra AAO is nice, but only up to a point. After you start getting into the realms of 100% AAO its pro's are outweighed by the sheer weight of numbers the enemy team has. At that point most of my guild don't want to play anymore because we can't effectively do anything against such numbers.

[martholomew]

What is AAO? Sorry for my ignorance.

[orfeask]

What is AAO? Sorry for my ignorance.

Against All Odds
Bonus rr , xp and influence points to the atm underdog faction in the rvr lakes

[Sulorie]

The extra AAO is nice, but only up to a point. After you start getting into the realms of 100% AAO its pro's are outweighed by the sheer weight of numbers the enemy team has. At that point most of my guild don't want to play anymore because we can't effectively do anything against such numbers.

You can even do something with 400% aao. You should be able to adapt and change your goals for a zone. Ambush the enemy and don't play to hold flags or defend keep. A smaller force is always more mobile than a zerg.

[Mystry]

A smaller force is always more mobile than a zerg.

That's factually wrong because every player has the exact same base run speed and mounts have the same speeds between factions.

In fact, its more likely for a giant zerg to be FASTER than a smaller force because even with AAO, they get more renown, more money, and more XP, and thus are more likely to have the expensive faster mounts.

[ToXoS]

Maybe that's the solution to prevent people from zerging like crazy.
Add a speed debuff that varies on the numbers of players around you.
That way, people will rather not zerg, to go to an attacked BO at normal speed for example, or just to not be slowed down in general.

[Sulorie]

A smaller force is always more mobile than a zerg.

That's factually wrong because every player has the exact same base run speed and mounts have the same speeds between factions.

In fact, its more likely for a giant zerg to be FASTER than a smaller force because even with AAO, they get more renown, more money, and more XP, and thus are more likely to have the expensive faster mounts.

The smaller force earns as much rp as a zonelock in a few kills due to high aao.

Furthermore I didn't say faster in speed, I wrote "more mobile". Any warband, unless it is a fully coordinated and voiced premade warband, reacts much slower to commands than 1-2 groups in voice chat.
Against open pug warbands you have plenty room to make kills. You will earn more rewards, because you don't share with 23 others and you have aao on top of it.

[OldSerpenT]

A smaller force is always more mobile than a zerg.

That's factually wrong because every player has the exact same base run speed and mounts have the same speeds between factions.

In fact, its more likely for a giant zerg to be FASTER than a smaller force because even with AAO, they get more renown, more money, and more XP, and thus are more likely to have the expensive faster mounts.

It's about ping between brain and hands that is getting multiplied by amount of people.

[Yardy]

destro had aao for 5 months, order has aao for 2 weeks and creating topics already

My thought aswell... first to cry is always the goodies (not the show i might add)

[Azerreth]

Order was pretty dominate for a while there, so I guess it's jusst one of those "well everyone went and got onto destro ults." Aint that big of a deal, Aao makes any death you get hella rewarding when you get a kill.