The current system of opening DF is kind of random and does not feel satisfying, since there is no way to know how many keeps need to be taken to unlock DF for your realm.
For example, a few minutes ago under /realm, Midgard had 7+2Keeps, while Hibernia had only 7. Yet DF was open for Hibernia.
There is no way of knowing it, without having people actually go into the BG and check out BG keep status and calculate them into the equation.
To get full information, (not even participate in all fights...just get the information of keepstatus) you need 4differently levelled characters additionaly to your lvl50 toon. Is that really the intention?
This server made several changes to make DF more important/intresting (special tasks, strongest chargeitems in the whole game) but the system surrounding the access to DF is frustrating and pushes people away from pursuing it actively
Suggestion a): remove the influence of BG keeps completely
Suggestion b): include the BG keeps into the /realm command so people know what they are getting into
Suggestion c) reduce BG Keep influence by making all BG-KEeps together count as +1 for the dominating realms keep numbers (AND include the information into /realm)
The only downside i can see, is that people abandon RvR and rush to DF BEFORE the "work" in RvR is finished in aticipation of DF opening BUT i believe with the 15min-mechanic ensuring everyone gets access no matter how short the keep-dominance was alleviates this enough that the upsides HEAVILY outweigh the downsides.
EDIT: Especially with NF coming, where Keeptaking is a bigger task/accomplishment, the incentive to keeptakes should be very clear for people to see, imo. Having a counterintuitive system where /realmstatus doesn't reflect all keepstatus seems in NF will be even worse than in OF
For example, a few minutes ago under /realm, Midgard had 7+2Keeps, while Hibernia had only 7. Yet DF was open for Hibernia.
There is no way of knowing it, without having people actually go into the BG and check out BG keep status and calculate them into the equation.
To get full information, (not even participate in all fights...just get the information of keepstatus) you need 4differently levelled characters additionaly to your lvl50 toon. Is that really the intention?
This server made several changes to make DF more important/intresting (special tasks, strongest chargeitems in the whole game) but the system surrounding the access to DF is frustrating and pushes people away from pursuing it actively
Suggestion a): remove the influence of BG keeps completely
Suggestion b): include the BG keeps into the /realm command so people know what they are getting into
Suggestion c) reduce BG Keep influence by making all BG-KEeps together count as +1 for the dominating realms keep numbers (AND include the information into /realm)
The only downside i can see, is that people abandon RvR and rush to DF BEFORE the "work" in RvR is finished in aticipation of DF opening BUT i believe with the 15min-mechanic ensuring everyone gets access no matter how short the keep-dominance was alleviates this enough that the upsides HEAVILY outweigh the downsides.
EDIT: Especially with NF coming, where Keeptaking is a bigger task/accomplishment, the incentive to keeptakes should be very clear for people to see, imo. Having a counterintuitive system where /realmstatus doesn't reflect all keepstatus seems in NF will be even worse than in OF