NA Power Hour!!!! - Phoenix Freeshard

NA time suffers population issues that are not seen as much during EU time. In order to boost population and/or RvR, here are some suggestions:

Add a power hour, or hours during NA prime. Perhaps a relatively significant boost to XP or RP during this time in an attempt to get players more active at this time or if that doesnt bring more, at least alleviate the hardships of no groups.

Concepts to entertain regarding this: Make the XP bonus and RP bonus on a random cycle in FZ only. If you want the xp bonus, you go to the zone that is expected to be the hottest as far as rvr.

Or

Simply give the hr or 2 bonus for NA time for all zones.

Thu 26 Jul 2018 2:19 PM by Magesty

It is frustrating at times being an NA player on the free shards, but I don't think giving our time slot a "significant" boost is fair.

If the population on Uthgard 2.0 is any indication of what we will be seeing here things will be just fine. There were plenty of groups and plenty of action late into NA hours.

Were the population to dwindle perhaps some sort of bonus would be worth considering, but to have it at launch would just be giving NA players a huge advantage for no real reason.

Keep in mind this is BETA. 80% of the NA players I know will be playing hardcore hours after launch aren't even bothering with the beta outside of getting a couple guys to 15-20.

Thu 26 Jul 2018 2:44 PM by bamf

Magesty wrote: ↑
Thu 26 Jul 2018 2:19 PM
It is frustrating at times being an NA player on the free shards, but I don't think giving our time slot a "significant" boost is fair.

If the population on Uthgard 2.0 is any indication of what we will be seeing here things will be just fine. There were plenty of groups and plenty of action late into NA hours.

Were the population to dwindle perhaps some sort of bonus would be worth considering, but to have it at launch would just be giving NA players a huge advantage for no real reason.

Keep in mind this is BETA. 80% of the NA players I know will be playing hardcore hours after launch aren't even bothering with the beta outside of getting a couple guys to 15-20.

But typically NA will play against NA and EU will play against EU, so it really doesnt give a boost to anyone explicitly. Even on Uthgard, NA times were aids to get groups on and the same could be suspected here over time.

As you said "There were plenty of groups and plenty of action late into NA hours. Not everyone can play these specific hours. The concept of power hour was to boost a particular timeframe that isnt considered "ideal" to help those who cant stay up from 9pm-12am or whatever.

Thu 26 Jul 2018 2:47 PM by heardstheword

So you want a xp boost during the time you play so you can see more people..

What time(s) are you looking for?

Thu 26 Jul 2018 3:04 PM by Magesty

When I say late into NA hours it implies that the population was high before then as well. It's like when someone says: "the party went late into the night". It generally implies that the party began at a normal time but carried on past the expected hours.

NA players will be playing against Euro players every weekend, and there is plenty of overlap of the two groups at other times. If I get on around 5-6 PM there are still plenty of European players online.

I work 8-5 CST and understand where you are coming from, but let's wait for the population to prove to be low before asking for special treatment and special bonuses. Uth 2.0 regularly had 1.5-3k on during NA times before it shit the bed and this sever appears to be much more capable of retaining and nurturing population.

Thu 26 Jul 2018 3:17 PM by heardstheword

There's going to be a pretty decent spike in population when it actually launches.

Thu 26 Jul 2018 4:01 PM by bamf

All i know is during the week, i have been on 3 nights in a row and managed to get 1 group for 1hr to xp with in the 30s range. It has been pretty difficult to get any form of xp, expecially when some classes are terrible at solo xping.

Thu 26 Jul 2018 4:16 PM by Tyton

I know this has been said a million times, but it's still beta. I'm in NA, and a lot of my friends won't start playing seriously until launch. 400-500 people on during NA during A BETA in a DAoC freeshard is actually pretty remarkable IMO.

Thu 26 Jul 2018 5:06 PM by bamf

Well, the original idea behind it is the fact that myself and i am sure others cannot get a group to get to 50 to even participate in the beta effectively. There is no reason i guess you couldnt add a power hour for EU as well, if your concern is a benefit to NA that EU doesnt get. The concept was to add an incentive to group up or rvr during an otherwise OFF hour in an attempt to make something happen that people could mpre easily plan for.

Thu 26 Jul 2018 5:09 PM by heardstheword

bamf wrote: ↑
Thu 26 Jul 2018 5:06 PM
Well, the original idea behind it is the fact that myself and i am sure others cannot get a group to get to 50 to even participate in the beta effectively. So i guess our only other option is just wait for i50

What class are you playing?

The phoenix eggs are decent enough. Also look up xp items to turn in. I leveled 46-50 using mostly XP items.

Thu 26 Jul 2018 5:16 PM by bamf

heardstheword wrote: ↑
Thu 26 Jul 2018 5:09 PM
bamf wrote: ↑
Thu 26 Jul 2018 5:06 PM
Well, the original idea behind it is the fact that myself and i am sure others cannot get a group to get to 50 to even participate in the beta effectively. So i guess our only other option is just wait for i50

What class are you playing?

The phoenix eggs are decent enough. Also look up xp items to turn in. I leveled 46-50 using mostly XP items.

A minstrel. I farmed OJ mobs (Danoin Clerks) for 40min, got a handful of xp items and eggs and i got a slight amount over 1 bub from all of it. Some classes are just horrible at solo pve.

Ive noticed too, the social grping concept has began to revert back to the normal meta as groups realized that the small % increase for an otherwise useless class + xp cut for additional member is not worth it and better to just fill with a duplicate class that can perform much better.

If there is a sorc in grp, basically no reason to have a minstrel. Dmg is poor, only really offers PoM, which sorc has, speed which sorc has, crappier version of mezz compared to sorc, etc etc.