Shorten The Realm Switch Timer

I'm not saying anything crazy like an hour, but something reasonable like every six hours or so would be nice for those who play more than one realm and want to take care of things like their houses. As it is, if you play more than one realm you have to give up an entire day just to pay rent on your "secondary" realm. We shouldn't have to choose between losing our house and not playing at all.

Sat 18 May 2019 7:33 AM by aradina

i totaly agree to that. i actualy can only play on alb because of the huge realm switch timer. but i would love to level something on hib and play in the evening on alb rvr :/.

Sat 18 May 2019 8:31 AM by lurker

Although the timer was longer I think uthgard has a good setup:

You initiated the realm transfer which would take 48 hours. But you could play for all of this except the last 4 or something?

That could work here... you have to plan your transfer 12 hours ahead and get locked out of the game for the last few hours.

Sat 18 May 2019 10:25 AM by Luriella

Never ever, its essential to the Game to supportone realm.
Even a switch timer of 12 hours like now is a real fun killer.

Luriella T.
(Former Miss Connla / Avalon in 2001 )

Sat 18 May 2019 10:47 AM by Wasted_Content

Luriella wrote: ↑
Sat 18 May 2019 10:25 AM
Never ever, its essential to the Game to supportone realm.

How do you figure that? You know what's a fun killer for me? Not being able to switch realms. On WAR, you can switch realms freely. I understand, tactically, why you wouldn't want that for DAoC in a 3 realm setup, but it's not like anyone here is actually using any tactics in RvR...just zerging nonstop.

Also, fun is relative, so saying something is a 'fun killer' or 'essential to the game' is just, like, your opinion, man. And it's not a very good one.

Also

lurker wrote: Although the timer was longer I think uthgard has a good setup:

You initiated the realm transfer which would take 48 hours. But you could play for all of this except the last 4 or something?

That could work here... you have to plan your transfer 12 hours ahead and get locked out of the game for the last few hours.

Uthgard has the shittiest setup for a DAoC shard on the planet. Don't believe me? Go check out their population statistics. And you want to LOCK PEOPLE OUT OF THE GAME for 4 hours? Are you actually insane?

Sat 18 May 2019 12:18 PM by lurker

Wasted_Content wrote: ↑
Sat 18 May 2019 10:47 AM
Luriella wrote: ↑
Sat 18 May 2019 10:25 AM
Never ever, its essential to the Game to supportone realm.

How do you figure that? You know what's a fun killer for me? Not being able to switch realms. On WAR, you can switch realms freely. I understand, tactically, why you wouldn't want that for DAoC in a 3 realm setup, but it's not like anyone here is actually using any tactics in RvR...just zerging nonstop.

Also, fun is relative, so saying something is a 'fun killer' or 'essential to the game' is just, like, your opinion, man. And it's not a very good one.

Also

lurker wrote: Although the timer was longer I think uthgard has a good setup:

You initiated the realm transfer which would take 48 hours. But you could play for all of this except the last 4 or something?

That could work here... you have to plan your transfer 12 hours ahead and get locked out of the game for the last few hours.

Uthgard has the shittiest setup for a DAoC shard on the planet. Don't believe me? Go check out their population statistics. And you want to LOCK PEOPLE OUT OF THE GAME for 4 hours? Are you actually insane?

Right... and their low population was all to do with their realm switching mechanism was it?

I’m not sure you even thought your response through... Currently, on Phoneix right now, they are locked out of the game for 12 hours if they want to switch realms.

Try reading / thinking before you respond calling people insane and just make yourself look foolish? Lol.

Sat 18 May 2019 1:18 PM by Druth

I would really like to try Albion some.

I see the benefits from short realm timer, but I also see the negatives.

Despite wanting to try Albion, I'm still not sure making it shorter would be good.
Might be good in the short run, but don't think it would be in the long run.

Sat 18 May 2019 5:36 PM by The Skies Asunder

I would predict that the switch timer being reduced, even to one hour, would have very little effect on the game overall. I personally despise not being able to switch realms freely, but I understand the argument for why it is in place. I just happen to disagree with that argument. It is a real shame being locked out of nearly 2/3 of the game areas, and classes. As discussed in other threads, I think it would be a good idea for something like only locking people out of the enemy frontier zones for a set amount of time after a switch. That way you could still level your alts, craft, raid, or whatever on each realm. Really, I think people are just way too paranoid that everyone else wants to immediately "cheat" somehow by calling out locations, or following relic raids etc.

Sat 18 May 2019 6:40 PM by Lollie

Totally agree, 12 hours is too long imo, however the devs will undoubtedly lock this thread and don't even seem willing to at least listen to its player base on this subject.

Sun 19 May 2019 7:18 AM by

Uthred

No plans on changing that.