Introducing the new RvR Score System

I really appreciate the innovative stuff the staff comes up with! Thank you, guys! However, I want to share my thoughts on this specific system.

Criticism: Relative Score
As much as I support the idea of fostering realm pride, I have a feeling this specific system makes things even worse for underpopulated realms and does not reward the right people.

This system rewards playing non-stop instead of pulling off massive events that are hard to do. A person playing all day solo, not caring about other realm mates and maybe even offending them will contribute an insane amount of points to this. Most people don't even notice and no one promotes a plan like "Hey, let's achieve 40% RvR score today" --- "Yeahh let's do this, how do we achieve that?" --- "QUIT YOUR JOB AND PLAY HARDER!".

On the other hand, that social dude who has a family and only finds time to play 3 evenings a week, but uses his breaks at work to write in the forums of the large alliance he his leading, keeping people together, acquire new guilds into his alliance, organizes some great raiding events, resulting in the whole frontier zone of an enemy realm belonging to his realm for a brief period of time ... will contribute almost nothing to this system. It does not matter he pulled all that off and it does not matter that he created content for his realm mates and even for his enemies.

Also, I claim the population size is highly correlated to the RvR score ... Should a realm really be rewarded for having more players than the others? That's like rewarding rich people for simply being rich. Wouldn't that be ridiculous? Wait ... what?

Suggested Improvement: Absolute Score
Instead of a relative score system, bonuses should be unlocked upon achieving certain things in the scope of one extended gaming session --- independent from the fact that the enemy realms may achieve them, too. That would be an absolute score system.

One very simple system would be to look at the maximum number of keeps your realm held claimed at some point of time during the past X days.

If the maximum number of keeps your realm managed to hold in the past X days is something ordinary like 9 or lower, no bonus would be granted. Every number above that would result in a larger bonus that lasts for X days. Raiding and holding all 27 keeps, even for just a brief duration of time, is a massive challenge that can't be done without grand efforts. Hence, the realm boni would be massive in that case.

In order to prevent exploits, require a minimum population of X online players for the achievement to be counted.

That way, a strong alliance with some good leaders and clever strategists could actually make a difference. Being the realm with the most players certaintly helps, but having a few groups who play well together could clearly outsmart bigger numbers. Rewards would be granted based on real collaborative achievements, not anti-social non-stop gaming.

You could even add adversarial rewards: increase the keeptaking reward for keeps that belong to a dominating realm. Hence, the more keeps Albion has, the larger the direct reward for taking an Albion keep should be. As soon as Albion tries to capture the last remaining enemy keep in the world, say, Dun Lamfhota, the reward to counter-raid any keep from Albion would be so large that there is a strong incentive to do so. This would render actually holding 27 keeps even for a second an epic achievement that won't occur very often. And if it does, people who participated would actually be proud and remember the names of their leaders and the alliances involved for a long time.