Thidranki, 80% of the time, the fights are unfair because one side has a lot more people than the other(s). So nobody wants to play it, that often at least. It was good for a while but for the past month, for me at least, it has been fun like 1% of the time. Some people complain about others "cross-realming."
I think that there should just be a command that for some period of time with some restrictions based on populations of the realms in the battleground, you can flag yourself as playing for the other realm. People cross-realm in thid as it is, might as well just make it official. So, temporarily you will play your character but you'll just be flagged as a hib or something when you're a mid or alb (example). If population gets out of whack, then people can be sent back to their realm and will be flagged as normal.
People might complain about this being unbalanced, maybe some realm gets a Healer & a Bard & a Sorc or whatever, just some strong combinations. But, Thidranki has always been a place for fun I think. Right, you people all say that it isn't real rvr, it is just to maybe get a few realm points IF there is the population to sustain that, meaning you have the people that can kill and there are sufficient enemies to kill that keep coming back. I think most people will just disagree on the principle that that isn't what Dark Age of Camelot is. But, this is a private server, and imo, the Dark Age that we grew up with died a long time ago.
Population inbalance seems to be the biggest issue to me.
Really, the problem is that you can't get people to follow rules or certain playstyles. You have Alb that has a big population in Thid, and they can't stop grouping. They just keeping grouping. And they run around 3fg killing solos. It would be nice if you could get people to all agree and play certain styles, like only engage these people at this part of the map and don't add to fights etc... but this would never ever work. It is impossible to get all of the people on the same page and try to get them all to behave the way that you want. Everybody is different. Some people just get home from work and want to kill 2-3 hours before getting ready for bed and they don't give a shit about if the fight is unfair or not they just want to do something. There are some players you can get to agree to rules like this, but having tried to talk sense into people countless times on these type of servers, you just can't reach everybody and there for sure will be people that just do whatever they want. Imo, you can't let players try to run "rules" and things like this in Thid, you have to hardcode it.
Like people did their "duel hill" thing. And maybe it worked for some nights or some days for some period of time, but I guarantee you can't get it to be like that all the time unless you restrict who gets to come into the bg in the first place.
Imo, the goal should be balancing the teams so that each side has an actual chance of making a dent in trying to take the keep or just winning skirmishes (fights) in the field.
I see that there might be issues with this like people taking advantage somehow and it ruins the game. But I think restrictions can be placed to avoid things like this. Make thidranki great again.
I think that there should just be a command that for some period of time with some restrictions based on populations of the realms in the battleground, you can flag yourself as playing for the other realm. People cross-realm in thid as it is, might as well just make it official. So, temporarily you will play your character but you'll just be flagged as a hib or something when you're a mid or alb (example). If population gets out of whack, then people can be sent back to their realm and will be flagged as normal.
People might complain about this being unbalanced, maybe some realm gets a Healer & a Bard & a Sorc or whatever, just some strong combinations. But, Thidranki has always been a place for fun I think. Right, you people all say that it isn't real rvr, it is just to maybe get a few realm points IF there is the population to sustain that, meaning you have the people that can kill and there are sufficient enemies to kill that keep coming back. I think most people will just disagree on the principle that that isn't what Dark Age of Camelot is. But, this is a private server, and imo, the Dark Age that we grew up with died a long time ago.
Population inbalance seems to be the biggest issue to me.
Really, the problem is that you can't get people to follow rules or certain playstyles. You have Alb that has a big population in Thid, and they can't stop grouping. They just keeping grouping. And they run around 3fg killing solos. It would be nice if you could get people to all agree and play certain styles, like only engage these people at this part of the map and don't add to fights etc... but this would never ever work. It is impossible to get all of the people on the same page and try to get them all to behave the way that you want. Everybody is different. Some people just get home from work and want to kill 2-3 hours before getting ready for bed and they don't give a shit about if the fight is unfair or not they just want to do something. There are some players you can get to agree to rules like this, but having tried to talk sense into people countless times on these type of servers, you just can't reach everybody and there for sure will be people that just do whatever they want. Imo, you can't let players try to run "rules" and things like this in Thid, you have to hardcode it.
Like people did their "duel hill" thing. And maybe it worked for some nights or some days for some period of time, but I guarantee you can't get it to be like that all the time unless you restrict who gets to come into the bg in the first place.
Imo, the goal should be balancing the teams so that each side has an actual chance of making a dent in trying to take the keep or just winning skirmishes (fights) in the field.
I see that there might be issues with this like people taking advantage somehow and it ruins the game. But I think restrictions can be placed to avoid things like this. Make thidranki great again.