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Originally Posted by Kergan
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The minor tweaks are the hard part though. Elegant ideas are more difficult to come up with then crushing the problem with a sledgehammer.
Plus, there isn't even a consensus if some of the problems are problems at all. On top of that without knowing how teams would be divided we don't know what the problems even are yet. But it's sort of a catch 22, you create the teams to try to solve the balance problems, but no matter how you divide the teams up (aside from just having people pick a team and get a different color nametag) you create a different set of balance issues.
You can't just do SZ, give good/neutral some summon corpse potions and call it good. That still does nothing to overcome the racial stat and location superiority posses by the evil team, not to mention they have the only three races that have in-combat based racial abilities (stun immunity, regen). There is no debate, ogres/trolls/iksars are top 3 in every class they can choose. Does buffing up stats solve the problem? I don't know, I guess that is one thing to be debated.
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I agree with kergans perspective here. Balancing EQ via teams is a bad idea. At least I gather that.
But I think basing teams off of a city vs a racial/religious alignment would be funner than an SZ style system.
I really don't have a problem with some ogres on the good team having to earn faction, and some on the bad team. There's an ogre that hates dark elves in EFP at the docks at the bar. There's a troll on Mithaniel Marrs good side in HHK. It seems fine to just do it that way.