Silly idea for a teams server

[lowner411]

Having played on the different Zeks on live, I thought that a different kind of teams server based on home towns would be interesting. If it was each home town against the other (even if it wasn't PvP, just locked teams for grouping, language barriers, and global /OOC for your team), I think that people would play their favorite race or city and see how far they could go.

However, if that was too limiting, the following city pairs would make teams more complete:

1. Dwarves partner with gnomes.
2. High elves partner with wood elves.
3. Freeport partners with trolls.
4. Dark elves partner with ogres.
5. Qeynos parters with all Erudites.
6. Barbarians comically partner with halflings.
7. Iksars are on their own.

[Jimjam]

Girls vs boys.

Clearly defined teams, both sides have access to every allowed combo and city.


OP: What about the awkward and generally dislike half elves? Would they also be on their own team??

[Sorn]

Originally Posted by lowner411 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

5. Qeynos parters with all Erudites.

All the Erudites? But they'd fight each other! It should be more like this:

1) Good Qeynos and good Erudites
2) Angry sewer dwellers and Heretics

Qeynos sewer dwellers have finally had enough and rise to the surface to take their revenge!!

[AgentEpilot]

Also for good measure allow gnomish monks.

[Jauna]

No matter how you split the teams, one team will eventually become dominant, everyone picks said team and people will get their pixel fix through that.

[One Tin Soldier]

Originally Posted by Jauna [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No matter how you split the teams, one team will eventually become dominant, everyone picks said team and people will get their pixel fix through that.

That is true primarily because of lust for end game raid loot. There is a simple fix for it on a PvP server; eliminate raid loot. Eliminate that and you eliminate the problem.

[lowner411]

Originally Posted by Jauna [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

No matter how you split the teams, one team will eventually become dominant, everyone picks said team and people will get their pixel fix through that.

Is it possible that if each team has a flaw (like missing a vital class), then there would be competition? Is it possible that if there are enough different teams, more than one would become dominant, or that players would be convinced they could make a particular team work?

It's an idea.

[Jauna]

Originally Posted by lowner411 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Is it possible that if each team has a flaw (like missing a vital class), then there would be competition? Is it possible that if there are enough different teams, more than one would become dominant, or that players would be convinced they could make a particular team work?

It's an idea.

No, Innoruuk has quite the arsenal behind it
>clerics (elves and humans)
>warriors (dark elves, trolls, half elves)
>shaman (trolls)
>necro/ench/mage/wiz (primarily dark elves, some humans)
>rogues
Ya got the trinity and then some here. and who knows maybe a gaggle of necros and shadowknights can replace a monk

Never seen a raid get canceled by the lack of druids and bards either.. then again with enough necros twitching.. and clerics modulating who knows.

And even if the whole teams deal is not up to Deity, humans have access to most classes regardless of deity.

[fadetree]

Boys vs. Girls? What kind of microaggressive crap is that? I think they should allow transgender chars. I feel oppressed every time I see 3rd person of myself. I am a female Ranger trapped in a male Rangers body! Also I'm a lesbian.

[lowner411]

I was trying to come up with multiple teams that had most of the classes, which is why I didn't do any good v. evil in cities. The only team that I think could min/max it's way would be the Freeport/trolls team, since they are missing only rangers and druids.

I also remember from the Zeks that the "evil" teams tend to beat out the "good" teams, since shaman, necro, and shadowknight tend to beat druid, ranger, and paladin. This puts both Faydwer teams at a disadvantage, but I there are enough gnome lovers and elf devotees that people would have fun with it.

But there are people who would not want to play on that team--people who prefer dark elves, or starting in Qeynos, or who would want to see what an all elf team could do. Since I am suggesting rules that all but eliminate communication between teams (a bit of work to code default languages into players and city NPC's, make sure all teams speak only thier home language and their teammates, and one human city speaks Combine by default), we'd be setting up somewhat separate economies.