For Rogean: A Primer on Teams

[Rec]

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

You can learn all the lessons you want. If you give people the option to select a team where they will be non-kos to the majority of the population, that's what they will pick. You can take away the advantage of the evil team having Kunark to itself at SZ's launch. Doesn't matter. More than 50% of the server will be evil team. And the more the numbers skew that way, the more players who started off good and neutral will reroll to evil to escape the gankfest = blue server. Devs, please do not listen to all these bluebies. We don't want Blue Part II.

Exactly why you need to merge good and neutral. I am glad you agree with me. SZ is going to win it has the most support here [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[runlvlzero]

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

Lookin forward to being merged to team99 with my tov loot while griefing team99 with my all erudite wizard guild. If I get merged to blue even better, like finding out your Honda accord is now a bentley.

Thats the spirit =) Will be great HB. Maybe i'll finally stop playing alts and we can cyberhug when you merge over.

[Aenor]

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

Exactly why you need to merge good and neutral. I am glad you agree with me. SZ is going to win it has the most support here [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Two teams? So WoW had it right then?

[runlvlzero]

Nihilum is not the reason were doing a teams server.

Were doing a teams server because theres players that want to play on a teams rulesset and think the FFA server is toxic.

Has NOTHING to do with zergs. Sirken doesn't want balance (I agree to some degree). Its EQ. The rest are considering some balance tweaks to teams so we just dont end up as heavily zerged.

Teams server is to attract population BACK to the project as well as fresh pop. And move some of the die hard SZ/TZ/VZers from blue etc.

[Not_Kazowi]

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

If you hardcode the teams, one team will always dominate. Population will flock to whatever team Nihilum picks and it will be a blue server with occasional flashes of grief PvP. There will be no possibility of contesting whatever team Nihilum picks. The solution? More teams, not fewer. Look for another post from me in a couple hours.

hardcoded or not, it will all end up the same. Soft coded race war servers will have a dominate guild like pandemonium that will just get all the raid mobs and lock everything down.

A new server is NOT the answer. The problems that red99 has can not be cured with a new server.

Fix the current server, add variance, open velious. one guild can not hold down every raid mob in velious. It is impossible.

[Bazia]

rexx log on dude

[Rokannis]

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

If you hardcode the teams, one team will always dominate. Population will flock to whatever team Nihilum picks and it will be a blue server with occasional flashes of grief PvP. There will be no possibility of contesting whatever team Nihilum picks. The solution? More teams, not fewer. Look for another post from me in a couple hours.

All the older PvPers from Zek team servers don't give a flying fuck about Nihilium. We will all pick the opposite team from them to show them how its really done. The current poll about "what race will you choose" already has evil at its lowest pick.

So yes, you couldn't be more wrong.

The fact that everyone is ignoring that a lot of old time big player will come play on a teams sever and are ready to shit on Nihilium is being highly overlooked.

[Aenor]

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

The current poll about "what race will you choose" already has evil at its lowest pick.

So yes, you couldn't be more wrong.

Yeah cause polls are super reliable.

[Aenor]

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

hardcoded or not, it will all end up the same. Soft coded race war servers will have a dominant guild like pandemonium that will just get all the raid mobs and lock everything down.

I agree with you to a certain extent but it didn't happen that way on Vallon Zek. Defiant, the dominant lightie zerg, had legitimate competition from Xanit K'ven, an evil purist guild. Certainly in the case of Red99, Nihilum's bloobs will flock to whatever team gives them the best chance to level uncontested so they can gear up and then grief lowbies/cockblock content. Hardcoded teams just makes it possible that 90% of the population will be on a single team, making it inches away from being another blue server.

[SamwiseRed]

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

hardcoded or not, it will all end up the same. Soft coded race war servers will have a dominate guild like pandemonium that will just get all the raid mobs and lock everything down.

A new server is NOT the answer. The problems that red99 has can not be cured with a new server.

Fix the current server, add variance, open velious. one guild can not hold down every raid mob in velious. It is impossible.

Variance is the dumb shit I've ever heard if on a pvp server.