Hard Coded Vs Soft Coded Teams Discussion

[Sirken]

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

Sirken assured us that would never happen.
Dont go back on his words now.

i said i was against hardcoding because it would break up guilds if we decided to merge red into teams. however, after discussions i have changed to position to one of pro hardcode because the only reason to go soft would be to protect guilds, and hardcoded is needed to ensure pvp awesomeness long term/big picture. if guilds were split up, yes people would be very butthurt for a few weeks and QQ their faces off, sure. BUT the guilds will just have them reroll and PL them back to 60 in that time. and so the problem with hardcoding is resolved in a few weeks, but the problems associated with softcoding will stay with the server and last forever.

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

A few ways.
There should be 3 teams. Allow for the person to choose their team at character creation. Don't limit teams based on class and or race. This is the only way you can assure each team is fair and balanced. This will then solve the potential merge issue.

Fair and balanced are not the same thing. the teams will be fair. if u want balance go to WoW or GW2



also, Rogean stated in the public round table discussion that we have zero intention of running 3 servers long term. so one way of another (either red into teams, or, teams into red) expect a merge.