01-26-2007, 12:11 PM
Quote:That would be PVP! Not something I spend a great deal of time thinking about or pursuing. Horde on my server is wary of world PVP because of the 2-1 Alliance proportion.I think it's more like 4:1 on Stormrage, maybe even 5:1, although with the Expansion out many retired Horde players have come back. It was a hoot to see Holydeathray in Zangarmarsh the other day; we /hi'd each other. Many fun hours in Warsong Gulch before it went cross-server...
What irritates me (oh noes, Bolty's irritated at something? That never happens) is how stupid some of the Alliance players are. Idiots who don't let Horde cap objectives in Hellfire Peninsula don't realize that they're driving the Horde away so that they give up and stop bothering...which means you get nothing because Alliance will control all three points all the time. Yes, it's dumb of Blizzard to design encounters which require you to "lose" so that you can "win" (a.k.a. gain honor marks), but it's equally dumb of Alliance players on Stormrage to not realize this and wafflestomp any Horde 5 on 1 who attempts to do any kind of world PvP.
Same thing happens at Halaa. Alliance players should let the Horde take the city, so they can gain honor marks taking it back and do bombing runs. I doubt I'll ever get the chance, though, since the moment any Horde attempts any kind of assult, 18 zillion Alliance players flood the city and ultragank any Horde around.
Then of course there are the kiddies on Alliance side who somehow think they're badass because they own the Horde so hard. Doesn't stop them from ganking a Horde 5 on 1 all the time; they're badass!
Thankfully there are battlegrounds to set the story straight. At least before cross-server BGs, Horde pugs beat Alliance pugs on Stormrage about 90% of the time in WSG and AB, despite a significant gear disadvantage due to far less raid progression. Horde always lost in AV though because Alliance had a constant stream of replacement players while Horde would get bored and /afk. Can't blame them.
If I were Blizzard, I'd put some kind of mechanic into the system where if one faction owns objectives for too long (say, 24 straight hours), it would be zerged by a flood of the other faction's NPCs. That way cities like Halaa that are constantly under Alliance control would at least fall to the Horde every once in a while and give the grossly overpopulated faction a shot at some marks.
-Bolty
Quote:Considering the mods here are generally liberals who seem to have a soft spot for fascism and white supremacy (despite them saying otherwise), me being perma-banned at some point is probably not out of the question.