06-27-2004, 08:38 PM
People already use the big cities almost exclusively for training, crafting, resting, trading, and dueling. I'm not sure how much more you can do to make people be social... if people wanted to hang around in a town all day chatting with other players they would probably get The Sims or something. The bigger problem, in my opinion, is distribution of people to specific towns. All alliance players go to Stormwind. Horde players go to Thunderbluff or Undercity (or Crossroads, haw). The other major cities are generally fairly empty.
Orgrimmar and Darnassus have some major issues in terms of layout and general usefulness that could be addressed if Blizzard so chooses. They are the hardest two cities to find anything in, the longest to get from one part of the city to another, and the least useful as travel hubs. In the case of Darnassus though, it's not likely to matter if they change it or not. Ironforge is already the most convenient alliance city as a travel hub, and the fastest to navigate, and it is a ghost town. Stormwind is this game's signature city, and I'm convinced that alliance players will congregate there no matter what.
Orgrimmar and Darnassus have some major issues in terms of layout and general usefulness that could be addressed if Blizzard so chooses. They are the hardest two cities to find anything in, the longest to get from one part of the city to another, and the least useful as travel hubs. In the case of Darnassus though, it's not likely to matter if they change it or not. Ironforge is already the most convenient alliance city as a travel hub, and the fastest to navigate, and it is a ghost town. Stormwind is this game's signature city, and I'm convinced that alliance players will congregate there no matter what.