05-25-2005, 07:18 PM
Gurnsey,May 25 2005, 11:37 AM Wrote:I haven't played Alterac myself, but it seems like all these changes are needed to make the whole thing 'winnable' while still being an all-out war. I don't think the original concept of 'winning' worked as well as they thought - there needs to be a more clear-cut win and restart or there will just be certain 'Alliance' battlefields and certain 'Horde' battlefield instances where one side completely dominates and is at the 'win' condition at all times.
Having the towers be captureable gave sides minigoals to achieve when the fight is raging in the middle of the zone. It seems like all that's going to happen now is that everyone's towers are going to be destroyed after the first hour or so, and there'll be nothing left to capture but graveyards (which are pathetically easy to capture) and the two main bases at the extreme ends of the zone. That would seem to make relatively even battles quite boring with nothing left to accomplish in the middle of the zone and the bases at the extreme ends of the zone too difficult to conquer when defended by a relatively evenly matched foe.