03-10-2005, 11:11 PM
Cryptic,Mar 10 2005, 05:04 PM Wrote:Hello all,
Re-reading the PvP honor rewards information, I realized that we may finally have a way to measure Alliance and Horde populations on every server, to the nearest thousand.
It is stated that only 1 in a thousand characters will be allowed to attain PvP rank 14 (Grand Marshal for Alliance, High Warlord for Horde). Once the system has been in place for a month or so, we can assume that all potential rank 14 slots will have been filled.
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It strikes me that there would be a small but possibly significant population-balancing movement if Blizzard made it slightly easier to attain PvP rank on a lower-population server. This could even be presented as a compensation for the lessened PvP opportunities in a lower population. The whineage this would engender from those already established on high-pop servers would no doubt make this impractical.
The PvP honor system certainly mitigates against the casual player, which is not necessarily a bad thing. It's really a separate game system to suck up the energies of the powergamers and give them something to do while the rest of us get about the business of trying to hit the cap. The Sysiphean nature of the system contrasts strongly with the remainder of the game.