01-11-2008, 11:31 PM
Quote:if you zone in and see 30+ people from a single server the likelihood that there is going to be much of any effort on your side is laughable (or atleast from my experiences).
Yeah. Maybe if its a couple of the newer PvE servers they might not win, but other then that it should be an easy win for the other side. But is it any different then zoning into AB and seeing 15 people from the same server?
Quote:If AV is supposed to be an epic and long BG to complete then I disagree that the rewards reflect that. A mesely amount of honor more than the other BGs and level 60 rep rewards does not really reflect the type of battle you describe.
Yeah, I'm talking about a very long time ago, back when the rep mount saved you like 600g (also a long time ago when 600g was a lot of money). My point is that they started with a vision of an open ended epic conflict. There wasn't going to be a portal - anybody who wanted to could show up. It was supposed to be a major deal when one of the generals fell, and a world wide buff would be given to the winning faction. Then when they couldn't figure out how to make that work, they made spastic change after spastic change to address specific problems, without a strategic vision of how they want AV to work and how to motivate players to productively participate. Melee ninja the rep items? Make the rep gains global! Now people AFK. Half-assed reporting feature! Premades repping people to exulted in less then a day? No more premades! Turtles? Nerf NPC's to near uselessness! They didn't sit down one day and say "Lets turn the epic BG into a retarded PvE race". They just stumbled into it.