stabby,Apr 24 2005, 02:55 AM Wrote:To be fair, even on servers with balanced populations, Tarren Mill is still a complete and utter warzone. It has the problem of being incredibly convinient for alliance zerglings, and the questgivers et al are so low-level that area effect spells kill them constantly. It's a bad time to be a 20-something horde member on any server.100% agreed. Tarren Mill needs special attention now and significant security measures in a future patch. Otherwise, that area - one of the best in the game for Horde/Undead, by the way - will become a nasty, Alliance-infested place with gazillions of jerks grinding daily for "Honor" points. Maybe some locations like Tarren Mill, or their NPC's respectively, should become unattackable now on RP or PvE servers. I don't have a problem with that.
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As far as server population stats goes, I've just found these very informative links:
EU Server Population:
http://www.warcraftrealms.com/eu_realmstats.php
US Server Population:
http://www.warcraftrealms.com/realmstats.php
As one can see by the lists, the Alliance is on most servers significantly stronger, and in my case on the EU server "Cenarion Circle", the ratio Alliance vs. Horde is about 2:1, which is horrible for PvP if you are Horde. So, whenever a Blizzard rep wants to talk you into "the fractions are (well) balanced on all servers", just show him the above links ;)
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