The Need for Cross-Server Battlegrounds

[Concillian]

Some servers have as large as a 2:1 Alliance:Horde ratio, which makes it nearly impossible for Alliance players to get in the battlegrounds on their servers.

According to the census sites, the activity ratios suggest that there are few Normal and RP servers that aren't AT LEAST 2:1.

On Terenas some of the high level alliance interested in BG have re-rolled horde in order to participate more in BG (especially getting AV going).

One of the large problems I've seen is that without enough AV instances, there is a steady supply of relatively low level people (51-55) who are interested in AV primarily for the Korrak quest and this becomes a fairly significant issue once things get moving along. A more steady supply of AV instances should result in overall a higher quality of play for those currently on a Normal server (by definition, an imbalanced server)


One change that I think would help a LOT is to add a # of people queued on BOTH SIDES visible to anyone queued. This would allow people to see if say, 20 people from their faction are queued for AV, and they only need 10 more. It would allow them to start recruiting in their capitol city. How the queue works now, you might be the only one queued or there could be 40 on the other faction and 29 on yous, you'll never know.

On Terenas though, nobody EVER queues for AV unless a post goes into the forum that there will be an effort to get enough Horde queued for AV. The people farming CPs will get in queue for WSG, and without them AV will never open. I've queued once or twice, but the only time I actually got in, it took over 2 hours of me spamming Orgrimmar and the official realm forum. Not surprisingly, horde lost because of lack of people, but I got a taste and I enjoyed what I tasted.