Asuryan's Flames

This is something that I see a lot when I get off of the Archmage and play the Zealot, or the Black Guard. On Skull Throne there seems to be oRVR going on almost all hours of the day and not in a small scale, it is large, in fact some of the biggest engagements happen at night. Where as when I am on Vortex or Magnus it is almost dead during primetime, or if there is something going on it is a bit of keep defense.

Now don’t get me wrong but that is a huge problem. The fact that there is little to do in the between time on those servers where as servers such as Skull Throne have constant actions, wheatear it is keep trading or huge warband versus warband fights. I like action or something going on constantly, but it is hard to keep that up where there is a small "night owl" population.

This is what Skull Throne has going for it, it has a very large Korean and Japanese player base whose primetime is during our down time and visa versa, but this does not answer for the lack of oRVR during prime time on other servers. I think that the first thing that needs to happen to curb this would be to merge servers. I know that merge is a dreaded word, but we are now at a point in the game where we have a fairly stable population, and we are past the spike that is brought on of a new game's release. This would need to be done very selectively because of population balance issue that can and would be caused by this, but they also have to take into account some growth over time.

The second thing that needs to happen is to add more things to do during the off time. Weather it is new PVE content, which I am sure is in store since we still have 2 cities yet to be released into the game, or something in the realm of PVP to get more action going.

Overall I think that this is a big issue, but one that can easily be mitigated with a bit of foreword thinking. When the game came out, Mythic had to plan for a huge bubble of people. We are now post that bubble and now Mythic needs to do everything within its power to ensure that the population is happy and that they keep them interested in the game hence forth. It is a great game, and we are now in the polishing phases so only better stuff will come down the pipe.