Return of Reckoning

roadkillrobin wrote:Psoted this in a previus thread. Think it's a pretty solid lockout mechanic without actually locking people out.

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I don't think a week lockout is a sustaineble sollution. I actually think its more damaging then anything. Understanding the reason to why people Xrealming is key here. Im no expert in human behaviour but there are two main reason why people Xrealm. 1: Players who wants easy rewards 2: Players who gets bored when their side is dominating heavily and perfer fighting over Zerging. One of these types of Xrealmers(2) is actually equalizing the RVR and does something that makes the game a better experience for both realms while the other type of Xrealmer is just trying to leech (1) rewards. The chance that both these types of Xrealmers will just stop playing if they can't change realm is really really high. So my proposal is: If a player changes realm they will log in with a debuff that makes bag and loot rolls automaticly roll 1 and renown gain reduced to 1% for the first hour. 2 and 2% for the second hour etz. 100 hours later the debuff is cleared. This way Xrealmer 2 can uitilize AAO to reduce the renown debuff without stealing loot they didn't inherently work for but its also an incentive to stick to your mains while the Xrealmer 1 is just punished.

roadkillrobin wrote:Psoted this in a previus thread. Think it's a pretty solid lockout mechanic without actually locking people out.

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I don't think a week lockout is a sustaineble sollution. I actually think its more damaging then anything. Understanding the reason to why people Xrealming is key here. Im no expert in human behaviour but there are two main reason why people Xrealm. 1: Players who wants easy rewards 2: Players who gets bored when their side is dominating heavily and perfer fighting over Zerging. One of these types of Xrealmers(2) is actually equalizing the RVR and does something that makes the game a better experience for both realms while the other type of Xrealmer is just trying to leech (1) rewards. The chance that both these types of Xrealmers will just stop playing if they can't change realm is really really high. So my proposal is: If a player changes realm they will log in with a debuff that makes bag and loot rolls automaticly roll 1 and renown gain reduced to 1% for the first hour. 2 and 2% for the second hour etz. 100 hours later the debuff is cleared. This way Xrealmer 2 can uitilize AAO to reduce the renown debuff without stealing loot they didn't inherently work for but its also an incentive to stick to your mains while the Xrealmer 1 is just punished.

saupreusse wrote:Suggestion: Maybe it could work to make side switching possible everytime a city fight was going on. This way, everytime the campaign resets, you could switch to the other side and play there for as long as a city is taken again.

Razid1987 wrote:If it can reduce cross-realming by just some amount, it gets my vote.

I'm at a point where I think we should just try SOMETHING, instead of just keep talking (and talking and talking etc) about one suggestion after another, with people pointing out the flaws. We have talked about how to stop cross-realming for years. Enough talk - Let's put something to the test and see the results. If it reduces cross-realming, I'd argue it was a success. However, the population will probably take a hit from this, no matter how it's done, so I think "Oh noes, a lot few players around now"-kinda reactions isn't gonna say or do much. It's probably gonna happen, which ever way we approach this problem.

saupreusse wrote:Suggestion: Maybe it could work to make side switching possible everytime a city fight was going on. This way, everytime the campaign resets, you could switch to the other side and play there for as long as a city is taken again.

peterthepan3 wrote:I think it's a good idea to promote realm loyalty, but I don't think a flat-out realm lockout would be the best way of solving this. From an elitist blabla 6man peterpan PoV, people swap realms to face more challenges: for example, if group x and z are both playing on destro, group x may go to Order to get some decent fights and avoid pug farming. I think a flat-out realm lockout would mean that guilds would have to first decide which side they wish to affiliate with, so as to ensure there is some competitive play - as opposed to all the top guilds going on one side, and leaving side X at a huge disadvantage/very little competition.

kweedko wrote:

saupreusse wrote:Suggestion: Maybe it could work to make side switching possible everytime a city fight was going on. This way, everytime the campaign resets, you could switch to the other side and play there for as long as a city is taken again.

And after firs siege everebody gonna xreal to winning side to farm empty cities by cd