Hibs going under

[Job]

Played a lot in Thid for over a year, and have to say the moral is now rock bottom, if theres 10 people online it feels busy.
Grps last for 5 mins, we run out with 6 sighted chars get steamrolled 10 times and everyone gets their stealthers out.
Which in my opinion is simply admitting defeat, stealth being the last resort of the damned.
This isn't a whine about getting ganked I 'm feeling the rot is getting a bit too deep, it's a serious issue with the realms presence on the server.
Many times this week our caster grp has been jumped by a stelth pack which actually outnumbers our sighted grp.

 

[Aonmeamna]

It's not just this server, GOA have a real problems with the numbers on Hib on ALL servers. The put a few measures in to accelerate character development up to RvR level but this won't affect the numbers on bit. If there are 2000 people on a server there will be less than 300 in hib. And don't expect to see DF anytime soon, under NF I doubt Hibs will ever have it.

I don't know what the solution is, but they need to find some way of making Hib more attractive to new players or sooner or later it's going to be a two realm game, almost is now.

 

[knighthood]

if u want , and this isnt a joke, i can try and persuade my fellow albs to let u guys take CK from us, its boring as hell owning it and we really hate just fighting mids. In the past hibbies seem to only come out in grt numbers when they own ck and i think we shuld let u have it for a day or 2 imo..
Try sunday morning , ill tell the albs to sod off for an hour or two

though tbh doubt theyll listen, but u never know, 3 ways fights much better than 2

 

[Ctuchik]

Many times this week our caster grp has been jumped by a stelth pack which actually outnumbers our sighted grp.

bit of advice then.. dont run a caster group.. have a tank grp or even a mixed group.. caster groups are just to easy to get killed in there especially when ur that outnumbered... was a few days ago u made what i could see a serious attempt at the keep.. and imo. if u were alittle bit more persistant there u would have taken it.. was just pure luck from our side that a woodworker logged on when u were all over the courtyard. most albs were focusing on the mids at MB so there werent enough ppl defending the keep from the hibs to have any success if they acually decided that they wanted it.... imo u CAN take the keep, no problem. albs in thid have some serious organization problem.. not even half the ppl are in the chatgroup and most ppl just seem to run around without having a clue. and looking at the killspams from mids and hibs. alb are NOT dominating thid.. in numbers yes. but thats it...

 

[Job]

Thanks for the thought Knight, but have to agree, it's no fun to own the keep.

Jeez I die even more when we do, it's a little problem with being able to hit inside the main keep, when we have it were facing big Alb numbers who set up 3 trebs/catapults and rain destruction 24/7 on everyone inside.
I mean FFS what's with the aiming on those things one guy hit me 4 times, in the open, in the keep, then I ran upstairs he hit me there, so I ran round the frekin back ..and got hit there!!!
Surely that can't be right, who's idea was it to allow the trebs to go through walls and floors.

 

[Aonmeamna]

None of that wil fix the problem. What's needed is a more even distrubution of players amongst the realms. Maybe the problem is in the name, if you are atracted to the idea of Camelot then you want to play Albs?

 

[Danya]

It's a symptom of the general issues with hib population on excal I think. Not much that can be done really.

 

[Job]

Rolled a sorc on Prydwen just to see life on the other side and whats it's like fighting Hibs, lasted for 1/2 an hour without dying once at lvl 20, seems a lot more balanced on Pryd, nice fights with plenty of Hibs turning up.
Stealth is much less of an issue to an Alb, whereas a few stealthers on Excal will wipe out most of the Hibs there, as an Alb on Pryd they were just an annoyance, is it me or shouldn't a lvl 24 Nightshade do a bit more dmg to a lvl 20 Sorc with no armour??
All night only 1 stealther killed me, whereas as a Hib on excal I die every 5 mins at lvl 24 with full armour to the bastards.

 

[Traxxx]

in IPW we desided to make sunday our thid fun day meaning we run there with as many guild ppl that show up last sunday it was only 6 so filled last 2 spots with randoms there is no lvl req. no class req. no req. to gear. it all about fun it ended up with alot of fun and grupe did very well ( im told as last sunday work fooked up online time ) ofc grupe did get wiped alot and killed some but main point is ppl had fun there a few hours (2+ hours)

thing is that most ppl have stealthers for thid but when they see the chance to get a steady grupe going a few hours they will play other classes i myself realy have fun with my s/s champ. in grupes and my battlebard solo.

its still possible to have fun in thid there is just a bit longer between it

 

[Sanka Coolrunnings]

I will second what Traxxx said. Lately we are getting more often a fg running in thid. To bad tho that hib population is so very very low most of the times. I play mostly bg1 atm cause cba for "real" rvr.. So if anyone wanna make a group and see one of my alts running around just ask, I have stopped playing my shade and ranger and will focus on my bard en hero... I will try to get a group running as often as possible...BUT only if we are outnumbered like always

bg1 chars:

Bardomatic
Heromatic
Littlechamp (soon Champomatic)

 

[begach]

Agree with traxx an san tbh. We had alot of fun in thid on sunday. Soloin is fun with a stealther. Albs are gonna zerg you to shit no matter where you go so skirmish or solo non-stealther is kinda a joke from what i've seen lately.

Mids they generally had a zerg seiging CK with a FG roaming (PB group, where pretty good tbh). They ran over us with 2fg on sunday BUT they where busy seiging the CK and generally holding off the 3fg nublettes albs had at CK (including xplo i beleive ) so if we hit em I expected little else but to have em all turn an level us.

The fight was mid v's albs. Doesn't mean hibs can't chalk up a few rps an kill some shit in the carnage which judging by xplo's "on no my e-peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!!!!!" post seems we did just fine.

All in all it was good clean fun with some nice rewards for a decent assist group. If you go out solo an get ganked off 5 nubs then maybe you picked the wrong time to go out solo. Was a hard lesson learned on my battlebard tbh /wave albs ;p I grew out of whining about that shit back at RR2 on my bard (anyone recall me flame posts? ). Some have yet to drop a bollock an still do it /points at xplo (hur!!). Rise above it an play the game as it was intended (ie your way).

A little on soloing non-stealth: If you wanna solo as a non-stealther then do it, but you will get ganked OVER AN OVER (especially if you AINT an alb). I put up with that shit to RR6 then retired. The more i won, the more i got ganked. It doesn't get easier with RR an kills, it gets worse. It got quite frankly, boring (i had less decent fights an made less rps per week with AM, purge, IP at RR5L7 then at RR2 with fuckall). A decent RR soloer to alot of nubs (read as 95% of albs stealthers) = gank. If thats what you wanna do then do it but it aint fun, it has no rewards, noone gives a fuck and even less will admit that you ever killed a mofo. I'd suggest you find a group tbh. Your call!

B.

 

[Darkmack]

Would love to play my thid champ or druid but I've been looking for 4 days now for a bloody ACer they are so rare on that server even mid/pryd have more than you

 

[begach]

Would love to play my thid champ or druid but I've been looking for 4 days now for a bloody ACer they are so rare on that server even mid/pryd have more than you

It's only thid mate. I had fun sunday with the shit armour you get from TNN. Turn up. If you can't get a pickup group with crap armour then don't go out. If you do once you get your assist down it'll matter little. The champ will need a decent weap though. Rests all fun fun fun!! ;]

B.