How will cluster change prydwen/excal?

[Straef]

Not sure if anyone bothered making a thread or post about the difference between pryd/excal players, but I hope goa somehow took those into concideration, because otherwise pryd people will, in most cases, be fucked.
Money-wise, clustering might have the biggest impact, as items on excal often go for 2-3 times the amount of plats there as they do on prydwen (gov, scrolls etc). I'm sure the excal people won't mind getting items cheaper for the first days (hours? ) after which items will most likely sell for some average-ish price, or normal 'high' prices. Players from prydwen on the other hand, will have to get used to spending several times as much money on an item, rather than paying less, or as much. I wouldn't like that happening. Does anyone know how they did so on the us servers? Did they do anything to make sure people wouldn't get screwed by the differences in the servers economics?
RR-wise prydwen is significantly lower aswell. I'm not saying there aren't any high rr active players on prydwen, but there are a lot more high-ish players on excal than on prydwen. I, i.e., would be the #15 active merc on the cluster, instead of the #4 active merc on pryd, which most likely won't have too much of a positive impact for me ;x
Anyway, I just hope players from prydwen don't get the game ruined for them ;/

 

[Jarahl]

Uber Zerging!

 

[Dumle]

Dont worry be happy, everything will sort itself Im sure.

If you worry about the Excalers buying your items too cheap then just raise prices before the merge

 

[Faya]

less albs , more mids more hibs

Feya

 

[Reikoku]

I thought the droprate of every scroll was server related? and I'm not 100% sure if you'll be able to visit the other housing zones too

 

[censi]

hopefully more active hibs.

and hopefully more mids and albs prepared to go hunt enemies rather than perma doorstep RVR.

can only be good but yer I reckon its gonna be pretty zerggy at first.

hoping the pryd hibs are as proactive as their reputation suggests.

 

[Raven]

housing will not be clustered, meaning you can travel to the other servers housing zone.

THE ONLY ZONES THAT ARE GOING TO BE CLUSTERED ARE THE RVR ZONE AND THE CAPITAL CITY, YOU CAN GO ANYWHERE ELSE ON THE OTHER SERVER (SAME REALM) SI, TOA, CATACOMBS AND CLASSIC

 

[Jaem-]

RvR will be dominated the zerg, if you thought solo RvR was almost dead at mo, think again when cluster arrives.

 

[Straef]

hoping the pryd hibs are as proactive as their reputation suggests.

Hardly, it usually comes down to camping towers with a million shrooms/chanters unfortunately ;(

 

[rah]

it'll suck! rvr have degraded alot lately poor action and alot of adding groups.
barely worth logging in tbh! and i dont think cluster will change this to the better

 

[Dorin]

WTB_tower (no scouts)
:<

 

[Straef]

WTB_tower (no scouts)
:<

Sc00ts will cost extra :<

 

[Sardine]

rvr will be spread through 3 zones again and not just 1

 

[censi]

bet u it wont.

emain will be mainly dead. Albs will go beno, mids will go bleed, hibs will go hunting been like that since say 1. more peeps wont change it.

 

[Exarkun]

give more stealthers to kill !!

 

[rvn]

RvR will be dominated the zerg, if you thought solo RvR was almost dead at mo, think again when cluster arrives.

yeah because noone soloed back in the old days when there was 2.4k active ppl on excal, and all rvr:ed in the same zone (emain)............

had more fg fights than ever in si when excal was the most active server ever even tho there was the occational midd/hibb zerg, and the constant alb zerg (but they stayed at amg, just as they stay at bridges and such right now, not like anyone is FORCEING you to go there and then come here/irc to qq.)

imo more ppl = more areas/choices to rvr on, right now on prydwen if you are not playing primetime there is only action at once place, and thats usually zerged.

 

[Ogen]

RvR will be dominated the zerg, if you thought solo RvR was almost dead at mo, think again when cluster arrives.

If we can just get over this present insta rvr situation we´ll be good. I remember the moust of the NF time as stealthers goes to odins, fg´s mainly goes to alb. Sometimes odins.
I believe this worked kinda well, and i hope we can go back to that.

This way soloers can solo, hibs and mids can make fg rvr, and the albs can zerg and get farmed. IE, everyone is happy.

As for the price balance of excal and pryd. Im thinking wouldnt it by far be the smartest thing for the pryds to either pull off the price on their cm, and go match it on excal prices after clustering? This will overflow the market prolly, and will result in a price drop. Altho it will not drop below the allready existing prydwen prices.
Just my thoughts

 

[Dorin]

yeah because noone soloed back in the old days when there was 2.4k active ppl on excal, and all rvr:ed in the same zone (emain)............

ye dont understand why peeps keep pushing this "omigod zerg oh noooez", guess they didnt play with 2.5k players online. RvsR was alot more entertaining with the double of the current population. Even Prydwen had loads of actions in the early hours instead of 2 soloing mids as it is now...

 

[Belomar]

rvr will be spread through 3 zones again and not just 1

That's the official story, but it's not true. I've played on Avalon, the home of teh zerg, and people are attracted to flames like moths to a candle. The gank groups are usually not far off either, preferring to orbit the zergs so that they can pick off smaller groups while they wait for other gank groups to show.

 

[Flimgoblin]

That's the official story, but it's not true. I've played on Avalon, the home of teh zerg, and people are attracted to flames like moths to a candle. The gank groups are usually not far off either, preferring to orbit the zergs so that they can pick off smaller groups while they wait for other gank groups to show.

surely it's "avoiding the other gank groups because then theres a chance they might have to rebuff and report thus reducing their average RP intake"?

 

[rvn]

thats probably so true in some cases flim :> /looks at hib groups running 03:00 -> 15:00

 

[Red HATred]

Do you realize how bloddy stupid it makes ppl look to FIRST VOTE YES on something then start to wonder what the possible effects could be from their actions?

 

[Vodkafairy]

i voted yes and i can't wait for cluster!

 

[Belomar]

Do you realize how bloddy stupid it makes ppl look to FIRST VOTE YES on something then start to wonder what the possible effects could be from their actions?

Ironheart, what makes you think that the people who are expressing doubts about the cluster voted yes in the first place? Why would people change their opinion anyway? That's right, you don't, so take your generalizations elsewhere.

 

[Red HATred]

Ironheart, what makes you think that the people who are expressing doubts about the cluster voted yes in the first place? Why would people change their opinion anyway? That's right, you don't, so take your generalizations elsewhere.

discussion should have been held before the Poll ended imo. That was what i meant to say, i realize not all ppl did vote yes. And those that voted no won't feel offended by this generalization. but to wonder now if it would be good or bad.... way to late

 

[Jaem-]

yeah because noone soloed back in the old days when there was 2.4k active ppl on excal, and all rvr:ed in the same zone (emain)............

had more fg fights than ever in si when excal was the most active server ever even tho there was the occational midd/hibb zerg, and the constant alb zerg (but they stayed at amg, just as they stay at bridges and such right now, not like anyone is FORCEING you to go there and then come here/irc to qq.)

imo more ppl = more areas/choices to rvr on, right now on prydwen if you are not playing primetime there is only action at once place, and thats usually zerged.

I'm lucky to have 1-2 proper 1v1 a week since NF, almost given up the solo life as it just plain sucks, a duo stands a far better chance vs the usual 2-3+, only things I see solo atm is warlocks and bd's which is quite obvious cause they can.

They didn't have battles and towers under attack marked on the map viewable to all 3 realms neither back then... These pointers to where the action is, just draw people in, more people that go there, the larger the zerg, people saying that people will spread out RvRing over the realms must be living in a dream world, but I guess there will be more GG's around roaming tho.

Just hope there will be better RvR, other then the boring mindless zerging, we shall see when it hits.

 

[rvn]

no they had amg, wich was far great attraction than any bridge/tower.

 

[Jaem-]

no they had amg, wich was far great attraction than any bridge/tower.

Yeah, but people actualy traveled between them by running, not just port to em like now...

 

[rvn]

people still travel by foot to bridges/towers, tho they have hastener speed.

 

[Calo]

Lets just wait for clustering and THEN see if its good or bad shall we?