Roo Stercogburn
Resident Freddy
- Joined
- Dec 22, 2003
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From an RvR perspective, clustering doesn't work. Not really. You have too many conflicts of interest once people have multiple chars spread around different realms on the same cluster.
People are merrily hopping realm as the situation changes, playing the realm which at that exact moment gives them the most advantage, undermining all attempts at team spirit and cooperation in a realm. There are many specific instances I don't want to go into because I don't want to get sidetracked into a different topic. The net effect of all these activities though is to undermine DAoC's excellent RvR system.
Its time to kill the clusters as they currently stand. Force characters with more than one realm on any given account to be moved to another cluster, even if its a foreign language server. Account owner gets to choose which is their primary/main char and that stays on the cluster, the rest choose which cluster they want to be moved to next time they log in or via the account management page.
Clustering *does* work for PvE by and large because there is no real conflict of interest but for RvR its a deathblow. And I mean RvR, not PvP.
Since reactivating I've been looking out for signs of actual RvR - not groups taking keeps to get iRvR going, or people damaging keep doors just to be gits rather than as some overall strategy. Actual bona fida RvR where each side takes to the battlefield against the enemy realm, not playing Counterstrike in medieval costume.
Clusters are killing RvR.
Kill the clusters as they currently stand to remove conflict of interest. 1 realm per account per cluster.
People are merrily hopping realm as the situation changes, playing the realm which at that exact moment gives them the most advantage, undermining all attempts at team spirit and cooperation in a realm. There are many specific instances I don't want to go into because I don't want to get sidetracked into a different topic. The net effect of all these activities though is to undermine DAoC's excellent RvR system.
Its time to kill the clusters as they currently stand. Force characters with more than one realm on any given account to be moved to another cluster, even if its a foreign language server. Account owner gets to choose which is their primary/main char and that stays on the cluster, the rest choose which cluster they want to be moved to next time they log in or via the account management page.
Clustering *does* work for PvE by and large because there is no real conflict of interest but for RvR its a deathblow. And I mean RvR, not PvP.
Since reactivating I've been looking out for signs of actual RvR - not groups taking keeps to get iRvR going, or people damaging keep doors just to be gits rather than as some overall strategy. Actual bona fida RvR where each side takes to the battlefield against the enemy realm, not playing Counterstrike in medieval costume.
Clusters are killing RvR.
Kill the clusters as they currently stand to remove conflict of interest. 1 realm per account per cluster.