Midgard Nowadays

[Ironica]

Lo peeps

Sometimes I wonder: "What happened to Midgard lately?"

I know a good ol' time, when we had all relics, and kept all relics. When there were only a few guilds, a few alliances, good communication between alliances etc..

What happened to Midgard now?

Big guilds fall apart, into several smaller ones, there are as many alliances as there were guilds a month ago.. The average of people swiching guilds seems like once a week.. Almost everyday I see a new guild, or atleast a guildname I haven't seen before, and then with people coming from the bigger guilds or whatever.. All those guilds bring out all those alliances.. Communication runs slow.. There will be a day communications etc will run too slow..

OK, realm defence kicks, but thats all that kicks atm..

I used to look at Midgard as one big happy family, or so it seemed.. But now, I am looking at Midgard like it is a scattered mess, somewhat like an ants nest..

I started this thread couse i wanted to know how other people felt about this topic... Please let me know..

 

[Cush]

Originally posted by Ironica
Big guilds fall apart, into several smaller ones, there are as many alliances as there were guilds a month ago..

You sure to have strange idea of time.. This big guild falling apart no more big alliance happend ~9 months ago

 

[Ironica]

My point is im noticing more and more 'Old' guilds falling apart, or getting smaller.. I'm not talking about one guild and one alliance 9 months ago, but in the past time, and the realm in the whole..

 

[dozigden]

Well speaking about our alliance, New Era, weve sadly lost some guilds due to disbanding - but many members of those guilds have actually stayed on in our alliance just in other member guilds.

Weve recently gained a couple of guilds and on the whole I'd say weve pretty stable. Change and new blood is good - otherwise things stagnate.

On the subject of how many alliances there are - it used to be that it was hard to co-ordinate between alliances - but with the larger, public, chat groups its easier than ever to do and to a certain extent alliances are irrelevent to realm warfare. We can ally with the guilds we feel kinship with - and when it comes to realm offense/defense there are chat groups, and we just have to grit our teeth

The upcoming changes to how /ignore works might lead to a few interesting situations though

 

[Hargh]

The reason why you see so many new guilds is that some people feel they are missing out on some part of the game if they don't have access to guild commands - thus must start their own guild. I would think. I've seen many ppl recruit in Aeg jsut for guild formation with no thought given tyo trying to make it large or co-ordinated.
I don't see anything wrong with this particularly. I'm not saying you do either

 

[klavrynd]

to quote Nietzsche : " Mid/Pryd ist tot" (he was quite a visionary)

 

[Fafnir]

Originally posted by klavrynd
to quote Nietzsche : " Mid/Pryd ist tot" (he was quite a visionary)

Nah....

 

[Damon_D]

Originally posted by klavrynd
to quote Nietzsche : " Mid/Pryd ist tot" (he was quite a visionary)

sure it is.. and every singel post you make makes sence

 

[old.tuppe]

must agree Ironica here.
now when crafting in aegir, seen some peeps asking 6 people to join group so they can form guild!
hello! if there is guild only for buffbott and 1 player is that worth it?

dunno why so many want make own guild? there is old guilds who has allready knowhow midgard, areas and how to xp/farm.
can help whit items/cash and small pl time by time when guildhunts is organised.

when reading all those changes incoming 1.6xx we need again one strong alliance in midgard!

dont asked other opinion yet in guild? but if some alliance is intrested to take us under wings? send pm ingame to me, and i chat whit all guildmembers different options.


ps1
we still take/look members, if wanna ask our plans in future?, situation these days? dont be afraid my zerk is nerfed in 1.62

 

[old.azorius]

Originally posted by klavrynd
to quote Nietzsche : " Mid/Pryd ist tot" (he was quite a visionary)

Rubbish.

 

[old.azorius]

Our guild started in second week of retail I believe, memory is shot atm

We are still here, stronger than ever, the alliance we are in, Faith is also very strong, 10 very active guilds working together and enjoying the game.

Having said that, i do agree that we seem to see loads of new guilds, took me ages to sort the emblem out for one of our offshoot/fun guilds, as most were taken already.

Cheers

Azo

 

[Fafnir]

Originally posted by old.azorius
Our guild started in second week of retail I believe, memory is shot atm

Yup.... Still remember thoose days of ld around Nisse and Vendo.

 

[Old Nicodemus]

It happens.

Old players leave, new players join and the old guilds reduce in numbers. It is a common factor of the game. It's happened before, it'll happen again.

At the end of the day people are transient by nature, they can (and will) move to pastures new if they think it benefits them. For some it is just about having fun, for others about helping themselves in any form they can.

Midgard on Pryd is still kicking.. and it's best to leave the ants nest undisturbed....

 

[shanks]

One man guilds for the win!

 

[old.azorius]

Originally posted by Fafnir
Yup.... Still remember thoose days of ld around Nisse and Vendo.

You never stole horses then either, or was that how you funded most of the cash for our Uber Emblem ?

 

[Old Nicodemus]

Originally posted by old.azorius
You never stole horses then either, or was that how you funded most of the cash for our Uber Emblem ?

He's probably been at it since he was presented with his first Dwarvern Pony. Thieving tosspot of a Dwarf!

 

[klavrynd]

Let's rephrase to mid/pryd is dead in rvr. (zerging randoms don't count as alive imo)

 

[Fafnir]

<pouring on some more honeymarinade on the cooking horse, while chewing on a piece of freshly cut meat>*Gulp* I never steal horses, erhm i just find them standing there all alone so i take care of them.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

By the way when Faf says he's breeding horses, it doesn't mean he just bought/stole a stallion...

 

[circeline]

Doesnt help when some of the old guilds in Midgaard wont accept the new blood among em.
I have tried to get into some of the old big guilds last 2 weeks with no luck. Either being put on hold because of various reasons or simply havnt gotten an answer to my request.
But I guess that after 1,62 those same guilds will lose a few players due to the nerf.
Atleast my class is gonna get some loving.

 

[Roo Stercogburn]

Circe, I'm online on Saturday at some point. PM if you're around

 

[Fafnir]

Originally posted by Roo Stercogburn
By the way when Faf says he's breeding horses, it doesn't mean he just bought/stole a stallion...

OI i'm not breeding them, thats your job.

 

[dozigden]

I honestly dont see a problem with midgard as a whole at the moment. And am fairly happy with the current setup. To be honest I think people over glorify "the good old days". The time when we had all the relics? hmmm lets see that would be about the time 4fgs used to camp the alb PK in emain...

Yes SC isnt an easy guild to get into - thats part of who we are - we now only take applications by recommendation from a guildmember - I think youll find thats true of a lot of the guilds out there now.

New Era our alliance still considers applications from guilds - we have a very solid alliance charter though - and its not to everyones tastes. Joining the alliance takes full agreement of all the member guilds - weve always worked like that.

 

[Ironica]

Well, I am not concerned at the RvR part, or not really..
When it comes to it, half the realm stands on his or her feet at svasud gates, ready to attack or defend where needed..

The problem i am referring to, is most likely the slow communications from time to time.. I know cg helps alot nowadays, but then still, to contact all alliances isnt done within some minutes..

Sometimes if theres something big going on, I happen to be at Svasud, or i hear from someone else, mostly not through the alliance, might be tho couse we are not that RvR oriented in the guild nor in the Alliance..

What i am just trying to do with this thread is for myself to see how other people think about mid, and how everything is really going atm..

Tho another problem i see sometimes, is indeed the random Zerging.. and the lack of good organised CG's.. Some guildgroups even lack to join these CG's, couse they want RP themselves.. Or so it seems (not saying that that is the way it is (err??? ), but how it sometimes seems to be, tho might not be intentionally)..

But, be honest, good communications is all about having good contacts, which I feel lots of people might not have.. And then i see the problem of the one man guilds, or the lower guilds around..

I know, people want to know how it is to be able to use guild commands, but there are easier ways to figure that out IMO..

But, it still seems Mid kicks butt when needed, but still lacks continuity IMO.. I would never leave the Mids, but I miss noticable organization Realm-Wide..

 

[yggdrasill]

Last time i did /who all it was like 800+ , i remembered well when i started this game it was like 300-350 in midgard!
the more the merrier one would say , but chaos never had this proportion be4.
Dictarorship is harsh but might be a solution imo
Only problem is ,,,, will we listen ??

 

[yggdrasill]

OOPS wrong server :wall: :lol: :wall:

 

[Melachi-]

I dont understand the point in more than one Alliance...

Maybe im just ignorant but what would be the problem with every guild in midgard being in the one alliance ?

 

[old.Zarff]

Maybe im just ignorant but what would be the problem with every guild in midgard being in the one alliance ?

been there done that, in the early days we had one alliance for all guilds, but as many might remember it ended up in a spam festival... ppl got so ignored they started to turn off /as and others left the alliance, and ill bet the same thing will happen if we made 1 big alliance again.

 

[old.Jeriraa]

Dictatorship doesnt work. It spoils peoples fun because different people have different was to play and enjoy this game.

The old Nemesis Alliance for me is a dark chapter of Midgard and I hope we will never have to open it again.

 

[dozigden]

Sorry Ironica I still dont see the problem here.

I think a continuously regimented Midgard would be not only extremely dull but would turn many people off of the realm. In your own words when it counts we pull together. The rest of the time people can carry on as they like. I cant think of any recent endevours that I believe to have failed due to poor communication recently. An unwillingness to follow one person or all co-operate maybe - but youd have exactly those problems in any arrangement of alliances.

I think youre making a mountain out of a mole hilll with this "one man guilds, or the lower guilds" thing. By its very nature were not talking about a huge number of people - yes there might be a lot of new/small/low guilds about - but wheres the most likely place for them to come from? Excaliber.

I think youll find a lot of these guilds that your worried about are probably just other realms from excal trying midgard out - I've done the same myself - I'm in 2 or 3 guilds over on excaliber - mostly just for a bit of fun and to try other parts of the game out.

Me being there with small/low guilds that myself and a few friends have created in no way detracts from their ability to communicate and defend their realm - because i wasnt going to be contributing to it in the first place.

All that being said if you feel that your guild/alliance isnt "in the loop" as much as youd like - by all means lets look at that and see what we can do, I offer whatever help I can give - but I dont feel its realm wide communication problem - sorry.