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It's been down about an hour, not sure when it will be back up.

Die again and take rez sickness again and it should reset to the minimum level.

The devs have tried to boost anathema's population and it's not producing results. That is not due to mismanaged servers, lack of attention to any server or ignoring problems on the part of the devs. It's because of your fellow players choices. You call reducing Elysium's pop a "proper allocation of population" but that is merely an opinion and a minority one at that. The current situation is in fact sustainable. My perspective is biased to the project, not any one server. How long is a single server supposed to last? Anathema has basically been around for 2 years or so? What could be done to keep it going 3-5 years? How long can a player be expected to stay before quitting/moving on to something else? Those are not easy questions/problems for the devs to answer.

It's like Kramer beating up little kids at the karate dojo when Elaine asks him what he's doing he replies "I'm dominating" like it was a dumb/rhetorical question. He was having a power trip from destroying weaker competition. I personally would have no fun ganking lowbies constantly but I can see why others would have fun or good reason to do it.

Capping the most popular server at 7k would only lower participation in the project overall. It doesn't usually work out like Cartman's amusement park where it suddenly became popular because he told every one "you can't come". If you tell people to come back later then eventually they will quit bothering altogether and the server cap will only accomplish decreasing the overall project size.

Just keep looking in world chat and as you get groups add some of those players to your friends list. You can also start your own groups, there's usually people looking for a group like myself.

Doing that at the expense of Elysium would only give anathema a short term boost and would hurt the project in the long run. The devs have been trying to steer players to anathema for awhile now and it does not seem to make much of an impact on anathema's pop. Again that's due to player choice and there isn't much they can do about that beyond what they've already done.

I do not want a server cap on Elysium. Boosting the other servers populations at the expense of Elysium's population will only hurt in the long run. The servers are in their current state due to player choice so there isnt much the devs/gms can do other than maintain a quality experience.

8-10k is not over populated and if the severs could handle more I think it would be even more awesome. The cap is at around 8.8k now but it used to be around 10.5k. There are pros and cons to everything but playing on a high pop server is way more fun for me and I don't experience "over population problems" that seem to plague you even though I'm leveling up my 3rd character.

I have 20k hks (on 1 char, another with 3k) on this server so when I say most people I mean most people. It's not based on an opinion, it's based on what I have observed. I do most of my games on alliance as a pug and the vast majority of the AB and WSG games i join (AV is pretty even) have a much higher ratio of higher ranking horde players. The times I've been in a premade the opposing team was also a premade nearly every time. The reason I mention that experience is because of my reference to win % for each in all the bgs and that it's even in all except AV. Horde can wipe the alliance rush much more easily which sends us back to the gy and gives us the choice to defend or afk and afk is against the TOS. You can slowly push down the map doing objectives but that will never end a game in under 2 hrs. Which I have seen alliance do but horde goes to mid to stalemate alliance or back door every time since it's a waste of time to take the objectives since they can skip them easily. Yes 10 alliance can stop the horde rush but they get virtually no help from npcs which creates a standoff where there's no dying which is boring and thus people don't want to do it. The horde on the other hand can kill the majority (with far less than 10 players) of the alliance rush by snaring them and letting npcs do all the work for them. The alternative of course is to fix the backdoor error but that would give the edge back to alliance although that edge would be less than hordes current advantage. A mirrored map design would of course be most fair but this not going to happen.

So horde's 75% win percentage is attributable to something other than an unintended map design flaw? Why don't they have a win rate like that in the other bgs too?

Most people do not enjoy 2+ hour games. There's a reason why 0 players who originally joined the game have all left 2 hours in. Pretty much everything you stated in your thread is incorrect. The only thing that you said that may have some merit are you experiences on blizz's servers so I can't refute that but everything else you said was "pure rubbish".

Again that is true if things were equal like WSG and AB. AV is not equal, only 1 team can go backdoor. AV is a PvE BG so it makes sense for people to race to finish it instead of 2 hours of minimal honor and rep. The problem is it's not a coin flip for horde so alliance turtle to mitigate horde's advantage which makes for long drawn games that most people do not enjoy.

You can choose to play on whichever server you want. Transfers have never been an option and there are no plans for them in the future.

I like how he says you're not loot banned and then proceeds to explain that you have a 2.5% of getting an item if it drops for your class and is not a tank item. Assuming in a given raid night you have a 50/50 chance of an item dropping that you want you'd have about a 1% chance in a given raid of getting loot. How Skankunt thinks that's legit is beyond me.

If things were equal then yes it would be a coin flip. But things are not equal so that's not a relevant argument. And yes you are going to lose if you have bad group composition. Like in WSG if you don't have a flag runner (druid/mage) then you are likely going to lose.

I send runecloth to my different chars and it goes through instantly. As far as I've noticed with other time I've sent to myself it goes through instantly as well. I've never used the return function though.

Zk is arguable on whether it should have ever existed but saying opening Elysium was a mistake just makes no sense. I for one would not be here if all this project had was 2 legacy nost servers.

I stopped playing my paladin in PvP because of this. I was not attacking my target when I was right on top of them way too often and it was extremely aggravating. It only happens in PvP though. And still happens as I saw in the brief time that I did an AV yesterday.

I'm AV yes a quick loss is better than dragging it out. But going AFK in WSG and AB is catastrophically dumb. I routinely get 4k honor in losses outside AV. Not to mention doing the exact opposite of what you're supposed to do in a BG makes the player and their guild look bad (and gets you banned if you roll over/go afk).

His guild was toxic so it makes sense that he would get berated.

That's easily avoidable if you're near an instance portal. It's not against the TOS but making unwarranted complaints about a problem that is easily solved by the player should be.

If you want to see what constant ganking really looks like go to BRM tomorrow.

It's that some people are selfish and they think their time is worth more than yours. So they join a bg and watch tv or alt tab and mess around doing something else instead of helping their team. The more people in a Bg the more it happens. WSG isn't bad but AB and AV are pretty chronic. I got berated for berating a guy that has 0 kbs, 1 death and 0 kills after 20 mins of standing around stables with 4 (the other 3 were at least rotating from time to time to get kills) other people when we only had 2 objectives. Report them in game, they will get banned eventually.

I have 1 dk and no clue how I got it since I've never killed a npc in town and the vast majority of my time is spent in bgs. However I don't care at all that I have 18k honorable kills and 1 dishonorable kill. It doesn't affect or change anything.