Real-time Alliance-Horde counters-percentages.

[mathioud 0]

We all want to have balanced servers, especially on the fresh one.

 

People coming in to the Fresh server, might not have a problem rolling either on Horde or Alliance.

It would be nice to know what is the current percentage of active players on each side.

 

So, me for example, I have always been on the Alliance Side, and  I'm thinking to go Horde.

But if I see a  45%:A - 55%:H, i wouldnt mind making a gnome and chill in the epic Ironforge at max level just like the old days.

 

[Undertanker 88]

This can be counter-productive at the start if people see one faction more populated than the other, may want to go with the masses, and has a domino effect.

Edited December 15, 2016 by Undertanker

[Papajimboh 12]

This can be counter-productive at the start if people see one faction more populated than the other, may want to go with the masses, and has a domino effect.

 

This pretty much. 

 

In Wrath when they opened faction changes, I played on 2 servers. Both were pretty even but slightly favored one side. Literally a week later I was getting camped in the GY on both servers in WG and it pretty much killed WG entirely on some servers. 

It carried over into Cata also. I remember if I queued for Tol Barad on Horde I would never win, but if I queued on Alliance I would never GET IN so I still couldn't win. 

Edited December 15, 2016 by Papajimboh

[cowking 5]

everyone going pvp will go hord anyway and half the alliance guilds will be non english speaking

[mathioud 0]

Thanks for the replies, although i understand what you guys say, and part of what you say is true, 

I have some objections..

 

everyone going pvp will go hord anyway and half the alliance guilds will be non english speaking

 

What PvP do people expect to do if they all tend to go on one side? This attitude is obviously wrong.

If people do not have understanding of such fundamental things, then they shouldn't play on a PvP server.

 

 

This can be counter-productive at the start if people see one faction more populated than the other, may want to go with the masses, and has a domino effect.

Same as the above.

 

Elysium project has shown some great clues of trying to do things the right way. 

It seems only right to me to provide all the right tools, so we, the community, make sure that the server lives up to everyone's expectations.

 

Of course, everyone is more than free to play on whichever faction they want..

But if there are people who are willing to choose sides wisely, fueled by their interest to have the best possible in-game pvp experience, 

no reasons such as the above quoted seem enough for not to implement that feature.

 

 

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Edit: Typos

Edited December 15, 2016 by mathioud

[Hazar 3]

few scans with Census addon will be enough to see faction balance going well or not