Dark Age of Camelot

Imo Mythic management lost interest in DAOC the moment they got paid for their share of the game.

Originally posted by Sidoxs

Is this a serious post? cross realming? cross realming is not a big deal at all (unless you suck, which most people who complain about it do). Thats sad, of all the things.. you  talk about cross realming..

Ok, I won't even get into a flaming argument with you since that seems to be your approach. Instead, I'll point out the facts and let you wander around in your obvious state of denial.

Let's start with Battlegrounds. I'm running around, playing one of my Albion toons. Guess what, Mids own the ck and so a few Albs decide to try and take it. Now, what happens next could have several possible outcomes, all of which could be eliminated if cross realming didn't exist.

Possible Outcomes...

A) Albions go to take the ck and are stopped because some cross realming idiot tells his Mid friends about it on Vent and so all of a sudden, theres twice as many mids in the BG than Albs.

B) Albions are trying but because they continually fail to breach the inner gate, 1/2 of them switch to the defending Mid side and completely annihilate the Albions which have not only lost #'s but now have to fight even more enemies.

Sorry, I don't care if you say you don't cross realm, but I'm pretty sure 50% of the current players do. It's an obvious problem every day and I see it every time I RvR.

50 Albs vs 50 Mids, then 5 minutes later its 30 Albs vs 70 Mids or vice versa. If you think that isn't a problem, than thanks for not complaining and oh, thanks for supporting the underdog cause we need RPs more than you do.

Originally posted by Rhoklaw

 

 

Ok, I won't even get into a flaming argument with you since that seems to be your approach. Instead, I'll point out the facts and let you wander around in your obvious state of denial.

Let's start with Battlegrounds. I'm running around, playing one of my Albion toons. Guess what, Mids own the ck and so a few Albs decide to try and take it. Now, what happens next could have several possible outcomes, all of which could be eliminated if cross realming didn't exist.

Possible Outcomes...

A) Albions go to take the ck and are stopped because some cross realming idiot tells his Mid friends about it on Vent and so all of a sudden, theres twice as many mids in the BG than Albs.

B) Albions are trying but because they continually fail to breach the inner gate, 1/2 of them switch to the defending Mid side and completely annihilate the Albions which have not only lost #'s but now have to fight even more enemies.

Sorry, I don't care if you say you don't cross realm, but I'm pretty sure 50% of the current players do. It's an obvious problem every day and I see it every time I RvR.

50 Albs vs 50 Mids, then 5 minutes later its 30 Albs vs 70 Mids or vice versa. If you think that isn't a problem, than thanks for not complaining and oh, thanks for supporting the underdog cause we need RPs more than you do.

you forgot C) everyone switches to their albs, takes ck then back to their mids and take it again :P

If you focus on the future leading cause of population loss, the 2 words will be Warhammer Online.

Just to put the icing on the cake, I want to share with you what I found out about current DAoC players. I know theres no true way for the players to prove whether x-realming is a problem or not. So I decided to do a little test to find out what people who played DAoC thought.

I started out as an Albion on Merlin, but for my discussion, we'll be talking about Classic servers. Anyhow, I logged on one of my main toons and proceeded to discuss with actual players in-game as to what they thought about x-realming.

I asked 100 random players from each realm on the Classic servers, all level 50's, what they thought about x-realming. Believe it or not, 80-85% of them said it didn't bother them. However, I then followed up with the question, If Mythic asked players on each cluster to choose 1 realm that they would like to play, thus losing any other realm toons, would that bother them. You guessed it, 9 out of 10 people said they did not think that would be a good idea. Thats 90% of the current players who did not thinking having to choose a realm as a good option to eliminating a problem they claim doesn't exist.

So, the bottom line is, people who play DAoC say x-realming isn't a problem because 90% of them do it. There really is no other reason why people would frown upon having to choose a realm, if it didn't affect their x-realming capabilities to some degree.

As of late though, the DAoC community has become harsh, immature and uncivilized. It has gotten to the point that the community I enjoyed more so than WoW has now turned into WoW. I love DAoC, but the game and the community have simply left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not saying everyone who plays DAoC is that way, but the good guys who just sit idly by and keep their mouths shut instead of being proactive are only hurting themselves in the long run.

While cross realm is an issue I have still been unable to find any other mmorpg out that is anywhere near as good. I may try the new breed of mmorpg's that come out but if its anything like wow and the others I will get bored of them and return to daoc.

The population imbalance certainly on classic is starting to become  abit of a joke now.  The bg's are full of mids now but pretty much little of anything else. How they can keep the same realm xp bonus is beyond me.  EG At the momnet  there are 47 non anon mids in thid , on alb theres 11 all but 2 stealthers, hib  theres 3 all stealthers.  In molvik theres 55 mid players 17 alb again mainly stealthers , couldnt be bothered to look hib however u get the picture. You can also go to alb  or the hib cities during peak playing time and you will find a dozen or so people crafting ect , in mid city i actually lag walking round theres that many people here. 

Have to agree with earlier poster they alb and hib players get sick of being rolled by 3 group mid zergs  and just say screw it and go play mid.  

I have to say im getting less and less inclined to recommend this game on to anyone else now which is sad. 

Cross Realming! Yes. Absolutely. Thank you.

I would be very eager to come back to DAoC if they stopped this insane practice. Realm Pride is what kept me going in RvR. It is what separates DAoC's formerly unique RvR style of PvP from games such as BF 2142 or some other simplistic PvP game. Although its worse than BF 2142 because, as previous posters have indicated, there is no result in shouting "TEAMS" (as in even the teams please).

I want alot of things in DAoC to change, but I think if they made this one simple change it would be enough to bring me back.

I have no interest in WAR. I cannot believe anyone would after seeing how Mythic has mismanaged DAoC for so long, of course they will be the same with WAR. Ignore this warning at your peril.

Well, I've actually been playing for 2 months now since I came back. I have no doubt in my mind cross realming has become the norm. I played for 4 years on Merlin and never did I see the exchange of realm relics as much as I have on the Classic Cluster these past 2 months. Seriously, the relics have gone from Albion, to Midgard and then to Hibernia, like some predesigned business exchange. Sure, there are still dedicated realmers, but they're no match for the cross realmers who simply go from one realm to the next changing relics to