Just curious if the accounts are going to lock you into one realm or another. 

I think doing this has its pros and cons, the only con being ill have to delete all my characters to switch sides.

Im not 100% sure how this game works yet regarding RvR but i hear there are siege events.  Locking accounts to one realm would ensure that realm hoppers dont all abandon one side to go play on the more populated side for such events.

So does anyone know if they are locking our accounts to one side?

 If I take your meaning correctly, no you're not locked to a specific relm. You can switch.

No, accounts are not locked.  You are locked based on server.  When you make a character on destruction on a server, all future characters on that server must be Order.  If you want to play destruction, simply make a character on a different server.  MOST people I have talked to are planning a Destruction server and an Order server with their friends.

Originally posted by DrSpanky

 If I take your meaning correctly, no you're not locked to a specific relm. You can switch.

Which i think will be a huge mistake. Why stay on the losing side and help defend when you can just log off and join the winning side and get fat loots.

  Huge mistake.

so on my account i can, at the same time, have 1 order character and 1 destruction character?

That means that the accounts are not realm locked.

I just hope that everyone doesnt log on to their destruction characters for RvR events leaving the order side to get slaughterd(unless it doesnt work that way)

*edit* Sunders post cleard this up 100%...

yes there is server realm locks....awesome, i think doing it like this is a great idea, of course everyones going to have a order and a destruction server, this will also mean varying strengths of sides on every server, thanks for clearing it up.
 

Okay, so lets say they have several servers.  Sever A you create a dwarf.  From then on, you can not create ANY character for destruction on Server A.  If you want to play Destro, you make a character on Server B.  Other peopl ill have their Order on server B and you go to war with them.  Now say 500 people are logged on to their Order characters.  2000 can not log on their Destro, because the server caps out and maintains a balance so on th server, there are near equal amounts of people fr each side.  That does not meanyou are all the same LEVEL, but it is a mean to help balance the combat so no one is outnumbered and gets torn apart all the time by imbalance.  See?

Let's try this a bit more clearly.

You can make Order and Destruction characters on the same account.

They just can't be on the same server.  So you won't have side-switchers.  People getting their butt kicked may log to play elsewhere, but you won't see them suddenly appearing on the other team on the same server.

Well, you are locked to one realm for each server, ie. if you are Order on Torondis, then you can only make Order characters on Torondis. If you join a different server, then you may create a Destruction character, but then you are locked to Destruction for that server. This is to prevent people from joining the 'winning' side when their side is losing.

Further, in regard to server populations, it balances out the populations. As someone said, if you only have 500 on Order, then only 500 Destruction can log in, with the extras being put into a queue until people log in on the Order side, which won't have a queue. We will see how effective of a measure this is and whether it will be a liability in the long run.