Well, as a slight change of subject, I'll probably see less of everyone than usual next week. My sister is moving from AZ to VA and I volunteered to drive her stuff for her. Never been further west than MO, so I'm taking a train out through Chicago to Flagstaff, see that part of the country, than drive back I-40 after hitting the Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, and the big crater in Winslow.

Oughta be fun, will be heading out Wednesday.

Sreja_Bone wrote: »

Well, as a slight change of subject, I'll probably see less of everyone than usual next week. My sister is moving from AZ to VA and I volunteered to driver her stuff for her. Never been further west than MO, so I'm taking a train out through Chicago to Flagstaff, see that part of the country, than drive back I-40 after hitting the Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, and the big crater in Winslow.

Oughta be fun, will be heading out Wednesday.

Nice! Stop and see the Four Corners if you can. All of those places are awesome. Have fun : ))

Did notice that EP was in second place in BwB earlier tonight. Was a surprise. Perhaps if they keep it up I'll run a group with more than 4 people and fight EP. Although I feel a little bad about it. Been fighting DC for so long it feels like I am cheating on then with EP

Nice! Welcome back, House Sotha! I hope it becomes somewhat like its previous self!

Knew I saw someone named Mjoll running around last night.

And @Adenoma, believe that was the first time I fought against you up at BRK today. I was so proud of my new purpley armor and maul, smiting upon scrubs, then - splat against a wall of Night Bladers. Realized who it was, practically begged the others not cap the flag at the farm; but we all know how that goes......

No, this was today, "killed by Zergball One".

I'm going as The Hermit of Scinian

Shame on you .

Honestly, can't say I've ever seen you post anything nasty enough to moderate.

Yeah, I can't break the character theming during creation habit myself, a relic of too much AD&D when I was a youngster.

Honestly, I've had really good fights this week.

I really think that BwB is ripe for the picking. One of the big guilds is running pretty much only in Azura's because of population imbalance. The map is ready to welcome a new group. AD is literally disorganized pugs right now.

Bwb had a great weekend . I hope you all did too.

ChapterMasterV wrote: »

Come back to BWB please!!!! I'm begging you!!! AD needs more opponents to actually have good fights!!!

AD could take to help themselves have better fights too.

It doesn't take a group of 20 to take/defend a resource and it doesn't take a group of 40 to take/defend a keep.

If you are annoyed at having super easy fights because you constantly have an extra population bar you can roll EP or DC or maybe cut your group sizes in half and have them try to take more objectives but with more of a challenge at each one.

Also... when you see a solo person running around maybe just send 1-2 people in to fight them at a time instead of 8.

Or if you see a group of 5-10 defending a resource/town maybe just send slightly more people to take it back instead of everyone in the group.

You might lose some more battles but you will certainly have more fun.

Or you can just wait until things turn around naturally as they always do (eventually)

Adenoma wrote: »

@mcurley , I don't disagree with you. But I think that takes a lot more control over people than we really have. We can't corral people around us constantly and you can't blame 9 players that see 1 player for all targeting them.

A lot of the AD guilds have started playing Azura's Star a bit more because of the relatively low number of opponents in BwB. Despite what a lot of people from EP and DC seem to think, there are efforts from the AD side to not grossly overpopulate the campaign. Speaking for my own guild, we've been running more groups in Azura's than BwB lately.

Thats the thing, its not AD guilds that are the problem, its all the soloist/pugs that arent even in groups that flock together. We absolutely cannot control those people. They show up where a small group of us is takin an outpost or something and then bam theres 20 ppl for no good reason.

Theres only one guild in AD that runs large and when they are on we, (Byte) try to stay on a different side, it doesnt always work but there has been effort. Also, theres about 8 of us or so from my guild who did roll EP toons for when balance is screwed and the hoard refuses to listen and push to gates and crap... and then EP decided to log on lol! Which has been great, except DC is still low so its still just a 2 way battle most of the time.

We have tried to do things to help, between what I just mentioned including doing PVE instead of what we'd really rather be doing. We certainly cant all go to Azuras, thats not the solution.. to over pop another server. Personally Im tired of AD having the numbers, so are the other guilds of AD but like I said, the problem isnt with us, its with the hoard that just plain wont listen. Im hoping that time will make them go away lol! Til then, we fight when its appropriate and do other crap when its not.

mcurley wrote: »

ChapterMasterV wrote: »

Come back to BWB please!!!! I'm begging you!!! AD needs more opponents to actually have good fights!!!

AD could take to help themselves have better fights too.

It doesn't take a group of 20 to take/defend a resource and it doesn't take a group of 40 to take/defend a keep.

If you are annoyed at having super easy fights because you constantly have an extra population bar you can roll EP or DC or maybe cut your group sizes in half and have them try to take more objectives but with more of a challenge at each one.

Also... when you see a solo person running around maybe just send 1-2 people in to fight them at a time instead of 8.

Or if you see a group of 5-10 defending a resource/town maybe just send slightly more people to take it back instead of everyone in the group.

You might lose some more battles but you will certainly have more fun.

Or you can just wait until things turn around naturally as they always do (eventually)

I made my statement as a player that generally plays as solo or in small groups, no larger than 8. I prefer being outnumbered and having hour long fights defending resources from three to four time my group size. I much prefer winning a fight through teamwork and skill rather than numbers. Do not assume that just because I want more opponents means that I normally win by outnumbering opponents, or that every member of AD does so.

I just had a build epiphany, so I might reroll something soon. I've got to see... I'm certainly not opposed. I've been waffling all the time.