joshisanonymous wrote:The last 3 hours have been pretty good evidence for me that at least Mids don't want to improve their ability to find fights. I spent that time running around RvR zones with a public, named /cg going, spamming /as and /b about it, so that people could join and provide/read intel about where enemies were. In those 3 hours, I was never able to get more than 10 people to join, despite the fact that there were always multiple groups in the zones where I broadcasted that it was open. I even sent tells to numerous Mids in Odin's, Emain, and Hadrian's and very very few joined the /cg.

The only reason losing x-realm spam makes it harder to find fights is because people aren't using the tools available to them to find fights. I personally don't want x-realm spam, in part because I think being able to organize your realm is part of how realms compete in DAoC, but the need to do so disappears when automated systems make active organization unnecessary (e.g. not just x-realm spam, but NF features like crosses on your maps).

I would suggest that people start using /cg's to communicate where fights are happening, where enemies are, etc. I don't know what the issue was today, maybe 8-man groups are too l33t for intel or something, but this was a regular activity in 2003 that needs to come back.

joshisanonymous wrote:[...]

Rent wrote:

joshisanonymous wrote:[...]

Set up a steady & (hopefully) permanent CG is a sisyphus work. Better try to create big RvR alliances and spam the enemy movement there.

(and yes, few fgs are too l33t for that)

joshisanonymous wrote:

Rent wrote:

joshisanonymous wrote:[...]

Set up a steady & (hopefully) permanent CG is a sisyphus work. Better try to create big RvR alliances and spam the enemy movement there.

(and yes, few fgs are too l33t for that)

It's really not sisyphus work, and people rarely report non-raid size activity in large alliances because 90% of the alliance is probably not in RvR.

The fact is that RvR CGs were very much permanently open on every server I played on between 2002-2005, even after NF made it less necessary. The alternative is people can whine about not being able to find fights on the forums because the Devs didn't "spoon" feed them where the fights were.

Rent wrote:

joshisanonyous wrote:

Rent wrote:
Set up a steady & (hopefully) permanent CG is a sisyphus work. Better try to create big RvR alliances and spam the enemy movement there.

(and yes, few fgs are too l33t for that)

It's really not sisyphus work, and people rarely report non-raid size activity in large alliances because 90% of the alliance is probably not in RvR.

The fact is that RvR CGs were very much permanently open on every server I played on between 2002-2005, even after NF made it less necessary. The alternative is people can whine about not being able to find fights on the forums because the Devs didn't "spoon" feed them where the fights were.

You´re talking about the past, 12-15 years ago. The people aren´the same. People rarely (re)join or stay in cgs nowadays.