Gerbald wrote:I am not totaly against lower downtimes. 5 or 6 minutes instead of 8 would also be ok i guess, but:
Lowering Port Timers is unfair for Hibs who still have to walk 8 Minutes to emain, cant go afk in that time and risc getting ambushed on the way.

Tell hibs to go OG or HW instead tho

Hm... in my opinion the idea of implementing some bonusses to encourage people in low population times to go to RvR is good in general but difficult to realize in a balanced way.

What I would do: Shorten the porter ceremony if the server population drops under some limit (e.g. 100 people, it should really be not very high so it only works as an "emergency break") and increase hastener speed. This way for the few remaining people getting in the fighting area is more convenient.

What I would not do: Implement some direct bonus, e.g. bonus rps or something like that because this would lead to direct imbalance between "night players" and "day players". If you chose only to make getting to the fighting area more convenient - as I stated above - the player will still have to fight like everybody else what is much fairer in my opinion.

Beside that it is of course the american players' task to gather more of their kind because in the long run that is the only thing that will really improve your RvR.

Lintu wrote:

Gerbald wrote:I am not totaly against lower downtimes. 5 or 6 minutes instead of 8 would also be ok i guess, but:
Lowering Port Timers is unfair for Hibs who still have to walk 8 Minutes to emain, cant go afk in that time and risc getting ambushed on the way.

Tell hibs to go OG or HW instead tho

Nah, the faster the Albs and Mids can get to emain the better IMO. the longer they roam while waiting for Hibs to run there from ligen breaks their concentration; they begin chatting random BS and then Hibs strike for uber damage

This does highlight the fairness elelment of NF tho. All parties had an identical time to get to the fight across identical distances to Agramon from the home keeps

Der_Eisbaer wrote:if the server population drops under some limit (e.g. 100 people, it should really be not very high so it only works as an "emergency break")

We dont drop under such limit. Best low population balancing is from 01:00 night to 01:00 noon. It just fills the hole that appears in this timeframe.