ya i wouldnt be suprised if some hibs leveling up or in rvr, seen such broadcasts and wanted to change to there alts in other realms to own someone. Thats why you have to be careful what you say in broad.

i don't play peak euro time much and i could tell by numbers in /who emain and the spams comeing from emain i'd never get to breif to hunt solo hibs walking to emain let alone solo albs walking to the milegate.

so i headed to odins gate "checked hadrian was empty" to look for xp'rs to see if i could gank some blues and greens lol and i didn't find anything but a afk nightshade who was visable got into a fight with him and died. i came back killed a blade master came back died a few more times came back and killed another could see the spams of odin's gate by other players heading out there so kept coming back sure beat getting ganked by full groups!

i had fun win or lose was fun fights to be sure.

pfft jalori i wasn't afk :p

you beat me jalore!?! i demand a rematch!!!!

Odin's Gate 03.01.2010

Just spent around 3 hours there, up until just now (21.25h). Running between gates but mostly on hib gate, visible.

In all that time I saw only ONE person (Weia, /hug), not counting the few grays who passed by and who I left alone.

Not one killspam from anywhere exept Emain in all that time and a few from Breifine.


Conclusion: Solo RvR=dead if not arranged via IRC or /broad with crossrealmers. Kthxbye.

would be great to find some nice 1on1 again - I will give odins a try then, but I figure it won´t take long till all those stealther zergers are in Odin then

sorry nym for not making it today - RL stuff came up


solo rvr is not dead, we just have to keep going there.. if more go there more will come

just have to flip the circle

nixian wrote:sorry nym for not making it today - RL stuff came up


solo rvr is not dead, we just have to keep going there.. if more go there more will come

just have to flip the circle

This can be helped TREMENDOUSLY when there's an incentive like the BP bonus for solos (and smallman if needed) on primetime in Odins so that it's clear when going there is a good or bad idea (better to solo in emain since there aint enough players on to split action).

Faster port timers and horse routes are also helping, however will by far not affect the state of solo RvR as much as a clear signal like the BP bonus.

Maybe the global kill messages are not good for that. As long as you don't see kill messages from Odins you dont go or try there.

Blue wrote:Maybe the global kill messages are not good for that. As long as you don't see kill messages from Odins you dont go or try there.

Wow.. wowowow, ho there Blue. You're reversing things now.

Without an incentive, people will still not go to odins, even on primetime. Even when there *could* be inc without their knowledge, since they will still always go with the thought Odin's is empty as long as there's no message telling them otherwise (other players, x-realm info, ...).
In other words, the problem will still be just as bad as before, if not worse since even if SOME players go out and get some killspam, there will be even less interest in checking it out than there is now.

So, just keep the global kill messages and add the BP bonus for solos/smallmans on prime time in Odin's and Emain in off-peak hours (or determined by # players in OF) so that soloing actually is worth spending your time on even if you have only 30 minutes of playtime.
If you don't channel this type of RvR a bit in OF with Uthgard's population, it just doesn't work since you can spend a LOT of time trying to find decent inc, which has disastrous consequences in the end. It's still about having fun fighting enemies, wasting 20 minutes searching for one only makes people quit.

tbh...the main problem for getting ppl to the other zones is the "so called" no rvr-arrangement rule.

8vs8 are arranging their fights as long as irc channels exist...thats no secret (tho the inoffical channel was closed quickly^^..)

so if the rvr politics would get some change, to allow ppl announcements on irc, or on the forum, where they roam, maybe others would come there (and thats not meant for 8vs8, zergs or stuff,....just for solo/small man), there would be ppl.

but as long as you state where you are roaming, to lure other solos/small man, you get threatened with punishment for arranging rvr, no one gonna come to those zones....

no bug but an advice ^^

p.s solo/small man rvr NEEDS some organisation (with the actual rvr situation)), but thats prohibited atm !

guys if you wanna discuss go to the OF threads this is about odins alone and how action was on 02.01.2010

and bugreport if I understand Blue right it is okay to say "Hey I go to hadrians / odins"

but I need a confirmation from Blue until such things can be allowed in irc

This morning (07:30 => 08:30), I have found solo people in Odin's gate and Jamtland. Probably there for opening darkness falls or made realm guard task, but that was fun

I think, you have just to add better xp spot, and better xp bonus like in agramon

edit: nvm. Too off-topic