Everyone so desperately needs to check their ego at the door here and discuss something that works from both sides. I'm going to tell last nights story from my side. I can't speak for any other guild, so if you want to be heard talk. If you're ok with Valhalla leading the suggestions and discussions, then stay silent.
I am NOT going to sit around and watch this happen tho. It's hurting my guild, it's hurting our "enemies", for lack of a better term, it's hurting the server's future prospects.
Last week, Valhalla sat out of WoE 2. We had our reasons. I want to lay down a few facts here about why. We have discussed doing so for a very, very, long time. Recent forum (in)activity was the main prompting for this.
What was the result? Soloists. Maybe like 5 of my guildies logged on to some stupid alt guild at the end to take castles. I waited in one solo on a sinx for about 5 mins then broke the emp uncontested.
That is not WoE.
And with those 5 people we got 2 castles. The one I solo'd had 30 economy. Remind me why I run a guild again? Clearly efficiency lays in not fighting, going to an empty for with just 3 edps a cursed water and a crit katar.
This week we came back with our usual crew + a few non trans and new recruits to the server so they can experience WoE. I'd say new recruits, observers and non-transes account for 20% of our attendance.
We took back the 100/70 econ fort which we don't even need or want with ease. That castle we abandoned last week I mean. That is how little it means and how little value econ has in the entire WoE scene. You can pick up and put down a 100 econ fort without a care in the world. You can come back to it knowing it won't break more times than will damage it beyond opening okolnir.
That is the week before we left it empty knowing it could break 7 times (and wouldn't) before we lost the ability to create asprikas. I shouldn't feel that safe.
We created something in the number of 18 Asprikas before getting bored. I have 4~5 sets still kicking around on various accounts. The problem is we already own 9 guild asprikas. I had so many pieces from random castle takes I just created them and gave them away to guildies for free. I needed vf4 to complete those sets for them.
After that what could the plan be? I don't know. We have just been sitting there because people come to us because it's fun. We don't want or need the castle. I'm getting ~20 OCAs a day, I'm sure my GR collection will continue to grow at an astonishing rate. Not that I can ever hand out all of GRs btw.
Point is, none of the castles give any reward worth taking because they have all grown in econ over the past year for inactivity.
don't need the gods
don't really need okolnir
don't need the random other drops
don't need the OCAs
Valhalla plays because we enjoy actually having to fight to win our items. I don't like to be handed things for free, I don't like meaningless battles.
But the server made WoE meaningless ultra fast. But I wanna WoE. I'm confused.
Also all of juno was 50+ econ last night no wonder nothing sells. So bad.
And because of the way econ was left alone, even 100 econ forts are kinda worthless due to item flooding.
My proposal is this : Give us a way to break our gods (either enhancement, combining them) or close WoE 2 for a while to allow asprikas/bryns to regain value.
Oda: just for you - tldr;
It isn't fun anymore in WoE 2 because nobody plays.
And there's no reward.
Edited by Xellie, 09 March 2015 - 12:07 PM.