They wern't ? I dont know , i didnt play iRO. They always bragged about it and everyone else seemed to agree so i just assumed.

Yeah...joining a new server can be pretty unstable. It can be so popular this month and died out the next month. Playing on an already established PvP server is pretty hard since almost everyone have their particular niche MC/BWL raid group and they won't accept any new recruitments. I was so excited when I joined Firetree and with my guild getting readied for MC but it died eventually..from a high medium pop to low pop server.

Yup, youre correct. Small and new servers will never make it. People come in, more people comes in, server maybe becomes medium pop, they are all excited, till majority start reaching lvl 60 and then they start whining "dude, there's not enough stuff to buy on AH' , "dude, there's not enough people to get a pvp/battleground game started" , "dude, there's not enough horde/alliance running around for me to pwn"

The biggest MMORPG killer is low population. Avoid. Word of advice

Hmm, im quite interested in coming to archimonde, but have to wait for server transfers. Hopefully can transfer to archimonde server.

This post has been edited by silic0sis: Oct 27 2005, 05:25 PM

I can see server transfers getting implemented for a price tag of 25 USD per char transfer. I guess many people might still pay that amount.

25 USD...wheres the source?

I was making a wild guess. Not exactly a clueless guess, but the thing is that server transfer fee will not be cheap. This is because of the different economy prices in servers.

For example, on Archimonde, large radiant shards is less than 1 gold. Yup less than 1 gold! They cost like 50 silver each if you buy in bulk from farmers. I have about 200 on my alt. They can sell for 6-8 gold each on new servers. Same goes the other way round. Wool cloth is cheap in new realms, because everyone leveling picks them up. Wool is 1.2g a stack on my server, because not many people farms lowbie areas. If the transfer fee is minimal, say USD5, i can go transfer to a new realm , dominating the economy, earn thousands of gold, and continue hopping realm to realm exploiting the price difference.

make sense also.

So far i think mamak alliances and Syck has quite a number of locals player..I must give them a loud applause of being able to pull local players together....Unfortunately,theres no such server and i cant manage to do it..argg:(

25 USD? Whoa.. there's no way i would pay that for a character transfer unless I'm really really desperate =P
But... come to think of it, it beats 3x15USD to get epic mount, dal rend swords, knight captain status, and bunch o' other stuff ^^

Oh well, looks like I've gotta think this through. Any rough idea when character transfer is gonna be implemented?

:edit: Oh yeah, just would like to know, care to share what kind of raid system will the guild be running on? Will it be by RP or maybe taking turns on drops? If you have the time, care to elaborate on the system you're gonna be using?

This post has been edited by Axzel: Oct 27 2005, 06:47 PM

I will be using the same program as the raid group i used to run with. It runs on a DKP/point system. It was a written by a friend where it follows the principle of rewarding players who spent more time on raids. A 0 dkp system is used to prevent inflation.

A little confusing at first glance i know, i'll give an example. Say we kill Ragnaros and he drops 4 epics. Different epics have different "prices" on them. If they are better,they are worth more. For simplicity purposes, say all 4 of them are worth 100 point each. So altogether, its 400 points, which means Ragnaros = 400 points.
This 400 points is divided by 40 people , everyone get 10 points for killing ragnaros.

Who gets to loot? The person with higher points have priority. say person A has 250 points , person B has 170 points. A gets to loot it , if he wants. If he does, he has 150 points left, and B will have priority on the next drop , because he has more points than A now (170 points).

Only the first 2-3 runs will we be rolling on epics. It doesn't really matter if you dont win. If someone else rolls higher, he wont be getting loot later anyway, until he has more points.

The program which i will be using, will automatically record the drops, turn them to points, and upload on the web where everyone can check their points and see where they stand.

Ah okay, my previous guild had a system close to that, just that we earn points differently and we had a bid system compared to just slashing points off person A from person B. Oh well, i guessing what you just gave is some pretty brief explanation from the real thing. Now i just hope that they would enable character transfer. =P

Hmm.. it's been awhile since i played WoW.. I just went to take a look at the community website, didn't know they updated that much within 3 months.. >.< About time they made Silithus up and running. Any new raid dungeons other than Zul' Gurub?

Lolskates so does that mean the first few times we do high end instances and we just roll and win we'll get negative DKP points next time? Just asking I'm friggin noob about this stuff.

Yes loose

This post has been edited by lolskates: Oct 28 2005, 03:04 PM

Qgdewonderer here

i've read somewhere on either the site or forums that blizzard might implement char transfers....both from server to server & between accounts. the latter is because of the numerous petitions amongst players that buy 1 account but share it with their spouse, bf/gf, or family. the transfer comes with a fee. but there is a time limit between transfer. so you can't transfer chars very often. maybe once in 2 months?

We have officially passed our 40 man mark this weekend. Keep it coming guys.

I was going to transfer to archimond and start playing wow again when i read ur post. Then i read ur Epic drop system and realised that, Only hardcore player will get the drop. The point system will make it that the more time u run the instant hte more point you have. But one instant will take at least 2 hour? 3? I am not sure.
So by then None hardcore player will have a hard time to get the epic isnt it?

mc run if u are good....half of the instance already took 5 hours i think

If the raid group is very experienced and knows what to do during the raid, can probably do half instance in 3 hours or so. Provided with all the FR/Shadow Resist gear =P