Let’s assume for a moment that the discussion at F13 was useful and that Mark Jacobs is really determined to make Open RvR a substantial part of the game to the point that a majority of players move from Scenarios to the open world as their overall preference.<\/p>\n
The second this happens players will start to heavily complain on two fronts:
\n1- The clients lags too much and zerg battles are unfun.
\n2- Factions unbalance makes battles pointless and frustrating in certain cases.<\/p>\n
This is a kind of overall trend: as you fix a problem, there’s another that takes its place next on the chain. You made some progress, but still far from having solved the whole situation.<\/p>\n
The consequences of those problems are kind of obvious:
\n1- Work on the client should never stop because it’s still far from having an optimal performance.
\n2- Faction unbalances need to be eased through a number of solutions, but in any case there should be incentives so that the underdog faction is still encouraged to participate even in the most critical situation.<\/p>\n
For example counting the number of players in a RvR Lake for each faction and scaling appropriately the rewards.<\/p>\n
Asymmetric objectives and rewards that adapt to the real possibilities of one realm against the other.<\/p>\n