Why is Alde/Nontrans Castles There?

[Nidsrule]

again, my point is: Alde being 'not fought over every WOE' is not BS's fault.

HeRO provides the Halloween quest all year although the rewards are lowered. Not many people seem to do it as apparently not that many people are interested in going against hollow poring. So if you're analogizing HeRO features to commercial products, i'll say providing that quest all year round fails even more than non-trans WOE. But should it be discontinued just because of that?

non-trans retro WOE is a feature.
Like it or not, it is a feature quite unique that some people may actually pick it out in RMS due to it not being available in a lot of other servers.

it being not a "well-sought out" feature for the current population is not the provider's fault but rather the players fault for not taking the most advantage of available features...

move it to another day?
again, BS members actually work for what they got. They knowingly forgo their chance to get a better castle with the potential for better action and/or eco so that they may defend Alde properly.
If you envy them or say that they are undeserving, than prove that you are better and that you deserve Alde more than they do by making the same sacrifices they do.

when you want to tell people you beat Roger Federer, it is only prudent to challenge him in a tennis court rather than in a soccer field...


-w-

What sacrifices are you referring to? They arguably use less supplies each WoE (no AD/EDP use and a lesser sense of ferocity of attackers, if any, which limits pot usage. This only applies to those in BS that stick around in alde, this clearly doesn't apply to those of you that participate in trans WoE) and they spend just as much time WoEing as everyone else does.

As for forgoing a chance at a "better castle" that's pretty subjective. Once again it all depends on the level of attackers and most of the community will agree that Alde doesn't see the same consistency/ferocity of attacks as seen in trans WoE. Alde becomes fairly comparable to trans castles when trans castles are broken frequently (therefore never getting past a decent level of econ in the first place). While alde may be capped, it seems to be a far more steady source of econ compared to trans castles.

At this stage, moving it to another day seems quite fair. From what I understand alde was originally implemented so that newer players could participate in WoE without being steamrolled by trans chars. As has already been stated, this concept loses all meaning when the only guild that takes alde seriously (on a consistent basis) is made up of players that are anything but new. New players don't stand any more chance in alde than they do in trans castles at this point.

If you want to argue alde was implemented so people could relive non trans WoE, why wasn't it made so that it had it's own time slot in the first place? The general consensus in this thread is that while most people have expressed interest in wanting to participate in Alde WoE, it is always going to take a back seat to trans WoE. At least by giving Alde WoE it's own time slot, you'll see an increase competition and everyone will be able to participate without being forced to choose between one or the other.

As it stands, new players have nothing to gain from Alde WoE. It doesn't provide a realistic experience of "real" WoE and in the long run they have no more chance at being competitive in Alde WoE than they do in trans WoE. That being said, are there really any negative aspects in giving Alde WoE it's own time slot? The benefits have been iterated here multiple times but so far I'm not seeing any downsides to this suggestion.