1] I know this was suggested at some point... I think. I might be making things up. If it were to be added, I imagine it'd be a specialist warp, like WoE or the churches, and thus, cost more to poor newbies, too! :D
I'm totally big on people having to take the smallest initiative on their part for somethings. Asking where BGs is is one of these.
Off topic, another is to actually try looking at the quest yourself instead of yelling for a GM all over main claiming it is bugged/broken if it doesn't
exactly match your guide, or you missed a step.
2] To be completely honest, I don't find 50k much in the first place. Once you're at a level to be able to BG, pretty much every class should have a way to easily pick up that sort of funds, if they don't somehow have it already.
It's only a slight sink, but one we do need. :X
3] As it is, we're not technically on a BG SVN. The current mapflags for the BG we do have, for instance, are a Frankenstein of ones that are actually available to try and make something close and workable for BGs. This is why it has some little "quirks" to it, like being able to see those annoying pink triangles.
Once we get a new SVN (and you all the lovely T&Ders get to listen to me rage at things, looking at you Sealed Shrine, last update) then we should be able to not only have official BG mapflags, but also maybe (hopefully, imo) implement other BGs.
But this does come down to whether there will also be the demand to actually run them. Lots of BGs at the moment don't run in the quieter hours.
I think, at this time the keys do easily cover the times where there are a bunch of people wanting to BG it up, and I know I personally have no qualms in starting a bunch of extra ones.??Keys also have the upside of the user getting guaranteed entry, which is decent motivation to use them.
4] Post by Salt.
http://pandoraonline.net/forum/showthrea...#pid247952
5] WoE already has a bunch of pots and that that can be bought for points. The list is slowly being expanded to even include gears to help players at lower levels get into WoE and stuffs.
Yup. This one is a lazy reply. Not much to say to it other than "WoE points list is still an active WIP, and someone suggested these for BG points, and there was a discussion on the forums about that and stuff."
As for the automated events and the ability to start BGs:
Automated events do not lock you in. You can always log off the novice and onto whatever char you want to BG on.
It's up to that player to decide which is worth their time. The event and its rewards, or the BG points.
We do expect players to be able to make up their own minds. We're not just going to run only one thing ever, just to stop it potentially clashing with other optional things. >.>
These "maybe you should script it for them then!" claims always make me nervous.
I always imagine all these little players running out and putting all this work into a script and then giving it to us and us saying "Sorry. But we can script. That's not always the reason why something is not in." and then have to explain some priorities or other sides, or the fact that we just don't want it in some cases to them while they feel all down and have gone to all that work. D:
Please, if you ever are going to script something to give to us, always ask a GM about it first, or send in a support ticket. Because I don't want you potentially wasting your time and the such.
... And it'd make me feel bad if we had to say "Sorry you've put in all that work, but we're just not interested in this."
