Make WoE more of a battle.

[Namine]

Let's wait for people to "gear" in town for 60 minutes to do a thanatos tower run that probably took less than 60 minutes. Then, let's promise to do a cross-guild stone buckler hunt, then ditch your allies' party cause you must now return to town immediately for the urgent business to chat with a girl who just logged on now.

How dare them leave and start a new guild!

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With that said, time and time again heRO flipped back and forth on number of castles and tried to adjust rewards. If that didn't work for almost a decade, what makes you think that trying the same thing only with some number fudging is going to work in boosting WoE competition? It's like... you're trying to go around a wall, so you decided to ram your head first against it to smash your way through. It failed. Let's keep ramming our heads against the wall for 9 more years!


*Pure speculation* Competitive players join together and collect under the same banner just because that guild has all the people of the same mentality. There are little to no players who have/share the mentality of wanting to topple the top dogs and enjoy the success to work their way up, so there's no one to challenge the established guild(s).

If anything, the fact that heRO is old and RO is old is what hurts WoE the most. RO is an old game. Most of the new kids who got time haven't heard of something so old and ancient. Most of the kids who grew up around the time when RO is at its prime are now in post-secondary or got a job, so they can't afford the time to grind and dedication to WoE timeslot anymore. Server is old too, so people are afraid of catch up against a whooping almost-a-decade worth of items some players got/inherited. What can GMs/any policies really do to battle against stuff like that? None that I can think of myself...

Like really, how motivated are you to try to tackle the top dogs if you have to camp Ghostring every day at its specificed sparce spawn locations against all the other players to try to get its card, and you're against an empire of people who spammed the left mouse button continuously for their multiple copies?


Changing castles/rewards are so "been there, done that"... I'm really not sure if GMs can do anything to change WoE through policies alone, or at least nobody thought of anything better yet in all these years, including myself.


PS: Proto linked me here and told me to read this thread!
Take that bias as you see fit.