Brainstorming: Help Please

[GM-Pandora]

Thanks for a civilised thread.

Update already planned for next reboot: BG team amount will go from its current min 3 max 7 to min 2 max 12. This change does not mean we are not reading and considering other suggestions made, why this is coming now and not the rest is that changing the amount of players is only 2 variable to change at the top of the script, while other changes will require a more substancial script modification and testing. As explained before, the other types of BG do not work in our current svn, but next svn it's in the plan to include additional bg type to spice things up (we've said this several times not sure why it goes forgotten).

My own suggestions to BGers would be not to alienate people from it. I'm not sure if it's been going on too much nowadays but I know a while back we got several reports regarding bg, and I'm sure most of those people stopped to BG and it was because of the somewhat rude attitude they received from the regular BGer who "carry the team" as albus put it. Players getting killed by their own team, or the strong player refusing to fight the enemy so the weaker member doesn't get points, derogatory comments flying, etc. Most of these reports we had to tell them it was legal (except the direct insults). Not asking anyone to be a carebear (just civil as Jens puts it), but if you deter people away from something then don't complain not enough participate. Bg gear surpasses a lot of normal gear, people who were pvp/woe active before the addition of BG had gears to compete in it, but newcomers who wish to skip directly to bg gear and not hunt intermediary gear should also be able to do so without being ostracised, then you might see more people with BG gear in woe.

Also as a reminder, an update being worked on by 1 gm does not mean that the rest of the GM team is not working on other things. For example GM-Salt is in charge of BG, so GM-Azote working on a new custon dungeon does not hinder BG in any way. We work on different things, try to keep that in mind.