by SnuggleSnail » Wed May 19, 2021 12:11 am
TBH, it's news to me that there are even four realms in the game. I'm not involved in a realm this world, different autism project. The system is just so blatantly broken at even a conceptual level that that it triggers me I will be forced to interact with it if I ever care about anything that requires realm buffs.
I don't think you're going to be saying dummy realms don't matter when somebody convinces some hermit retard in the same region as your main base you guys killed that he suddenly just really likes realms, especially since an entire faction is down to help him fight for it every challenge window. Or when you're surrounded by five realms, and they all simultaneously challenge and even if you win two fights, somehow, you lose three pieces of territory, and can only challenge once in the same time frame.
Honestly, though, that affects such a small portion of the community it doesn't ///really/// matter. In the worldview of the people pushing for very combat focused, very rewarding realms the world only lasts 3 months in their eyes, and it's a given that they will be in a group with a realm. But over 95% of the population has no interest in PVP, but the majority of them will still care about realm buffs. If autisticGrinder69 wants to do X, but he needs the X related realm buff to do it well, he's forced to either not do X well or be involved in realms somehow. Unless he's just lucky, I guess...
For autisticGrinder69 that's kinda game ruining. It's why I turned off all of my buffs last world except the ones that benefit exclusively bots - because fuck autisticGrinder69, that guy's probably somebody I hate. But I think the game shouldn't be trying to fuck him, that's other player's job. That's not to mention, the balance of power tends to shift over the world. In 3-4 months most PVPers will have quit, and it will be a very small number of autistic retards that decide realm boarders. Even if autisticGrinder69 befriends the currently strongest realm, and does everything in his power to help them keep his region - chances are some bored guy with x5 his stats, who's way better at PVP than him, with no realm buffs who's just taking land for fun will claim over him, and nobody from his previous realm will even really care - even if the rewards for it are big, because they're simply not playing.
As well, even if the rewards are big, whichever side thinks they're going to lose is simply not going to show up regardless of the rewards, so it will rarely if ever create a large amount of PVP. If anything, if the rewards are even more significant, it'll probably just be demoralizing for the losing side, in addition to mechanically making them weaker. That just speeds up the whole process of one side not wanting to fight. Not to mention the obvious incentives to join bigger groups - which I would argue is a big part of why the game dies to quickly for PVP. Once one side quits there's nobody new to find to fight, because you're either allied to everybody, or they quit. Usually both. Kinda sucks.
I'm not sure if you guys are just near sighted, or if you literally just don't care what happens to a world after 3 months - I assume a bit of both. Regardless, every iteration of realms including this one has been lose/lose/lose for everybody. The game would be better without realms.
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