Brainstorming: Help Please

[azurerogue]

Okay, let's start this conversation over. After a talk in-game about the current WoE situation I want to try to have a real productive conversation about changes people want to see.

Here will be the common starting points to begin our discussion:

1. WoE is pretty stale lately - everyone who WoEs can agree with this. Even if you ENJOY WoE you have to agree that it's the same routine every time.

2. One way to improve WoE, perhaps the only way to improve WoE, is to get more people to participate (either new server members OR current members who don't WoE).

3. WoE is meant to be a competition.

4. The rewards for WoE should be justification in and of themselves. WoE points are nice, but they should neither justify participation nor reward beyond the benefits of holding a castle.

There might be more, but I'm tired.

So let's start - how do we get more people interested in WoE?

The old argument that wings drive people away might be partially true - but while wings CAN be very powerful they have downsides and are only abuse-able in certain situations.

My first suggestion is to make it more enticing for new guilds to join as a group. I know people might object, but I would be fine with a guild rewards package that included (slightly nerfed) WoE gear, or consumables en masse, or both. I'm aware this could be abuse OR would require a lot of extra work for verifying by GMs - but it's a start.

Even though others support it, I don't think reducing the number of castles is the way to go. I know, as stated in my intro, that WoE should be a competition - but allowing more castles allows for more defense. Defense, even if easily broken by veteran guilds, is easier than attacking. Let guilds build up by TRYING to defend and failing rather than forcing them to attack and fail.

Get real BG and offer new guilds BG points as their incentive for moving here. This addressed my first suggestion as well as a major point of stagnation we have as a server.

That's all I've got. But in game I said that you either work for change or don't complain when things are the same. Here's my attempt. My only request is that we PLEASE keep things civil. You can disagree with me (or others) all you want. Just keep it clean and use logic/reasoning to debate what we should do. Maybe things can get better!