Connected PVP / PVE Battlegrounds

[Mastodon2090]

Bleh all the pvp server knows is ganking. Bring your T2/R14 gear and get competitively owned.

[Jordann]

Nostalrius said that once the PvE server catches up with the content of the PvP server, they might consider it.

Source?

[iii]

They said it probably will never happen because of technical limitations.

[Ohhgee]

Bad idea

Experimental queue changes have all resulted in unforeseen negative side effects (wintrading, empty games, now more recently giant wave of AFKers and chinabots)

also, player pool would become too big. the honor system is already working with a higher player pool (AKA bigger 1st bracket) than it *should* be afaik.

finally the most obvious thing is that the servers being at different patches PvE wise would cause major imbalance.

[Mryul]

this is a terrible idea....

please dont do this

[Dreez]

Bad idea

Experimental queue changes have all resulted in unforeseen negative side effects (wintrading, empty games, now more recently giant wave of AFKers and chinabots)

also, player pool would become too big. the honor system is already working with a higher player pool (AKA bigger 1st bracket) than it *should* be afaik.

finally the most obvious thing is that the servers being at different patches PvE wise would cause major imbalance.

- not a queue change, just more players

- player pool wouldn't increase as honor ranking is dealt with per server not per bg group

- it's kinda obvious that this can only happen when the servers are at the same patch, which is what nost is aiming for, the pve server is supposed to be progressing faster

[Dreez]

Nostalrius said that once the PvE server catches up with the content of the PvP server, they might consider it.

Source?

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=20231

3.3 Cross-realm battlegrounds

We won't go much into detail here, but cross-realm battlegrounds are a very complicated topic.
The concept has been precised and specified before this summer by the Development Team with the following conclusion: it is a very difficult challenge to achieve and there is, for now, no guarantee that it will happen as it needs a lot of software development. The content release shift between the PvE & PvP realms gives us several months to prepare a final answer.

seems like I didn't remember it correctly, however they didn't decide yet

[Kdg]

No please never. They wanted to be pve bitches so they can all be bitches together.

[Dreez]

really shitty arguments in this thread,

there's literally no disadvantage of having cross realm features (as long as trades are limited to crafted items , healthstone, food etc, which is easy to script)

cross realm battlegrounds allow shorter queue times, different players to face, more pvp action

[Arucado]