#1 - Nov. 24, 2010, 1:05 p.m.
Thanks in advance *Blue Poster for your response
Errr Wryxian.. I love you and all, but it was changed from PvP to PvE.D'oh! Fixed ;-)
It suffered the fate of Vek'nilash, now all we see is hugging bunnies where there should be death and destruction :/Ahh, then you never knew the pre-conversion Vek'nilash -- where there was no death and destruction, since the Alliance side was already virtually dead and destroyed.
Oh no no, I've been there since vanilla - many good memories from giving the alliance a firm boot in the tushy which eventually led to all those yellow bellies running away ;-)But you can still turn their shiny Alliance smiles upside down in battlegrounds and arenas!
So is there a chance that there might be a new server at cata release? (Or is there a chance that there might be AFTER release, like weeks or whatever?)Sorry, I thought I made it quite clear. If opening a new realm isn't ruled out, this means yes there is a chance it could happen.
Sorry for being persistent, but it's all so vague :(
It annoys me that you would even entertain the idea of a new realm at this stage.All I said was that it was possible. If the need for space on realms was that great that we needed to, we'd probably have to.
Actually that's not true - at least on Vek'nilash the alliance population went up considerably, now we're (and this is coming out of my hat) around 60/40 or even closer to 50/50 in population but from what I've seen slightly tilted towards more alliance people leveling and Horde people already being on higher levels.Yep, after converting to PVE Vek'nilash had a great increase of players on both factions, the most obvious was Alliance since there weren't many of them beforehand.
So yeah, you'll find alliance here - even if it's a naughty PVE server.
If the Magtheridon "test" proves to be successful then it may prove a model for other realms, like mine which have very unbalanced populations. If that is what needs to be done then so be it, the people that don't want to play on a PVE server can migrate away somewhere else at no cost and the rest of us can stay and rebuild the realm.Magtheridon was not a test: it's the third English EU realm that we've converted over this year so far. Though Magtheridon is still only freshly converted and still growing rapidly in population on both factions, the other two realms (Vek'nilash and Mazrigos) are already there. Both have relatively even faction balance now, and are greatly more populated than they were before the conversion.
I think people really just want to know what's planned so they don't feel like they've wasted time elsewhere, hence why this topic comes up again & again.Though we're not going to reveal all our plans and ideas, considering what I've said in the thread already, it won't be surprising to hear that we will continue to recommend low population realms for new players until their population is healthy enough.
It's not quite the same rolling on a realm like Magtheridon, for those looking for a fresh start with the new expansion. it is a good option to consider though :)Apart from the realm's name being new, what is different between an empty realm that lots of people are rolling new characters on and an empty realm that lots of people are rolling characters on?