To add to that, scores should be scaling up the longer you hold a point. Forces people to defend if their high scoring keep is undefended because of zone flipping and hopping.
Easy solution to all that, and lessons learned from WAR. Have rewards for defense to discourage flipping, equal to or even greater than attacking at least over time. Have it tie into how much you upgrade a tower/keep and it has tiers of bonus if you get it fully fortified and actively defended.
Should be an upgrade or based on actual player being in the area, or upgrade tower/keeps to have scout npc that will flag the area if it witnesses a fight. Smaller groups and people that like to scout or solo will feel useful and promotes communication instead of mindless talkless zerging.
Not sure how much this will help, but if devs need a timestamp, it was 12:55am Oct 27 PST (pacific standard time). Was in the SW keep and chat blew up with orb on the move and how is it moving when east keep had no breach and we had commanders in the area. Looked up my map and took that shot, but the time I went out to type then back to map it was in the garrison. Would say 5-10sec flight time and did see it fly fast while map was up.
To people doubting, how many times has an orb been taken with multiple commanders in the area and the chase not even being close. There was activity going on close to the keep’s north west gate and got away no problem. Sure those people in the area can add to it, was said there was no breach they were close to the keep and recently walls and gates were checked.
Agree with alternative progression system even if it’s all fluff. One of the problems is it’s really hard to get to know your server mates and especially your enemies. Standard titles/ranks and guild livery recognition. Really need something along the lines of Camelot Herald, would work great in this social networking time, where you can look up and see how others are doing. Community tools keeps the never ending fight going more than any grind.
If anything there’s not enough space and run and port times are too cheesy and easy to get back out there. You should fear dying not just respawn and charge out constantly over and over.
