Rudra wrote:I find it beyond ridiculous to accuse the Hibs of taking keeps with 21 people.
Well, server population increase recently hasn't really come from more players in Albion and claimed keep-messages tell us you're running around with at least 19 people while we also only have like 20-22 players.
Rudra wrote:We currently have a Fg in the EU prime time and in the Na time there are also many active on Hibernia.
If Albion invades a realm with 3Fg+ and captures keeps, that's ok.
Which is simply not true - maybe on monday evenings, but Albs also don't have remotely close to 3+ groups on those days.
During tuesday/friday evenings, Albion manage to have about two and a half groups, not 3+
Rudra wrote:Most of the players who are currently in Hibernia are looking for the open fights, it's more fun.
What you don't realize: It's more fun for Hibs, but not for Albs!
Hibs have - by design - stronger groups, since as soon as you have the basic setup of a viable group, you have a bunch of other important abilities too.
While it doesn't even make any sense for a Hib group to even enter the frontiers without a bard, as soon as you got a bard you got a perfect foundation with a lot of abilities that are simply lacking in Albion, for a number of reasons.
Often we don't even have minstrels for all groups, sorcs are also rare and endurance chant/potions are even rarer.
While Hibs and Mids usually use speed 6 and can pick their fights - and pick only those they know they can win - Albs rarely and never on zerg evenings have that luxury.
And then you have the animists, which are extraordinarily strong during keep defenses, keep attacks (shrooms in windows of the main tower, hooray) and also open fights.
It's not much fun when you get (insta-) mezzed from at least two directions and when/if you purge that, you get tangled anyways.
Animists are a big multiplier of strength and make one group feel like two groups - which is made worse when current server population has an equal amount of Hibs to Albs and sometimes even more Hibs.
Attacking a defended lvl 8 keep with a full group of Hibs and a bunch of animists is very (!) hard and if it's even more Hibs, it's suicide to attack.
But we get mocked for "dodging fights", while Hibs (and Mids) only pick those fights they know they can win, either by speed-6-ing away until they're at a place they can shroom up at or simply run into a lvl 8 keep and they rarely attack defended keeps, happily sitting all evening in a lvl 10 keep and waiting for the zerg to show up.
If the zerg instead waited in Beno for you, nothing would happen!
And numbers can't even be compared between realms!
1. Hibs can build stronger groups and it's more likely to have a good foundation in Hib than in Alb
2. To be honest: Alb players in a Romu zerg are different from those Hibs defending!
Alb has a way higher number of "
sunday drivers", players that only log in for those evenings and who play mostly for fun and classes that they want to play, not those that are needed!
I mean, it's even obvious from the constant realm switching from Hib to Mid to Hib etc, while the Alb population stays pretty much the same, with few people switching to or visiting from other realms.
A large percentage of Albs doesn't really care if the grass is greener (or whiter) somewhere else and will stay in Albion until this server eventually shuts down.
And: It shows!
I bet that the average Hib/Mid (they're mostly the same people anways, just different weeks of the year) is way more focused on success in RvR and playing well.
I don't really want to blame them and won't name names, but the percentage of people using Teamspeak (It' funny that Valfar mentioned Albs having a laugh on Discord, proving that he has absolutely no clue about Albion) on Romu nights is way lower than it needs to be and then there are some people who probably don't even read the friggin battlegroup chat.
And Assisting...
Well, there's a reason Albs have a tendency to be stronger in open fights when there's just one or maybe one and a half group of them than when there's two and a half groups - 80+ percent are in TS, mezzes don't get broken by Leeroy Jenkins-style AoEing and people carry and use invig potions! (And people tend to play classes that are actually usefull in those situations, to begin with).
Leading a Romu zerg (even when it's not actually Romu that is leading, like Gremon or occasionally me) is like herding cats (or "einen Sack Flöhe hüten" for the Germans in here) and you can't apply your "I want open fights because those allow me to express my skills as a class X" mindset on the majority of Albs!
That's also displayed by the regular appearance of a lvl 50 group of Hibs/Mids in Darkness Falls (taking Claret just for that) or the RvR-dungeons/SH on Thursdays, when (as everybody knows) Albs are xping.
We're just trying to have some fun, with no toon much higher than RR2 and lots of people below lvl 40.
And suddenly - but not unexpectedly - the team of friggin Bayern München shows up on the football/soccer field, to show that amateur team how incredibly strong they are.
Wow, we're impressed by your power and applaud your heroic skill of "über ne Gruppe 40er drüberrubbeln".
This alone exemplifies the differences between Albs and non-Albs and why it's very tone-deaf to complain about dodging fights, large numbers of players etc.
While a large number of Albs see this game as an Online-RPG, you guys see it as friggin Counter-Strike, rejecting even the MMO-part of the PvP in this MMORPG.
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