I think Wildflower is on to something here. The idea of being able to only bid on the cities equal to the level of your guild is a great one since it allows the smaller guilds to fight each other in a more realistically competitive environment and actually win cities. I like any idea that helps the smaller guilds grow. And keeping the buff from the previous level stacked on to the new level helps to make it worth the effort to endure the level up process. Then, once a guild has reached a level where there is no competition for that level of cities, that is where Realm Wars comes in. As it stands now, on Server 2, our guild can beat the other guilds in our realm who bid against us with just 1-2 players in each city. GW has become more of a formality than an actual competition. So yes, something definitely needs to be done. Most of my players just join GW and then don't bother to fight because it's really no fun doing one-turn kills and you can only drag it out so long before you just march into A Base to get it over with.
But if HellFire had to compete against ECLIPSE guild??? Or Ziron??? NOW I would have some interested players again who would be all about winning a server city.
And the arena? Keep the realm arenas and just make a new server arena. All it's going to do is make the Player Rankings come alive with battles.
And one more thing. Way back in the day there used to be a game called Might and Magic. One of the versions of that game had a mini-game in it that was a card game played at a tavern to get coins. I don't remember the particulars of the card game but I know it was a simple, addicting game to play and sometimes I would pop into MandM just to play that silly card game in the tavern because it was actually kind of fun. Maybe Tynon could incorporate something like that where players could play a game to earn more coins or credits or stamina to pass the time as they wait for stamina to build up. So many times we get stalled out. Not enough power to beat the bosses. You get stalled out in the Palace. Not enough stamina to grind or do Lab. Not enough coins for temple. Not enough credits to do tavern. May as well go play Xbox. See you guys later when I get some stamina or after reset when I get some sails. So give us a little mini-game that we can play to get what we need without it costing us anything to play it.



