Quote Originally Posted by ChickenWing View Post
Why not remove the player's protection in the wild then?

And mandonake, you know very well that it is impossible to grow some power equivalent to that of the top dogs if you were not there from the start. They have great advantages that make it impossible to surpass them, such as:

- top 5 rewards in the arena
- rewards from baal and cerberus

Unless you're here from the start, you cannot surpass the players who get these advantages. Once the first few days have been played out on a server, the top dogs remain there. Forever. When you grow some power, they grow a lot more.

There's nothing noob friendly about my suggestion. It's just about offering fair PvP battles for those who didn't join on the first day of a server. You can be a good player and still suffer from that if you were not there from the start.

I think about another game which deals with this problem pretty easily: Tribalwars. When you start later on a server, you're on the outside circle of the map, not inside. This makes you fight people who started at the same time as you on the server, and when you're ready, you can go and fight the top dogs in the middle of the map. There's nothing wrong/noob about fair battles.
And here lies 1 of the major reasons why some older servers are becoming ghost towns and need to be merged.
1. Nobody like to be bullied. Hell they got lots of that in their real working life they don't need some more after work at home.
2. Why should I join an older server and never get a chance to be top dog might as well wait for new server or play another game
3. Sr. members that joined from the start people are seeing people leaving its so boring playing with these few ( some cases less than 10 ) all the time its like DIY in the toilet.

Look at some other mmo games in the net and you notice that they have not server merged before like for 4yrs or why lowbies and high-ups and play side by side without being bullied or feel that they could never chase up.