I have to agree, now that the waters have had time to settle, its an actual fight.
Yeah Yeah, I know I don't look like that, but a girl can dream.
Not true. I can't speak to all servers, but this B to A still happens on most. 4 of 5 realms still hold all cities/buffs on our server. And the 1 realm that doesn't is stuck in a rut. No one is growing or keeping pace with the rest of the server due to no or inadequate city buffs. It is not fair, never has been and is not better. Maybe the servers that share 1 GW is better, but ours is most certainly NOT.
To the Original Poster: Choose your battles/cities wisely. With a 50% boost (up to 70% at F), even Blayd/Riot can be beaten. And if they have Maria (or at a Fort or base that heals) they won't even be scratched.
To Mischief: I see your point about the 5-realm GW. Yes having no cities is certainly a noticeable disadvantage, and with each realm having 2-3 cities each, your realm may be screwed.
On the bright side however, it's exponentially easier to keep up with a 0 city-buff vs 3 city-buffs .... than a 0 city vs 9 city-buffs discrepancy like before.
Cuddles' Law: The volume of a player's whine is directly proportional to his/her VIP level.
And starve. And fall so far behind. I don't see what is good about that. Soon I will either quit the game, or move to a realm that is rich. Jeezus, I didn't work this hard to be bored to tears. Bottom line. And it's a damn shame. But the reality is that, you can't make reps off 1 rep city = fall behind. You can't get stuff in shrine, when it's nearly empty, you can't get ahead at all.... but hey.. Tynon loves it, so who gives a ***.
And when this game started I loved it!! I loved GW, I was a proponent of it. I spoke out on it. I moved realms to find the fight!!! Until it was utterly turned upside down. Damn shame.![]()
Last edited by MisChief; 04-15-2014 at 12:40 AM.
Servers 1-10 had too much time for the bulk of the smaller guilds to die out and now none that can compete are left. Also the whole each realm has its own guild warfare cities thing makes it worse, the patch was more of intended for the newer servers where most new players end up. Pretty pointless to use them as a measuring stick as to whether something involving guild warfare is having the intended effect.
Server 111 has one GW for all three realms. One guild has 7 cities and two guilds have one city each. The one holding all the cities has 70 players which is the max they can have. The second best guild has 36 players. We can not compete with the one guild since they have so much more rep, coins, credits and now guild chests. They are going to be level 6 in a couple of days and will have 100% rewards for sailing as well. They are not having trouble with the new system.