Hey! Many players are AFK all the time, doing nothing. Fully geared players have nothing to do except for logging on to do EB and Sieges at most. On retail, they retained their players by constantly adding new instances, items, mobs, events etc. Everybody was getting ready constantly by farming for the next patch. On EuroAion however, because this server will forever be stuck on 4.6 (hopefully), people get bored and quit. Due to multiple reasons such as account trading not being allowed, or there not being enough things to do, people leave their accounts and simply leave. Here's a solution I have for you: Battlegrounds! As you might know, on the PvP Server NotAion, there was a Battleground (.bg) system.
BGs are pvp events that occur all day long, with no opening/closing time.
The BG events consist of:
1v1 arena. 3 rounds, the person with the most kills wins the arena.
2v2 aerna.
1v1v1v1 (4-man ffa). 3 rounds, the person with the most kills wins the arena.
1v1v1v1 (4-man ffa). Time based, the person with the most kills wins the arena.
3v3 collect the resources, time based, the team with the most points wins.
3v3 king of the hill, time based, the team with the most points wins.
3v3 capture the point, time based, the team with the most points wins.
3v3 Team Deathmatch, the team with the most kills wins the round. The team who wins the most rounds, wins the BG.
3v3 Team Killcount, time based, the team with the most kills wins.
Basic rules:
- Groups can only have 1 Templar
- If a group has x amount of supports, 2nd group has the same x amount of supports (clerics and chanters count as supports)
Rewards for winning/losing BGs:
- None. BGs are not to win prizes, as this is a retail-like version of Aion. BGs solely purpose is to entertain people. At most give a bag that's empty, unless you can think of a better idea.
Rewards for being top 3 in season rankings for BGs:
- Same as any other top players ranking reward list
Benefits that this adds to EuroAion:
- More players = more money
- More money = can invest even more in publicity/improving the server
- Players will be happy
- BGs will not affect any players
Downsides:
- The maps that will be used for BGs can't be on main EuroAion server, they will have to be added on server116 otherwise they will conflict with eachother
- More players = bigger time investment, the support team will have to expand and with it, new in-game features such as creating tickets in-game with the .ticket command should be added
- Due to there being such as large number of players, problems will occur more often, so helpers should also receive permissions such as teleporting to players, sending them back to obelisk and being able to communicate between factions (Asmo - Ely)
If this idea is something that the EuroAion team looks upon, I am able to provide more details on the gamemodes for the Battleground system. If this has been discussed before, feel free to let me know and ignore this post.