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youre trying to revive the "breaking pvp" excuse. we've already gone over how alliances arent the reason PvP is dead.
you can challenge us as did the guilds during the first 3 weeks of CU. nothing has changed except their ambition to try.
this would be an awesome change
Manifest are like the CB were on TR. At the end of it all. You should all scrap your allies and just kick each others faces in.
CU / GvG even BGs. Play to win by all means. But be prepared to lose.
You don't want PvP. You don't want fights. You stack the odds entirely on your favor, then you complain that no one wants to bother anymore.
That's how you lose your legitimacy.
How are they stacking the odds beyond closing guild recruitment?
Why is nobody even trying at all to take them on? Oh right salt and lack of a backbone /skill.
It's not difficult to challenge us in any way, as proven by the first three weeks of CU.
This combined with significantly increased rewards for first through third. It would be cool if the BAMs were on a respawn timer similar to alliance bams throughout the week, excluding CU times.
I'm sorry, but is the goal here to revive CU or kill it? BAMs are the only reason a bunch of people show up for the CU on FF, which apparently is one of the only ones that actually functions close to the way it was intended. Take them out and you're just going to get dead CU on every server. If you want PVP in CU, you provide more rewards/incentives, not less. I honestly have no idea what makes you think removing reasons to show up will bring more PVP or improve CU in any way.
Just read this Manifest dude's posts to get an idea of how that would help the overall situation on MT. The Manifest alliance crap has jack [filtered] to do with the BAMs. The dead CU situation on MT started before Ambush came out, it's just that when it was only Imp Boxes dropping, Manifest ended CU instantly, the only difference now is that they'll wait an hour and a half for some free money too. And from what I've seen, other PVP guilds don't even bother showing up to contest CU as it is on MT, what makes you think getting rid of BAMs will make those people start coming more?
If anything I think there should be more BAMs in CU. Spawn a constant stream of smaller ones that just give the gems and stuff in quantities that aren't as high, but enough to bring people in, this could give smaller guilds/groups an opportunity to profit as well. Tying it to participation might be nice, but isn't necessary. The rewards for second place etc. would also be good. Not that anything we say here is going to make it to the ears of the people actually controlling the changes, let alone be implemented though.
And as for those other suggestions, they're nice and all, but ultimately they mean jack [filtered] as far as CU outcome is concerned. You and your guild/alliance/whatever can abuse the [filtered] out of all of those tactics you mentioned, but a geared group twice your size is still going to mop the floor with you. A big enough zerg is always going to have its way with CU, it doesn't matter how many towers you build or alt healers you switch to. People aren't going to stop zerging and making alliances if you take out the BAMs, so removing them isn't going to affect this "abuse" in any meaningful way.
So, you and I are supposed to fight 1v1. You call a friend to help you. Afterwards, I call a friend to help me as well. have I ruined the fight or have I evened the odds after you tried to ruin the fight? Think carefully before you answer.
Don't get me started on the current status of PVP battlegrounds. They are pretty much non existent right now unless an event is going on. Still no action on Enmasse's part to rectify the issue. I can't even get into a battleground now and most of my PVP friends have quit the game. I am curious on how many players they've lost because of this. Power hour in December was the only thing that saved PVP battlegrounds but with that gone now the PVP side of this game is dead once again. Enmasse, I understand that BH has control and is the only ones to truly fix this issue. However, we do know that you can make battlegrounds alive again just by increasing the rewards, and bc/ks credits. Why not for every day of the week have a different battleground each day that gives out double credits? Make it a permanent solution to fix this until BH makes some changes (if they will)? Add better items in the KS/BC vendors as well!! We all know the vendor could be updated with better items. Starfall materials were at a much lower BC/KS cost than the current ambush materials.. Why is that? These items are 70k/160k that's ridiculously higher than what the starfall items cost even when starfall was top VM gear. These changes alone would have people in battlegrounds again. The longer you sit on this issue more people will quit the game.