Another War Idea

[Commissar]

Ok please forgive me if this has been suggested. I rarely come to the (any) forums.

With the latest server merge we now regularly get 300+ people signing up to wars and its usually the same 50 that get picked (Understandably). On top of that in 1 week we have only had 1 provence change despite wars everytime a provence is available to declare, it seems quite hard to take a provence.

So i was thinking, what if we removed the instanced zone of wars and placed the war at the fort of the provence but use the same 3 flag capture system. To stop abusing and capping in the early hours of the morning, make it so the 3 capture flags only appear when the defender of the provence has set their war time (eg 8pm-9pm)

Then anyone can turn up and try to take the provence from the defender. The attackers (and defenders) will have to work with their faction to group up enough players. The defenders know that they will to defend the provence at their prime time and will have to rally troops to defend it.
It will allow more people to join (and people that arnt nessarily level 60) and IMO would bring more unity to a faction. Plus i think it would increase the amount of PVP in general and even increase open world PVP (Think - strike teams could try to interdict reinforcements) And you could get some EPIC battles.

If you want to prevent war fatigue you could set it to only happen every other day or something. But the benefits of holding something like Everfall or Windsward are pretty rewarding so you really should have to constantly hold it and not just sit there and generate money.

And hey if you really wanted to take the idea further you could make it so crafters could constuct the war camp (with PVP on) 30mins before the defence timer starts. The better they make it the better the bonuses. Same for defenders. But hey lets start with 1 idea at a time.

Ok idea over. Flame me away and let the cesspit begin…

[Commissar]

TLDR version:

Remove instanced wars and have it take place at the fort during defenders nominated hour.

[X-R]

wars already arnt instanced. so it would only require removing the barriers. and while it would be amusing. it would allow SEA megazergs that have over 1400 people in discord and over 300 active members to never loose. 50 top teir players cant take on 2-1 3-1 4-1 and its already hard to keep a 50 man roster of top teir players together. as most are burnt out on the game. imagine trying to gather 200 - 300 of them.
if they were to impliment something like this. they would need to revamp the war system to be a KP system with held flags as a modifier [similar to opr but without the pve] or make it an actual siege system. similar to ESO’s or something like Rust Raiding, it pushes it from member advantage to skill advantage. so you can take a 50-150 fight.