Sheepherder (not verified) on October 16, 2008 - 10:31.
1. Server's don't have community, they have forums and name-dropping. You have little to no incentive to get to know the people on your server outside of your guild, and at any given time you probably know several opposite faction members better than you know your own faction. The problem isn't instancing, the problem is that these people often don't mean anything to you unless you can use them in some way, and this often means you are competing with them for Phat Lute.
2. AFK'ers are accountable to the developer, not the player, as the player doesn't have any recourse aside from the standard reporting even if the AFK'er is on their own server. If this is an issue it's a failure of the report tools and the GM response.
3. Not playing Warhammer, but why couldn't a battlegroup contribute victory points again? It's not like a other players are going to represent your server any worse than a grab bag of players from your own, and if you go for one single common battlegroup across all servers you have the option of filling battlegrounds with player in accordance with their RvR progression and race (and any other metric which would allow for "correct" matchings). Concepts are not directly portable, this is not an issue for smart people however, and I think you should give Mythic a little credit at least.
Re: Another Warhammer quibble
1. Server's don't have community, they have forums and name-dropping. You have little to no incentive to get to know the people on your server outside of your guild, and at any given time you probably know several opposite faction members better than you know your own faction. The problem isn't instancing, the problem is that these people often don't mean anything to you unless you can use them in some way, and this often means you are competing with them for Phat Lute.
2. AFK'ers are accountable to the developer, not the player, as the player doesn't have any recourse aside from the standard reporting even if the AFK'er is on their own server. If this is an issue it's a failure of the report tools and the GM response.
3. Not playing Warhammer, but why couldn't a battlegroup contribute victory points again? It's not like a other players are going to represent your server any worse than a grab bag of players from your own, and if you go for one single common battlegroup across all servers you have the option of filling battlegrounds with player in accordance with their RvR progression and race (and any other metric which would allow for "correct" matchings). Concepts are not directly portable, this is not an issue for smart people however, and I think you should give Mythic a little credit at least.