Cross-faction battlegrounds

[Fridge]

ezatt + fak premade yo lolz.

[Karahn]

Hey all!

I just recently branched by going heretic on another private-server. In the broader sense it was much like this one, instant end-game with most of the gear to follow. One major difference was that the battlegrounds were cross-faction (i.e it was team vs team and not faction bound, so the teams were made up by both alliance and horde players). Since we have some faction balance issues around here I thought it would at least be something that would be worth posting in this section. And when I say that we have balance issues I'm not just talking about the ratio of population, but class and role issues as well. It's widely known that Horde outnumber Alliance by far, but on top of that Horde has a ridiculous amount of Rogues but a lack of healers. And the Alliance has an abnormal amount of restoration Druids and Warriors. Since almost everything else is cross-faction around here I personally think the pros outweighs the cons when it comes to BG's as well.

It would help balance the teams out, both in numbers and to some extent in roles/classes. On top of this it would make for smoother queues and further promote guilds and friends doing BG's with each other. Sure, the Alliance vs Horde aspect would be wiped off the table, but I don't think that's much of an issue here on Smolderforge. Most enmities here seems to be personal anyway, and not faction bound (except the few 12 year olds who yells various crap after they've won a BG). I mean we're all talking with each other anyway. And there's a lot of guilds/players out there who have players/characters from both factions.

When it comes to the coding aspect of this (or whatever you call it) I'm at a loss though. Don't know how much of an issue this would be to pull off. But I do know that it's possible and would at the very least be worth considering in our current situation.

Best regards, Cube.

that is a great way to do it and fix the inbalance of factions. i like the idea, but im sure that would add alot more work onto the staff.

[Mynce]

This will not happen, sorry.

[Henhouse]

I will look into backporting the balancing feature that exists within MaNGOS. This balancing feature will tell the system to only send out invites to an equal amount of players queuing.

For example if AV begins with 40 horde and 30 alliance queued, 30 alliance and 30 horde will enter. The more alliance queue, the more Horde will be allowed to enter and vice versa.


Edit:

Hmm, took a look at their commit where they made this change in mangos and it's enormous because they decided to also separate premades and normal queuing. This could be done a lot simpler way I think.

[Mynce]

lets just revive this thread to see if we could take another look at this idea! :)

[Reflector]

We should brainwash Cube then force him too be Game Master (thumb up?)

[Pallyofhell]

We should brainwash Cube then force him too be Game Master (thumb up?)

nah cube is too square to be a gm

[Imperium]

We should brainwash Cube then force him too be Game Master (thumb up?)

nah cube is too square to be a gm

HAHA THAT ONE'S A KNEE SLAPPER!

[Amgseret]

ezatt + fak premade yo lolz.

The faggotory would be strong in dat one.