It's time for Cross-Faction Battlegrounds

[RayHolt]

Hey GMs and fellow players,

I heard there was a poll about introducing cross faction battlegrounds on the server. It seems like it was discarded at the time. However, over the last three days I've noticed that Battlegrounds are hardly ever contested. It's either faction either dominating or getting farmed.Then there's a span of two to three games where it is somewhat balanced during which people log on to their alts/mains and the dynamic changes to the other side. But still: one side farms, the other side is dominated.

I for example witnessed a 38min Warsong match today where the top player had 40+ kills and no deaths by himself. And even after asking, the winning side refused to cap at 2:0 until most players of the other faction either quit or were hidden in stealth. I didn't receive a response to my ticket but since it's a private server I don't expect 24/7 service from you, but that game could've gone on for much longer without stealth abilities. Other battlegrounds I've seen today ended similarly with the one side getting destroyed by 450:2000 or worse.
I've only joined the server this year but I can imagine this is one of the reasons why out of the 2 million characters created since 2008 and god knows how many accounts, only about 100 are active during peak times.

What we need is some balanced cross faction battlegrounds. Either randomly sorted or sorted in a way where Honourable Kills of each team are balanced. Obviously, top players like Immitigable would skew that a little too much, but those are exceptions and can be dealt with by putting a general cap of lets say 20k kills per player on it.

I like this server and enjoy playing on it. Despite the majority of PvP flamers with the standard:
/spit
/laugh
/rofl
makro, there are a lot of fun people on the server that are great to join up with. However, I hate what is currently happening here. I think it will either die out this year or experience a revival. You guys put years of hard work into it, and the server has great nostalgic value for everyone who misses the Burning Crusade. There's a lot of loyal people on the server that happily donate to you guys because of the great work that you guys have put into making and maintaining this server and I'd hate to see this ending soon.

Ultimately it is up to you what happens.

I'm happy to hear any ideas or arguments about what can be done. Keep the 'your mom jokes" on the down low. Ain't nobody got time for that kiddie bullshit.

P.S.: A PvE revival would also be great with scripted instances dropping s4 content for example.

[Henhouse]

The poll data was not discarded at all, but incredibly insightful and helpful. Unfortunately, at this time I currently do not have the available time to spend researching and building such a system to work the way we want it to, according to the poll results.

Most of the poll options we most certainly use to help inform us of changes to make. For example, the change to the report AFK feature in BGs has been changed from the feedback we received. Other questions such as the lootbox idea, and the potential revamp to the honor title system were questions asked directly to combat the issues you speak of -- non-objective focused BGs. The focuses have been on kills and griefing for a long time, but we very much want to shift the direction over to winning battlegrounds, completing objectives, etc. Lootboxes for winning, and an honor title system by honor instead of HKs were two of the ideas we had regarding this.

All in all, CFBGs is something I am interested in, but the hybrid system would be difficult to make work correctly, and would take time that I simply lack currently.

[Grimjoe]

Personally, I believe CFBG's aren't a necessity, because the factions go back and forth between dominating BGs, and there's never really a time where you can't get a BG to pop unless it's outside of peak hour, in which case I don't believe 15 players should be in a warsong gulch anyway.

Also, some of the circumstances you mention about players refusing to cap flags etc. isn't exclusive per faction, it's just bad mannered players.