PN 2 does honor events less than East. Anyone who would join because "I can't get GR and CR, I lose halcy!" would actually lose out on honor compared to staying mainland.
Once the PN 1 alliance with East ends (if it ends) it'll likely be similar with them.
I can't imagine anyone on east who is frail enough to be upset at getting griefed at CR / GR also staying in PN 2 and not hating it. I don't know about PN 1. They won't find much growth here.
I never said the people with this logic were smart lol
I never once thought "wow I should stop showing up to halcy" when Strykes killed me at it. I don't even understand how people come to conclusions like that. PN 2 having 7 people show up and PK a few people on both factions is hardly enough to ruin the whole event lol. They never even changed the outcome of the fight............. We didn't kill Kraken because East couldn't pull enough numbers for it (except for the first few weeks when uwu started playing), but I'd hardly say anyone was annoyed about fighting PN 2.
Strykes smacking you for 4k triples in pvp shouldnt discourage you at all from doing events. ........... We arnt unstoppable PN1 isnt unstoppable these are just facts. Dont get upset because you cant win and quit trying youll never get better that way.
I'd like to say that I wholeheartedly agree with the points made but disagree with the intents at the same time solely because of personal involvement of visibility. I'm seeing all these posts from people that are IN the player nations, but I'm speaking as one of the people leading West faction content the best they can. I'm personally not afraid to go to content and get nothing from it, I'm not discouraged from PVP just because Strykes hits me for 4k, but the faction (at least, the West)
IS. I am speaking for the people who do show up, I am speaking of the people who stopped showing up because of these variables, and I am telling you that this behavior I am outlining is what is helping to cause a rift in the home factions regarding PVP (although I hear East has had some toxic leadership in raids lately, that can contribute as well). Participation will keep faltering so long as the West and East (speaking mostly from a West perspective) keep getting their progression stifled by someone that isn't each other. To top it all off, a good handful of people refuse to show up to content, especially long content, if they don't see something from it after <x> amount of time. That's why fewer people show up to 8 hour krakens (well, that and I'd love to assume they have lives outside of the game).
The West was just starting to gain confidence in fighting large numbers at Halcy, then PN1 allied and doubled the Haranyan Alliance's total GS at Halcy and basically fucked all that up for the sake of farming honor. When double your numbers and double your gear score just bowl over you inside of an enclosed environment on land, no amount of strategy will fix that. Adding that same group of people to boats and extra levels of confusion when they can't stop themselves from hitting their brain's power button as soon as they see a sea of red on their screen just doesn't happen overnight. And if they can't handle one dimension of combat, they sure as hell aren't ready to attempt two, especially if they know they will get nothing of value from it other than "experience". Experience might be good for some people, but eventually it isn't enough, and that's where complaints regarding the ink sac eventually come into play. Why show up and do something not fun like disrupt an 8 hour kraken just for someone else to win something that we know right off the bat we won't be able to personally profit from? Do you go to work 8 hours a day for free doing someone else's job and not expect a paycheck? No, so why do you think they'd willingly do that on a game they came here to have fun in?
But this topic is hilariously off-the-mark for this thread. Both options given fucking suck. They will increase supply but will negatively affect the cost as a whole. Altering the Ink Sac cost through conversion would be a possible alternative that would still encourage people to participate in other events, though.