I appreciate that all of us can come together and actually discuss this. The previous issue of the last time this popped up is that the bold statement that people hate each other so much to the point that people try to PvP everywhere with methods such as: Attempting to boot east/west players or IHG players trying to boot people they hate from RD, Blocking trade outlets with freighters, leaving alts up to scout trade outlets and other petty areas including: Forums, other PvE content, and other areas where PvP isn't the primary objective. As for the following statement regarding IHG.
Not only is this just a gross and misuse of numbers and pull to try and get the bosses swapped in IHG's favor. The argument that gets brought up time and time again is that (insert nationality group) is the majority player base, thus timers should be tailored to them. This happened previously when both the previously know BR squad and pn2 combined on pirate and were all but uncontested due to the sheer amount of PvP players who rightfully won said boss content by PvPing over it.
East at the time was a majority of Eu players, and west bandwagons' the vote to change timers to what they are currently at. This was a vain and fruitless effort to try and deny bosses from the people who were rightfully able to farm it. We attempted to contest said group as west only a handful of times, but due to the changes of such bosses. The pirate group not only still won contested, but also the people responsible for the introduced boss timers all quit to play on EU or just stop playing in general after said attempts to contest. This follows suit to the same problem we are at currently.
These bosses have, and always were built in mind to be the main PvP content of Archeage. Changing them anymore for the sake of a guilds time zone is a gross misallocation of resources, time, and pettiness of one group to another solves absolutely nothing. This is a vain attempt to get more free content by IHG, and should be treated as such. The major content draw of Archeage is these main event bosses, the game was designed this way for a reason. If IHG is asking for timers to be changed to free farm more bosses, you might as well just make another server to let them play on, because they do not want PvP, they seem to just want to gear and get everything handed to them on a silver platter. The state of boss timers is already extremely trash due to the last time this happened, and also caused a massive divide of players, which as stated above from others:
SWAP SERVERS IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE TIMERS, this is an NA server, and has a majority of what an NA player base usually has, as the following: NA, and SA players, It reflects the same population groups of any MMO on a NA based server. Don't like it? Leave. The voting alone shows how 1 hive minded guild is going to act, in light of the statement. It is majorly the problem of different cultures, and different ideals. It seems staff has brought this up too as timers currently aren't at a steady grouping for Sunday bosses. So I'm going to propose the following:
- Change Sunday boss timers to at least 1 PM server time to allow both Chinese, America's, And Eu player bases to participate in the event. It's at a decent evening time for Eu, Na players, and 1 AM for Chinese players. It's as close as you're going to get to make these bosses fair and consistent. As stated above from other posts. This is an NA server. These bosses are optional, and you need to choose the time you want to attempt these as they are not meant to be freely killed.
- Create some sort of 1 time transfer to allow said players to swap to or from the NA-EU to allow accommodating stances over these insane world boss timer changes already done here. This would allow everyone to have the chance to be happy and experience the content that is constantly complained over.
- Ignore this post and it's attempted change as it's stupid and only favorable to 1 guild.
Care bear the bosses and give Every faction free reign to kill the bosses uncontested (Seriously? this is what this post sounds like)
Every time crap like this shows up, it's a pathetic attempt to starve other players out of things without actually contesting them. Yes it is unfortunate that IHG can't play on our times, but they made that decision by playing on an NA server. The blatant abuse of mechanics, timers, alts, and bots have been extremely prevalent from certain groups, and is also extremely one sided over my above statement of: " Some of you PvP in PvE content" As it's petty as it can get.
TL;DR:
You don't get to try and zerg votes in to get content meant for PvP, just because you want free bosses. Tons of other people have to sacrifice time and energy to fight over said bosses, or log in to kill them. If you can't do that, you don't deserve them, and that's also your own faults for mass feeding world boss weapons that no one else on the server still has a single t2 of. Changing these timers will only lead to more 1 sided amounts of players that have zero chances of upgrading or gaining boss loot. Play the game the way it was meant to be, not the way YOU want it to be.
not everyone is a whale like you. You chose to play on NA server, make time for content if you want those bosses. I recall you doing Risopoda early morning when you know NA players of West are not present, lol. Did you think about them? FYI, I am West. and i vote NO.
