Runes of Magic US / AU

The one thing I'd like to see if there were merc options would be that mercy would be randomly deployed to guilds where no guild get more than 1 merc unless each guild got one, therefore decreasing the likelihood of a skewed sw just because of them joining a guild. Sure, adding points based on the merc would be fine, but how would they calculate the amount of points to add?

Maybe instead of making the mercs be deployed randomly, they could be assigned a point system that goes based off of their contribution in a merc siege. Meaning damage done/received, heals done to players, amount of kills of chars 20 levels or less below own level, amount of deaths to players in the 20 point range. Depending on these points. They would be deployed to similarly matching guilds so that mercs can't join low level guilds to farm badges easier.

Maybe a different take would be individual sign ups and players would be randomly deployed into a few merc guilds and the merc guilds would have an equal chance to fight a different merc guild or even a guild 750 points or higher with merc sieges not affecting points.

EDIT: The number of merc guilds would be based off of the number of chars signed up for the merc siege. If there aren't enough to make at least a 15 person merc guild, then they get randomly deployed To other guilds.

Ideas are a little rough, but bear with me please. Any of you could even help refine them.

I thought this thread was about seige times.

Any guild that hires a mercenary or employs mercenaries is a foolish guild and becomes lesser for doing so. The most you will get out of it is the experience of seeing a professional in action, but that's why we have Utube. Congrats on moving up to the next bracket, now you are forced to continue to employ mercs or get pummeled back to where you belong. The best way to grow and advance is to do it yourself.

Back to seige times...I liked the way they just were, a slot where both east and west coast people in guild could participate. Now we are back to the split guild situation; the early slot is too early for the West Coast, people are just getting home from work. The late slot, I have East Coast folks telling me, well I can stay for the first half, but then I'm afk on a tower, see y'all tomorrow, or, boom, as soon as seige ends, 1/3 the guild is offline.

Quoted from "Auros"

I thought this thread was about seige times.

yes.... It was. I think a GM should clean up the things about mercs and put them in a new thread. (And yes, I am guilty of going offtopic about them, too.)

Quoted from "Auros"

Any guild that hires a mercenary or employs mercenaries is a foolish guild and becomes lesser for doing so. The most you will get out of it is the experience of seeing a professional in action, but that's why we have Utube. Congrats on moving up to the next bracket, now you are forced to continue to employ mercs or get pummeled back to where you belong. The best way to grow and advance is to do it yourself.

That is why I felt they should be randomly distributed. Anyone can merc and they won't get to completely control a sw for easy badges if they were given a point system. In my opinion the forming of a couple "merc guilds" based on how many mercs sign up would be the best option, though.

Quoted from "Auros"

Back to seige times...I liked the way they just were, a slot where both east and west coast people in guild could participate. Now we are back to the split guild situation; the early slot is too early for the West Coast, people are just getting home from work. The late slot, I have East Coast folks telling me, well I can stay for the first half, but then I'm afk on a tower, see y'all tomorrow, or, boom, as soon as seige ends, 1/3 the guild is offline.

Yea, this is definitely the case with me and my guild. :/ since we don't know if sw times will change, my guild has started testing out the 6pm EST time slot since we're mostly east coast people. We're probably going to try the 10pm one too in order to see which works better for us.