More channels

There should be more channels than we currently have, we have a comparable active number of players here, there's constantly people at most gathering spots and most good grinding spots, we should honestly have like 10-15 channels to support the amount of players we have now, it's really difficult to gather efficiently, even worse to grind..

 

Competition is part of the game. Any different arguments for it?

 

I agree its overly contested at some key areas. Wouldn't hurt with 2-3 more servers.. But i dont know how the playerbase trend is.

 

Part of the current issue, that is a fundamental part of the game, is that most of the areas worth farming reliably dont require large amounts of GS in order to effectively utilize the area. Much like susans in retail. Some of the less intensive areas are too lucrative vs the ap needed. This creates areas where people who can just barely farm effectively and those who are over geared can farm much better. Take nagas. This area is a high density, low variant drop table, that requires low amounts of ap to farm at a decent rate. This creates competition from newer players, and those who are more geared, and can afford to contest it. If places in Kama were more lucrative, but just about as efficient, then we would see more high teir players there than at lower ap areas.

 

With the latest .noexp change for premium users that is slightly ture. For the mig majority it is not. Spots are contested due to the high exp rates and the palyerbase all hitting around the same levels. That would be 60-63. The nature of BDO drop rates decreases the drop change in an area dramatical once a certain level has been hit which renders the spot useless. For tha treason most efficient spots are highly contested since there is too many high leveled players for too few high level player grind areas. A solution has to be found considering the droprate decrease, not to open up new channels so that for each channel 20 people get a spot at those areas. Thats simply not efficient.

 

I was unaware of the drop rate decrease when outleveling an area. That is my mistake. With that knowledge, I agree with your above post. Though given how outleveled we are becoming example 63. Most places in valencia are going to experience large drop decreases.

 

Competition with 5 people for one decent rotation?
Yeah, okay, I'll just horse train instead of endless PvP to try to grind.


Is there actually a good argument for not having more channels?
There simply isn't a good spot that isn't heavily contested to the point where afk horse training is better without loot collection scrolls.

Forcing players to PvP to grind any spot worth while is just bad, if players want PvP there's many ways to get it, I understand fighting maybe two people an hour, but fighting 5 people that tear over and over? no thanks.

 

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Yeah, let's make the server more like retail instead of adding more channels, that's genius! /s
We don't want nerfed drop rates, we want more servers because it was fine before the server got more popular...

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Nerfing the server after there's people worth nearly a trillion is honestly one of the worst ideas I have ever heard, the server was fine before lolhero's video... the best way to get it back to how it was is to increase the number of channels relative to player growth, not do some changes that make no sense.

 

While the server continues to grow as players attract more players, more channels will be added accordingly.
Thank you for your suggestion!