I've never rolled a character on Mordred. Something about being rolled at practically any place, by any one just didn't appeal to me. Although for a lot of players, it provided countless hours of entertainment and camaraderie. That server was home. Now sadly, it is all but dead, and because of the way the servers were set in the beginning, the characters can't be transferred to Ywain. Many of the players are frustrated and angry to say the very least.

Gaheris faces the same dilemma. On Gaheris, other than the occasional dual, there is no PVP. In the Frontiers, there are no towers, only the main keeps, and they are occupied by high end mobs. Those mobs have to be defeated and they drop seals that the players collect and turn in for realm points.

The other thing that makes these servers unique is that they lack the realm specificity that Ywain carries. On the alternative rulesets, you can have characters on all 3 realms and mix certain gear between them, you can roam each other's lands and capital cities, log off, switch realms, and log right back on with no timer restrictions. A cleric and a hero can run together and assist each other.

Right now, both of these servers are suffering from a severe lack of population and feel that the game developers aren't doing enough to keep their servers alive. So many have said they would gladly drop all their gear if they could transfer their characters to Ywain. For many, moving to Ywain meant a total restart to the game, and abandoning the characters that they often worked years on developing. It meant abandoning the houses they put up, the gear and items they collected over the years, and the plat they earned. None of it could be moved to Ywain. So there it sits on a dead server. Hard to trade for the Ywain equivalent so, you start again.

Topic of the Week asks: Have you played on the alternative rulesets? Do you think anything can be done to revive those servers?

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The alternative ruleset servers died off for a reason.


PvP ruleset is too hardcore for most peoples tastes, most players don't like looking over their shoulder constantly when doing PVE (unless it's in a BG, RvR Dungeon or the Frontiers when the risk / reward thing applies).


Co-op ruleset is rather too niche now. Other games came along to do the PVE side of things better and now most people still playing DAOC are here for the RvR alone.


At this stage in the game's lifecycle I think it's fair to say that the vast majority of people still playing are interested in the 3 realm RvR style of play, because this is the one thing DAOC still has that no other game can match. Other games do PVE better. Other games do PvP rulesets better. No other game does 3-realm RvR better. Maybe GW2 will change this, but for now ....

Mordred isnt a bad idea just create a few more safe havens so people can level up without getting grey ganked.

 

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I think the Origins ruleset is the best.

Wait...

I enjoyed Mordred. Some aspects of it made it the best type of PvP you could ever ask for. But at other times the quality of PvP was very poor, just constant portal camping, and killing people worth no RPs. I wish I could design a PvP server concept from the ground up, I think it could be quite good.

 

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What is there to be said on this topic that hasn't been said my Mordred advocates for years?

Maybe if Mythic had asked this question five years ago we could have actually done something to save the most fun server/ruleset in the history of any video game ever.

 

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To be honest there's nothing right or wrong about any particular ruleset. However, (and this is true for the main game itself atm) if there's not content being actively developed for it then it's going to end up dying off. That Mordred or Classic or Gaheris had a shining moment is only testament to the fact that gamers will try to play the games they are offered. When it's just a dead end product nobody is going to play it.

 

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Reset & RE-Release Mordred. Make no porting for 30 seconds - 1 minute after you've been in combat.

 

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Then you could bind heal all day.

 

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Some things to think about. If the serv. Pop gets to low peps will stop playing all together. Every time some thing new comes along peps quit and try it the population drops then the others that are left have no one to play with. Next the game dies quicker look at classic the serv, died hella quick after a certain point. If the pop gets to low this game will lose everything because lets be honest no one coming back in big numbers. Every new serv will split peps off and if there is not enough players to play both serv. I really honestly think you will kill everything you have left.