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 rule sets? Do you think anything can be done to revive those servers?

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Reposted from Camelot Vault

 

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Thanks for the topic! They were going to merge Mordred and Gaheris together and have a PvP battleground within the Coop ruleset. The compromise was that Gaheris would also receive a new PvE Battlegroup as well. This was publicly announced and almost implemented (you are given the option to port to Molvik at keeps but it fails to send you there). Mythic had a reshuffling while the plan was being implemented and so it was tabled. What a shame.

 

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Although they did open up Cathal Valley on Gaheris as a PVE zone complete with 2 high level mobs in the keep that drop seals and trophies.

 

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Indeed they did and as a result did not uphold Mordred's end of the bargain. Oh well, I'm happy that Gaheris got something out of it when Mythic would have otherwise left both the servers untouched.

 

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they were going to make Origins
they were going merge Mordred
they were going to allow copys OFF Mordred
they WERE


Mythic is full of shit

 

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Unfortunately this is the truth...


i suppose some things are just better left alone, think about what happened when toa got introduced... the game virtually died, i dont think the ywain server could handle a Orgins reset personally at this time... just not enough people if 3/4's of the server goes to one new server then 1/4 the population quits... its not a smart way to keep the game going

 

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Um, the population increased by 3-4x after ToA, lol.

 

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'Have you played on the alternative rule sets? Do you think anything can be done to revive those servers?'

Is this even a serious question?

Many people played ONLY on Mordred.

We all have fond memories, heck not a week goes by where one of us doesn't mention Mordred.

But Mythic was terrible supporting that server.

I was the GM of the #1 guild on Mordred, indeed the #1 guild in the entire game.

But no one cared, or even asked, when due to changes to the server we left en masse.

How funny is that, Mythic made a MAJOR change to the server, without even announcing it in ANY patch.

No one on the entire server had a chance to comment.

Mythic, without a single note to the population, changed the entire server.

So we,

the top guild on the server,

left.

Mythic listened to some bad advice from a clueless TL. I mean we have screenshots of this TL not knowing basics about how the game worked.

If you want real info, why not talk to the people who played the game hard for 5 years?

I think 50 accounts left when our guild pulled the plug on Mordred, and there were times when we were 20% of the whole server pop.

You want more real comments from serious players, let us know.

(and none of us trust VN, since the same TL that ruined the server, was also a mod on VN that censored our posts. Yes, it was that bad).

Shoot me a PM if you really care.

your guild pulled the plug when you couldn't house 6 relics nub.. face up to it.

 

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20% of the server population having 30% bonuses was exactly why the change should have occurred far earlier in Mordred's history, as had been advocated for years before you dominated a broken ruleset.

 

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