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Ghostcrawler
Ghost sent word that he's busy on his yacht enjoying his new iPad he bought with the money he made from giving everyone that damned pony.
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Do people act in real life like they do in wow?
I'll bite. Let's see if we can't get some constructive and intelligent debate going. Here's my 2cp:
Obvious jokes about "epic loot" IRL, and how some people use acronyms in speech, and cut to the question the OP is actually addressing: do people in general treat each other the same way in person as they do behind the veil of anonymity found on the internet?
This is clearly a somewhat subjective question, but I'd wager to say that the amount of people who act identically (bad) in both places are in the minority.
Keeping that in mind, the question of "why is it so?" quickly enters the fray; and from here on out we are talking about something that could be detailed in a University thesis study on human social behaviour. I suppose the condition to be met is; "do I think I can get away with [what I was going to do]?"
The ideal world would have the entire online community follow the same mentality as if anonymity did not exist; and that the community as a whole shunned those who behaved in ways considered unacceptable; but that is, as stated, an ideal world. However, It does not mean that we should not aim to do just that though. In the vast majority of cases the mentality of the community will shape the behaviour of the community far more effectively than a totalitarian retroactive "police" approach.
The question up for debate then becomes; how does one influence the community as a whole to make better choices, and to treat each other nicer? Let's hear your thoughts!
...any news on whether we'll ever be able to upgrade the original backpack?
We think about this one all the time, be it an upgrade to the backpack, or making it replaceable by larger bags. We'd just have to be careful to not make it possible to have no bags equipped at any given time, because that would get messy. No guarantees on this one, but do know we're considering it. :)
how to even up all the servers ? I am so tired of 75 alliance per 1 Horde on my server that is how out numbered we are. We hardly ever have wintergrasp. I know some where on other servers its opposite but most likely very rare. Blizzard fix this, Bg's are a joke for the ruin and nightfall battle groups, world pvp doesnt happen. And if it does happen we are really out numbered bad.
The average alliance to horde ratio for Trollbane is 1.08:1. That doesn't take into account things like player participation, character level, interest in certain activities such as world PvP, etc. but the actual ratio is pretty much even.
We do what we can to encourage faction equality though. If any situations arise that require our intervention we do so. We've had realm transfers that only allow one faction to move, we've shut down character creation for a single faction. We have methods to help balance realms or even battlegroups and we do use them, for all US realms at current and especially in this case though I wouldn't characterize it as needing that level of intervention.
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