You should stop making stupid assumptions. I haven't joined the hib RVR BG in months. My group may run with the BG at times when our goals align, but we look for other things away from the zergs as we usually only have 4-6 people.bob._ross. wrote: Wed Nov 13, 2024 8:11 pm You must only play BGs. Hibs have literally had 5 relics for a while. They also wiped Alb and Mid BG during crim-o-clock. Hibs don’t have any issues. Also I was able to template out 2 toons in two days with the amount of pve raids completed. The issue is a combination of realm swapping and time zones. Hibs are heavy during EU prime time and Alb/mids arrive when hibs go to bed. Several folks switch realms when they are getting rolled which only adds to the disparity in numbers. Side note, you can switch realms and fight right away in NF and get full RPs for defense, player kills and living frontier, you just don’t get the slow rps from keep/tower takes. Last night (N.A.) was a great example of 100albs vs 3-4fgh. After wiping a few times, the bg breaks down and players log/pve/switch realms and farm with albs/mids. Conversely, if you try to do anything in Albion NF during EU prime time, you will get ganked by high rrs literally at every named and des camp. Mids get screwed over by both and still try.
I will agree that Hib NA is starting to see an increased rvr population as of the last few nights, maybe even week or so. This thread is just whining though. We put up with the same stuff that EU-not-hib deals with pretty much since the season has started. A week or so of people getting temporarily interested in Hib rarely seems to solve the long term issues of population bulging. We saw entire guilds leave NA Hib to migrate to Mid regularly this season and nobody cared about the 10-12 people left to defend stuff most nights.
If it actually stays to where Hib is dominating 24/7 for an extended period of time then there's an issue, but this is clearly not the case right now. If I want to farm DF on Hib, I still have to make a special point to log in during EU hours most of the time.
To add a small edit, i think the problem is the other realms aren't keeping consistent bg leadership like EU hib gets with Pilz. This makes a huge difference, and you could see it on Retail with all time Hero is running a massive Hib BG. He then switched to Alb and all of the sudden Alb had a huge BG. Even if you don't run with the BG, you still benefit from it hugely via access to ports, decoys and whatnot. When the leader logs though, so does the realm. If there's no BG leader, there's no realm that night. If it changes every night, people wont get a sense of routine or comfort. Early seasons it was important to join the correct RVR bg so you didn't get stuck with a lemon. Hib has Pilz and Kaisir who are both way more valuable than baseline stun at winning RVR.