Thread: Fellowships-only day: Battle for the Ettenmoors (1ed)

I'm writing this in the spirit of trying to get some fun going on in the Moors, and not only zerglins (whatever side).

The idea is to set a date for a fellowships only battle for the Ettenmoors.

How it would work:
From X hour to Y hour of Z day, we would battle to see which side dominates more keeps till Y hour.
The sides should have a fairly equal number of fellowships/small fellowships.
Before the start, we could would have a /roll to start choosing keeps. (The side that gets only 2 keeps, gets LC)

The idea of only fellowships, is that we could have small good battles going on all over the Moors, and the leaders of each will have to work together to take and maintain the keeps. Be it sending a fellowship to guard a rez circle, cut off reinforcements, fake taking a keep, flanking a group of attackers, etc...

What you guys think?

If we get enough numbers, we'll start a poll to set a date/time and the ppl should start forming up the fellowships so we can keep it fair-ish on numbers.
I would propose a sunday or saturday afternoon to do it.

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Love the idea

and honestly herja, i'd do it just to see you out there more often haha

Think it's a great idea!!! Hopefully we can make it happen

It's a great idea in theory, but in practice, if you want it to happen, you will need to coordinate it yourself. Choose a date! Choose a time! Let's do this! (Btw, I claim Sexylegs for my fellow)

Bump to this.... Great Idea !! Was just thinking of this the other day .... We need a sort of poll and or sign up ??

I've always dug the idea of fellowships only, however as someone else said it might be hard to implement all the planning (although sounds great).

My suggestion is just keep it simple to start with (no groups over 6 people rolling around, trying to keep a bit of space from each other HONESTLY), then try and bring in all the variables.

Will always have gold taggers following us, but if you can get the usually group/raid leaders on board and designate areas of the map I think it could work.

Bet Alagosanu wants the moo moos

sounds like a good idea im down

Sounds great, I'm down!

My impossible to implement idea to get rid of gold-taggers:

->Group leaders on Vent, reporting 'em
->Group or trio of high-powered 'marshalls' on each side responding to these calls and serial-ganking the culprits till they group or leave ;-)
-->The opposite side would need to know about these and order their groups not to intervene.
-->The marshalls would have to not take part in the actual event (though I'm sure the inf/ren from their job would sweeten this somewhat).
--->Perhaps they could rotate on and off duty over the course, but this would likely make this even less feasible.

More problems come to mind as I write, but ya'll get the idea ;-)


ALSO
If you US etc people do this and it works good, how would people feel about a 24h event from a noon saturday to noon sunday EST? My thinking is that this could have quite a cool rolling effect as timezones log in and off, plus should give most people a chance to get some decent hours in. I don't know about the Aussies but I (NZ) often find it difficult to get on much before an EST midnight, especially since our summer/holiday period is drawing to a close.
Would be a behemoth to organise, with people having to be allocated to timeslots as well as groupslots, but most moors players seem to at least check the forums and there would hopefully enough of us VIP to move side as required to balance?

this sound fun
and my guard will be there
hopefully there will be more so my warg can join

im gonna shield wall TR woot no creeps is allowed 2 enter

i vote xrood nice and open with no npc's

nice, i like to join on this challenge ^^

I would love to join. On either side.

Seen the idea mentioned on some other forums ages ago, I would have agree to Chiron (which is also closer to the idea I read) of keeping it at fellowships (warbands ) only.
Basically a day of 6 people groups and no whining about needing a raid. Idk what would happen if we have a duo on one side and 3 fellowships on the other though, but I really would be up for trying it out.

"x"-ing for the all burg rez camping fellowship.

In all seriousness though, I welcome any vacation fromt he constant zerging (both sides) in the moors these days and would happily participate.

Originally Posted by Frankfurd

"x"-ing for the all burg rez camping fellowship.

In all seriousness though, I welcome any vacation fromt he constant zerging (both sides) in the moors these days and would happily participate.

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Great idea! I think it is awesome to bring some strategy back to the moors. Count me in as long as the time works out.

I'm in. Either side works for me.

I'm in. I haven't been out there in a long time because of the lack of interesting strategy, but this this could be awesome.

Count me in....I'd rather group than run solo anyway, and smallish groups are a blast..

Iriddian

It does sound a bit difficult to implement. And it definitely will rely entirely on honesty, as Chiron pointed out.

Seems there's a lot of interest on it! It makes me very very happy!

Well, I'll throw another idea there, so we can start feeling out how/if it can happen: What about a gentlemen's agreement that saturdays will be fellowship-only day? Every sat, no raids going out...

Just a few good sense rules:
1) No "Just a 7th, so this guy wont be alone";
2) Avoid 2 fellowships vs 1... if they're fighting, let them finish, then join... may sound like zerg, but it's way different to fight one group after the other then 2 groups at the same time.

This might as well make ppl get to know each other better. Know new ppl.
Be more tactical.
Develop more leaders.

PS: About gold taggers... F them... they'll prolly become first target very soon. Just don't heal or help him.

I really like the idea of small group action, so a small fellowship/group day is perfect for me. Assuming I can find a group with a spot open, you can count me in. Then again for me, it's pretty well small group/fellowship day everyday as it is haha

Toxic, you know I'd drop a Chiron or even Krool group to team with ya, ofc, you'd prolly take my spot then XD

This will work for groups that have balanced well ranked creeps, but I can't imagine this working out for any group with Rank 3 or below creeps, lets say Medo and his group of experienced players coming at them. It would take them 10 minutes just to kill Medo with heals and buffs. This will work out well for the freeps or even a group of six burgs. I still think it would be a gank for any small group that didn't have experience or ranked creeps.

Maybe splitting up the burgs with one per-group and making sure that the creep side is more balanced. It's not like we can call for help in Gmoors or our kinships. I'm sure that this will take a level or cooperation that we haven't seen in the moors before. I'm sure people will want to run with their buddies, but this also might leave groups out of a fight if they are just standing around guarding a keep. Or are you talking about freep and creep groups running in the same area at the same time at the different bases?

Also will this be a no mount day? They seem to have gotten faster with the lottery giving away a 20% increase in mount speed.

sounds fun i'm in. Will try to spread the word. Set a date/time, or just make it recurring

I'll worry about the details of greeny-raids later. It's highly probable they'll end up forming a raid and frankly a 12-man raid of greenies vs a fellow of ranked is probably an even fight.

Also i'm hoping the burgs will be kept in-check by a warg pack.

Originally Posted by Nethion

I really like the idea of small group action, so a small fellowship/group day is perfect for me. Assuming I can find a group with a spot open, you can count me in. Then again for me, it's pretty well small group/fellowship day everyday as it is haha

You need to step it up Tox....Cricks near worst in Infamy total/avgs in 2012 versus all other servers.

you have my spear set a time and day(weekends are best for me) and ill be there if i can

haha Stix, I sure wish I could say that comes as a surprise. Ya know there have been a lot of changes around Cricks' Moors since we were all rolling out as a group. It seems only fair with the current state of skill that the freeps are the ones sitting pretty. Our creepside is the greenest it's ever been and i'm not talking about rank. I just hope that the new creep tribe that is forming up can make a big difference, MM is where I lay my hope for creepside ever coming close to a inf/renown balance. However, you feel free to come on back and help out, i'd be happy to have your warg dominance, spider poop, or reaver lethality any day of the week.

Originally Posted by chrisCML

You need to step it up Tox....Cricks near worst in Infamy total/avgs in 2012 versus all other servers.

Cool concept. Count me in.

You want a private server go play Metin.

Has GW2 come out yet?

Is this still on ? I can do 1-4pm server tiime on Saturday. I Hope to find a fellowship..

Sure! Let's try it tomorrow!

Not the whole event... just a saturday of no raids, only fellowships and small-fellowships!

If everybody could keep reminding ppl on gmoors and both sides OOCs, I think we could manage to try it out! =)

if we want to do fellow vs fellow, we have to find a good spot and combine there

but today i have done part of 2 fellows and works nice

It kind of defeats the purpose when multiple fellowships are travelling together.

The inside of either creep/freep Delving entrance has worked for things like this before. The valley between OR and GV... the same for creep side.

This idea sounds grand, but (As Acmereaver states) "if" the teams are balanced - otherwise there will always be a reason to point a finger at class matchup vrs. gamer skillplay.

Just my .02

Or when one group follows another, not to mention goldtaggers.

I love this idea, I'm sure it would work great on a server with a larger ranked pvmp population.

Originally Posted by Cliffle

It kind of defeats the purpose when multiple fellowships are travelling together.

We had some very nice fights out there!

I figured two major problems:
1) Goldtaggers. Yes, goldtaggers turned out to be more of a problem then I first imagined... mainly cause there were never one, but a few... and a few extras against 6 makes it really really hard.

2) It was kinda hard to bump into another group... prolly cause there were 2 groups of freeps and 2 of creeps, I guess... but still, we were too close together, which made it complicated to not make a 12v12...

Anyhow, I think so far it was worth the try! I had a good time, till someone on each side decided to convert-to-raid....... oh well...


So, thanks all those who tried to make this work! I really appreciated!

I don't expect it to happen again... ppl just can't 'try harder' if there's an easy mode button avaliable.

I think for the most part this went pretty well. Herja thank you for the group BTW your very tolerant... Addtionally I was thinking of an idea that might work to keep fights seperate..

What if a fellowship flips an OP this will signal to either freep or creep Fellow that there is a group looking for a fight.. That group that flipped the OP holds it til defeated.. Then its theres to defend.. This could help clear up some confusion as to who is in which group... And you will always know where to return to for the fight to continue...

Goldtaggers made it difficult to judge how it would've really gone today. And its to bad you cant just get with the program....

Oh well I had fun and I ranked .. Thanks to all who were there to help and all the creeps for coming out...

Goodtimes

Hello all, please pardon my newb question, I am fairly new to the Moors and have been out there a number of times.

What is Zerging, and Goldtagging?

Seems like it is frowned upon, I just want to make sure im not out there doing it.

I have been reading this thread and it is very interesting. I made it out today but just when the fellowship day was over, managed to get into a small group and had a blast. As pointed out it should have been longer, but its a work in progress. It would be great to see more events like this, maybe even a Class vs Class event.

Great job on setting it up.

Zerging is the norm for moors these days, it's a large group picking a target and smashing it usually a weaker target, which is about any creep. Gold tagging is a person who does not join a raid but follows to take part in the kills. I have never understood the problem with gold tagging in the moors, you get much more infamy in a raid than gold tagging. Some people do hate it tho, and most everyone says they hate Zerging.