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The way to keep it alive is not to keep the player base we have, its to bring new people in and what kind of image of the server to potential new players does it give when they see Xfaction bg-s?

GM-s are not merging guilds that have a guild on each faction so yeah, if you want to merge you different faction guilds people should gquit 1 though this option is not mandatory for people to do.

Another thing, you can't queue as a party so people join the queue at the same time to try to join the same bg etc. If Xfaction would happen, it could happen they join against each other.....?

Question, does your passive aggression help raise the population? Okey, fair enough, cant make everyone happy, but you look at your own interest here, what about the larger picture? 1. Each faction has racial, if it gets mixed up, all rogues will go night elf/human for PVP because those are superior for PVP, imo. 2. The server has lost a lot of players due to Xfaction and other don't want to come here for the same reason. Example, they get bothered that when they gank someone they can /w them, or generally getting /w in pvp situations. 3. I personally feel Xfaction is something that is good at low population but is also hard to turn back at high population so as much as it may help a small number of people that are playing right now, what if the server would get bigger? Turn off Xfaction? how do you do that? To fill a raid, you need up 25 people, to fill a BG/Arena you need 2+2, that's why there's Xfaction for PVE and not pvp. If you see there's too many hordies queueing, maybe play an alliance toon? Also maybe the reason people don't want to play pvp at lower gear level like blues etc. is because they know there's fully geared people in pvp waiting to kill them in 2 hits and just as many that will cry how they are not geared and how their faction sucks. Maybe the reason people don't queue for PVP is because you make it unattractive with reputation you make PVP to have.

Xfaction guilds is a small thing, cosmetic you could say, compared to Xfaction PVP which would be game changing in so many ways.

Its not Excalibur that decided when it will be done. Its the provider.

Because its easy to go straight to last boss and skip all other bosses.

I have seen discount happen on Valentines day so I guess you could hope for that, its in 1 month.

How is the prices on ah related to how much money "some people" have? It is but not that much. What decide the price on ah is the: 1. Amount of that item that is being put on ah. 2. The demand. 3. Of course how much people have but that's an average number how much people have, a few people being rich wont affect the price so much. With a lot of credits there will be more quantity on the ah, the demand will be even less than usual because who need an item will maybe get it with the credits he received = the price will drop. And saying it will "ruin" is a way too strong word. I actually didn't even say 1500 will affect the economy strongly, I said giving MORE than 1.5k would be giving too much and this is just enough to not shake the economy of valuable BOE.

I am not worried, it wont be 2 bad but some people are greedy and always ask for more, more would be bad, thats what I am saying, this is already more than enough.

I think it's better we get 1000 credits, last year it was 1500 as far as I remember and that's too much imho. First of all, people have a lot of accounts with level 70 on it (50+ even more I guess) and credits = gold, when people get credits they sometimes dont buy gear to upgrade their toon they buy items to sell so Xmas credits & other gifts from the server are like tsunami of items on the ah/market of Excalibur. The prices go down and if you actually won a valuable item..... well you are out of luck because there were free Xmas credits. Second, if they would give 1000, you cant buy armor/weapon for that much, even with the discount which mean they would have to buy credits = server profit, the server then does not give free item, it gives you a big help but you still need to add some money to get the item you want. From my experience, when people start thinking of buying something cheap and see offers of better stuffs i.e. packages of credits in our case, they often end up buying something more expensive. I remember there was once a time EXC gave less than 1.5k and I ended up adding 5euros of credits on each account I wanted to buy something.

If this is giving good results what about doing the same/simillar for arena?

I think there's a blue chat post from the server being posted to check the forums for more info.