At the moment I'm typing this Port Royal is dead as fuck and it's getting worse every week. After the whole enemy guild quitted after a scam scandal there was only one high level guild left, which makes it hard to solve. On the one hand there are people who are simply playing for pk, on the other hand there are plenty of people who don't want to fight against their friends, with who they had some rough times fighting the enemy and a lot of fun. Either way, with or without pk we keep losing people on our server.
Myself, and a lot of other people with me, strongly believe we need pk to keep the server alive. But sadly there are barely people left to pk with or against.
As solution we tried to split our guild to force pk, but even if we split our guild it's always unbalanced. For example we got plenty of Brazilian and Malaysian people, which of course have become friends because they had the same time zone and no language barrier. So even if we split it will remain unbalanced (also knows as free farm) every maze depending on the timezone. Ofcourse u can easily say "just split timezones" but we tried that already too. This lead to emo people and ever a further drop in active members: u can't force people to log and pk their friends.
Conclusion: within the server its barely possible to solve the pk situation. But like I already said, pk is needed for a healthy server. No pk means no one will level to get stronger, no one will have motivation to farm to upgrade themselves and no pots will be used. With other words, the market is dry and nothing will be sold. A dead market makes new players run to Tortuga as well, since they have a chance to sell their pots and get new and better equipments.
In my opinion shards isn't a solution for this problem. Yes, shards will give pk but Tortuga is 100-120 people active in mazes like abba and bd, versus maybe 30 ( max ) at PR. This combined with the gem and level difference can be summarized shortly: PR will be crushed hard. And of course, when u get raped every maze without having a single chance more people will quit.
The last thing I want to point out is the current situation in Tortuga. Yes, there is pk but it's not even every maze and unstable. At the moment people are switching guilds trying to balance it et cetera, but this isn't a situation which can be hold for a long time.
Almost everyone who I spoke with is in favor of a merge.. so please developers listen to ur players and just merge our servers. If not, please for once inform ur players well and give us good counter arguments why u think it's a bad idea instead of just reacting short like always with something like "No won't happen".
Myself, and a lot of other people with me, strongly believe we need pk to keep the server alive. But sadly there are barely people left to pk with or against.
As solution we tried to split our guild to force pk, but even if we split our guild it's always unbalanced. For example we got plenty of Brazilian and Malaysian people, which of course have become friends because they had the same time zone and no language barrier. So even if we split it will remain unbalanced (also knows as free farm) every maze depending on the timezone. Ofcourse u can easily say "just split timezones" but we tried that already too. This lead to emo people and ever a further drop in active members: u can't force people to log and pk their friends.
Conclusion: within the server its barely possible to solve the pk situation. But like I already said, pk is needed for a healthy server. No pk means no one will level to get stronger, no one will have motivation to farm to upgrade themselves and no pots will be used. With other words, the market is dry and nothing will be sold. A dead market makes new players run to Tortuga as well, since they have a chance to sell their pots and get new and better equipments.
In my opinion shards isn't a solution for this problem. Yes, shards will give pk but Tortuga is 100-120 people active in mazes like abba and bd, versus maybe 30 ( max ) at PR. This combined with the gem and level difference can be summarized shortly: PR will be crushed hard. And of course, when u get raped every maze without having a single chance more people will quit.
The last thing I want to point out is the current situation in Tortuga. Yes, there is pk but it's not even every maze and unstable. At the moment people are switching guilds trying to balance it et cetera, but this isn't a situation which can be hold for a long time.
Almost everyone who I spoke with is in favor of a merge.. so please developers listen to ur players and just merge our servers. If not, please for once inform ur players well and give us good counter arguments why u think it's a bad idea instead of just reacting short like always with something like "No won't happen".
