Shattered Kingdoms

I can see where you are coming from, but I still think that a portion of your observation is based on a misconception. There is a tendency when it comes to alliances, you are right about that one. What I don't agree with, is that it is the outcome of CRS (they existed long before the system was implemented) and that said alliances are set in stone.

I know for a fact, that I've tried to take the Crucible away from the threeway alliance you just described. My biggest problem was and is, people not being able to think a little outside the box. All too often, the Crucible is just viewed as Adeptsv2 and people will prefer sticking to old alliances, rather than taking a risk and trying out something new.

I wish that would change. If it did, the game would be far more interesting.

I'm not against divisions along those lines. That seems like a fairly easy conclusion to reach. I'd rather see them fighting than hiding from each other. CRS gives a group of players something to do and it may be a pain, but I believe people are playing in the system and player counts have responded positively to the activity from what I can tell over the past few weeks.

Crucible is seen as Adept v2 because Adeptv1 was often filled with people who spam-enchanted their eq and gathered loot all day...and the Crucible is the same.

Every veteran player is in the Crucible?

You never know.... you don't log in enough to really put a big impact on the game.

Just 90% of them when the Crucible first got their spells, not 100% .

There was still...peso, ardith, rial, and me outside of the Crucible at that point. Everyone else was in .

I miss out in all the fun.

hey it's gameplay, ma'am

Now now, there was a long while when I was in MC we warred with adepts/con and when I was in Hand we warred with MC

That was uncalled for.