There's too much 'quick, let's gank their relic while they're offline!' in CRS. I don't know what 'RPPK' anyone is talking about. There's 0 RP and 0 PK, it's all PvE. Here's how it should work:
Say, the Crucible wants to CRS the Hammer.
1) The Crucible pays some money to construct a siege camp.
2) Morea is surrounded by a siege camp.
No one can get in or out of Morea without passing through the siege camp, which is full of moderately dangerous mentor/master level NPCs which slow down enemies but don't really pose a serious threat. Hammer members and allies can freely cabal gate in at any time during the siege. The siege camp itself will not cause guards from any faction at war with the Hammer to be all like, 'my duties require me to leave you now', and can itself be gated into with a gate target or some kind of new command, so the attackers can get ready there with a light defensive advantage.
3) The battering ram will be done during a foreseeable moment, hopefully in peak gameplay hours. In the predictable time window, the attackers can kill the outer guardian, use their siege equipment to open the door, and then fight.
4) The whole nature of cabal defenses (outer guardian, guard waves, inner guardian) would have to be heavily tweaked to balance out the new 'scheduled peak hours PvP' CRS system, which everyone will enjoy more than the 'OOCly coordinated off hours PvE' system. Now, in order to CRS, a bit of money is spent, some epic effects are added. Most importantly, CRS battles are made to happen at a time which is pretty predictable to both sides, during peak hours only, with maybe a day's advance notice. The construction of the siege camp can be visible as an echo to everyone involved and their allies, on happening and on login, like the diplomacy echoes.
I'm sure every detail of the idea isn't spot on, and I'm sure the nature of cabal strongholds themselves would need to be revisited to accommodate the change. Please vote on whether or not you think that the vague concept- to make it so that you need to pay money to schedule CRS in advance in a way that's visible to the server, to prevent 'offline relic ganking' and supplant it with PvP- would be a positive change.
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