Shattered Kingdoms

This would be the obvious solution, I think. I suggested this after I'd been back for about a month but I'm pretty sure it got shot down.

Like the only reason it seems like there's so much emphasis on coin farming, Lumiere, is because the onus is on one or two people. This was a non-issue previously (still is to me, but apparently some people still have trouble getting money). I hate to say it, but I think the splitting of the factions came a day late and a dollar short.

Besides, the real problem isn't that CRS isn't PvP enough. The real problem is that CRS isn't RP enough.

Most protracted CRS conflicts can be shamefully traced to the spite of players who have been gifted leadership slots.

I've started, won, and concluded more CRS conflict than the rest of you combined in the past year, so I think I know what I'm talking about.

I agree in that key for me is a methodology that meets Dulrik's criteria above, but also encourages invaders to attack while defenders are online, and which does not encourage people to wait until their enemies to log out before attacking to steal a relic.

Ninja-ganking relics does NOTHING to improve the PvP system.

Neither does attacking while defenders are on, despite all the complaining about ninja ganks.

1 defender that isn't a melee class, can defend an HQ against 10 attackers. Even a melee class, properly prepped, can defend an HQ.

For all the complaints about 'wah wah ninja raids'. Is one person molesting a group from a room away while they fight the toughest NPC in the game what you consider "interesting PvP"?

PvE is as much a part of the game as pvp or rp. And as staff loves to remind us, PCs mean nothing and represent nothing but a small segment of the game world who have no real power when it comes down to it, so why should CRS be purely PvP or even mostly PvP?

So role play and tactics can collide.

I've said, In the past, that the best improvement to CRS would be a territory system.

I called it tribunal wars in the past.
But I think it could be cabal if we just changed up "who owns where."
I'll give the empire as an example.
Losache, Jade city, Seawatch, and The Imperial Palace.
These areas are revamped to be a "dungeon or instance."
You fight your way through npc's and get to a boss. Once the boss is killed, you get an npc boss that takes hold of that location.
One must wait 24 hours to take on the next raid.
The area is under enemy control until the defending team comes and takes out the new 'enemy boss.'
The next day, you take on the next dungeon and it unlocks the third. Wait 24 hours and take it on.
You have to work backwards if you're defending. (Maybe) and you re-take over your territories.

If a group can take 3-5 Ooc days and really fight through all this pve, while still defending 'their instated enemy bosses,' then they can finally attack the keep and get the relic.

This type of crs would give more time to the crs process, allowing a team to defend, eliminating quick and easy ninja ganks.

When people see their territories getting taken, they'll become more active to try and take back over their land.

Shut down this idea if you must. But I wanna see it in the next five years. Fingers crossed.

Any gameplay mechanic with the word finally in its description is probably not the best idea.

Look at the biggest instance of the removal of finally mechanics, the targeted enchanting update, and the fact that no one has said they want to go back to the old way, as evidence of this.

Sarcasm, yes?

I don't think I'm alone in thinking the current enchant system is ungodly awful.

I think it is great for weapons.

It has wimped weapon enchanting to be honest. With the exception of speed enchantments now.

With enough patience and luck you could get some insane enchants on weapons before the change, I remember enchanting the darkie only greatsword from the ToM years ago trying to fade it and ended up keeping it and giving it to someone else after I reached +12/+12 acc/dam. Enchants these days +6/+6 is considered elite.

Not necessarily a bad thing, since weapons like that were insane in pvp.
I personally think it's the stacking system now that was the biggest wimp to enchanting.