There is a bunch of stuff that the NE staff need to do.
For one, yes, upgrade all their banners and information to reflect the true and correct nature of the server. I see banners and such that state "No Lag" or "Extremely Stable". However, in reality, this is a false lead and brings in people thinking one thing and most generally leaving knowing another. It also spawns a good topic for the mass QQers of the NE population.
Another good topic of discussion is infact, the PVP situation. Currently, I believe only WSG see's any real activity (however I could be VERY wrong about that). There are other BG's that are amazing, and in my opinion, much much better. Alterac Valley is one, mass 40v40 PVP, which back in the vanilla days, was pure delight. Wintergrasp is also an amazing PVP area. I noticed that it isn't working here (which is REALLY disappointing I might add), and while that does have it's advantages of always having VoA open any time that one can think of, it takes away from one of the many additions made in WotLK that people looked forward too. One final note here, there is a 'forgotten' BG named Azshara's Crater, that is basically AV but in a Spring/Summer/Fall type setting. It was impressive when I saw it using GM commands on another server, and I think that if the dev team put in some time and effort they could actually get some shit set up in there that would be amazingly awesome.
Donation's and there costs/delivery time could also be looked at and readjusted. We all know that the shit you get from their can be/is for sure powerful depending on who's hands it's placed. But the amount you pay vs the amount of time you wait are completely outrageous. I know that it's up to the CI team to make the item when a form is submitted and approved, but from what I hear, for the most part they are all really fucking lazy. Now, I can understand if one has a 'lazy' day, but a 'lazy' week or month is just inexcusable. If the people there aren't finding the time they said they could put in, they need to be removed from their position, and new people who WANT to do the job, should be put in their place. Also, Blackswann & Licky should appoint a specific team to delivering the items... or at least give the CI team the ability to deliver the items themselves. All I have to say in the end though, is this... With the way things work right now, donating is really not worth it. So either, they should either lower the cost of what they offer, or improve the time it takes for everything to get to everyone.
Uhm, what else is there... OH! Raid's and their brokeness. For one, they need to get busy and fix the problems with people in the same raid group being split into several different instances. I don't know how many people get affected by it on a daily basis, but it is REALLY annoying. I can't imagine if it would be a simple or complex fix, but it needs to be done regardless. Also, since we are updated to 3.1.3 and all, we need to have the rest of Ulduar up and running. If that means having to bring in extra people just for the time being, than they should damn well do it, because lets face it, the whole reason to have 3.1.3 around is Ulduar. Of course, the other raids that are currently broken should also be fixed within some reasonable amount of time.
Only other thing left is the Achievements. I would much prefer that when you fill the quota of an achievement, that you get said achievement. Again, I'm not sure if this is a complex problem or a simple problem, but it should be fixed before we even consider updating any further, just as with the raid situation. Some people are achievement whores, and we like to have some sort of goal for doing the most random and/or pointless tasks.
Class Problems. What oh what can be said about these other than they REALLY ruin most parts of the game. Now I won't pretend to know stuff about anything past Priests, DK's, and Paladins since that is all I've ever played in my WoW carrier. When I first came to this server, I spec up a Ret Paladin, and noticed that something was off straight away... so I decided to check the forums and figure out what I could. BAM, there it was sitting in front of me, "Current Bugs with Paladins"... inside this thread was stuff about which talents weren't working, which skills weren't doing what they should, and than of course all the QQing about the reckoning bug abuse ... and a little of the JoL QQ's too. Now, when I asked about Priests... more specifically Shadow spec, and about DK's in general, I was met with the same answers about how they were bugged and for the most part not worth playing. From what I've noticed, DK's have slightly improved or people have found work arounds for them, and the Shadow Priests are still so bugged you'd have to be a loon to play one. It suddenly dawns on me, GET SOME PEOPLE AND FIX IT! Assign a team to that specific area and get shit done. But what does Blackswann and this staff do? Lets start disabling shit. I speak mainly of the SoB/SoM, since it was the only thing that Paladins really have to use... unless you spec into SoC, but that's a talent point that could have been spent elsewhere, hense forth the anger. My idea for fixing this, as stated above, is to assign some more people to fix these problems... if it only be for a short while, than so be it, so long as everything gets fixed.
So yeah, all and all, these are my thoughts/rants about certain things... when I find out more stuff to discuss, i'll damn well bring it up... pending I'm not hurting anyone's feelings or shiz
P.S. sorry for the long read ^_^
Subject: Ideas for the server? 
Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:26 pm
