It’s not like I don’t know the two… and people being rude to her shouldn’t affect her attitude towards me.
Me being unjust to her? Nope. A bit frank, yeah. You can’t attack people on the same data that you praise your friend with. One’s familiarity shouldn’t play a role when it comes to the data.
And weren’t we talking about more connections to the ones that already had a connection this round? I’m pretty sure we were. Because my stance would never be: “There won’t be more connections this round” because that wouldn’t make sense.
I could say the same, I do not know what has gotten into you. There really is no need for comments like that. At no point have I said any of that is confirmed or a fact from Blizzard, I have been very careful to say another person believes this will happen. Trelw was very involved last time and is very knowledgeable when it comes to realms.
Sorry its Daestra posting on an alt as i cant use my main atm forums bugging .But you have been just the same aswell infact so have i .The whole general state of the forums atm is bad and long term posters are being very aggersive myself being one of the worse offenders .What i am trying to say is contempt breeds contempt cut each other some slack its a very passionate debate .
I think you came across rather belittling but… you know what? I don’t even feel like going on this road.
Things can only turn (more) sour.
I pointed out what I had to say. Feel free to disagree with it or interpret it differently. There’s been enough back and forth in this thread and it goes nowhere.
As far as I know (and that is based on conversations from Trelw on realm status/connections) he isn’t privy to more data than what is out there for us. But who knows what is being said off the record. I don’t.
I guess all of our emotions are running a bit high these days (Yup, mine as well). I’m quite worried what the connections in the future will bring. Reason why I take this (too) serious I guess.
i find really hillarius the irony when people complain about BL being polish server when majority of polish raiding guilds including polish streamers guilds moved away from there years ago .
Atm the strongest polish raiding community is on Draenor/Silvermoon not on BL - the thing is - they are not trolling chat there so people dont even know this.
They are Polish streamers? It is a out of season april fools joke? Polish players who don’t like or cannot use english playign on BL. Others are on Draenor or Silvermoon or AD if they are RP.
@Shopkeeper: Because one of the other threads is gone and this one is rather massive already, too, I will renote this just in case. US side already has an announced “Round 2” connection coming up this week.
As to some of the other points that came up while I slept. I do not have secret data sources as such, but very few people were as heavily involved in the original connected realms program outside Blizzard as I was. In fact, I mainly owe my green status to the posts I made trying to help people during it. I make errors (I was extremely surprised by the Tarren Mill / Dentarg connection back then), but I also do have some valuable insight into how things went back then.
For example, the fact that Blizzard does not publish the whole plan in one go is nothing new. There were numerous requests back then for them to do so. I did try to provide predictions to ease at least some minds and was at least somewhat successful in that. Unfortunately, there were a few people, who were extremely upset with me. I really hope that certain connections do not “explode” to that degree this time.
I have tried to be as open as I can about why I think in certain ways about connection structures. Also, what I have done has not been done alone. Esploratore, Gráinne, Anroka, Vintoleth, Balgair and others have helped in various ways, whether it be additional data, error finding, moral support or otherwise. On the US side, Bringoutyourdead, Padanfain and Metalbeast have fought to keep CP and WCR alive.
I can not and will not claim that my predictions are error-free. However, I have tried to explain in rather extensive detail, why I think certain kinds of groupings are very unlikely to happen and why certain other kinds are fairly probable. I will also note that this time around, I actually have in certain respects even less data than during the original program. However, I now possess the knowledge of how the original program ended up looking in comparison to how I thought it might end up back then.
@Heavenseeker: This is pure speculation, but I think they do not wish to commit to an absolutely specific set of plans. If my memory serves, there were a few cases during the original program, where Blizzard (apparently) swapped two small realms with eachother (without clearly apparent reason) or created two 3-ways instead of three 2-ways, etc. In other words and possibly especially since the original program overran its’ intended time (there were a few problems and a long delay in the middle of it), the plans evolved over time. As an example, there were certain six small realms I fully expected to form three 2-ways, but Blizzard went for two 3-ways instead and even after they had announced phase 1 of those, I got the phase 2 ones in reverse to what Blizzard ended up doing. So I fully correctly predicted the six would be grouped with eachother, but I got the “internal structure” wrong.
This time, this early it is perhaps even more complicated. There are variable options, because the limited available data suggest that certain realms are very similar… How does one pick a specific set of… say three out of seven or 5 out of 24? And once that specific pick is done, how do the remaining ones spread out? I have some ideas on this and I have actually already posted several of those in various threads.
Also, as I have noted, if people start fleeing / abandoning certain existing connection, it may trigger a need to connect more realms to it than what the “original program plan” called for and that might mean that some other larger realm remains unconnected or also has an altered set attached to it.
In a way, the whole resembles a jigsaw puzzle with morphable puzzle pieces. :D:D:D
@Shumensko, Punyelf: :D:D:D I am fairly sure there is more thought in them. The problem from player point of view is that the thought process is anything but transparent. :D:D:D
I’m not sure how it would be harmful to lay out the entire map in one go, but I’m not Blizzard…
Blizzard is a complex entity. Some things are predictable, while others are very surprising. 
