Faction imbalance solutions

[Vanillawow-gehennas]

Look at the US forums. Blizzard apparently did open faction-specific transfers, which was a complete fail

This transfer is not currently available for your characters faction

[Lommatik-draenor]

@Nappystar-ravencrest

horde is the major faction, then open horde migration only to servers that are in need of hordes.

How exactly tho? lets say that all servers are 60/40 HA , so basicly only horde can transfer but they have nowhere to go cuz everywhere horde is dominant… So no transfers for all.

Ofc there arent all servers like that, but overaly there is so much horde players than aliance, so all blizz can do is open FCT and let all allies migrate to those ali dominant server…

[Kaivax]

WoW Classic Update Schedule and Free Character Moves

I’ve updated the original post in this thread. Free Character Moves from Noggenfogger are only available to Horde characters. We’ve additionally enabled Free Character Moves from Shazzrah to Bloogfang, Dragonfang, Earthshaker, or Judgement. These are also only available to Horde characters. Thank you!

[Herxes-firemaw]

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[Evangelià-blackmoore (Evangelià)]

As if any of those Horde players are crazy enough to transfer to a dead server

Edit: Char transfers are a shabby solution, always have been. I quit wow after transferring once, for quite a while in fact

[Magesty-ten-storms]

Faction specific server capacity

The problem is Classic realm population was created now and not in the past. Meta, game knowledge and player habits are different. People have been given few realms to choose from so it’s obvious most will pick realms with their faction in a better spot. On vanilla pservers ~50/50 was achievable in terms of active players but that wasn’t 50/50 PvP participation as everyone was on one realm - pvp or not. TBC pservers do however have problems with high Horde population from what people were showi…

[Kork-noggenfogger]

How dare you dismantle the mighty horde of noggenfogger???

[Chrisharper-kazzak]

What about Gehennas dismantle some of the horde there aswell.

[Nappy-gehennas]

Alright, nice to see that actually happened.

But what about Gehennas tho? Is Noggenfogger the only EU server that needs this solution?

[Grindcore-gehennas]

Blizzard doesn’t give a **** about faction imbalance (never has) and any workarounds that require time and money will definitely not be implemented. Ever.

It’s nice to see one faction transfers though.

[Türr-onyxia]

Should have restricted character creation at launch for horde when you saw they dominate every single pvp realm. You cant magically let more alliance players appear now. Any one sided transfer option only move the problem to another place.

[Caires-flamelash]

So, imo you brought up a legit problem. Lets talk shop.

@Nappystar-ravencrest

When opening Free character migration, why open it for both factions? This just leads to people in the minor faction uses this function when they get griefed and then it snowballs… If horde is the major faction, then open horde migration only to servers that are in need of hordes.

Yea, I think this seems a pretty good solution at first, but what you are doing here is moving the problem to other realms. If you only open it for Horde then the designated realms become overpopulated by Hordes.

@Nappystar-ravencrest

Now when layering disappears. For example, if a server has 10 000 spots, open 5k ally spots and 5k horde spots at the same time on the server. This will lead to a much longer queue for one faction, but it will also lead to people in the major faction uses the free migration and balancing numbers out. And most importantly, everyone will have a better game experience while on the server.

I don’t see any issues in this. I would already be happy with Horde que’s at like 47/53 or so. Anyway, this solution has been prompt often and hope it will be picked up someday:)

I think Paid realm transfers will also be great, at least you have a choice then.

[Lariaz-twisting-nether]

Well both suggestions are good but unfortunately they wont solve anything. Opening migration just for bigger faction wont work cos they have zero resaons to transfer. And making faction queues wont work either cos most PvP realms are horde dominated. So these hordies would have nowhere to transfer cos they would face infinite queues everywhere. If they did it from launch it could work. But after three months when many people are geared they wont reroll. They would just stop playing so its less subs for actiblizz.

[Peka-dreadmist]

I will just chip in and say a certain P.server did faction specific realm caps, and it worked extremely well. Just have it so however many alliance are on, the Horde cap is like 5-10% more, or visa-versa.

[Yorda-aszune]

@Grindcore-gehennas

Blizzard doesn’t give a **** about faction imbalance (never has)

The fact they are trying to get some of the Horde players to switch away (and only the Horde players) shows that they do care about that aspect.

[Zimmerman-shazzrah]

Awesome!, we alliance @ Noggenfogger really needed it. Took me about 45 minutes from thorium point to BRD. So many hordes constant ganking.

[Lariaz-twisting-nether]

And where these hordies will migrate? There are not enough pvp realms which are ally oriented. So they just dont have realm where to migrate. So no sorry it wont happen

[Trajan-balnazzar (Trajan)]

The Horde only transfers are a good thing to offer but don’t expect too much from them. I will be amazed if this has a noticeable effect beyond a placebo. Because really Blizzard is asking for those Horde players to act against their own perceived interests. It’s just never going to be popular enough to truly matter.

[Caires-flamelash]

@Lariaz-twisting-nether

And where these hordies will migrate? There are not enough pvp realms which are ally oriented. So they just dont have realm where to migrate. So no sorry it wont happen

Agree, this would just move the imbalance from one realm to another. I however think that login que’s for factions that form more than 55% of the players currently online are an option.

[Kraktor-rexxar (Kraktor)]

If all Servers have a Horde Dominance they only could open faction locked transfers from PvP to PvE Realms so that those overflowing players go on PvE where it is no big deal.