As of yet there’s no solid detail on what the truce is. Chromie said that she believes it will take many years for any of the skirmishes such as Warsong Gulch and Ashenvale to end. It’s also remarked that the Horde and Alliance are making a start towards peace, they’ve not achieved global peace, just enough to end the all out war and fighting when they have bigger problems. There’s definitely grounds for Horde to be fighting Alliance here and there usually over the classic core conflicts over things like resources for settlements, old grudges or simple war mongering. Let’s remember that the Horde and Alliance are not all seeing and all knowing, they can’t stop and police every conflict that arises, all that’s happened now is that when you’ve fought a war campaign you shouldn’t expect a fanfare back home in Orgrimmar.
As for hub RP, that died to major conflicts between guilds on Horde side, the introduction of High Elves/Void Elves to the Alliance and some very chaotic guilds who liked to yell, recruit strange stuff like Nerubians and ERP publicly sweeping the Valley of Honour at one point and just driving everyone away.
People retreated into guilds and although people have tried to set up hubs it’s hard going because it’s hard to keep Horde players engaged, especially with the community being even smaller now, old grudges still holding and the old problems such as there being no hub that fits all of the races of the Horde existing.
As for people not RPing to your standard, you can never have community RP and absolute perfection, everyone is RPing different characters in the end and has different views on RP. If you want everyone to RP together and have vibrant hub RP Stromgarde or Lakeshire style you’re going to need to lower your expectations of others. Of course you should always try to avoid what happened to Orgrimmar happening in your hub but you very much have to be your own standard of RP and hope that other people who share your views will gravitate towards you, but not isolate everyone else.
Community building, as I’ve said in the neutral hub thread, comes with many many problems. You have to have multiple guilds willing to stay in one place for long periods of time, you need to organise those guilds and resolve points of contention between each other, and the biggest issue for Hordies, you have to find a place everyone can enjoy.
Crossroads seemed great thematically, it’s the signature Horde location, but it fell to the issue of theming heavily to Orcs, Trolls and Tauren and leaving out the Elves, Forsaken and Goblins. You could fix that with Ratchet for Goblins and maybe Forsaken, but you still don’t have anything for Elves. You’ve also got to note that Orgrimmar is ugly as anything and feels like a giant barracks, most of the Horde settlements are still sparse and low poly and the most recent Horde settlements Blizzard paid a shred of detail to making them HD and detailed are Zuldazar and Hammerfall. One is on an island isolated and the other is in Arathi with the usual Orc settlement issue, and sadly that selection just doesn’t hold a candle to Boralus, Stromgarde, Gilneas and Amirdrassil that are all interesting and detailed locations. That will be the issue forever unfortunately until Blizzard decide to stop directing all of the worldbuilding at the Alliance. But it will take a good few guilds agreeing to get anything sizable going at this point rather than just hoping a load of new Horde RPers will drop out of the sky.
Looks up and hopes.
