Best realms to join on June 2013

[Wolfang]

Critiquing other people's assessments of their (because i'm assuming most people are here promoting their realms) is allowed. Nothing political/rivalry blabla, just critique whether or not they are overselling or not.

[GoldPanda]

Err, they're all over-selling their realms. Because they think another warm body is going to help them "win". Reminds me of a farmer's market in Beijing, really.  ::)

No offense to you, as I'm sure you're a great player.

I'm actually interested in knowing what you're specifically looking for, not recruiting another noble so that I can "win" BattleMaster.

[Wolfang]

Fun, opportunity, action and interaction  ;) I think what most are looking for when deciding where to create a new character.

[Gustav Kuriga]

Err, they're all over-selling their realms. Because they think another warm body is going to help them "win". Reminds me of a farmer's market in Beijing, really.  ::)

No offense to you, as I'm sure you're a great player.

I'm actually interested in knowing what you're specifically looking for, not recruiting another noble so that I can "win" BattleMaster.

Who said we're trying to win Battlemaster? I provided several realms that were interesting, several of which aren't even my own. Dwilight is going down into an orgy of warfare since Niselur just broke their federation with the Theocracies.

[Stabbity]

I find people who accuse others of trying to win BM are just grouchy about their status quo being upset.

[Perth]

Join Phantaria!

We're small! But angry! And angsty!

We're involved in what looks like Dwilight's largest war ever!

Yeah!

[GoldPanda]

Fun, opportunity, action and interaction  ;) I think what most are looking for when deciding where to create a new character.

So, basically, "I want my cake and eat it too". I believe you're setting the bar too high. If such a realm exists, there would be an entire subforum singing its praises 24/7.

Often times these criteria work against each other.

A fun realm will have lots of ambitious, competent young nobles. Your noble will have to compete against two or three of them for any position that opens up, assuming that the older, equally ambitious and competent nobles let one of these positions slip out of their hands in the first place. So that will hurt your "opportunity" criteria. On the other hand, realms that hand your noble a lordship just for showing up, are mostly ghost towns. If "having a pulse" qualifies your noble to a lordship, then don't expect the other lords to be capable of much more than breathing.

An action-oriented realm will have a war close to its border. In other words, your noble are going to be fighting against neighbors. Most of the interaction will be negative ones, in other words, insults shouted across the trench lines, assuming that your Marshal doesn't tell you to shut up and show proper decorum to the enemy scum that just torched your region. On the other hand, the realms with the best RP, at least in my experience, are geographically isolated realms that hardly ever fights. They have good RP because it's their only way to attract players, and good writers get promoted and rewarded instead of the good strategists and tacticians.

Yes, I'm no fun. :)

So think really hard about what you really want. Because you can't have everything, and if you join a realm expecting perfection, you're just setting yourself up for disappointment.

[Vita`]

I find Luria Nova to be a fun realm and it continually has lordships available. We haven't had a lordship *not* available in at least a month, if not two. So you can find fun and opportunity. I'm sure its not the only realm that people find fun and still has positions easily available. Thalmarkin/Ar Agyr is probably one of those areas. In fact, Thalmarkin/Ar Agyr will probably have roleplay and battles for some time, even if they're between wars currently.

[Sarwell]

Anything on Dwilight is a good bet for realms to join. If you like to fight. Which, given the name of the game, you should.

The northern Far East is also pretty violent right now, but it's a bit more of a curbstomp.

[Dante Silverfire]

Perhaps this off-topic discussion should be split to another topic?

[T Strike]

Or everyone could join Astrum.:P

[Miriam Ics]

We are always enemies eh Thunder? :)

[Sacha]

You can blame your King for that ;)