I wrote an article on Estates in
The Journal in September 2009. I pretty much still stand by all that now. In fact, I can hardly believe that it's been what? Three or four years since the noose of estates was first placed around BattleMaster's neck - and it's still there, unchanged, choking the life out of us.
I'm sure the trickle of new players we get nowadays really enjoy missing out on proper wars because their realm doesn't have enough nobles to even
contemplate expansion. Instead they get sent ridiculous distances across entire continents for a battle or two. That or get stuck with maintenance duty. It isn't satisfying. And while it's all well and good saying realms should do more to woo nobles, we're all drawing from an ever diminishing pool. Now there are fewer than 800 active players.
Estates are killing BattleMaster.
