73% in favour of a reduction of some kind, pretty big majority.
Ofc the number of "no" votes doesn't incorporate "faceless" ftf players who don't use the forums.
This post is one of the most egotistical, self indulgent, and myopic comments I have ever seen on these forums. You display a shocking lack of respect and understanding of the playerbase; which I guess shouldn't surprise me. Although hope does spring eternal....
25 votes, or 56% of the voters here decide they want 10 man allies. This is 25 players out of 1127 forum users. (even accounting for Spambots/Multi etc, 25 voters is a fraction of the playerbase.)
* 1,771 IDs in this world have been registered to date this round.
* 731 of those IDs have actually been deleted.
* 183 IDs are marked as online right now in this world.
* 1,401 is the highest number of IDs online in this world at any one time to date.
* 659 IDs have been active in this world in the last week.
And naturally, as you yourself admit, this is a tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny fraction of the players who actually play this game; not just in forums, but in the game itself. So doesn't your attitude seem insanely self interested? You're trying to spice up the game for 60 players, which is, at most, 10% of the active ingame IDs; while destroying the gameplay for the rest of the players. Get your self important ass off your self important horse, and think of the game as a whole, rather than just for yourself for once.
But again, are these people as valuable as our ftw playerbase, who pay to support the game by way of purchasing BPs/pre-booking IDs etc. Again again, I'm not trying to say these players aren't valuable, but whether the ftw playerbase should be suffering in terms of stale gameplay because of the alliance issue, just so ftf players don't have it "possibly a little bit worse", I'm really not sure :/
Uh, despite Azzer's rebuttal to your post, anyone with a brain could have told you that the FTW players clearly are not the main source of income from this game, 60 players are not likely to fund his entire game. So to suddenly deem 90% of the players "irrelevant" and "unimportant" is a painfully stupid thing to have done. Even you should know better DA.
The FTW playerbase isn't entitled to anything more than the newest newbie or an old n00bie. While clearly you are under the impression that your **** smells sweeter than the rest of us, I can only tell you how wrong you are. The FTW gameplay is stale because of the FTW players. Maybe if you spread out your "invaluable" core of FTW players, and took on a few newer players, you might not have trouble filling out an alliance of 20 people.
And making 10 man allies would not make it "a little bit worse" as you so casually put it for the lower ranked, not-FTW allies. It would make alliance play "for fun" downright intolerable and borderline impossible. So while you might have 3-4 FTW allies, you would have nothing under that, which to me seems rather counter productive. Wouldn't it be fun to have masses of solos around again? yeah. Cool. let's ruin gameplay for 600 players, so we 60 can have a good time. **** off. Pathetic.
Not to mention Azzer's point that we all started out as "newbies" and had we been utterly ignored/sidelined and deemed unimportant, we wouldn't be here today, and neither would the game.
Don't be such a self centered prick DA. It doesn't suit you.