125312-one-way-transfer-to-dominion

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That was my point all along, Offering it both ways would put the nail in the coffin for Dominion, but allowing people to be able to move over to Dominion (and not back) might help liven it up a bit more. And I agree, it might not be the "best" or a long-term solution, but it's something.

More circles to join to farm mats, more active LFG chat/people to group up with, a larger population of guilds, more ACTIVE guilds. More players means you havea  higher chance of there being more people around at later/earlier times in the day. And yes, ques happen, but more people = more ques popping quicker. It's not necessarily "waa, I want more people!" but more just a show of "this is a bit rediculous how skewed this is"  If it was 200 dominion to say, 600, the same point would stand - the populations are WAY too skewed. More people would make it more manegable though. I'm still loving the game, don't get me wrong, but it's very hard to want to be more invested when i see things like this.


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Couldn't have put it any better.


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It's because we're all so #hardcore! Hahah, jokes aside, an incentive to help populate the Dominion would be advisable. Although it's a long term solution, Carbine might want to look into what Blizzard did when the Horde had this problem back in vanilla WoW. The much maligned and despised blood elves were added to their team. One reason that the Exiles have such a healthier population I believe is that they have a race that has a similar appeal: aurin. Those things are everywhere, and although I know many Dominion stalwarts would protest at such an inclusion, I think the addition of a similar race that can draw such appeal might give the Dominion the boost it needs, along with perhaps some lore tweaks that challenges the Dominion's presumed purpose behind their mission. Although Roda said this in jest, a Vigilant Reformation sounds like a great and really fun idea. On that note, I've encountered a number of people who were seriously turned off to the Dominion because of the nature of the "state religion" if you will. It's the kind of stuff that leaves a bad taste in the average western gamer's mouth and is the type of organization better suited to be an antagonist given modern sensibilities on the matter.

Perhaps someone should take the initiative and start up a community-based guild to help out Dominion players. I doubt it can fully balance the population equation, but it might help.


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I can't say it's *totally* self-generated, but the solutions are fairly obvious to anyone who takes a few minutes and looks around. When I am playing Exile-side and I see two or three toons without a guild tag, I *immediately* post a Guild Recruitment post in whatever zone I am in. Then I go to Celestion and Algoroc and repeat the message. It's a whopping ten minutes out of my play-time. We get two or three newbies and those newbies get a community of people to ask questions, find help and run content with. Those two toons who were just running *next to each other* doing the same quests are now in a group, earning Renown, blowing throw content and levels and, guess what? They stick around, resub and a month from now THEY will be leading groups through content. You can beg for all the transfers and re-rolls in the world - but unless the Dominion actively opens it's doors to newbies and casuals, they are going to continue to suffer from poorer population.


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Sadly that's not how Pax works. We're a multi-game community with an applications process. The process is basically designed to ensure that you are a mildly nice person who will get along with the rest of the community rather than how leet you are, but I can only invite people to apply. It also depends if we're maintaining a guild in a particular game. Now we're getting heavily into planning for Crowfall, which will definitely be fun.


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I've NEVER seen this happen, unless they are happening in whispers. I have seen people ask what you're looking for, so they don't offer you a guild that isn't going to give you what you want. Old Timers Guild has no level restrictions, tho we do have an age limit of 25+. I know Whoo Goes as well has no level restrictions and is actively recruited as casual friendly. I'm not sure what time of day you posed your question, or where, but I can tell you that you are grossly exaggerating on both sides.


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