I realized the other day a major flaw with AO NotumWars.
There is no incentive for one to fight on the loosing side (Clan on rk1, OT on rk2,... and neutral everywhere).
This is a wild guess, but I would say that in the area of lv150+ on Rimor, Clan outnumbers OT 3v2, perhaps more.
Therefore it doesnt matter how well organized or how well thought out an OT attack is, clanners can win just about every time via raw numbers. And dont give me that croud control thing, we all know it doesnt work.
Have you ever played tribes/counter strike/MOHAA/ any other on line fps? Then you know that its no fun when one team outnumbers the other 2v1. You will see people shouting "Teams!" and some players will switch to the side that is missing people. Some servers have auto-balance mods that do this automaticly. But AO has nothing of the sort.
Untill this get fixed, it is no more fun than playing a game of MOHAA where the teams are always locked at 20 vs 10.
So, myself [bigstupid] and bettiepaige are going to go away for a while. Out accounts will be active till mid march. and we will probably be droping in from time to time. But unless there is some sort of change with AO, I dont see us sticking around.
My only regret is all the good people we are leaving behind.