Equipment bans.

[Vebb]

I feel like banning archers when pop is below 20 is fine. But cav shouldnt be banned unless below 10 pop and even then most players dont really have a problem with cav.

[Sir_Firebus]

Might as well ban shields one handers and polearms while you're at it.

[Novamere]

Ban couch lances under 20 not cav

[The_Bloody_Nine]

what is this? I love cav, bring 'em on!

[Rebelyell]

eu1 is melee only now.
I am not big fan of geting bolt in my face every secound round but I think there might be better solution.
Meake it 30/35% on low pop and then teake it off over 35 players.

balance over bans

[Asheram]

ban archers IDC but dont ban throwing we need to kill cav thank you.

[Torben]

woha - class banning discussions.  mod alive and kicking,  eh? ^^

[Grytviken]

What about disabling banner balance and have a strictly 50/50 split range and cav till 20 pop. I think the issue is when all the cav or all the ranged gets put on one team due to banner balance. Also teamwork is op.

[Schoi]

Let's get some perspective from EU players, because I think it's working for them

[Knute]

Not a fan of limiting what classes can play. There's about 20 shields that don't require shield points and use zero slots. Every melee class can carry a pike or 2 slot spear. Native doesn't have to limit classes because players adapt. Also I think it messes up the paper > rock > scissors because cav counters archers and vice versa.

[Algarn]

woha - class banning discussions.  mod alive and kicking,  eh? ^^

Actually, you're correct there, I've seen faces and names i totally forgot in the past few days. Strat fights are a thing again, too.

[Daemon.]

What about disabling banner balance and have a strictly 50/50 split range and cav till 20 pop. I think the issue is when all the cav or all the ranged gets put on one team due to banner balance. Also teamwork is op.

100% agreed

[Larvae]

Not a fan of limiting what classes can play. There's about 20 shields that don't require shield points and use zero slots. Every melee class can carry a pike or 2 slot spear. Native doesn't have to limit classes because players are smart enough to adapt. Also I think it messes up the paper > rock > scissors because cav counters archers and vice versa.

those shields are useless,u getheadshotted 24/7.

its fine as it is right now,i dont care if there is cav with low pop but ranged kills the fun if there arent enough players.

[Farrix]

I think this is a dangerous move. There are dedicated archers that play this game. As often as I get headshot or filled with 8 arrows, I still feel as if we should show a lil respect to all the classes and not kick the dedicated archers and cav right in the balls just because a few melee don't wanna fight them. We already have flags that guarantee a closer distance or loss. If a melee player hasnt left by the time there is 20 or less people, they're not gonna leave just because theres a couple archers. The archers however will be guaranteed to leave when there is 20 or less players which is fairly early most nights.

Pros: Maybe getting more people to stay longer during 10-20 pop.
Cons: Guaranteeing archers and cav will leave when pop drops below 20.

This may be safer and I would feel more comfortable about it if the number decided upon was 10 pop rather than 20.

[DaveUKR]

Threshold of population where ranged and horses are banned are decided by server owners separately by setting max server population (10% of it). Since it's both 160 on NA and EU, threshold is 16. If server owners want to make it lower - they can just lower the max player slots.