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What is the difference? I noticed the number of servers of each is just like how they did it for the daoc normal servers vs pvp servers - the pvp servers ended up with low populations.
core = daoc normal
open rvr = daoc pvp.
Is core going to have the best population, or open rvr? The last thing i need is to pick a server which ends up with a low population.
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Sorry, thats not what it is at all.
In core rule-set it IS similar to DAOC in that you are auto-flagged in any RvR area, any scenario, and I believe any enemy pve area... but honestly, I have never had to go to the enemy pve areas. At tier 4, 80% of each zone(there are 22 at that tier) is RvR.
In Open RVR, you are always flagged, everywhere. But you can still only attack the opposing faction.
That being said, their anti-griefing mechanism turns anyone who is too high lvl for a tier and RVR flagged into a chaos chicken.
That means that if you, at level 40 on an open server, want to go do a lvl 40 lair in tier 1... Well, too bad. You can't go back there. You want to go heal a group of low lvl guildies through a really hard PQ? too bad, you can't go back...
There is a post about rulesets somewhere on the herald. Its on the same page as the new server names posted, I believe.
I really don't think you'll have to worry about open RvR being under populated. Most people I know are going to WAR for the pvp. I think having low population of order on some servers will be a bigger issue.
Well there was an open pvp server type in DAOC which let you attack anyone and everyone, basically bypassing the realm vs realm gameplay the game was designed for entirely. Open RvR type in War is not like that.
Basically, the only difference between the two is that in open rvr type, you are pvp flagged everywhere in your tier and you can travel back 1 tier as well to gank or whatever you want. If you go back 2 tiers though, you turn into a chicken. What this means is that if youre at the upper end of your current tier, you can go back 1 tier and pound on people in the lower end of that tier and have a 15 + level advantage and help sway that tiers contribution to the overall war effort.
So as far as I see, there really is no great reason for going on the open rvr since this game isnt based around that style of play, but RvR which if thats what you are doing, you should be doing it in your tier since the higher the tier, the more helpful it is to your side controlling the right to sack the capital city.
However, some people like the open rvr concept, I know I enjoyed the pvp servers in WoW on release, it was fun and exciting cause you shared so many of the same areas with the other side while levelling up. You dont seem to do this in War, not at earlier levels anyway. You have pve areas and then you have RvR areas where you should be levelling the other side and of course scenarios as well.
Anyway, Im sure you will enjoy whichever one you go with, I think the Core servers however represent the play style the game was designed around more so then being able to go back a tier and harass lower level players.