(10-12-2019, 04:39 PM)Durandal Wrote: Nowadays the pool of those more casual players has diminished to the point that there is no force capable of standing against the RHA, Enclave (combined factions), or Outcasts (combined factions).
Outcasts are only having a 'good' numbers because they made peace with local factions that they are supposed to be in war with. After Gallic threat is gone, there's no reason for Bretonian and CR ceasefire to stay in place. Outcast would have much more profit of selling Cardamine in Bretonia without limitations or raiding Dublin for gold, going for direct clash with Corsairs over illegal activities in Bretonia. Bretonia was pretty much the only House where they fought directly in vanilla. I can't say that the current OC player base is stronger than let's say BAF or CR skillwise. When they fight let's say IMG and randoms only, of course, they are outnumbering. Solution with the Outcasts I see is for devs to resume natural wars that Outcasts are supposed to fight in Taus and Bretonia, end Zonercast type of Maltese diplomacy. Bretonia in general is the blindspot in the Outcast activity for years, it was excused with looming gallic threat, which now practically does not exist. This will majorly fix one of the points that you have mentioned.
As for Enclave, it's too early to judge, there's no stable player base as of now. Will probably be able to tell in 2-3 months. I can't see much disbalance in fights against BAF that we are having as of now. I guess you are speaking from experience of the Gaian event, in which case Enclave is indeed stronger than it need be. But it's Enclave's primary conflict is different and Gaians usually siding with BAF in the end. Which I don't actually mind.
RHA is indeed got more highly skilled players, but then again, some fights with BAF are kinda close. It's more about boosting Rheinland lawful and Corsair playerbase. But then it comes to the player factions working on getting more people. I hear from many people that it's a matter of current [RM] official faction, nazi fetishes, and whatnot. I don't know how to resolve that. Yes we are facing the fact that RM is preferring to log off when RHA is logging, and that's the problem.