There are like 10 active guilds on the server with 20+ members.
I made the community that is now referred to as Daijoubu. We’re at somewhere around 50 members for our community, and maxed in the guild so we swap people in and out. Probably the largest guild on the server, we have private addons and systems to improve play, detailed here:
The other guilds that are currently capable of competing on any level that doesn’t involve getting squashed by the opponent having more players in game are:
Revelators. FreakSquad. CatSoup. CoffeeHouse. LegendsTM. GoodGuild (but they’ve gone awol too). Fette Bishittate. TheNineWorlds. NoRemorse and Rebellion.
Everyone else is too small or vastly underlevelled.
None of those are Russian. One of them is Turkish (Revelators).
There WERE Russian guilds in the game, they were:
HI5
TheRED
ZaDrots
Wolves
ELITE
Fallen Angels
They’re all dead. You can see a couple of HI5 players pootering about from time to time, but all the Russian guilds are inactive now.
Many of the previous major guilds have also become almost entirely inactive: ESPERTANOS, DOMINARI, Einherjar, Animalium, eQuality, Allied-Enemies, Niji, Pantsu, etc.
And on top of that Fedimian is currently experiencing a major problem with players starting characters over on Silute because of its greater activity, meaning more players are moving away.
I’m not here to have a fight with you. I’m just putting down the realistic issues currently facing the major guilds on the server. Catering to the Russian timezone when we don’t have anymore Russian players is a large stretch. The best-fit middle zone to cater to here is +1 and +2, but even then +2 is a significant minority compared to the +1 players.
Just an experienced opinion from someone that’s held together a community since the early days. I’ve put 1600 hours into the server, this is the current situation. I will be surprised if there are enough guilds currently that can field a full 10v10 to actually make a top10 rewards competitive. Even with changed times I think there will only be 8-10 guilds that participate with a full 10 players. If you don’t participate with a full 10 players then you automatically lose because you’ll get swamped and spawn camped to death.
I’m taking part in Fedi threads for the express purpose of trying to make sure the decisions made for Fedi don’t result in further population decline. Hurting the server is the last thing we want at this point in time.