The World at War campaign conjured by [H]Rargnasha and originally [A]Eloresh was a nice initiative to have the people moaning about wanting more wPvP something to look forward to. However, this series of events was to be taken IC, irrespective of the lore, force distribution and the size of the nations of armies involved.
The Dwarven army in the lore has strong control over Loch Modan, therefore Loch Modan is a green zone, an alliance zone. The Horde butchering their way through for two hours once every two weeks is as unrealistic as it gets, I am therefore calling for the recognition of this event to be taken away, and the PvP actually backed up with credible role-play as well as a main body of role-play, or to be completely ignored due to the fact that is ridiculous.
1) The Horde Army does not materialize once every two weeks to attack some settlements and then disappear - If the chain of events was taken in character surely this would have to be role-played out?
2) Why does an event that has NOTHING to do with role-play, have to impact other role-players and their ability to travel to places which are supposedly "destroyed" by the Horde?
3) Why do people who have no stake or interest in the RP community have an impact on the RP community?
4) Where is the actual alliance army? Ironforge has a population of 20,000 dwarves, in any realistic situation as many of these dwarves would be rallied to defend Khaz Modan, it is both unrealistic and preposterous to assume that thirty people would randomly show up to defend a region the size of Khaz Modan.
5) Who ordered the Horde invasion? Why has somebody went ahead and represented the Horde high command? Surely this can only be considered as god emoting, why can the Alliance players not simply state the Ironforge army of NPC's killed off the invasion?
Conclusion;
While the promotion of wPvP is fine and dandy, I don't see what bearing that has on RP, especially when it has a huge impact as well as several important consequences.
Were the main users of Khaz Modan <The Three Hammers> consulted about this? Were they offered a position in arranging these events? Considering this event has predominantly taken place in the land most accustomed to their guild, surely it would only have been courtesy to actually ask them if they are willing to be plunged into a massive war scenario, as well as potentially putting their plans aside?
Thanks for reading, (posted on two threads, ORB and TTH one).
Peace.
-Ephitos