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Old 09-02-2006, 07:03 PM   #1
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Brenner: Why so empty?

As a fun little LS thing, we decided to have a brenner match. We all had fun, and there were good feelings abound. Now, I think the Brenner island is beautiful, and quite a few of my LS members agree. I've taken to coming out here to craft :D. What I don't under stand, though, is why it seems nobody ever plays Brenner. Like I said, my friends and I all had a great deal of fun, and the zone is beautiful. And yet, I've never come into the Brenner Isle during an official match and seen other people in it, and I've only once seen another registered match. WTF is up with the rest of Vana'diel, I guess my question is
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Old 09-02-2006, 07:06 PM   #2
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Re: Brenner: Why so empty?

From my view, it's not as enjoyable or simple as Ballista. Also those annoying voking and stunning mini MG grow tiring to avoid/kill.
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What's brenner?
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Re: Brenner: Why so empty?

Well, to be honest, we never really played the game itself. We took it as more of a chance to just pound on each other on the beach :D.
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Re: Brenner: Why so empty?

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What's brenner?
is the responce i normally see, if i mention it.

I like brenner. i managed to get in on a couple of official matches early on (only three aside) but havn't been able to play since.
Official matches are very Euro unfriendly (timing wise 1pm and 3 am), and unofficial matches aren't always doable if you LS isn't interested.

Honestly i think most people still aren't aware of it. It hasn't got NPC's in every city, it doesn't take place in zone people run through like ballista does. It's one dude stood in upper jeuno. Everyone is at least aware of balista even if they don't partake, because it's everywhere. Even in the first couple of days after release, when trying to organise an unoffical match, even though it dominated release notes, most peoples responce was "What's Brenner?"
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Hahahaha, I'm always right.

Why am I not surprised coming out of you?

Brenner is empty because the following three reasons: (a, low-levels only want to become high-level and richer; (b, high-levels only want gear or more merit/hour ratio; or (c, low and high levels don't even know what it is, some of who think they can talk to other people as if they have any knowledge of the game.

a and b can be solved if PvP in general was more interesting, with both rewards and system/job balancing. c is just flat out ignorance, which can be solved with education of the matter.
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Re: Brenner: Why so empty?

When Brenner first came out, there were people there for every single match for a few weeks. I'd go there and it'd be full, me and a friend would try and team up people, I'd distract them and he'd shoot them from far back, it was all fun and everything...but then pretty much we went back to leveling and we just kinda forgot about it...now pretty much, I try and enter official matches, but no one is ever there like stated above...and my LS just uses it as a chance to beat on eachother without too much distraction or wasting of Ballista Points
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Re: Brenner: Why so empty?

Brenner > Ballista

I enjoy PvP in FFXI, even though they have toned down damages in so many ways, its still fun to run aorund and kill/get killed. Most seem to think that PvP is broken in FFXI.

Ballista is summarized with *Gang the weakest player on the other team, then go score.*


Brenner is more dynamic in that you have to worry less about killing people and work towards the goal of capturing Brenner Flames and holding onto them. If your team just tries to kill everyone youll find your Flames disappearing.


Ive noticed most PvP has been ignored since the new content came out. I think most people would rather Assault, Beseiged, Meripo, etc with Ballista/Brenner falling dead last. Also since those things are more widely advertised and accessible at anytime, Ballista/Brenner are more restrictive on their public schedule so people are not going to wrap their time around going to either of these. This applies to private matches since you cannot reserve the Brenner Island when a public match is going on.

If PvP was more widely advertised, opened up more, and made more accessible then I think more people would take an interest.
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Hahahaha, I'm always right.

Why am I not surprised coming out of you?
I was being sarcastic. Congratulations on figuring that out.
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I was being sarcastic. Congratulations on figuring that out.
Maybe he thinks sarcasm is a big hole in the ground somewhere.
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I was being sarcastic. Congratulations on figuring that out.
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Re: Brenner: Why so empty?

No need to start a fuss over it. Carry on.
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If PvP was more widely advertised, opened up more, and made more accessible then I think more people would take an interest.
I agree. I didn't even know Brenner had official matches and reserving unofficial matches seemed very confusing to me. This is one area where SE really needs to learn from Blizzard. Even Ballista is a major pain in the ass with the multiple level caps and scheduled matches that nearly always get cancelled anyway.

WoW's Battlegrounds system is very popular because it's so accessible. You just place yourself in one or more BG queues and new instanced games are automatically started in the various BGs as long as there are enough people in the queues. You just have to be in a town to place yourself in a queue and when a game starts you can choose to be teleported into the game instance from anywhere in the game world.
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Re: Brenner: Why so empty?

i just wish they had better pvp
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