Hello, It is me HouseOfAlicia again.
This is for the NA/EU Region
 

             Greetings my fellow adventurers! I was asked to bring this topic to the forums! So currently to go over so basics. We have 45 Channels in bdo. "Instances" of players if you will.  8 of these are closed to the general playerbase as either Olvia servers (3) for new and returning adventurers, or season servers (5)- Which are actually Rulupee 1-5. Our main server groups are the following. With 6 channels each. Serendia, Kamasylvia, Mediah, Calpheon, Balenos, and Valencia. And a standalone Arsha server.

The Suggestion. A Serendia_Arsha, Kamasylvia_Arsha, Mediah_Arsha, Calpheon_Arsha, Balenos_Arsha, and Valencia_Arsha. With the removal of the normal Arsha channel to be replaced by these.

The Cons, Say Arsha Becomes Serendia Arsha, This still means we need to buy/create, 5 new channels. OR, the existing groups would have to sacrifice channel #6 to become arsha depending on the resources available to PearlAbyss in the 2 regions along with how costly it will be.

The Pros, Additional division of PvP centered playerbase, and grinders, Instead of giving (Whatever the EU/NA playerbase number is rn) one place to go to fight for their lives in BDO to get that extra 50% drop rate. Instead of telling thousands of people "You all can only go to this one place to get your extra rates, now you have 6 options to split all those players instead of 1" This is turn helps the playerbase grow as it eases the grievances between players on having scrolls and grinding interrupted from better geared players kicking them out and having nowhere else to go.

I do hope this topic generates some discussion between players as many brains are better then one. I won't be checking this post to much however as I posted it on behalf of other players! Have a great day adventurers and see you out in the world- Alicia <3

I agree. This game can't decide between being either pve and pvp. On one hand you got huge focus on pve grinding and penalized pvp in most of the servers, on the other, penalties aren't big enough to keep people from griefing and killing others on their spots. Instead of being a "special case" tool, forced pvp is commonly used mostly for toxic purposes.

More Arshas would give pvp-inclined people nonpenalized fights for spots without being oversaturated to the point when fighting for spots takes more time than actual grinding. And on pve servers it would give more peaceful people more breathing room.

I would actually go even to the 1:1 or 1:2 proportions with Arsha servers, but maybe your numbers would be enough.

No, arsha server is empty as is making more of them will not increase the amount or quality of pvp content. There will just be more people grinding on those servers which is not really the point.

Before Arsha existed and got the drop bribe and no karma loss mechanics to get people onto it, every channel group's #6 was pvp enabled outside safezones. 

They changed requirements to access Olvia, stopped using Kamasylvia servers as Season servers and introduced Rulupee while wiping out Velia, but nothing has changed indicated a direction that would change it back to the way it used to be, with a pvp server per channel group since.

Should have Arsha for every sever type Bal Val Ser any of em and then make regular arsha super arsha only 100% drop rate

while others are all 50% tho game is headed to perma loot drop buffs way events are going. 

I disagree, BDO would benefit more from having 1 better set of pvpve rules for every channel. Arsha is a band-aid solution, pure pve is only okay-ish for newcomers.

As a pve player, i think this is a very bad idea for pvp players.
i "often" grind on arsha for the sole purpose of the drop buff, i will not fight anyone and will escape from fights.
Give me more servers with drop = more servers to swap too. You still won't get more pvp.

i met a lot of newcomers and no one of them stays. they think they will be able to do some open pvp and when they realize how game works, they stay a bit for pve content until they disappear.
The ones who stick (and this is a supposition, because i don't know any), must have found something they like doing repeatedly. I'm curious what this is. The players i know for a long time just stay in bdo out of habit because other games suck as well.

Op is kinda clueless, the suggestion would make arsha pointless.

Nope. Only changing channels to pve only can make BDO have a lot of players (or unlimited private marni zones for all areas).

And I wrote about it a long time ago. For all channels groups:
Balenos 1 - arsha (its node war so good for arsha).

Balenos 2 - normal

Balenos 3 - normal

Balenos 4 - pve only

Balenos 5 - pve only

Balenos 6 - pve only.

Don't have to call me clueless, 1. this is a suggestion from a community that I forwarded, no need to be rude to me. :) And I was asked to make this post to encourage a discussion, whether my post is good or bad, the purpose is to get people in here talking. No one player is going to say or make a suggestion and everyone go "WOW, let's implement that just as you said, and this is not how development works". Development works by a group having an idea, putting forward that idea to other people, getting input, discussions happening. the original idea being changed, or even becoming something completely different that's better, then being reviewed, then being implemented, and at this stage it will look NOTHING like the original idea. This doesn't even have to be a topic of "More arsha servers" at the end. It could be a topic of "how to make arsha servers better" Or something like that as conversations start and people suggest and discuss improvements :)