(08-20-2013, 11:17 AM)Asyria Wrote: I never trust polls, a lot of people don't bother with them. Similarly, not all RPers ar on the RPC and many RPers avoid official forums. Heck, many non-RPers avoid them too.If there are RPers who don't visit any forum and don't want to be informed of what the unofficial RP servers are, I doubt they'll end up on either Balmung and Gilgamesh.
What I do trust is how much RP I actually see in-game and how big the RP guilds (or linkshells) are.
As far as the RPC's OOC Linkshells go on Galmung and Giglamesh alike, I think they're pretty similar in size, from what I've seen.
Also, while that's very unfortunate, there are those who believe RPCers are a clique, or are elitists or whatever other abomination they might make up due to the fact that we have our own forum (Remember the whole "OMG they're not letting people create accounts to vote, so evil!" thing?) and those RPers sure won't be on Balmung. Then again, probably not on Gilgamesh either. ^^;
I do trust polls, especially when all of them display the same result and when at least one of them had been advertised outside this forum, but I can also talk about my own experience. It wasn't possible to organize a Miqo'te Tribe on Gilgamesh because the vast majority of (tribal) Miqo'tes were on Balmung. Balmung is also the original unofficial server, which has been around for a quite a while and has had people working on it for so long, so it's only expected that it'd be more populated than a completely brand new community.
There are already tons of posts from Gilgamesh people stating how awesome their server is. I don't think it's necessary to go as far as to even say that both communities are similar in size, when they clearly are not.
Clover Blake (Hyur) /Â K'mih Yohko (Miqo'te)