Eye of the North not a main town?

OK this is one of the things I didn't get about the recent expansion

It is called Guildwars: Eye of the North, yet the "eye of the north" is merely an outpost and not a main town???

I think it's just a little silly IMO

They changed it after release. Eye of the North used to be a town, but was changed to an outpost.

Is there a main town called "Factions"

Is there a main town called "Nightfall"

Is there a main town called "Prophecies"


Yes it is weird.

There is no location by any of those names either, though.

The EotN name seems to imply that ... the eye of the north is important.

I think they changed it cause the outpost is in Norn lands, which would give them 2 capitals.

Eye of the North is the Ebon Vangard capital; it should be a town. Doomlore is the Charr (region) capital, err, I think.... And the dwarves, well, they have to share a capital with the Norn.

They changed it because of something to do with the size of the districts forming and how the game engine handles it. By making it an outpost they could have a higher district count with less players in each to help with lag. If I remember correctly. So it was more a functional change.

The Deldrimor capital is Droks isn't it?

Ding ding ding, we have a winner.

http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Droknar%27s_Forge

Thanks. You are correct.

Lore-wise, it's Thunderhead Keep.
Practically speaking, it's Droks.

Sorry, I felt compelled to point that out.

............

lol Too damn right

All I know is, for some reason in Eye of the North my right-click camera pan feels way more sluggish than normal. It seems to happen randomly in other towns/outposts, but almost always in EotN outpost. This is one of the reasons why I try and avoid it at all costs.

Does this happen to anyone else (the right-click camera panning feeling sluggish)? It's not my framerate dipping as it stays at my average.

It was. City = way more people = way laggier, even moreso than it is right now.

The towns in Prophecies were named and created before the campaign was even re-named Prophecies so that's a crap comparison.

Prophecies, Factions, and Nightfall are not locations (more like descriptions of the main concept/story elements of the campaigns) whereas the Eye of the North we know is a location within the expansion.

In fact Nightfall by a stretch of the imagination COULD pass for a name of a location but Factions really doesn't.

As others have pointed out, Eye of the north WAS actually a town during the preview so it's obviously not much of a stretch of the imagination to wonder why it isn't an important town (still).

Weird how troll-thought can be broken down ehh?

EDIT: Furthermore, the campaigns were named/re-named like a story whereas the expansion was named to reflect the primary area/location that the expansion was adding to the game (as well as hint at GWEN).

Does it happen in all districts, or just the ones with lots of people ?

My theory is that the camera is sluggish because you have too many people on screen. Other towns/outposts don't have this as often because people are hidden behind hills/buildings/etc

Better question is why not boat travel to EOTN (and Consulate DOCKS?) so party of 8 can move about more easily.

It's all Gwen's fault she was left in charge and decided that she needed to throw the wildest party ever seen in the shiver peeks. Unfortunately some one switched her eggnog with spiked eggnog, they think it was a Charr spy anyways she had flash back and burnt eye of the north down till it was an outpost.

man w/e. i want this to be a main town. its my favorite town in the game jsut cuz its next to the hom. it SHOULD be a main town because it is where one of the talent scouts are for the faction, jsut like rata sum has the asura pone and etc.