First, the evidence:
A
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...n/4d3e4d7b.png
B
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...n/4ea34a0d.png
C
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...n/f0260398.png
Exhibit A is me completing our city's Tier 3 keep when servers came up. A message played across the screen saying:
"Congratulations your city is now Tier 3. You can compete in massive pvp battles."
Awesome. Exhibit B is us putting up our battlekeep (BK) after we decided on a position and the vuln window that it gives you default (which is a weird time until we can change it to something reasonable). Cool, it has a 24 hour timer to upgrade the keep.
Exhibit C is what makes the entire system a wash and worthless. To attack a city you go into their zone and click on the vuln window box. If you own a BK already you get this message... If you own a BK you cannot attack another guild's BK. Think about that for a minute.
What I see happening is that there will be 3-5 guilds on a server that are the best. They own BKs and really could only be taken down by the others. There will be 3-5 guilds that are decent, but not as good as the top ones. They also have BKs. When the time for sieges come around... only the guilds left WITHOUT a BK and WITH a T3 city can start a siege. That leaves a very small percentage of people who can start a siege, and unless planning ahead they will have a small chance to actually win.
Does anyone else see the pointlessness of this?
I want to siege another BK when I already own one for a fight. For the fun of it. To burn it down! I want to experience the endgame in this PvP-based game and actually have something to do other then wait around and never get attacked by anyone.
I am honestly truly outraged because of this and feel drained. After all the farming and time invested, we cannot even participate until other guilds A) Get to T3 and B) decide to not get BK, which was advertised as such a great thing everyone wants to get one. Which we regret.
I would like Funcom to change it so that people with BKs can siege other BKs and you can either own multiple BKs or you just burn down the one you took.
TLDR:
If you own a BK, you cannot attack another BK and can only defend from guilds who A) Have a T3 Keep and B) do not have a BK. We want this changed.