Here’s a little bit on the history of this group.
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As a community, we’ve fought long and hard to stop referrals away from MG Horde. Rather, we’ve encouraged people to help MG Horde’s small population grow and to try out some of our public RP events. This strategy is slowly gaining momentum!
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One of the big differences between MG Alliance and MG Horde is the size of the population. After going through some really rough times with people abandoning the server and veterans hanging on for dear life, MG Horde rallied together its survivors and built a “from the ground up” tight community foundation from which it could recover. (Credit here to Jimlok, who created The Unified Horde);
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The NMGH discord was originally founded in September 2018 as the Alliance to Horde Re-roll Support Group (AHRSG);
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In its beginning months, there was quite a bit of friction between MG Alliance veterans and AHRSG, who did not want their Alliance-dominated server to become Horde-dominated. However, through a lengthy debate, it was ascertained that the goal of MG Horde is not to outnumber their Alliance counterparts, but rather, provide a bit more balance. At the time, the server population ratio for end game characters was 80% Alliance and 20% Horde. The Horde population had dropped from 25% to 20% over the last few years and would have continued to fall if we had not done something! You can read the forum thread here:
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The Horde Guild Expo (hosted by Flywheel) was a monthly event created to help newcomers and existing members of the Horde community find a guild and also interact and make allies. This event is now incorporated into the Orgrimmar Market and Guild Expo (hosted by Mirchea) which runs on every 3rd Sunday of the month at 7pm;
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As traction began to slow a little, a new forum thread was posted to try and motivate our efforts, encouraging members to ‘pledge’ their loyalty to help Horde grow and prosper. Link to forum thread here:
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The name was later changed to New to MG Horde (NMGH) as it became apparent that a lot of our new joins were not Alliance re-rolls at all, but rather, transfers from other servers looking to make contacts, and also folks returning from hiatus wanting to re-connect with the community;
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Unrelated to this group, but relevant to the efforts of the MG Horde Community, Jab’trah and his allies launch a new MG Horde community nexus, called The Coalition of the Horde (as an alternative to the Unified Horde group). This group was publicly announced on 18 Oct 2020, and is unofficially allied with NMGH. We encourage our folks to join both;
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After taking a break and the discord going through a somewhat quiet period, I (Flywheel) have decided to overhaul the group and breathe new life into it. I am looking for new joins and lots of volunteers!
[Posted on a Flywheel alt]