WoW headquarters brainstorming new ideas. Guy who gets promoted each time:
Pretty much any neutral quest hub city is prepertually stuck that way.
Nightborn players can run around and stuff without issue, not sure anyone else can though. I think they get their own unique phase of the city.
Mechagon, you can run inside of as a Mechagnome, but theres no AH or anything useful.
It’s just for flavor, and doesn’t serve as an ‘actual’ city- they should.
AHs, portals, all the fixin’s
LOL, chef’s kiss. 
So long as they update it enough it’s now a place that’s flying enabled, no skin off my nose, I’d be fine with that. I don’t see what I’m saying happening mind you, but if you never ask you can’t hear a ‘yes’, can you?
Doesn’t matter to me either way. Alliance can have both silvermoon and that other city, they can have all the cities for all I care at this point.
To my mind, the horde is essentially dead. Just a memory now.
So it is what it is. Everything will be “alliance this” and “alliance that” from here on out.
Once they merge the factions under WoW’s chosen one you think they will just keep calling it “The Alliance” or will they come up with a new name for the combined Horde/Alliance?
Idk.
I do know it’ll end the dual story line and I don’t blame them for that.
That had to be exhausting to keep up with but the thing is, it did lend a lot of immersion to the game regardless of which faction you played.
Agreed. However the writing has been on the wall since at least MoP that Anduin would one day be the leader that brought the Horde and Alliance together. And mechanically eventually subs will drop enough that they would have to do away with faction separation anyway.
I’m not really a fan of it, in fact I would rather have seen the current factions break apart into smaller factions. BFA was the perfect setup for it, but that just isn’t the way Blizz is heading. I would assume Midnight is going to be a major step in the direction of removing the factions all together.
Agreed on all points.
I had envisioned how much fun it’d be to be able to walk in SW but under duress and anywhere from subtle to open hostility from alliance races, esp. humans and NEs.
Then to have an option of joining a cartel, which was like organized crime going on under the nose of whatever authority was supposed to be running things and that’d give you a reason to go into SW as a horde race and current member even though we’re supposed to be allies now and all the stuff you could get up to in that type of setting.
I also wanted player housing to be uninstanced and able to be flagged for wpvp but that isn’t going to happen either.
Which can only mean that regardless of what I think is fun and interesting is only what I think and that I’ll be outweighed by those who wouldn’t as well as being hindered by what is possible game development wise.
Sucks, don’t it? Maybe some day I’ll make my own game and do something like that but it’s probably already been done and I just don’t know it.
“So whereʻn we going ta put the horde portal?”
“Ehhhh put it in tha middle”
“Here? by the great Anvil?”
“Ehh a bit to the left”
“Here by the edge?”
“A touch more ta tha left”
“Here? Over tha lava?”
“Aye, just right.”
Be a perfect time to redo Gilneas. But, you know how blizzard likes keeping to one hub these days.
Yeah, Stratholme would be far more ideal than Stormgarde 
lol
Also my suggestion was that they’d both be presented like this for the start-up of the expansion 
Hence the later statement in the original post of –
Because it’d feel a lot more fluent to the story that way too.
So ultimately, lore-wise Silvermoon would still be held & represented as a ‘Horde city’ — Just with distrusted guests who’re allowed to walk amongst the kingdom under scrutiny, similarly to how Bel’ameth is an ‘Alliance City’ that allows Horde to walk amongst the area with similar behaviour.
If they didn’t bother with something like that with the new NE tree I don’t see why they would with any of the other cities they decide to turn neutral. Frankly any and all Horde should have been instaganked by a group of Sentinels just for approaching Amirdrassil.
You forgot, we live in a post Dragonflight world aka we are all friends and we love each other soooo much hugs. There will be one city and judging by the content we are being given, they’ll just copy Legion Dalaran and put it in the air after we somehow rebuild it again.
It would be a literal dream come true for me since I have always adored EPL.
I think it’s highly more likely to have Silvermoon revisited/updated (long overdue) and Gilneas’ port city revisited/updated.
But I like your idea.
They should subvert everyone’s expectations. Exodar is the one that gets a remake and is the new central hub parked above Silvermoon that is slowly being sucked into the void and destroyed over the course of Midnight.
Fair enough. I do not mind earning trust in a city first, just so long as I could eventually get out of the Human one. 
Gosh knows I have enough practice earning reps with cities from EQ2. Sooo many switching characters between cities like Gorowyn (evil), and Kelethin (good). Basically you had to prove your worth to them before you could actually switch sides.
The debuff is ‘EYES OF THE SENTINELS’ – which applies to Horde players only, which reads: “Seen and unseen eyes alike are watching your every move.”
Hence the reason as to why I used it as an example to compare for what they should do similarly for Silvermoon.
Doloran confirmed!!
I’ll have my player housing in Silvermoon. Just kicking my feet up and trading war stories with haggard old time orcs.