Just a heads up guys. As we speak, there is a full scale invasion of Connery by Briggs players to raise some (more) awareness of the issues we face on the Briggs server. We have 3 platoons running (and growing) on the TR at the moment and are actively stomping the Amp Station alert that is in progress. Glory to the TR, who are normally under the boot of the VS on Connery. Today the might of Briggs is at your back! We have been informed that Briggs is back online and as a test of the server, we invite the rest of the world to come and log into Briggs and test that login server. We won't accept 250 players as "Briggs is fixed" and would love to see a continental queue there to really give the Briggs login a real test. We look forward to hosting the rest of the world down here in Australia and look forward to a full scale invasion of Briggs by the US East, US West and Europe! Come on down guys, Briggs needs you and thanks you for your support!
We needed the extra TR on Connery - tired of the blue tide. You're more than welcome to stay with us!
the ironic part is that i just made a VS character on Briggs...didnt have any login troubles at all, in fact i got a few more FPS than i would on connory but i have to admit, winning things as TR on connory is refreshing
Here is the first of two videos from the roundup at the end of the Connery invasion. This one is a brief photo session we had where we got some photo's of the main group who came from Briggs to Connery for the alert event a few hours ago. The next one (still uploading/processing) is the Re-entry to Briggs with a small stress test of the login server (100-150 simultaneous logins) and the community party that followed on Esamir. For those wondering how the Briggs login server stress test went, here are the results: It's still shagged.
Amen to that. I'm getting sick of constant VS vs. NC fights. Some VS vs. TR fights should give us more variety. Though, TBH, I think we might have gotten more TR players than we actually needed. (But that gives us VS an XP bonus. ) Still, enjoy your stay. If you guys decide to return to Briggs, do remember that you are always welcome to visit us again.
I welcome new players with open arms. But...jeepers, this Briggs invasion feels exactly like an invasion. The level of whining and discontent in Connery has gone up a hundred fold. Briggs players should encourage each other to acquit themselves honorably on Connery. I'll never go to Briggs if the whining is that bad.
Freshly uploaded and processed: The loginside stress test (100-150 logins simultaneously) and the following Briggs community party on Esamir. Warning: Extreme TS spam and 100+ people chattering all at the same time.
Would have been cool to see. I made a character on Connery last night and have already seen (and heard) a few Briggs players. Lots of easy kills to be had too which is nice.
It's always nice to see more players on Connery (even if they aren't Vanu ). Though, exactly what happened to Briggs that would have their TR head over here? I haven't exactly gotten a clear answer. Edit: Found out. Damn, I feel sorry for you guys.
There are players from Briggs on all factions of Connery at the moment but we are predominantly playing the TR there are the TR on Connery have the largest prime time population deficiency. Even our NC and VS comrades have rerolled TR on Connery and most of the Briggs players there are now marching under a couple of banners (FmB - From Briggs, and BASI - Briggs All Stars). Briggs at the moment has some sort of player cap that's limiting the total server population to around 400. SOE tell us it's not an enforced cap and they don't know anything about it but our research and data collection paint the picture quite clearly. The host of our data center here in Australia appears to have some sort of bandwidth limitation thats capping the servers population artificially. Once the player count goes beyond 350 server wide, logging in can take up to an hour. Once the player count goes beyond 400, logging in is impossible and players will simply idle out while logging in then CTD. Previously this "soft cap" was around the 700 mark, and before that it was "unlimited". The 700 player soft cap began around 2 months ago, thats when the "Loginside" issues began, around 3 or 4 days ago SOE attempted another fix to the issue, and since then the server soft cap has been reduced to 400. We have lost around 70% of our player base since this began. We don't know if they're coming back or biding their time. All that remains now on Briggs are the die hards and dedicated players who've invested too much time in it to walk away. Even their patience is wearing extremely thin.
I appreciate that your server is having problems. That is bs and SOE should prioritize fixing it and in general getting the game running (especially before p2w crap like implants). But, screwing up the population on another server is not that welcomed. During the prime times I have and still see VS at 23%, and your going to go on here about oppression of the VS? The only times VS has a over pop on connery any more is at 3am pst, when very few are on and most stuff is ghost capping (maybe one or two good fights). On connery we have had a NC problem for a while (starting last November?) with as much at 50% population early in the year. I agree I would like to see more TR players but often times during prime time or the day we did have 30%ish for each faction before your nice visit, which lead to great balanced fights and was nice. I miss that. So please balance it out a little bit, new blood is great, more people are great, but we don't need more lop sided servers and honestly I doubt it is fun for you to come over and monopolize the population and have boring fights as well. I will also note, that some of this is due to the game loosing so many people in general which is a major problem out side of the 'invasion'. And in all reality aside from fixing servers and making the game run in general, population balance is a major issue that should have been and should still be tackled by SOE as a priority.
Suggestion: Create a 4th faction The Briggs Faction Grab all players from Briggs and roll around the different servers zerging everything till our server is fixed. I think I would come back to play for that haha.
