Emerald status: Indarside eliminated in the name of Vanu.

I was hoping there would be a thread dedicated to this already... if not, I was going to post my own personal thank you! Thank you, Emerald VS, for jumping on the opportunity to remove Indar from the game for some time.

Alright, so has anyone seen a continent lock happen with less than 94% capped? IE, as a reward for the alert or something? I'm trying to figure out if this is just going to be a rotating locked cont, or if they are going to make this something semi-rare and needing to be worked for?

IE... a territory alert that ends 36/34/30... will it result in a lock for the 36% territory faction... or just the alert win?


Emerald's Indar was capped at the 94%... how bout the others... all 94% or just at the end of the alert?

I don't care for continent lock. I don't mind someone taking all the territory. Be nice to have access to it. I like to roam around in enemy territory.

Heck nothing like paying for limited access now.

In looks, sure.

But I can't say I'm a fan of having to run 250 meters from my spawn just to reach my control point.

Amerish bases might be nice, but the mountains need to be pounded down into rolling hills.

THANK YOU BASED VANU!

Southern Indar yes, but Northern, especially Northwestern, is horrible.

Everything north of the Crown basically. Aside from those towers that can be shelled from nearby hills, southern Indar is generally decent, I agree.

It was a bit of a ghostcappy time of day. In any case...The NC thanks you, Vanu! No more Indarside (for a while)

THANK YOU! THANK YOU SO MUCH! Now we can finaly fight where the fun is and stop that stupid grindcontinent.

Wow its like operation metro would get locked away alltogether with all those stupid tdm and sdm crap in Battlefield.

That's exactly what I don't like about continent locking. While prime time tends to be balanced, off hours tend to have one faction or another dominating regularly at a given time of day. Is Indar going to be locked every afternoon? Afternoons are the only real time I get to play because I'm stuck with a horrible, horrible ISP that craps out to dial-up speeds every evening during prime time.

If Indar is regularly locked during the only hours I am able to play, then I'll be regularly playing something else instead.

I assume all are 94%. So I assume Indar is going to be locked for, like, forever.

winning an alert (regardless of territory held) gives you the continent, ensuring that every continent gets cycled through.

If it works how the devs said in the roadmap, it would go to the alert winner. So if the territory alert declares the 36% the winner instead of a draw, it will lock.

That said I would imagine the system is made to call "close victories" draws for the sake of the alert system. You will likely need 5-10% over the competition at the end of the alert.

This requires foresight and is most likely not in the game but will be once a few threads pop up.

Alarox is right, Indar is the best continent in the game. Ironic that its the oldest. And the best bases on Indar are the ones least-recently revamped.

Esamir is clearly the worst continent, solely due to the horrible base design. Bases designed to get defenders killed, with walls that box defenders in instead of giving them cover. Bases designed to favor the uncoordinated always-advancing zerg-battalions. Esamir has garbage base design.

Amerish is pretty good except for a pretty poor lattice layout. Not a lot to say here. It looks pretty and reminds me of my vacation on the Big Island in Hawaii, very volcanic. I used to think the area where the minimap was wrong was supposed to be the result of a recent lava flow, which I thought was awesome, but then they "fixed" that.

Hossin, well my opinion remains to be made, as I haven't logged in yet today. I have high hopes, unless they used the Esamir formula for base design. That would be tragic.

They would have been much better served to never touch the base design on any of the continents, just add lattice, and get Hossin out much sooner. Instead they broke most of Esamir and played a 50/50 game with the rest of the continents, wasting time and losing memberships, while delaying Hossin. Not a good record of project management.

You seriously think Indar is so much better than the other continents? With 80% of the bases being three houses, a couple of trees (if lucky), spawn rooms and a rock.

This server is now almost exclusively VS. I guess the games been 'balanced' again so VS now have the round robin, forth faction, high profile like they did when ZOE was completly OP.

Enjoy your 60% pop for a couple of months. It'll be NC's turn to be 'balanced' next.

no

VS are more present in the morning so gratz for ghost capping a continent I rarely play on short of a alert.