[Suggestion] Fourth Faction: Aliens

I would have no issue with an interesting alien faction. I don't see why anyone would.

Warcraft was an RTS. It's now more know as an MMORPG. Adding a faction won't ruin the game.

A new faction, alien or not, would be a colossal undertaking.

It would almost certainly prevent any of the more important updates from being completed, and would require a complete re-working of the continents.

It's a neat idea, but you need to stop thinking like frickin North Korea and realise less ambitious projects could improve the game just as much with a sustainable amount of time and money spent by the devs.

i agree as well, because people with dumb ideas like this do nothing to fix the game or contribute to getting the meta thrown in and adding more depth, strategy, and replay value than it has currently. this is a game of sci-fi warfare but right now its just one gigantic team deathmatch with capture and hold objectives from unreal tournament 1998.

yes lets throw in aliens and a 4th faction that makes absolutely no sense at this point in time and wonder why we're being ridiculed for it. you know what, lets make those aliens xenomorphs and bring in Weyland Yutani with the company marines too. make them a 5th faction. oh wait! lets not forget those goddamn Yautja while we're at it, i hear they can be pretty sportsman like.

Other than "NO!" it was mentioned, but to be done very far off from now. i dont think the game needs a fourth faction of AI, a fourth playable faction? sure! now the square shaped continents can have a warpgate in the corners and no more whining about warpgate placement.

Aliens capturing Tech plants/The Crown

Well don't get me wrong, I realize it will never happen. I was just curious what other peoples opinions were on the matter. If I had to vote between this idea and most of the more obvious and glaring issues it would be no contest. I was simply trying to spark a little "what if?" discussion on here, not cause a riot.

http://users.elite.net/runner/jennifers/no.htm

I think they could make it happen if they wanted to. IMO though, only as a special event that unlocks once an empire continent locks all of worlds. This would make it a pretty damn rare event. They'd have to contrive a storyline or some kind of plot to support the event's logic. But then it wouldn't really be a true 4th faction... cert unlocks would probably not exist as it's a temporary thing. It'd be a fun change though. I wouldn't mind hopping into a giant tripod alien machine looking thing like from war of the planets or half life 2

Then maybe EXP gained from playing as the enemy alien race nets you station cash instead.

I think anyone who has spent more than five minutes in an ESF can attest that the deadliest race they could add to Planetside would be Ents.

They are OHK weapons of mass ESF destruction, NERF EM ;_;

Why limit ourselves with just one extra faction. Let's have 30-40 different factions! Let's have subfactions inside factions that are at war with eachother. Let's just make this game FFA, that would be even better.

tl;dr: No.

Balancing problems will increase exponentially. We'd have 1/3 less people in each faction. The dynamic of three forces lends itself to a lot nicer equilibrium then does 4.

Are you playing Planet Side 2? We already have an alien faction in the game.

We don't care about that.
This forum just really loves to riot over nothing.

Obviously an alien faction would just blow up the TR and NC and elevate the VS to godhood.

It would be fun, I suppose, if every so often a giant mountain-size monster slowly rampaged through the landscape like a force of nature. But I'd rather see them implement something like a weather system, i.e. monsoons and sandstorms.

and then make a 5th faction: Jedis, with lightsabers that reflect shots back to those ugly clones of the NC, VS or TR

just last night i was thinking of a 4th empire, only it would be nanite systems taking up arms against the others, any NS weapons people already own would be kinda reversed engineered or stolen, and force the others to make new vehicles while the so called common pool become NS special x3 not saying actually do it, just a amusing idea

While there will never be a fourth playable or combatable faction there might be some neutral alien tech in the future that is controlled by territory like there was in late-game Planetside 1. I read that there were alien turrets that were very powerful but always neutral so any one could use them at any time.

I wouldn't mind seeing a real alien race in this game, but may be 2-3 years down the road, not right now.

From a story viewpoint an alien Invasion would unite the TR and the NC while the VS would probably try and ally themselves with the Aliens.

I think it would be kind of cool if once in a while SOE held some kind of alien invasion event, where all of the developers were the aliens, and all three factions had to temporarily band together to stop them. Because the developers would be limited in number, they could be as powerful as the Reapers were in Mass Effect.

... could be a huge PR success in "developers versus the players" or something like that.

Of course, make this a very rare special event. Maybe once every 6 months for an entire weekend.