I thought lock continent would be a good thing!

Trouble is a lot of us who bought into this game because we wanted strategy are getting fed up as well .. Like the current continent locking system tied to alerts .. It actually IMO makes territory less important or worth fighting for rather than more, Because next alert you know you are going to lose your hard work regardless ..

Continent locking is a good thing. What we have now is an intermediate step, not final product of continent locking.

Most of you complaining don't understand what it's supposed to become in the end. You just heard the phrase "continent lock" for many months, waited for it, then suddenly saw it in patch notes, and now think this is it. It's not, this is more like testing the mechanic and by no means the final implementation. It might be somewhat underwhelming right now, but battle islands aren't ready yet to roll out everything.

As is, game is better than it was. Hossin is a very unique continent. All those complaining would you like them to pull back Hossin? Just take it out of the game? Well you can't have both, Hossin and no continent locking. There just isn't the population to support 4 continents open at all times, some continents have to be restricted to maintain population.

That's simple reality, and no matter how much you wish for devs to wave magic wands and have unicorns and rainbows shoot out, some things are just not practical. Most adults are familiar with this concept.

It's been a couple days are you really that daft?

And such an attractive offer it is. A player so pissed off at SOE that they would quit using SOE's product would naturally jump at the chance to take you up on your offer to contribute to SOEs success with fifty bucks of unearned revenue.

The point of walking out is to deny SOE, not reward them. If your offer was serious you would be offering to give the quitting player the cash.

They can feel free to leave without a word anytime

The reward is artificially restricting which continents we can play on? What is the next reward going to be a **** sandwich?

This thread is why people get fat on McDonalds cheeseburgers. You are too scared to try anything different.

Look I understand that the current meta isnt helped at all by the way continent locking is done. An empire should have to conquer everything including the warpgate. If you love Indar and you want even more of that continents cheesy goodness you better defend it with everything you got.

The current continetal lock system isnt giving us that awesome feeling of fighting in the trenches with your back to the warpgate. This is the end game guys.

Also, we need trenches in the warpgate

Why?

So I take it you don't play single player modes on any FPS games then? Where you are forced to play along a storyline?

Another thing that bothers me about this locking..

when you get caught as the few last defenders on a continent.. you will hear: "Leave the restricted area immediately..."..
Only, I CAN''T leave.. I need to get back to the warpgate, to a warp terminal in order for me to leave the continent..

but then, of course, SOE only gives you about 8 seconds to make that happen.. and unless you are already in your warpgate, you can't manage that.. so, you die.. and there is another Kill count against you..

getting me locked out is one thing, counting a kill against me, is, well, overkill..

and then, again, I cant' get on Hossin, because it is packed .. so I do not have 2 other continents available to me, I only have one..

You should not need to lock the continent's warpgate.. just lock the bases.. for maybe 20 minutes or so..... the conquering faction can enjoy the resources they'll get from a fully stocked continent, the defending factions will have some time to get their troops together..

after those 20 minutes are up, then the cap point timers will recognize enemies again, and we could try to get our bases back..
and I wouldn't have to die without ever actually having been killed....

and now, please,, give me all the flaming comments .. don't be shy, go ahead..

Everyone needs to hush. If SOE hears Indar is the only continent a number of people want to play on they'll nerf it with badly designed base reworking.

They wont change it, this is only phase 1 and its the only thing that adds a modicrum of depth to this game.
If you want to fight on a certain then you need to fight to take it back.
Honestly if you think adding things like cont locking is bad for the game then PS2 probably isnt really for you.

To get people off Indar once in a while--the sheer amount of withdrawal in the forums indicates it couldn't have come soon enough.

I'd say lock everyone's weapons and give them 5 minutes to leave before insta-death. If you die to vehicle road kill or collision then tough Higby.

Its not enough because this is phase 1, the full bundle will include battle islands and continental lattice.

Sounds like you want the locking to be a fight to the warp gate until you are kicked out of the warpgate to another gate. The alert /94% is the wrong way to do this locking bizznass

This is just early days of continent locking. When they get more $ from the ps4 release they will get more done.
Everyone chill and those with good pc's suck up the amazing glory that is Hossin.

hear hear!

A core mechanic? At the moment its THE core mechanic

I have to agree with the part of not liking continent locking.... ever since it was established I have been restricted to only one continent due to massive ques (90+) and this counts VR training having a massive wait time. Not only with the new stuff in this huge patch I have seen so many bugs appear after the patch that it makes me wander if it was even tested before release. I have seen enemies fall through the world only to pop back up in a different place and kill me. I have also had messages from enemy players saying they have unloaded full clips into me and it not even show that on my screen or me even take dmg. I am sure there are other bugs but with the merging of Mattherson/Watterson and the release of the new content that this game now needs some major over haul or something.

One suggestion I could make is increase the continent player caps by 75-100 players to make the chances of playing another one of continents other than the same one every time you log in less painful.