One character per server, why did this change?

Its a problem because people from other factions do

1: They get in a base that the opposing faction is having a hard time taking and teamkill until they get weapons locked. If the faction getting teamkilled turns their attention to the 'teammate' killing them, their attention is not on the enemy. That and it removes several guys from the battlefield just because they are dead. They blow up your important assets like Sunderers. Ive seen them blow up our Sundy then deploy one in a terrible spot so that we cannot deploy one where it needs to be until we kill theirs. That means we have to FIND it, then blow it up, which takes precious time.

2: They get in the Warpgate and flip our Galaxies over and over again so that we cannot mount an attack or ferry men to the battlefield. This takes away precious air resourcesm because not everyone flies. This just happened yesterday and I had to spawn a Galaxy of my own to protect my Outfit. I finally blew HIS up, and he grabbed a Reaver and tried to harass us as we left the gate.

3: Spying. The enemy is provided with a level if Intel as to our positions already, via the map. But they have to send a spy in anyway? Because this provides accurate counts of how many Infantry, Sunderers, Tanks and of what type, and air. This allows the enemy team to tailor their defense to our particular type of assault.

The deal is, you shouldnt need multiple faction characters anyway. You wont be able to Cert up nearly as fast, and its already a long process. I cannot even understand NOT having some sort of allegiance to one faction and just wildly flip flopping factions for the heck of it. What is the point? Have you no loyalty, no morals sir?

#1 and to some extent #2 is done by people with more than 1 account

I have not been weapon locked during Live, but in Beta the lock were account wide, so if you got locked on NC, you got locked on TR and VS too

It's a free to play game. The devs have known from the start that you can always just create a *new account* and have a character from a different faction on the same server as your "main".

Disallowing more than one character on the same server won't solve anything.

Sometimes it's fun to play the different playstyle a different empire has.

It's simple for me. If I'm on Mattherson, my loyalty is to Vanu. If I'm on Connery, my loyalty is to NC. If I'm on Watterson, my loyalty is to TR. It's like sometimes you play MEC/China and sometimes US, sometimes CT and sometimes T.

Im full aware that most people who stoop to these levels dont use their main acct. Chances are, if you have a PC that can run this you or your parents have a debit/cc to use to register your account. In this day and age who doesnt have a bank account and debit card?

It would put a huge dampener on it if you had to register with a CC#. Sure, I have 2 Debit cards but its not like anyone has an endless supply of legit CC#s. I already know most who do this dont use their main acct.

They could also easily make it so you cant log in on the same server with a different faction from your IP until an hour has passed. It takes time to change your IP and your random PS2 player probably has no idea how to do so other than to wait for the ISP to change it, IF they have a dynamic IP.

and for the millions that sit on same IP have to play same faction?

Dont need a CC to make an account since its F2P..

Or for different people who play from the same household/dorm room? That solution wouldn't work for them either. There's no easy solution that I'm aware of.

Kind of the same reason IP bans aren't put in place, since the actual hackers can get around them easy and you just make it harder for ppl who play in the same internet cafe or something.

Making it impossible to create multiple chars per server will do NOTHING to impact spies since they can just make new accounts and will just adversely impact ppl who want to make 2 chars on the same server

Never had a problem on helios, all 3 forces have decent population. Well other than the TR but they make up for it with incredible teamwork. On Connery the VS is suffering from small pop. Genudine was terrible, gave me a horrible first impression of the game as the game made me spawn on Esamir on a low pop server. I found like 2 enemies and 1 teammate on the continent.

Ding Ding Ding, we have a winner.

Link to stat showing millions of people play this game pls. Im guessing at best tens of thousands to low hundreds. A time limit to swap factions: people in dorms would just have to deal.

Did you know that your Steam stuff is tied to your hardware and not your IP? That could be implemented as well.

And I suggest that you need a credit card. That would eliminate most of the greifers/cheaters for other factions. It would also cut down on the hax since as I said, no one has an endless supply of CC#s.

There are a few viable and very possible AND effective solutions to the problem. People who demand limitless accounts and deny any change are more than likely the ones not playing fairly anyway. Therefore, I give zero fks about what you have to say.

Dont have steam and I guess the majority dont use steam either

Russia have PS2?
China will have or already got PS2?

so, yes, millions

Im pretty sure its already been mentioned. But the 'official' reason given were as follows.

1. The limitation of 1 charcter per server did nothing to stop the '4th empire' effect, as people simply made alt accounts and used those to 'spy'.
2. The Australian's were getting the shaft as they only had one server.. so they could not even 'try' the other factions without deleting the characters they had created, or play on a high-ping server either in the NA or EU.

Is that even possible? East coast +east coast + east coast still makes it the same prime time, doesn't it?

By "one server per region", I mean one US East server, one US West server, one for EU and one for AU.

Right now that might be a tight squeeze for some regions, but as soon as a new continent is added they'll be enough room.

Hmmm.. I would love to see that personally, but then I am an odd bird and care less for my ping in the whole FPS thing. Getting many of these guys to give up ping for a bigger picture? Good luck selling that to the masses.

Have to admit im curious about this too because team killing can be an extremely irritating and disgustingly effective way to make people miserable. Just earlier today a group of us on indar deployed a sundy on a ridge to begin an anti armor defense and within a minute a low lvl friendly spawned at the sundy and immedietly blew it up and tried to kill us to stop the defense. I know their isnt much that the devs can do to stop it but really? are we just supposed to except this as a way people are going to play the game?

This was a bad move on their part. Something I have noticed that happens as a result of this is people make multiple characters on the same server, join the side with the highest population then steamroll as much as they can. Once they hit a dead end, they log onto and alt and do the same thing from the other direction.

They need to remove this or add a time limit for switching between characters, say a 12 hour cooldown before you can change to a different character on the same server. Death to the 4th Empire!

Hi there. I'm from Australia. We only have Briggs to play on. So that meant that I couldn't play any other empire without massive pings and lag issues. I was of the opinion that we should have had extra servers but this was the choice the dev's made. And to be honest, you can't really spy in any real sense in this game. You can log on and see where the zerg is and go elsewhere on your other char, but thats nothing you couldnt do with 3 accounts in this F2P game.

Because Australians only have 1 server.