Only one faction per server

TheBlade009 · Nov 21, 2012

Selest said: ↑

“One of the worst decisions that Sony made with original PlanetSide some way into the life of the game, was to relax the one faction per server rule, and allow players to create characters of any faction on the same server.

What started to happen was that, if one side was winning significantly, a huge number of players from the other two factions would switch sides and join the winning team. As you can probably see this led to massive balance problems and was incredibly frustrating for the losing empire(s).

I would suggest that you create one of your Outfits on Woodman - I'm sure you will still find worthy opponents to fight against!”

Winner of Best answer award! ^

The problem is once again as was much discussed in the beta. The Fourth Faction. the large group of people who join whatever side is winning currently because they can and have no allegiance to anyone. they simply want easy kills. I commend all those who fight for your side with honor and integrity.

Elbryan · Nov 21, 2012

ThereIsNoTry said: ↑

“Banned cheaters have to buy their precious Counter-Strike or whatever they play again and again. Never stopped anyone of those from cheating. If they want to, they will. And really, creating an account, which takes like 15 seconds, being too much of a hassle? I think you really underestimate those people.

And everyone can make up statistics.”

That's the rest of the "over half" I mentioned in my last post.

ThereIsNoTry · Nov 21, 2012

So does it solve the issue?

TheStink · Nov 21, 2012

Marked4Death said: ↑

“I believe it's good for everyone to play the "other side" for some time at least, just to get perspective and see that their weapons aren't as OP as they thought.
For aussies, this will always mean the experience of the other factions are worse by virtue of higher pings (+200ms mostly) as they are forced to US servers for any alt chars.

Another way to put this, as the poster above said, is that SOE is encouraging multi-accounting. That's not the end of the world in an F2P game, but it's redundant, a time waster and does not in fact solve the problem of empire switching as it only takes another 30 sec or less to log out / in fully.

TLDR: this BS is just a waste of time.”

Play a dirty NC and a scum bag TR? That's crazy talk!

Fleabag · Nov 21, 2012

Fourth empiring ruined Ps1. There was no worse patch in its history, even BFR's or Black op's weren't as bad.

If you want to play another empire, go to another server (or make another account if you must). It's not a big deal.

Mirror · Nov 21, 2012

I'm glad the rules are in place as it means that people don't jump to the winning side.

But this create another account thing could be a problem.

Xandax · Nov 21, 2012

I can only support 1 faction per server for me. It removes many grievances while introducing few.

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