I got an email saying there are "professional soldier bundles" available so I go look and see what is on offer for VS. It is a bunch of cosmetic stuff. Helmets, and armor that do nothing but make you look a bit different. Now the offer does say and yes every other empire can use the VS bundle...so I go over and look at the TR and NC bundles. The TR bundle is a bunch of infantry weapons. Ok cool...but wait...there are TR empire specific weapons in there how does that help me? It doesn't. I then go over to the NC vehicle bundle and it looks good until I see that the Titan-150 Vanguard 150mm HE and Breaker Reaver Rocket Pods are included. So Both the TR and NC bundles are functional bundles that have significant empire specific items that help them. The VS bundle is complete fluff and completely usable by all empires without any wastage. The only thing that the VS bundle has going for it is that it is the cheapest and since the other 2 have items that do no good for VS most smart VS players won't buy them either. Meaning we don't waste money at all. Doesn't really help us in game. It is getting annoying that the VS seems to be an after thought for the dev's. The art department loves us but functionality wise we constantly hear about a new asymmetrical feature being put in and the TR and NC implementation is well suited to their play style and the VS feature is "under discussion". Then we get things like the crap lancer or the ZOE that while it makes the max slightly more damaging with SOME weapons with the trade off that it is weaker to incoming fire which might be fine on its own but they also light us up like a neon sign so everyone can focus fire on us, oh we can run a bit fasters. The NC get a shield that effectively keeps them safe while reloading and is very effective with support along side. The TR get a HUGE damage increase to ALL weapons but can't move...granted this has much less use against infantry but vehicles it is amazing. Combine this with the fact that we've only heard SOE (Higby) say that they are well aware of the population imbalance problems but have nothing in the works to fix the problem and it just becomes a pain to play on the empire I've been playing on for close to a decade. ( on Waterson the VS averages about 22% of the global pop, never gets above 28% and often drops down to 17-18%)
