Welcome to the mmo paradox. When everyone wants to be the hero.

Population problems? Also a result of what I said earlier. Who would want to play on the losing side? (Honestly your just talking in circles)

If you want to now blame it on class balance, then I can simply blame it on the fact that you did not play the same classes. Which of course leads us back to the original part of my argument, that they were better players. No, this problem goes beyond class imbalance.

So your sitting here the whole time, arguing in defence of a problem this thread was created on, and now your denying that it even exists in the first place? Do you even think before writing this stuff?

Game exploitation is something else entirely. But for the most part, you are playing a fair game. Faction imbalance happens for a reason btw, and is a direct result of what I said earlier. The good players like to band together for the most part, because the system in place leaves no alternatives. Yes your idea would help with the issue, but it doesn't fix it, and Bioware would never kick players out of a WZ based on their 'performance'. You would still get skill imbalances because of no ranking system and players would still leave because of this.

You missed the point completely.

Again your only looking at the result of the actual problem here. You must be the guy that fills up a flat tire repeatedly without finding the leak.

The problem of short-handed WZ's as you call it, is not the problem you should be looking at. Rather, look at what is causing the WZ's to become short-handed.

And yet people want the reward based system to work like it does IRL. Your logic is flawed.

The two problems go hand in hand. Good players don't like playing with lesser skilled players and usually leave. Since there is no rank system this means that you will see a lot of good players leaving. The good players aren't being rewarded enough for playing well and the bad players are stuck in an environment of superior players. It's like randomly matching high school basketball players with professional ones. The pros would walk out on their team if they had too many H.S. players. Now the game doesn't even end when the players leave, but the problem isn't originating with the game not ending. The only solution is to turn the game into what they don't want to make it into, which is a game that actually rewards players on skill and accomplishment. A.K.A. the anti-casual mmo game.

The funniest part about this is that this problem will never go away. People want to be rewarded for doing poorly and others want to be rewarded more for doing better. People seem to be under the impression that being in a video game allows you to defy common logic. In real life do you get rewarded for doing poorly? Bioware will never be able to make a solution to please everyone because of this...

What happened to the world of rewarding you for your efforts and not your accomplishments? Yea I remember kindergarten....good times

If only you had the option to leave

Solo que'ing and playing a support profession are contradictory enough. Why should a healer ever be able to solo anything? It kinda goes against the point of the profession. The commendation thing though should be fixed.

Go back to the grinding gear you had before then? More free kills

My 45 sharpshooter has never been happier.

Recruit gear is the answer to that, even if you can't afford the incredibly cheap BM gear now...

*** c3 stole my ship!

I haven't noticed an increase in my dps on gunslinger, except on tanky targets in pvp maybe. 3k-5k hits are common place for gunslinger though on quite a few abilities...I mowed through people before, now I just destroy.

It seems they nerfed defenses in the hopes of preventing premade teams of healers/tanks from face rolling solo qued pvpers. They got the right idea, just might have been too severe. The end result is suppost to be that you need a mix of ALL classes to win, not just 2.

Yes make people waste their time playing with inferior players. Can I emphasize the waste part? Seriously, it's not all about you. Too bad ranked didn't come out.

Dps class that can dps ^^. Still no match for my gunslinger though

It's too bad really, cause ranked warzones would have solved this problem.

Mainly this whole debate boils down to the problem of there not being ranked pvp systems in game. As we all know irl, people who suck don't hang with the pros, and can't be expected to. Guess what, games are no different. Skilled players don't want to be forced to waste (yes I say WASTE) 15 minutes of their time playing with people who cannot grasp basic warzone/pvp/tactic concepts and just end up raging the skilled player to the point of afking or leaving because of said incompetance. F2P games cater to these carebear views of penalizing people who leave teams of lesser skilled players, because they are F2P. If you want that in a game people pay for, you're in for dissapointment...

Pretty sure that's what I said, though i'm not agreeing on the success of AoC. (And yes, not everyone uses the most popular products against their will. look at mac vs windows users)