Shakydvs Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 All i can say is please for he love of god when you release to Australia, make the servers even between republic and empire players. I dont care how you do it but please implement it somehow THanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosvernon Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 It won't ever be possible for all the servers. If they introduced free transfer for Republic Only to a PvE, PVP, RPPVE, & RPPVP server you might get 4 servers with close to even numbers. But then the other 120 servers are going to be completely empty republic side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draflorin Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 i suppose they could impose balance caps on each side so if too many empire players were on no would be able to play their empire toons till some people logged off or wait in a queue... but republic characters go in right away, encouraging people to roll both side characters don't know if it would work and TBH i would probably resent not being able to play the characters i want when i want. the real answer is to make republic characters more attractive to play Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gleneagle Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Possibly an addition to the server status page displaying the relative populations per faction. Maybe go so far as factional disadvantages, such as a queue only for the overpopulated faction. More players might elect to roll alts on the less popular side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirSlayAlot Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 They could easily impose character creation restrictions on servers in blocks. SO what I mean is, if Empire get the jump and there are already 50 new accounts created on a new server while Republic is still sitting on 5, the system could automatically apply a block to new players creating their first Empire character until the Republic number is up closer to 40-50. I would be pissed if I couldn't roll on that server due to the block but I would understand the need to balance the 2 sides is very important. And in all honesty, they should have done this from the outset. For a brand new game, 95% of the players were randomly picking a server to roll on anyway, only chosing one according to location. I'd be happy if they did this with the aussie servers as an "experiment", and yes I'm Aussie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disodium Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 (edited) This is and always has been an issue for every factional game. It comes back to player preference, that is the problem. To put it simpler.. more people find it cooler to be an imperial over a republic player. Is there an issue? - Yes It is a complex issues, one that I do not think will be solved by suggestions like queues and or blocks.. that will only incite rage. Instead there needs to be an incentive to play republic because there is obviously some reason why the balance is stacked the way it is. Edited January 27, 2012 by Disodium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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