Chiricahua Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I'm just curious if all the options have been explored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jestunhi Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 1. Balance mirror classes. 2. Offer encouragement to play republic (not punish Imps), e.g. the first much-hyped new race being republic, etc. 3. Tweak the pop cap on Illum / change how the instancing (Illum(1) / Illum(2)) works do better balance each instance (and stop people just joining the zerg instance). 4. Adjust classes / abilities / etc based on their own metrics, not whine threads. That's what I hope anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBGames Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 delete all other classes and only allow people to play Sage/Sorc.... We are half way there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firaxus Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 delete all other classes and only allow people to play Sage/Sorc.... We are half way there Wow, exaggeration is cool.. Besides.. if its down to Sage and Sorc the balance is way off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egow Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 they wont Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossos Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 They won't it's not happening. BW isn't going to risk pi $$ing anymore people off. They lost 250K subs by the end of the 1st month. Just like the Valor rollback...they're not going to do a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HBninjaX Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 faster leveling, more valor on low pop servers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JingleHell Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Well, since faction balance is largely a function of the player base, I assume they'll just wait until the completely defective customers who think Bioware should intervene on numerical balance of faction have all unsubbed, and then the "problem" will be a non-issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moondancerbb Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 They won't it's not happening. BW isn't going to risk pi $$ing anymore people off. They lost 250K subs by the end of the 1st month. Just like the Valor rollback...they're not going to do a thing. Did you know that 80% of all statistics are made up on the spot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jestunhi Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 They won't it's not happening. BW isn't going to risk pi $$ing anymore people off. They lost 250K subs by the end of the 1st month. Just like the Valor rollback...they're not going to do a thing. My god, no other MMO has ever lost a large amount of customers when the first big batch of free time ran out! Par for the course. There will always be people who don't play past the free time, a month after launch it's noticeable because so many people free time expires on the same day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrestrial Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I think they will allow battle groups/cross-server war zones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mintawno Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 When you say Faction Imbalance, do you mean Population? Or Skill differences? Because Bioware isn't going to force people to play what they don't want to play, but they could fix the Skill differences so one might not be more willing to play one over the other based solely on one being better than the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiricahua Posted January 27, 2012 Author Share Posted January 27, 2012 When you say Faction Imbalance, do you mean Population? Or Skill differences? Because Bioware isn't going to force people to play what they don't want to play, but they could fix the Skill differences so one might not be more willing to play one over the other based solely on one being better than the other. Faction imbalance means there are a lot more imperials than republic. I thought everyone was aware of the disparity. It's why imps have to battle imps in huttball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mintawno Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 (edited) Faction imbalance means there are a lot more imperials than republic. I thought everyone was aware of the disparity. It's why imps have to battle imps in huttball. So you were not aware that some Sith abilities activate quicker than their Jedi counterparts? Do you only play one side? And in case you didn't read my post, I answered assuming both questions. Bioware isn't going to force someone to play what they don't want to play. (population) But they could fix the spell differences so that one wouldn't consider playing one faction over the other due to one being better than the other. (skills) Edited January 27, 2012 by Mintawno Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexster Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 New race for both sides. Republic gets yoda race. Empire gets Gungan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthiel Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 go from house to house shooting customers in the head untill theirs balance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mintawno Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Republic gets yoda race. ONLY if the yoda race talks like Yoda, and not like the Yoda from the Datacron (who speaks fluent english lol) Also, the Yoda race should jump around a lot and be super agile (after putting away their cane) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamanous Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 Add a message at server list showing which side is needed coded by colour. How are players supposed to know which side has more active players with zero information? Also if some servers remain light and a server merge is considered then only open up servers to move to that need their faction. I know this means splitting up who they play against but stuck it up. Only allow same server transfers from both sides if on same account or choose to split to stay with guild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiricahua Posted January 27, 2012 Author Share Posted January 27, 2012 So you were not aware that some Sith abilities activate quicker than their Jedi counterparts? Do you only play one side? And in case you didn't read my post, I answered assuming both questions. Bioware isn't going to force someone to play what they don't want to play. (population) But they could fix the spell differences so that one wouldn't consider playing one faction over the other due to one being better than the other. (skills) I'm aware of the very slight differences in mirror classes. But it's so minor I don't even give it a 2nd thought. Only the neurotic will dwell on something so trivial. I play Sorceror over Sage soley because of the cool animations. I would guess most others do too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silverspar Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 4. Adjust classes / abilities / etc based on their own metrics, not whine threads. You mean what they already do? Oh wait, you must play an Op, so it has to be the whine threads, not the metrics. As far as faction imbalance, the only fix that could happen is if they make Imps roll Republic. And even though it would take them less time and such most Imps won't do it because A) they are lazy, B) they don't want to go to the side that actually has to fight to win, and/or C) as much as many of them talk about they like challenge, most prefer just easy wins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisiswenis Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 I'm just curious if all the options have been explored. They will nerf Sorcs and all the empire players will quit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dzhokhar Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 They probably won't do anything. What they should do is get rid of same-faction warzones and implement server faction population caps instead of server total population caps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chiricahua Posted January 27, 2012 Author Share Posted January 27, 2012 They probably won't do anything. What they should do is get rid of same-faction warzones and implement server faction population caps instead of server total population caps. Your post had me thinking that what if they transferred those not in a guild to another equivalent server. For example from one east coast server to another. It doesn't matter to me, and I wouldn't object. No guild, or ties that I would miss. But still, that answer ducks the real problem. They need to incentivize not just people rolling republic toons, but make players want to pvp with those toons most of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainmckenna Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 they dont need to do anything..overtime the overpop faction will get bored Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sac- Posted January 27, 2012 Share Posted January 27, 2012 They won't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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