Jnaathra Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 (edited) I mean if I am going to be fighting my own side all the time.. Why even bother. They couldn't fix Ilum, so they made it obsolele. They couldn't balance the factions, so they turned into Wraith of Heroes. "No, you won't be able select specifically which Warzone to join after 1.2 goes live. Instead, Void Star will be changed so that Republic can fight Republic and Empire can fight Empire, a team format shared by Huttball and Novare Coast. "That means that Void Star will fire more often when you're on a server where it's a faction imbalance…There's going to be less of a Huttball bias. We plan to move Alderaan into that group as well, but it won't be ready for 1.2. We're very conscious of the fact that we have servers with a faction imbalance and we have to deal with that." H8 this change... I had little faction pride before and now I have NONE. Edited March 6, 2012 by Jnaathra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaL_InvictuS Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 They said fighting your own side on Voidstar/Alderaan will be done in the context of a "Training Simulation" match and might come with a different briefing or something. As far as Role-Playing and immersion is concerned, it's still plausible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jnaathra Posted March 6, 2012 Author Share Posted March 6, 2012 They said fighting your own side on Voidstar/Alderaan will be done in the context of a "Training Simulation" match and might come with a different briefing or something. As far as Role-Playing and immersion is concerned, it's still plausible -face palm- Wow.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skillmare Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Empire side should always be at a struggle with itself, anyway. So for us, it would make sense to fight each other for a struggle of power... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjdelfino Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 They could solve this problem by making cross-server warzones. That would also solve the problem of waiting for queue times. For a late night player like me, its impossible to pvp past 1:00am. If you really want to play with someone from your server then queue with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caultonpos Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 They pretty much failed at creating a faction game, failed at creating open world pvp. Look to guild wars, this is just a filler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwidionxx Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I completely agree with the OP. Bioware has made this game into a joke. Why are bounty hunters aligned with the Empire? Same thing with smugglers and the Republic. There was no thought put into the design of the game. It was basically, lets make a generic MMO and stick Star Wars names over top. This game does not deserve to have Star Wars in the title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maticlandarr Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Because WoW has factions. Duh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talizzar Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Curious how they admit to faction imbalance at one point and then put up a slide that shows that the imbalance was less than 10 percent or 15. Are some servers super heavy pub or super light imp or are they just blowing smoke up you know where? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthOvertone Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I mean if I am going to be fighting my own side all the time.. Why even bother. H8 this change... I had little faction pride before and now I have NONE. You are absolutely right. Pub v Imp Star Wars is over. From here on out it's Imp Wars, except for the carebears that want to explore Pub-side PvE stories (Smuggler is very good btw...Consuler is horribad). I will be rolling an Imp with 1.2 since it makes zero sense to remain Pub. It's what I had planned to do in the beginning anyway, but went Pub to help balance things out. My mistake. They pretty much failed at creating a faction game, failed at creating open world pvp. +Rep. Absolutely correct and now BW is just cutting their losses. Can't imagine the Imp Wars expansion later this year being very interesting. I will likely be unsubbed at that point, however, given the direction this game is going. Curious how they admit to faction imbalance at one point and then put up a slide that shows that the imbalance was less than 10 percent or 15. Are some servers super heavy pub or super light imp or are they just blowing smoke up you know where? Those numbers definitely do not accurately reflect the faction populations on PvP Servers. They are being washed out by the carebears on PvE servers. I'd bet my lightsaber on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XadennX Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Because WoW has factions. Duh. lol coffee all over kb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UnimatrixSteel Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 BW should just make the Inquisitor class its own faction and then we'd have balanced factions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maticlandarr Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 You guys are so sirius. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justadude Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Because WoW has factions. Duh. The sad and pathetic truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pallais Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 Curious how they admit to faction imbalance at one point and then put up a slide that shows that the imbalance was less than 10 percent or 15. Are some servers super heavy pub or super light imp or are they just blowing smoke up you know where? Well, Bioware did mention today ONE server where the Republic was 75% of the population. Bioware got teased because that was the only Republic dominated server that they could think of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pallais Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I mean if I am going to be fighting my own side all the time.. Why even bother. They couldn't fix Ilum, so they made it obsolele. They couldn't balance the factions, so they turned into Wraith of Heroes. {quote snip} H8 this change... I had little faction pride before and now I have NONE. You'll never have balanced factions on any server given that people have a choice of what to play. When cross-server warzones happen you should see more faction-based warzones, but at least until then we have the option of more than just Huttball. If the faction issue bothers you, just Google "Aggressor Squadron" (or watch Top Gun ). It is common to train against members of your own military that are setup to use the enemy's tactics. Viewed in that light, Voidstar works. As far as open world PvP goes, everyone struggles with that. Any naturally unbalanced server is going to make open world pvp unpalatable for the smaller side. Wow's Wintergrasp and Tol Barad have come closest to pretending to be world pvp and that is only because winning gives you access to epic loot pinatas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snaplemouton Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 They could easily fix this problem by making huttball a Republic vs empire only and no same faction fight in warzones. This way empire get 30 minutes Queues. Lot of them will faction change because of that. Causing factions to be slightly more balanced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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