Me no, I have not put much thought into it as I am not a real supporting of 'faction locking'. My statement was more general saying: there is a solution out there. I was not claiming to have one, my claim is: We don't need one. Apologies for the confusion.
ah, so in that their loyalties lie with none but the winners. that's an advantage of multiple servers--you can make it so that they can only be in one faction per server.
it happens in games without multiple servers aswell ...and EC will be a game with a single server/realm or at leasts that is the plan so far.
thats because they don't do what i said with multiple servers. if they made it limited to only allowed to have chars of one faction in a given server, it wouldn't happen. and i know EC isn't going to have servers.
It happens no matter how many servers a game has (it happened in WAR and it happened in WoW )the difference is that in games like EC they just change faction while in games like WoW/WAR they just change server till they find the one that favors their faction most.
-_- your not getting my point at all. it has nothing to do with how many servers. they could THEORETICALLY make it so that you are not allowed to have a vanu AND an NC character on the same server. thus, when you switch, the balance of power is different, because it's different server to server. one server, there might be one faction dominating, and another server, its a deadlock stalemate for all three factions.
That's how W:AR was setup before the exodus. Realm faction locked because the core was PvP campaign ... if only they'd focused that. Regardless the core of EC is dominated by campaign PvP. Multiple servers would allow a faction lock per server but allow you to hop to another server when things get stale. The bigger problem is dispersed players on multiple servers stagnate PGC and campaign fluidity, where 1 server provokes endless chaos (little C). You will inevitably end up with a boring game if we're not concentrated into one enormous smouldering player mass, imho anyway. The primary game theme is as an individual contributing his/her best to a faction's campaign, win or lose, not the individual shopping around for the best faction. That's the conundrum. Again mho.
Hey guys just a heads up I had this thread moved here for the Benefit of discussion on weather you like the implementation of a timed faction lock systems or not please stay on topic and if the poll concerns you start another thread with a new poll thanks. And let's keep this civil
