I hope they have alert like missions, it adds a nice sense of urgency and incentive for hordes to play at the same time for the same goal. That said, I would like some form of Alert faction locked character, you can play as any character you want at anytime other than your Alert character which is locked to Alerts for a period of time (2hrs, 4hrs, 8hrs, etc.). Make it a bit of a factional pride gamble, the longer you lock your own character the more of a factional exp bonus you get or increased chance of an item reward and/or title. This will let people assume their own level of locking with a perk instead of an outright restriction and rewards those for having factional loyalty by feeding into the min/maxer inside of all of us lol. Of course if your faction is traditionally outnumbered you get an added bonus ontop of locking your character to that faction for alerts. One thing is you should always give the illusion of choice, and incentive never an outright punishment, you can lead a horse to water and what not lol.
Bump!!! Let's see what others think even though I'm for the imp lamination of this so faction swapping or the fourth faction is a burden in this game and it will help keep Emerson like the devs want
Faction locking is ok but it limits certain things. People should be able to pay for additional accounts added to their existing one that can allow them to join other factions. If people really wanted to troll others, they can just type in global chat what their factions is planning or e-mail a friend or random person from another faction what they plan on doing. Heck, a person could go rouge and open up an entire defense network to invasion just for the sake of it because humans are naturally going to screw each other over at one point or another.
Lock it up nice and tight, if one can find some sort of way were it does not impact of "We are losing, better switch to the wining team" then yea, add it up on the tab of none faction locking then.
From the recent newsletter I saw, it said that campaigns would last a week. Maybe you fight for a certain faction that one week, then you can choose to keep fighting for them or go to a different one the next week?
