It's Been 2 Weeks, what's your Opinion.

[Liquidtide]

It's been two weeks since the Battle COncentration Initiative (i.e. server merger). What is your impression of the fighting?

I used to be on Konried, and I really like being able to have a battle always available, Instant Action is great now. The zergs are a little much and I'm getting sick of seeing so many VS Maxes, I have always enjoyed the smaller 2-3 squads vs 2-3 squads action you could find on Konried, all in all I give it a B+.\

~Tide

[Veteran]

The BCI was urged long before it happened, and now that it has happened, PlanetSide is twice the game it once was.

Don't get me wrong, I loved Konried like a Vanu loves his subscription to Ripples and Wrinkles magazine, but the new merged servers just seem so much closer to the level of intensity that the devs had in mind.

The only thing I hate is the long timer to switch empires. I long to return to the Terran Republic, but if I can't level my n00b when I'm sick of helping the mighty TR, why should I? If they made the timer one hour, I'd be a happy, happy man, despite the fact that I have holiday depression and my family is insane.

[Vick]

It is ok, but putting up with all the Emerald bullshit makes me long for Konried again.

[Liquidtide]

I agree Vick, I haven't seen too many Konried CR5's on the Global, don't be shy guys!!! We know Tactics!

BTW Vick, Nice Sig, I want one for Christmas.

[kerosene31]

On Emerald it has been great. Pre-merge, I would log in at odd times and be lucky to find one or two hotspots total. Now, there are almost always battles going on many continents at the same time during normal hours.

A lot of people complain about the zerg, but I have found more small to mid-sized battles on Emerald after the merge. I usually see one locked continent (with a zerg) and a few other good sized battles going on elsewhere.

The only negative so far for me has been more than a few zone crashes. Not sure if those are directly related to the merge or not. However, overall the lag has not been very bad at all.

[SandTrout]

It's great because you now can choose the size of the fight you want to go to because you have 1-2 conts with pop lock and several others with hotspots.

As for the zone crashes, they started with a patch on the 17th or 18th, and have been fixed(supposudly).

[Queensidecastle]

It's fantastic

[Hamma]

I'm happy with it :D

[Rarzo]

More action, more killing, what could be better?

[Mudflap]

I miss Konried pre-merger as well. The Emerald VS seem to like cowering in a safe place. I've never had so many people give so little support. At least the towers tend to be well defended.

I just wish that they would fix the FPS issues. The battles have gotten to the scale(and it seems that FPS has gotten worse anyway) that people without surge easily get behind people at the front of the swarm in any indoor battle. And once they get behind the front lines, they warp all over the place and every shot hits the friendly behid them. That's just wrong.

[ViperGTS]

Well.......pretty cool. Some many things to shoot now! Also many people to shoot you! :scared:

[EarlyDawn]

No real difference for me, so I voted "ok".

[Vick]

Yeah Liquid, from talking with my CR5 buddies it seems that the NC /c chat is less then friendly though...

For a sig like that, just bug 1024 alot, if your lucky he will make you one.

[BDMJ]

We are very friendly, get cr5 and find out ;)

*cracks knuckles*

[Fenrys]

Too many people slows my machiene down below the poit where PS stops being fun. I liked the lower populations for performance reasons.

[Cyanide]

I like it. Having just picked up the game recently, I can say that the battles are even bigger than the ones we had during the beta test.

The only bad thing about it is that the concentration of idiot commanders with no tactical sense what so ever seems to be much higher. I guess that's just because the concentration of players is much higher. Where have all the leaders gone?

[Jagd]

I love it! Sometimes the lag gets a bit ridiculous, but like any seasoned FPS player, I know you just have to make your shots count when it starts to slideshow.

[Flammey]

Doesn't make any difference in my field of view. Besides, PS is getting very boring.