State of the Server - What's the story on your server?

[Illtempered]

I just wanted to take a quick poll on the dynamic of the other servers. I'm curious what similarities and differences there are on each server. I've been playing a lot since release, and missed a lot of sleep, so I think I have a pretty good feeling for how things go on Waterson, during all hours.

The VS started very unorganized at release, but have tightened up and seem to be quite organized now. TR usually have the most global pop, but it only get's around 50% during the BRIT prime-time hours. During those times VS usually try to avoid contact with NC, and for the most part I think NC does the same. This keeps the TR from rolling everybody and I think is better for everybody on the server. I enjoy having a different fight once in a while with our NC comrades, but our priority target is TR. They are, after all, the evil empire. They are the ones that threaten to take Indar, which VS almost constantly own. We like our infantry resources. If we own the benefit on Indar, and VS pop gets too high, I always take my outfit to a different continent, usually to attack TR if their global pop is very high.

NC does seem to have the most trouble on the server, but I'd contend that they often don't pick good primary targets. Instead of saving their benefits, they often try to push VS on Indar, which always winds up bad for them. I don't know if it's the terrain, or their position on the map, but Indar isn't friendly for them. I see them set up some long-lasting Biofarms, especially DVS, but I don't understand why their empire waits until they lose a benefit to zerg the continent. In my opinion they should be setting up the Biofarms on continents they own the benefit to, and farming the massive TR zerg while holding a benefit. Often times they own both Amerish and Esamir because TR is so busy trying to take Indar. Then when TR get tired of being farmed by VS on Indar, they zerg another continent. NC rarely reacts and defends in time.

Some of the VS outfits on Waterson, including our own, almost always work together to save Indar. Before they nerfed Scarred Mesa Skydock it was our favorite place to alamo on Indar. Now we use ARC Bioengineering as a last-stand, and it's really one of the most defensible bases in the game. I personally think they should move the warp-gate pain-field back, so that enemies can attack the towers with AA, and move the out-of-bounds further out. As it is, it's a terrible choke-point, and TR seem unable to take it against an organized defense even when it's 60% pop to 20%.

[Palerion]

I dunno, I play on Jaeger and it seems like kind of an underdog server. Almost never hear about it on the forums, battles don't seem to be overly exciting. Sometimes you can't even find a good battle. I'll get on and there will be only one continent active, with maybe a couple major battles occuring. Of course, these end shortly.

[Assist]

I'll get on and there will be only one continent active, with maybe a couple major battles occuring.

I think this is the case on a lot of servers. Waterson usually only has one continent that is very active, maybe a second with squads fighting each other. You don't usually see 2 continents with 'Enemy Platoons' in multiple areas. I personally love Amerish but the VS tend to never go there, usually when I head over to Amerish there's not a single zone, including warpgates, that has above 'Enemy Squads'.

[Rolfski]

Miller: Alive & kicking. High traffic, highly competitive server. Mainly because PS1 (Werner) outfits decided to fight each other there.

Population:
Mostly balanced, slight NC disadvantage

Continent lock:
Indar: VS (80% of the time), TR (19% of the time), NC (1 % of the time)
Esamir: NC (60%), TR (20%), VS (20%)
Amerish: TR (80%), NC (15%), VS (5%)

Organization
VS: good
TR: getting there
NC: are stepping up

Spirit/ Sportsmanship
Excellent: Factions/outfits respect each other. No Enclave/Buzzcut-like trash talking

[Micro]

On Cobalt (EU) we have it quite balanced. Most of the time we (VS) control Esamir, NC Amerish and TR sometimes Indar. But things often change very quickly. Especially when outfits and squads join together and zerg trough enemies.

And yes... The Crown is constantly a battlefield. And a good XP Farm. *evolgrinz*

[AnamNantom]

Mattherson. Vanu rule. Enough said :)

[Ghoest9]

Waterson

In the mornings we often have 50% TR.

In the evenings it often gets donw to around 36 or 37% TR

Ussually there is more Vanu than NC but not overwhelmingly so.

About 3/4s of all hot spots are on Esmir day in day out.

The Vanu pretty much live on Indar and sometimes go to Esmir - they rarely go to Amerish

Esmir is generally split up.

Amerish is ussually controled by TR occasionally NC rolls the whole thing and take it in a hurry though.

The TR tend to zerg.
The Vanu tend to be really persistent.
The NC for a long time tended to whore for certs for various reason although now they hold there own in fights.

[Artorius]

Miller is the server with the best organized outfits and the most ps1 veterans worldwide. Very competive gameplay all the time, no noob farming.

[thegreekboy]

Connery: Usually pretty good fights on Indar and Esamir. Amerish is usually deserted.

I haven't seen Indar fall for a while, it's usually on our side. Esamir is usually Vanu or NC. Amerish flips between TR and NC due to it flipping whenever us or the 666th decide to take it uncontested.

Outfit/organization wise the [Orders] people are usually pretty good and decisive, they herd the TR zerg pretty well. Vanu seem pretty unorganized and really like to spam magriders whenever we push past Hvar. TR has us (a large, organized outfit), and a couple smaller but equally awesome ones such as TXR, HFA, CNP, Ironfist, etc.

NC seems pretty organized. They have the big, good outfit (666th) plus some smaller, good ones (PG, Outfit X, etc.). They're zerg seems OK-ish.

[NewSith]

Miller: Alive & kicking. High traffic, highly competitive server. Mainly because PS1 (Werner) outfits decided to fight each other there.

Population:
Mostly balanced, slight NC disadvantage

Continent lock:
Indar: VS (80% of the time), TR (19% of the time), NC (1 % of the time)
Esamir: NC (60%), TR (20%), VS (20%)
Amerish: TR (80%), NC (15%), VS (5%)

Organization
VS: good
TR: getting there
NC: are stepping up

Spirit/ Sportsmanship
Excellent: Factions/outfits respect each other. No Enclave/Buzzcut-like trash talking

Miller in a nutshell, really.

[RobUK]

Miller in a nutshell, really.

Miller is an awesome server. I get a real buzz out of seeing player names and Outfit tags that I recognise from the Werner days of Planetside 1.

I also like Miller because it is always busy, and there is fighting on all 3 continents during prime time.

I prefer fighting on Indar, but I don't have any objections to fighting on Amerish and Esamir. The thing I like about Esamir is that the TR is quite often almost back to its Warpgate and pushing out with big armour columns covered by air great fun.

We usually don't get any further than Ti Alloys and often end up bouncing backwards and forwards between our Warpgate and the J908 Impact site. Even so, it's still great fun.

[SeraphC]

I hope you don't mind me borrowing your format Rolfski.

Ceres: Very active, lots of large scale battles often in a good number of locations. Not a lot of large scale, organized outfits, very limited organization at a faction level.

Indar has very static faction borders that may get pushed around a bit, but always very quickly return to their usual positions. The three major NC facilities and the territories around it form the scene for most of the large battles. The population on Indar is almost always perfectly balanced.
Amerish is a ghost continent with occasional NC or TR spikes (unimpressive ones at that) pushing for a full continent cap.
Esamir is reasonably active, but the VS mostly have a presence there that is superior to both other factions combined. They keep the continent tightly locked and borders pushed near the enemy warpgates.

Population:
Slight VS advantage, NC disadvantage, TR in the middle. Nothing drastic though and it has been balancing out lately.

Continent lock:
Indar: Neutral for weeks now with no one coming close to capping it
Esamir: VS (90%), TR (10%)
Amerish: NC (65%), TR (35%)

Organization
I have a feeling all factions are severely lacking here, both on outfit and faction level.

[KingQuicksilver]

Connery is pretty much dominated by the TR. They hold the continents the most. Vanu have low-ish population, I enjoy the consistent +9-10% XP boost. Vanu as said above are pretty disorganized. We get double teamed by, hate to say but, superior tactics and numbers of the NC and TR.

[ShadetheDruid]

Woodman is generally pretty active, especially Indar which tends to have a good spread across the board (faction populations within a couple of % of each other). Some nights the good (equalish) fights will spread, usually to Esamir.

We even have gigantic fights that aren't even at the Crown! I just got off from battling the VS over some random rock in a field. Magriders, explosions, and Magrider explosions everywhere!

Mallory feels slightly less active, but there's still great fights to be had. Again, it tends to be on Indar, but the populations tend to be quite balanced as well. It's also slightly more Crown-focused, but Mallory also has some decent people in command chat (at least on the VS side) who actively tell people not to go to the Crown.

Both servers seem to be Indar focused, with Esamir and Amerish usually belonging to one faction a lot, or only being a two-way fight (where the third faction has little to no presence).

[malonkevio]

I dunno, I play on Jaeger and it seems like kind of an underdog server. http://webcardid.com/apple/images/a16http://webcardid.com/apple/images/k3

[LoliLoveFart]

Birggs has its moments.
TR have the most active outfits and usually a pop advantage.
NC the least and VS have a few.
Makes doing anything hard. Unless you are TR then you just roflstomp anything.

[seanman]

Birggs has its moments.
TR have the most active outfits and usually a pop advantage.
NC the least and VS have a few.
Makes doing anything hard. Unless you are TR then you just roflstomp anything.

briggs?
most of it is the crown, crown is everything, farming cert at the crown.
im NC at briggs ,
the most active continent is Indar 65% (40% of indar pop doing crown), esamir 25%, and the rest is amerish :).
Indar owned TR most of all time.
esamir and amerish always fight between nc or vs and sometimes TR.

[Illtempered]

This thread gives me a lot of hope. Varied dynamics and it's exciting to think about all the things going on in different servers. It's like contemplating other dimensions....

I see a common thread on all of the servers though. We have to find a way to encourage people to leave Indar, and we probably need some server merges. It seems only natural. They started with too few, over-corrected, and now need to trim the fat a little.

[psijaka]

I play NC on Ceres, almost always on Indar because I like it so much.

NC frequently the underdogs on Indar, often around 30% pop. Often restricted to the bottom corner of the map.

TR usually hold the top half of the map, despite VS usually having a similar population level.

Visited Amerish for a change this morning - map almost entirely blue! Population level very low; stayed around to cap the remaining base but pretty dull stuff; almost prefer being the underdog. A good chance to stock up on Bouncing Betties though!

Ceres not a bad server, get some good prolonged fights during the daytime and evening; things do die back overnight but that's only to be expected. Time to go to bed!

[cooonips]

Birggs has its moments.
TR have the most active outfits and usually a pop advantage.
NC the least and VS have a few.
Makes doing anything hard. Unless you are TR then you just roflstomp anything.

TR have a pop advantage? every time I play they have the lowest. thats the whole reason i joined them

from what i have seen Indar is where all the real fightin' happens, Esamir is ok but can be a little dull, then Amerish is pretty much deserted with a few people going around solo capping for xp

[BlaxicanX]

I play on Connery.

By the end of the day, Indar almost always belongs to the TR, and Amerish and Esamir get won by the Vanu, and sometimes the NC.

I think that the Vanu, being the cowards they are, start off on Indar and then jump ship to one of the other continents after they tire of getting crushed by the TR, at which point they proceed to ghost-cap the entire continent. The NC are perpetually the underdogs, but the TR as a whole seems to be pretty lethargic during the day, and so as a result we lose a lot of territory during the middle of the day, even on Indar. TR players seem to log in en masse during the evening though, and so by 1am or so we have control of most of Indar again.

But yeah, outfit wise, I know 666 and OCG are both active outfits, and are active on Connery. Beyond that, I can't say a whole lot.

[thegreekboy]

I play on Connery.

By the end of the day, Indar almost always belongs to the TR, and Amerish and Esamir get won by the Vanu, and sometimes the NC.

I think that the Vanu, being the cowards they are, start off on Indar and then jump ship to one of the other continents after they tire of getting crushed by the TR, at which point they proceed to ghost-cap the entire continent. The NC are perpetually the underdogs, but the TR as a whole seems to be pretty lethargic during the day, and so as a result we lose a lot of territory during the middle of the day, even on Indar. TR players seem to log in en masse during the evening though, and so by 1am or so we have control of most of Indar again.

But yeah, outfit wise, I know 666 and OCG are both active outfits, and are active on Connery. Beyond that, I can't say a whole lot.


*clears throat very loudly while looking directly at Blaxican*

[Neutral Calypso]

TR owns Indar (on Connery). It is one of the laws of the universe. The day anyone else takes Indar will be the day the world flips upsidedown.

[Illtempered]

Do the VS on Connery never alamo at ARC Bioengineering?

[Neutral Calypso]

I mostly see fights going on at Allatum on Connery. Can't say I've seen this Alamo scenario of which you speak.

[Baneblade]

Waterson from the NC perspective is frustrating. Our zergfits are one trick bronies and the War Machine tends to get trounced by our own empire as much as the enemy.

We are getting ready to launch a massive recruitment campaign to coincide with the upcoming patch. Hopefully, we will rescue some of the bigger outfit members from a game of mediocrity and be true to our name. Elmo and Barney won't know what hit them.

[BlaxicanX]

*clears throat very loudly while looking directly at Blaxican*

Oh, heh heh.. >_>'

I'm actually looking for an outfit to join for TR. I've got CGC for my NC account, which is lulz'ily competent, been having trouble finding a good outfit for my TR though. -clicks sig-

[Calisai]

Mattherson. Vanu rule. Enough said :)

Battle of the large outfits. A lot of the PS1 outfits from Emerald landed here and you can see it in the large battles. Large swings in population as the large outfits move around the map... All three empires have large outfits that tend to look like a zerg, but move with a bit more strategy.

Indar is a perpetual three-way: population and territory..... mostly gets capped during off-hours.

Esamir has some good fights during primetime, Amerish is pretty lopsided usually.


Indar is usually locked by TR/VS (back and forth) while Esa/Amer are usually locked by NC.

[james]

I play on Connery, as it sits, the VS is nothing more than a zerg. The NC takes what it wants. The TR puts up a good fight and usually has indar, because of their much better warpgate.
Then the other two continents are basically flip flop zerg caps. Usually the NC has them.
The TRG and some other outfits are the only thing keeping Connery from being blue all the time.

[Binkley]

I play on SolTech.

Overall population seems reasonably balanced with the edge to the Vanu, though I've not seen them above 40%.

Looking at my kill stats, VS favor Infiltrators and engineers, while TR favor Heavy Assault and Medics.

Over a day's fighting, I'd say the battles are 70% on Indar, 20% on Esamir, and 10% on Amerish

Indar pop is almost always balanced within a couple %. The Vanu own it and I don't think it has been taken in a long time. The standard territorty boundry lines change little, with the TR owning the northern half of the map due to their favorable warpgate placement, while the VS and NC split the southern half. The major fight is almost always at the crown, which changes hands regularly between the TR, VS, and less often NC.

The NC zerg cap Esamir and Amerish at least once a day, the VS and TR take their turns too, but stick more to Indar. It's not uncommon for NC to own both Esamir and Amerish due to VS/TR indiffernce.

NC have multiple outfits that field full platoons, but I've not seen multi-platoon operations. Not sure about the other factions, but from fighting them, they feel about the same.

[Binkley]

I play on SolTech.

Overall population seems reasonably balanced with the edge to the Vanu, though I've not seen them above 40%.

Looking at my kill stats, VS favor Infiltrators and engineers, while TR favor Heavy Assault and Medics.

Over a day's fighting, I'd say the battles are 70% on Indar, 20% on Esamir, and 10% on Amerish

Indar pop is almost always balanced within a couple %. The Vanu own it and I don't think it has been taken in a long time. The standard territorty boundry lines change little, with the TR owning the northern half of the map due to their favorable warpgate placement, while the VS and NC split the southern half. The major fight is almost always at the crown, which changes hands regularly between the TR, VS, and less often NC.

The NC zerg cap Esamir and Amerish at least once a day, the VS and TR take their turns too, but stick more to Indar. It's not uncommon for NC to own both Esamir and Amerish due to VS/TR indiffernce.

NC have multiple outfits that field full platoons, but I've not seen multi-platoon operations. Not sure about the other factions, but from fighting them, they feel about the same.

[MrBloodworth]

Mattherson is best server :)

[Kirotan]

I play on Jaeger and I like it. The population is well balanced between all 3 empires and it is fairly competitive.

Sometimes there aren't many fights to choose from, but the ones that are there are fun to participate in.

[thegreekboy]

Oh, heh heh.. >_>'

I'm actually looking for an outfit to join for TR. I've got CGC for my NC account, which is lulz'ily competent, been having trouble finding a good outfit for my TR though. -clicks sig-

Yesss!

[StumpyTheOzzie]

When newbies create a character and get dropped into the middle of it, is it always indar?

I understand that this might lead to a spiral. Big fights on indar => more newbs dropped on indar => bigger fights...

I had to explain to a BR 15 the other day how to change continents. Maybe a tutorial? Better incentives? (-50% resource cost would make me excited. -10% is.... meh.)

[Brusi]

TR owns Indar (on Connery). It is one of the laws of the universe. The day anyone else takes Indar will be the day the world flips upsidedown.

the day the warpgates flip upside down ;p

[Simo]

I play on SolTech.

Overall population seems reasonably balanced with the edge to the Vanu, though I've not seen them above 40%.

Looking at my kill stats, VS favor Infiltrators and engineers, while TR favor Heavy Assault and Medics.

Over a day's fighting, I'd say the battles are 70% on Indar, 20% on Esamir, and 10% on Amerish

Indar pop is almost always balanced within a couple %. The Vanu own it and I don't think it has been taken in a long time. The standard territorty boundry lines change little, with the TR owning the northern half of the map due to their favorable warpgate placement, while the VS and NC split the southern half. The major fight is almost always at the crown, which changes hands regularly between the TR, VS, and less often NC.

The NC zerg cap Esamir and Amerish at least once a day, the VS and TR take their turns too, but stick more to Indar. It's not uncommon for NC to own both Esamir and Amerish due to VS/TR indiffernce.

NC have multiple outfits that field full platoons, but I've not seen multi-platoon operations. Not sure about the other factions, but from fighting them, they feel about the same.As a TR this feels pretty accurate. Except for the VS always hold a pop advantage. And at least twice recently I've seen them over the 40% mark. It's been weeks since I've been on and haven't seen the VS with a significant pop advantage. TR and NC rotate 2nd place or are at least close to each other. And all 3 factions will roll over un-populated Esamir and Amirish multiple times a day.

Anyway, cheers to you. See you out there!

[RykerStruvian]

Connery took a turn for the worse somehow. The Terran Republic for the past two weeks have been really kicking our asses. My outfit has been trying to fight them when we're vastly outnumbered in order to allow our forces on other continents to have an opportunity at capping. Really bizarre how things turned out.

[Neutral Calypso]

Connery took a turn for the worse somehow. The Terran Republic for the past two weeks have been really kicking our asses. My outfit has been trying to fight them when we're vastly outnumbered in order to allow our forces on other continents to have an opportunity at capping. Really bizarre how things turned out.

As long as TR owns Indar, all is right with the world.

[Zazen]

Jaeger is a snoozefest for the most-part to be perfectly honest.

Of course TR always own Indar due to their rediculous warpgate position advantage.

Of course Vanu almost always own Esimir or Hoth, as I like to call it, as its' almost featureless terrain is magrider/scythe heaven.

By default, because those two factions perma-camp their own continents 24/7, NC usually have Amerish, which is funny actually, because very few NC even bother flying the Reaver on Jaeger, for obvious balance reasons I will not get into on this thread, so the 10% air bonus is wasted except for the lib cert farmers I guess.

So, no matter what continent you fight on you're either the Zerg milkrunning un-defended bases or a few folks fighting and dying repeatedly to the Zerg. So, in a nutshell, not terribly fun except for the occasional 3 way crown fights that come up every day or two if you're lucky enough to be on when it happens.

[Thunderhawk]

Miller: Alive & kicking. High traffic, highly competitive server. Mainly because PS1 (Werner) outfits decided to fight each other there.

Population:
Mostly balanced, slight NC disadvantage

Continent lock:
Indar: VS (80% of the time), TR (19% of the time), NC (1 % of the time)
Esamir: NC (60%), TR (20%), VS (20%)
Amerish: TR (80%), NC (15%), VS (5%)

Organization
VS: good
TR: getting there
NC: are stepping up

Spirit/ Sportsmanship
Excellent: Factions/outfits respect each other. No Enclave/Buzzcut-like trash talking

Can't really describe Miller any better, perfect description of life on that server

[lKillSwiTcHl]

As a TR this feels pretty accurate. Except for the VS always hold a pop advantage. And at least twice recently I've seen them over the 40% mark. It's been weeks since I've been on and haven't seen the VS with a significant pop advantage. TR and NC rotate 2nd place or are at least close to each other. And all 3 factions will roll over un-populated Esamir and Amirish multiple times a day.

Anyway, cheers to you. See you out there!

Everything said in this thread it truly accurate. I play NC on this server and have seen the Vanu pop at 46% yesterday. The TR and NC are even matched and have good battles most the time till a wave of Vanu op comes rolling in. I have zero problem killing me some Vanu ( I fact love it) but when they roll 10-15 Mags in it gets trough. Great server tho. I am also in favor of Warpgate rotation. IF only there was a way for the TR and NC to team up and defeat them Vanu scum:)

[SeraphC]

When newbies create a character and get dropped into the middle of it, is it always indar?

I understand that this might lead to a spiral. Big fights on indar => more newbs dropped on indar => bigger fights...

I had to explain to a BR 15 the other day how to change continents. Maybe a tutorial? Better incentives? (-50% resource cost would make me excited. -10% is.... meh.)

Off-topic, but no, it's not always Indar. When I first started I got dropped onto Esamir. You could be right about the spiral thing though.

If a BR 15 can't figure out how to change continents then (imo) he's lacking in intelligence or has never played a video game before. It's pretty logical and straight forward.

An incentive is already coming with the end of the month patch. There will be experience bonuses based on continent population rather than world population. This will at the very least work towards balancing populations on different continents and perhaps work towards drawing more people to other continents in general.

[Fear The Amish]

Waterson: Med traffic, Lost of player run events, good people and fun times

Population:
TR for awhile had a higher pop advantage but it has evened out over past few days

Continent lock:
Indar: VS Fluctuates between really high VS to really high TR but being the VS home cont for waterson VS are usually strong
Esamir: Flip flops between NC and TR almost daily
Amerish: Flip flops between NC and TR almost daily

Organization
VS: good
TR: a few good outfits that work together but overall a cluster
NC: DVS is good at harnessing the zerg

Spirit/ Sportsmanship
Excellent VS orders/leader chat is best i have seen, Alot of rivalries between factions but outside of occasional friendly trash talk very good.

Honestly i wouldn't go anywhere else VS and NC need some more people but its not crazy unbalanced because the TR are kinda pants on head.

[Illtempered]

I decided to bump this since we have a new server-merge. Since I started this thread things have turned drastically, and interestingly. After we lost Indar, TR held it for a good month. We spent most of our time on Waterson owning the other conts, especially Amerish. We saw an opportunity to neutralize Indar, so we worked with NC, and held ARC Bioengineering while they took TR hexes. It was epic seeing all those Prowlers on the hill and all our AA fire from ARC Bio. The plan worked, and NC actually wound up taking Indar. They held it for about a week before losing it to a coordinated attack from TR and VS where NC lost Crater Firing Range. The alliance between us and the TR wasn't coordinated per-say, but we all knew what we were doing. Indar had to be neutral! That was before the merge....

Now after the merge there is a new menace. NC has had the global pop. VS is having a hard time capping and holding other continents, but our strategy of "If we can't have it, nobody can." is still working on Indar, as it remains neutral. VS are kind of like lost children looking for a home right now. We continue to be outnumbered, just the way we like it, and will continue to employ guerrilla-warfare tactics to farm Smurfs and Elmos all over Auraxis.

[Rolfski]

The update on Miller is that the lack of population is really hurting the VS. They still give good fights, especially when they try to lock Indar, but it's mostly NC and TR duking it out nowadays.

[DeltaWidow]

The update on Miller is that the lack of population is really hurting the VS. They still give good fights, especially when they try to lock Indar, but it's mostly NC and TR duking it out nowadays.
What is this 'Vanu Soverignity' and what do they look like???