WDS is finally not ridiculous

[Masterr]

Originally Posted by EVILPIG

How about we turn Alerts off for a week and see how things play out?

bc indar, all day, forever....

sigh.

[BlaxicanX]

Turn alerts off for a week and the game will revert back to what it was pre-alerts.

Indar-side. All day, erry day.

I think people have forgotten why alerts were integrated into the game in the first place. We were given the chance to have community-driven goals/objectives. The community failed.

[Fluke]

Originally Posted by Malorn

Alerts are for variety and a change-up from the usual Indar fight. It works when players respond to them.

If people aren't responding to them sufficiently then increase the reward. Double XP.

But make them far less frequent as Evilpig said.

[Babyfark McGeez]

Originally Posted by BlaxicanX

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We were given the chance to have community-driven goals/objectives. The community failed.

What? When? We don't have any tools whatsoever to do that. Like...a mission system originally planned to be in at "release" for example.

As for alerts, so long as we don't have an intercontinental lattice and proper home continents, i have to admit i kinda like them. While i still see them as disconnected and artifical and think they should be removed the minute we do have intercontinental warfare, they manage to create a more tangible short term objective.
Unlike this "WDS" nonsense which is simply a disconnected and artifical scoreboard slapped onto a game where having no scoreboard or winner is one of the major driving points.

But understanding planetside is definetely not one of the strong points of the devs, so my fear is when we finally get to have our intercontinental warfare in place they will still rotate home continents, keep the alerts and introduce a new "WDS". Ahwell, i will wait for that crucial time period after the optimization to make my final verdict on this game. True MMOFPS or dull cash of duty turd, we'll see.