NC won Emerald. 1/31

[KIAsan]

Originally Posted by Madcow

I was there with an NC alt (only play NC on Emerald) and that's not exactly true. While NC did have the numbers on both TR and VS, TR and VS pretty well commit suicide by focusing completely on Amerish where they were fighting each other and the NC was ignoring them. Once the NC had locked the rest of the world, they came to Amerish with some units scattered on each of the remaining conts. When the last TR base fell, their population fell by over 10%. They cut and ran when they'd gotten run out of Dodge. The VS and TR had fairly equal numbers to each other all night, and the VS were putting up a significantly larger fight to hold on to their bases. The TR just seemed pretty well scattered, not sure whether to try and make way into a locked NC cont or try to hold their Amerish bases as long as possible. They split their forces and felt the effect.

To say there were no TR on is just false. There were no TR on after they'd lost their bases.

I was also there dude. Since I live in Japan, these are my prime time hours. The reason that most TR and VS were locked on Amerish, is BECAUSE of the huge NC population imbalance. Trust me, we tried on several occasions to stem the tide, but it is ABSOLUTELY no fun fighting, when your getting a massive zerg. So, instead of "cutting and running" as you put it, we all just got fed up and stayed on Amerish to enjoy a quality battle. And what a battle that was. We were totally deadlocked, with no real advantage to either side. It was in fact, the most fun I have had in a fight in a long time. The only down side, was when the NC got bored from running over ghosted bases (yeah you had a few heavy battles, since Amerish was pop locked and the remanents of TR/VS had nowhere else to go), and invaded Amerish causing a three way. Since the NC came in our back door, we were getting hit from two sides and couldn't maintain any fight. That was when most of us logged.

My point in this is to explain to you that population imbalance is a bad thing. Once you locked the world with your superior numbers, did you have a lot of fun? Duck shooting folks out of their warp gate may be amusing for a while, but does get boring (been there and done that too). I, for one, prefer a challenge.

Also, I'm not carping about the NC "win", since the next night, TR did an equivalent thing (we had pop advantage for a few hours and locked 5 conts). It was a lot of fun for us, but sucked for the other sides. But, after the the fifth cont, NC and VS didn't put up any fight, and it got so boring, most folks logged (I guess our population wasn't as driven to see the whole map red). BTW, the NC and VS were doing the same thing we did, fighting on a pop locked battle with themselves, while we fought the remanents.

Anyway, I really think they need to adjust the population modifiers (yeah, I posted this before). I would love to have some real modifiers to make things a bit more even. I really loved that balanced battle, and would like to see it happen everyday, but as a balanced three way battle, not just the two disadvantaged populations fighting themselves.