I'm concerned about the popularity of the New Conglomerate...

[LiquidThunder]

It seems like for every Vanu and Terran fan there are 5 NC fans touting their "anarchy over oppression" mentality and sporting the cool yellow and blue color scheme.

I'm concerned that this will spread too much into the gameworld, and we're going to see a large percentage of the servers with NC's population being the highest, maybe even by a large margin.

I know that the PS team has done things to encourage balancing, such as an xp boost for an empire that is more than a little outnumbered on a server, but that doesn't change the fact that it will suck if you're on a severly outnumbered faction.

Not to mention the fact that if one side is largley more popular, it creates more buzz for that side, meaning that more people that arrive to the game new will have likely heard of or have friends in the NC and want to join that faction, and the more hype there is for NC, the worse the morale will be for the Terran and Vanu sides.

Please don't turn this post into a place to simply reply and say "VANU ROCKS" or a similar tagline for the faction of your choice, we get enough of that EVERYWHERE ELSE. Just talk about why or why not you think the NC favoritism will be a malevolent factor to the game.

On a final note, isn't it ironic that the rebel, anarchanistic faction is now in fact more mainstream and in control than the group they're rebelling against?

-LT