One-empire-per-server really needs to be reinstated

[Ghoest9]

Originally Posted by ItZMuRdA

With all due respect, that is a very poor analogy. There are many more people that benefit from this for legitimate reasons like playing alongside outfits and friends they've known for years, if not almost a decade now. On the flip side, there is absolutely no benefit to leaving your valuables on the sidewalk.

Likewise, let us realize that it is very easy and fast to create a second account, whether you are a griefer or a legitimate player looking to play with friends. The big difference between either of these activities is how invested the person is in them. The griefer does not care about the account or the character, has likely spent little or no certs or station cash on it, and in most cases prefers to make a second account so it cannot be tied back to him or his primary account. The legitimate players, on the other hand, especially now since this feature has been active for over two weeks, have spent plenty of time and resources (both in the form of certs and real money via station cash) on their characters. To then go back and further restrict that is a huge problem for them, with little to no effect on the griefers that you are all supposedly trying to target with this.

I'm sorry, but this really isn't the right solution. I love this game and plan to play it for years to come as I did the original, but if SOE randomly decided to reinstate 1 empire per server, let alone even restrict my choices in a free to play game by implementing an empire switch timer, after I have spent a bunch of time and money on each of my characters, saying that I would be disappointed would be putting it very lightly. It wouldn't be so easy to just create a new account when I've got 3 characters above BR20 and one at BR50, all with station cash spent on them; but that griefer would have absolutely no problem creating another BR1 on a fresh account. I can only hope this message is getting through to you guys. Please find a different approach and don't cause a serious downgrade in quality of life for so many of us that have been enjoying the innocence of playing multiple empires on a given server.

NO NO NO

Im not making the case that the cons are stronger than the pros.

Im pointing out that its a fallacy to say that because someone can over come a barrier with signifigant effort that the barrier is there for not effective in general.