[Doomed for Indar from the Start]

[HiroshiChugi]

Fellow Planetside-Universe.com Auraxians, lend me your ears!

Ok guys, I know that it's a long read, but please, just give me a few moments of your time to get this straight.

So I was actually able to get on Planetside 2 Saturday night, and I gotta say: even though I missed playing it like crazy, I got bored after about an hour or 2 of playing on only got dang Indar!

So therefore, I decided to check the other two continents for ANY action. Unfortunately, Esamir finally looked like it had some action starting by the time I decided to get off.

My point? I saw all of this happening the very first week I started playing the game. Which was back in September-November timeframe I think? Whenever me and my outfit buddies would hop on to do some cont. capping, a majority of the people would vote for Indar because it was more "fun" and had "better mapping" or some stupid-ass reason... (sorry for the language Hamma).

Regardless of whether you were fighting with outfits or just soloing, or even going with a small squad, you would always at one point or another end up on Indar because a majority of the population was one there.

But nowadays, the only reason there's a majority of the population on there, is because, wait for it, WE ARE LOSING PLAYERS!!!!!

I noticed that we had the normal amount of people on Indar, maybe even a little bit less than before. But the big thing is that NOBODY was on the other two! (Except about 20% population of TR on Esamir guarding the bases, with a few dumb-fire rocket Mossies).

IMHO, server merges are needed but we also need MORE than just the server changes. We need more people, but we need a better way of controlling where those people can go. I've heard continent locking, which I understand pretty easily, but I've also heard of something called "Lattice." Now this term, I am quite unfamiliar with. I've seen diagrams and illustrations, paired with a few descriptions, but it's still a little bit confusing to me. Maybe I just need a better explanation of it?

I also keep hearing that people don't think server merges will help, but honestly, I think they will. Here's what I think SOE should do:

Do the server merges first, and let the population grow a little more. And then, once you have enough players again, split some of the more active servers or add more so that you can balance out the population more.

I've seen the Road Map, and to be quite frank, it looks pitiful. I know that it takes a lot of time to do these things, I'm looking at you here T-Ray (from your interview with Hamma at the Ultimate Empire Showdown event), but you could at least take people off of SOE's other games that are doing just fine right now (the Star Wars one, and Maple Leaf [or whatever it's called]) and put them into Planetside 2 in order to get things done faster. I mean, come on! You have to AT LEAST see that your player base is dropping DRASTICALLY due to fixes not coming soon enough. Maybe try releasing things in smaller patches more often and gearing more towards the general FPS CROWD and not the general gaming crowd?

But then again, what do I know? I've only been playing PC games since Elementary School and have been Closed Alpha and Closed Beta testing for I don't know how many years now.

So fellow Planetside-Universe.com Auraxians, lend me your thoughts and opinions!