Losing side will be discouraged...

[MrVicchio]

I have noted, based on responses ot my thread about a nuke event in game... a line of thought that is.. bothering me a tad here.

It seems some people are afriad of a dominate empire, and the effect that is going to have on the losing side. in my example, one side would get to nuke another sides base, just one, and take it. That seem to provoke fears of demoralizing the oppostition.

How to word this...

If anyone thinks the servers are going to be balanced, your nutz. there will be a dominate empire, period. Its just human nature. Too many people don't want to play on the losing side. If say one Empire starts to win, new people will start playing THAT empire, unless there is a cap in place, but even then, one empire is gonna be percieved as the Dominate empire, and people will flock there.

Some one is gonna lose, and I think you will see a few situations where on a server, one side tottaly looks like the french during WWII and loses VERY fast. Its going to happen.

what then to do about it?

I say nadda. Why do anything about it? They already have stated a few examples of enticements they will offer to people to switch empires to the underdog, there are those of us who LIKE the challenge, and use the loss to get fired up to make a come back.

Look, I think the big thing here is, there are gonna be losers in this fight, big time losers. And there are gonna be big time winners. Don't worry about it, eventually it will even out, and then a new power house will arise. Any gamer that quits because his side in a fluid game like this is losing, would find some other reason to flee just as fast.

If your side gets its but handed to it, then use that to motivate yourself and others to return the favor vistited upon you. Otherwise, don't even bother playing.

War isn't nice, not even the Virtual ones....