Territory Capture Concern

[Death2All]

If you all recall in PS1, there was originally no lattice system in the game. You were free to hack any base on any continent whether you had a link or not. This turned out to be a huge cluster fuck, thus they implemented the lattice system.


In PS2, once again you do not need a link to hack territory. You can hack any territory you wish, the catch this time around being that you don't get a "capture bonus". Basically, the more adjacent territories you have nearby, the faster you capture. Vice versa, the more territories the enemy team has the faster they resecure. Or so I've heard. Even with these parameters in place, is this really going to stop tedious back hacking?


I've dubbed this time (late '09 to present) as "The Golden Age of Trolling". Not that everyone is necessarily good at pissing others off, just that everyone is doing it. The popularization of the word "troll" has generally led to more people trying to do it. More and more people are trying to "troll" others, generally to no avail, but it persists none the less.

Why do I bring this up? Given that PS2 is going to be free to play and already bring in (as one person so excellently put it) the lowest common denominator of player to the game, and the prevalance of "xD xDDD i tro0ll3d u lolool" it could lead to one of the most irritating overlooked concept of the game.

There's always going to be malicious people who want to fuck everyone else over. But given the scope of PS2, and just the general atmosphere of online gaming nowadays I'd really hate to see PS2 turn into a cluster of constant backhacks and resecures.


Again, there is a "capture bonus" for resecuring with adjacent territories. So hypothetically any attempt at this would be easily thwarted. But let me put something else in perspective for you.


Sometimes in PS1, I get bored. Mainly because I play VS and we always get shafted out of a fight and there's nothing else to do. So I decide to drain entire continents. It usually takes me about 7-10 minutes to kill everything neccesary and put the virus on the base so that it will drain in about 20 minutes. Then I move on to next base and continue doing this until the entire continent is drained.

A lot of the time the enemy responds, but by the time they've saved one base. Repaired every term, taken the virus off and filled the base up with NTU. I've already done another base. They can't keep up. And they eventually give up because stopping the base drains is boring as hell for them and they don't feel like wasting their time.

I can continue doing this. Why? It's fun for me. It's fun knowing that I'm wasting someone else's time. Or the reaction when they open their map and see their entire continent is drained. It's entertainment.

Now this is lighthearted "trolling" at the most. I'm not doing it on the impulse that I want the whole world to burn and fuck everybody. The only reason I do it is out of boredom because there is nothing else to do.

Now back to PS2. Suppose the fight is really shitty for a group of malicious individuals. They decide to spend their whole time back hacking territories constantly simply to annoy the other empires. The other empire responds, it's easy to resecure. But just suppose after a few hundred hacks they give in. They don't care any more and they just want to play the game.


So what's the point of this thread? All I'm saying is don't overlook the lattice system. It was put in place to put an end to that stupid shit in PS1, let's not make the same mistake in PS2.

Also, this backhacking still persists in PS1, the only difference is they can only do it to bases or continents they have a link to so it at least puts a limit to what they can do.