DISCUSSION: How do you feel battles will last days, weeks, months?

[Reni]

DISCUSSION: How do you feel battles will last days, weeks, months?

I read in one of the articles about how PS2 is gearing toward battles that will last days, weeks, even a month or more. My question is, especially with the player "regions" that might take place as to who can join what server, how in the world can this even happen?

My thoughts:

Even if we are not restricted to regions, the only way I can see this happening is to have ONE massive server. This will include all time zones (obviously). However, I don't forsee this being something that will happen.

If we are on seperate servers, PS1 for example. You would always have a player base that was on in masses during peak hours and for most of the daytime hours, especially after school/work times. Overnight, the continents would usually go mostly to one side and the wars began again the next day.

The longest battles I have been apart of or have heard about have rarely gone over a 24 hour period. Why? Its the "same stuff, different day" concept. It keeps raging, but eventually everyone gets tired of it, especially when the battles are grid locked.

Would it be awesome to have long battles? Yes. However, I don't forsee anything close what the developers are hoping for and by battle I speak of on a continent level with key bases that were fought for.


What is your opinion to the matter?

Please post constructive comments, critiques, thoughts and ideas.

-Reni