Missing from the Metagame - Recognition

[Rahabib]

I am going to start by saying, this is not the end all to metagame, this is the first but crucial step.

I am a fairly competitive player. After sharing this game with a few friends, a lot of people felt that the game felt shallow.

"You log in, kill a few people cap a few bases, log off, tomorrow do the same thing, because anything you did the first day was erased."

I feel pretty much the same way. However, these are people who play Counter-Strike a lot, doesn't that feel shallow? To them no, and to me, no as well. The difference, recognition - I came in first, or we wont that round; in PS2 there's nothing really like that. So here are some ideas.

Continent locking should reward the faction with a real sense of accomplishment. A bit of a stat boost isn't recognition, its like receiving a thank you in the mail, its nice, but no one sees it nor cares. To combat this, continent locks need to feel like a huge event. It should be rare and difficult, like once every few days or even once a week. Next, add something to make the players feel like they accomplished something, like display on everyone's screen some interesting stats "TR decimated 300 tanks" (since the last lock) and maybe even for the losers - "NC managed to hold the crown for 8 hours." These should be displayed to all people when the lock occurs kinda like an end round score board.

But lets not stop there - Outfits play a bit part in this, so they should be rewarded as well. During that "scoreboard moment" they should display top Outfits - "Ronald McDonald's Hamburglers capped 52 outposts," "The Cast of the Facts of Life killed the most VS"

For those who are not around when the lock occurs, they will be greeted with the "scoreboard" when they next log in (they can close it, and perhaps it only persists for 24 hours). Those who are on other continents when this occurs will get a message and maybe an icon where the notification icon appears, to click on to see the scoreboard.

What this does is share a sense of accomplishment and give recognition especially to the major outfits where its due. The scoreboard isn't just kills and deaths (you can tab and see than anytime) its more caps, hold times, faction vrs faction stats, outfit vrs outfit, etc. (if you can think of some feel free to post).

Again, this is just the start. Inter-continent travel, home worlds, etc. all can and should add in later, I am just thinking of what are the first steps we could do soon.

Anyway, what do you think?