Probably a lot of you have experienced something similar when going solo:
TR on Indar (now SW WG), just having capped Quartz Ridge. You look on the map and see the NC zerg capping the area east of it, going towards Allatum (or even worse, have allready capped it) and you know after Allatum they will go west to Hvar.
You look around and see everyone riding north, to the tower (excavation site?). So you mention the situation in /RE (incase it works) and do what would make the most sense: Driving east, to cut off NCs attack and prevent them from denying you tech AND cutting the northern advance off.
Now in 2 out of 3 cases the following happened to me:
Instead of some going north and some going east everyone except me went north. Everyone. If i had people in my vehicle they would go as far as jumping out even if it would take them ages to walk back to the zerg. Then we loose the area west of Allatum and then Hvar, denying us tech AND cutting off all the terrain captured north.
What the heck is up with this? I don't think that i can blame it fully on the "farm moar certs" mentality. That's why i suspect some social herding mechanic is at work here.
Once more, it's not that it has happened to me once and i just want to express my facepalm feelings, this exact situation as described here happened atleast five times now.
So, what is my point? I'm not sure, maybe i want to encourage someone to make an actual social study about herd dynamics in Planetside 2. i also want to hear some stories from you people. And i guess maybe i also wanted to share these frustrational moments and slap some sense into my fellow TR comrades on miller.