Ok, so here i go, wanting to see how amerish turned out (some of the bases i liked, some were atrocious as usual), and guess what, amerish had a queue.
So allright, i stay on indar then for a while.
I noticed that TR Miller (which i was playing then) pretty much only held Allatum on indar (while having the south eastern WG no less). Curious as to why every single TR would hang out in that remote facility and ignoring everything else i went and checked it out.
That's when i realized that the "WDS" was responsible for indar being unplayable as TR, and here is why:
You get 32 WDS points for "defending" Allatum, which will happen as soon as someone flips a point and you flip it back. So all TR did was hang around Allatum, wait for a point to flip and then get it back for 32 points. And that's pretty much all TR did on indar everytime i logged on (which was several days and quite some hours mind you).
So i decided what the hell, went to allatum, went afk, watched a few movies and series while wiggling the mouse every now and then and ended up with 900+ WDS points while not moving a fucking finger or even watching the damn screen.
And while i think the rewards are something nice for F2P players and a good idea, is that really the result SOE desired with this WDS crap? Each time i tried to actually play the game on indar, i eventually gave up because 90%+ of the TR population was hanging around at Allatum. Not only did this completely destroy the actual game for everyone not wanting to AFK-Farm WDS points, but it also made the WDS itself even more stupid.
So to summarize: People ask for some meaningful, overarching objectives. The devs come up with a scoreboard and additional xp bar, probably the most lazy and least "planetside" way of adding "depth" to the game.
Then they say they thought long and hard about this WDS stuff, and the result is people getting WDS points for ignoring the game and idling in some remote biolab to exploit a loophole that should have been fucking obvious.
And the people wanting to play the actual damn game are being screwed over.
So yeah, you serious SOE? That's really the best you can come up with after thinking long and hard?
At this point i'm not sure if even intercontinental warfare or resources/ants can redeem this crap, because chances are they will manage to fuck that up too (or just make it completely braindead because they assume their console players are imbeciles).
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2014-02-26, 03:04 AM
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