Originally Posted by bpostal
It's going to be needed when (don't laugh) we get more continents. It also adds a sense of ownership and a goal for players to strive for.
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definitely lol'd. and i still don't get it.
is it possible that people just want this mechanic shoehorned into Planetside 2 to satisfy nostalgia for Planetside?
if they put this in as it is being described they will have to redesign or remove many other systems, including large systems such as resources and alerts. i just don't see that happening. they can't even fix half the bugs in the game 18 months after release, or half of the ones introduced in the last 18 months along with their half assed attempts to address core gameplay issues.
in fact, i suspect that Continent Locking was nothing more than a half assed attempt to address a core gameplay issue that existed in Planetside, analogous to the Alert system in Planetside 2. and if so, it would be quite ironic that veteran players pine for it while decrying Alerts and No Deploy Zones, etc.