I'm concerned about the popularity of the New Conglomerate...

LiquidThunder · 2003-03-20, 04:45 PM

It seems like for every Vanu and Terran fan there are 5 NC fans touting their "anarchy over oppression" mentality and sporting the cool yellow and blue color scheme.

I'm concerned that this will spread too much into the gameworld, and we're going to see a large percentage of the servers with NC's population being the highest, maybe even by a large margin.

I know that the PS team has done things to encourage balancing, such as an xp boost for an empire that is more than a little outnumbered on a server, but that doesn't change the fact that it will suck if you're on a severly outnumbered faction.

Not to mention the fact that if one side is largley more popular, it creates more buzz for that side, meaning that more people that arrive to the game new will have likely heard of or have friends in the NC and want to join that faction, and the more hype there is for NC, the worse the morale will be for the Terran and Vanu sides.

Please don't turn this post into a place to simply reply and say "VANU ROCKS" or a similar tagline for the faction of your choice, we get enough of that EVERYWHERE ELSE. Just talk about why or why not you think the NC favoritism will be a malevolent factor to the game.

On a final note, isn't it ironic that the rebel, anarchanistic faction is now in fact more mainstream and in control than the group they're rebelling against?

-LT

Revulsion · 2003-03-20, 04:49 PM

To me it's more TR then anyone.

Miir · 2003-03-20, 04:49 PM

Personally I'm going Vanu, I really like the look and design of their armor. Not to mention their history give me a lot of filming ideas.

culkid · 2003-03-20, 04:50 PM

to me, TR and NC r about the same.. it is the Vs who r not popular because they look like barney the purple dinosaur

Camping Carl · 2003-03-20, 04:51 PM

NC were last in a player poll, I wouldn't worry.

diluted · 2003-03-20, 04:59 PM

FREEDOM OVER OPPRESSION!
EVERY MAN CHOOSES HIS FATE!
FIGHT THE FUTURE!

Rainer · 2003-03-20, 05:01 PM

I wouldn't worry about it that much because some of us either haven't picked a faction yet. Vanu and TR also dont go around yelling that they themselves rule because we know we are just going to completley wipe them off the face existence.

sorry bou stealing your sig dragon =�

mr_luc · 2003-03-20, 05:04 PM

They aren't anarchists.

They're businessmen. :P They're America of 1776; the TR is a slightly more Fascist and more powerful US of today.

The Vanu are the REAL revolutionaries. They are truly taking a step forward. You can even see it in their design. (Actually, I'm so full of it. That's the only place you can see ANYTHING, because these empires are all design concepts anyways -- but that's good, it lets us be more creative with it).

I am an INTELLECTUAL anarchist. The NC are anarchists in name only.

Lonehunter · 2003-03-20, 05:24 PM

Actualy all the poles that I have seen say that the TR is favored. With NC in a close second and the Vanu way behind.

dtjohnson · 2003-03-20, 05:34 PM

nobody knows what side will be overpopulated untill about 1 month after release..till then..anything is just pure speculation
IMO

Mauser101 · 2003-03-20, 05:39 PM

mr_luc has it right, this NC seems to have been inpired by those who founded the United States. Perhaps that as part of why I was initially drawn to that Empire. What solidified me was in fact the design of their armor and weaponry.

I can't say as I'm partial to any of the color schemes for any of the Empires. The TR look very badass, the NC looks very noble, the VS look gayrific. So what? In Tribes 2 I don't pick bloodeagle because they look so badass, and I don't pick Starwolf because they blend in better on the Snowblind map, and I've never picket a Bioderm because they have cool voice samples. I pick whichever side is loosing or has an open slot.

Ofcourse, that's not an option in Planetside. So, I chose NC because I like how they look, I like their backstory, and I want to take out MAXs and Vehicles with my Pheonix in my puny Reinforced armor.

Don't forget, SOE will also be boosting Health and Armor for the underdog empires. Who knows, they might even reduce NTU consumption for the underdogs too. I really don't think this is going to be an issue except during off peak hours.

JonnyK · 2003-03-20, 05:54 PM

so far i've decided on NC, i like the fast ground buggys that they have, reminds me of the fun times from Halo

Jakal · 2003-03-20, 06:03 PM

I think that maybe if the vanu had different colored armor they might get more people. Since you can choose your empire once you have to be satasfied with everything about it. The purple is really what made me discard them as a choice early on. By the way

thegame109 · 2003-03-20, 06:06 PM

I've chosen nc at mo because of there MAX.

schnorvien · 2003-03-20, 06:14 PM

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