Battle Islands

[Cauldron Borne]

Agreed, something needs to be done about the current situation on Emerald. And if some smart alleck NC come on here and exclaims: 'oh, well you're just mad becuase the NC are better than you' I think they need to be banned.

My reason: When I shoot 2 rounds w/ my Bolt driver into an enemy agile, i expect it to die. But no. He has not got PShield, and he didn't grab a med pack, no, he has the friggin server benifit. That benifit gives enough of an edge to the lowest population to help them out. Problem: It always goes to the NC, whether or not they are the lowest population.

SO: SOMETHING needs to happen to balance out these populations. I don't care what, I'd prefer it was fair (a TR buff, an NC nerf, a VS nerf/buff, i dunno), but at this point I don't really care.

If it doesn't then KIAsan's prediction will come true: the BC's will become a useless waste of time, as no-one will use them except for the awesome rolling NC zerg, that , once started, cannot be beat because of shear numbers. Not tactics, mind, because the CR5's for NC-emerald are just (for the most part) as dumb as the TR cr5's. Just the shear weight in numbers.

[Queensidecastle]

This may actually make me want to come back to Planetside...assuming that Infiltrators are not still broken. Now, if they would make some interesting and new buildings it would be a for sure hit

[TheN00b]

Originally Posted by Queensidecastle

This may actually make me want to come back to Planetside.

GAH!!! Cancel the islands, CANCEL THE ISLANDS!!!!!!!!!

[FatalLight]

Originally Posted by KIAsan

Ok, maybe I'm missing something no one else is. So, please enlighten me if I am off-base here. The concept as I see it is to take a normal continent and shrink it to a smaller size with only three bases and towers. Ok, so what? The way the population is going on emerald, the NC will have zerged over these 3 battle islands in the first hour of the day they come out and thats it for the small battle. Then we will be back to business as usual.

Are they going to make the bases non-captureable, or are they going to reset them every hour? I mean, SOE will have to do something to make fighting on them worth it. The idea of non-capturable bases, with the enemy slugging it out over a single point would be wonderful. Then we would see great bridge battles and open field armor engagements. But if they are just miniture continents, all we really will see are quick continent caps followed by noone ever bothering with them again.

And even if they make a single point for us to fight over, are they going to make it worth while for commanders (CEP/BEP wise)? If not, I wouldn't mind fighting for the sake of fighting, but I can do that now trying to defend against the zerg.

Same problem on Markov, massive nc zerg taking over entire continents within an hour... seen it b4...