Should the devs nuke the 4th empire?

[nosferatu2323]

I play a NC on Markov and I noticed that the TR and VS greatly suffered in the population area on Saturday and Sunday. While I love winning, I want the other guy to have a fair shot. I believe empire swapping should be totally done away with. So the question is: Should switching empires be more restricted or be totally disabled?

[MrPaul]

I think it should be that when you come off of one Empire, you have a 2 - 3 hour wait before you can play as any other empire. This should stop Empire hopping outright, whislt still giving you a chance to be different Empires if you so wish.

[FearTheAtlas]

You got three servers for a reason, pick one, pick an Empire, stay with it.

Edit: I realize this isn't THE reason (lattency on other servers) but if Empire is big enough issue, you got two other servers.

[Lise]

Originally Posted by FearTheAtlas

You got three servers for a reason, pick one, pick an Empire, stay with it.

Quoted for truth. Latency isn't as much of a deal in the era of broadband, either.

[StrangeFellow]

Originally Posted by MrPaul

I think it should be that when you come off of one Empire, you have a 2 - 3 hour wait before you can play as any other empire. This should stop Empire hopping outright, whislt still giving you a chance to be different Empires if you so wish.

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[Indecisive]

Originally Posted by nosferatu2323

Should switching empires be totally disabled?

yes.

[Firefly]

Totally disabled. The way it was the first time around - if you want to hop empires, pay for two accounts.

[Hamma]

I agree - it worked when the game first came out. It just causes to much of an issue when one empire is down and the people who cant handle a loss now and then switch to the winning team.

One empire.

[2Seksy4MyModem]

two empires = t3h suck

[SquishyWaffle]

It's sad that people can't see what they're doing when they hop to the winning faction, but I do agree that something needs to be done. I'm all for having multiple characters, but I do wonder if it'd be better to just limit each account to one empire for all said chars.

Seems like an imperfect and blunt solution to a serious problem, but it's better than the current alternative: vast imbalance. I'm an Emerald Vanu and I really hate seeing all of these faction hoppers blowing our xp/health mods and keeping most of the world claimed.

[Queensidecastle]

I agree 1 empire per server is the way to go, but I feel the devs were forced into it so they could have a solution for the server merge a while back

[Warborn]

The two Empires was because of the server merge. They couldn't abruptly force people to pick and choose like that. But I think, if they give a couple weeks advance notice, or even offer some method to, say, move characters from one Empire off of a given server and onto another server (so that you can preserve them while not creating a conflict of interest on one server) it would be fine. Either way though, there's little reason for two Empires anymore, and I hope they do something about it.

[mechaman]

I personally wouldn't have a problem with one empire per server. I only play TR on Markov and NC on Emerald so it wouldn't affect me. The problem comes from the people with multple high BR/CR characters from different empires on the same server.

[nosferatu2323]

Well I am glad that I am not the only one who sees the problem. Hopefully the light that this event shed on this problem will cause the devs to take another look at it. I wouldn't quit planetside over this issue, but the empire hopping is really starting to suck. Plus, I want more events like this, despite all the other bugs, this event kicked ass.

[Lonehunter]

Originally Posted by FearTheAtlas

You got three servers for a reason, pick one,

Used to be 5