nice thought when overrun by huge outfit/force

[wasupx]

coincidence or correlation?

Guy in my outfit back in beta (waiting till after summer to buy PS) was little upset when a larger outfit came and displaced us. Discussion basically went that like everquest for instance, the game will shift to large outfits just dominating everyone/thing. I argued that while it was true for that base/continent, it wouldnt hold for the overall picture. This wont be the case because of limitations set by the game(timers/distance) and organization inefficiencies that come with size (communication etc). He insisted that large outfits would dominate in most aspects.

So i took a snapshot of today/yesterdays action. 3 columns of numbers with the description below

11pm EST 05/28/03

#People in 10largets outfits | % bases owned at 11pm today| %bases owned yesterday

Emerald
nc 1236 28% 27.8
tr 1187 40% 37.5
vs 1192 30% 33.3

Markov
nc 1367 40% 30.5
tr 1039 29% 34.5
vs 1349 31% 34.3

Johari
nc 494 62% 34.5
tr 693 22% 30.8
vs 903 16% 28.6

Konried
nc 700 22% 29
tr 611 50% 38.5
vs 615 28% 29.7

Werner
nc 415 23% 31.2
tr 510 53% 37.6
vs 473 23% 27.1

By no way is this a comprehensive study and there are too many holes/variables for it ever to be hehe. But its interesting that consistent across servers, when VS/NC have large outfits on a server they do worse over a days span. Seems like it just makes them effective in their "primetime" hours. Anyways i claimed to my outfit member id take 10outfits of 20 persons to attack a continent over 1 outfit of 120. But it seems overall, NC/VS keep thinking larger outfits are best suited to fighting TR TR i would say has the advantage inside bases, so the whole using base captures as the determinant for overall side balance is flawed imo. Why i took advantage of running as many of them over with my magrider when i could

BTW i played Gracho/Ifreet during beta on markov(vanu) mainly

[wasupx]

err 6 outfits of 20 over 1 outfit of 120
--edit
ok damn planetside official forums with no edit got me screwing up in other forums !!

[Kaltagesta]

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