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All servers down
I would imagine for some kind of balancing. If you let people pick two factions, it'd be easy for some to go over from say Vanu to NC, sit on mumble with their Vanu buddies and relay info from what NC are doing, then just swap back. If you had to play different servers to be a different faction this wouldn't happen.
I also agree that this decision should happen quickly.
I will be rolling vanu on wednesdays on miller.
They may be independent but that doesn't mean there isn't a crossover.Originally Posted by Capt. Eduardo del Mango
You might not be interested in joining the Vanu outfit but several others are.
I have played with both outfits in the beta and had hoped to continue to do so, as did several others I have talked to.
While it is certainly the case that people would have favoured factions anyway, I don't think it is helpful (for either faction) to force a choice in sides.
Now certainly it is SOE that are forcing us to make that choice but we have three options for how to respond:
1) Split the outfits between servers.
2) Use alt accounts to play both outfits on the same server.
3) Play with only one outfit.
Option 1) means the faction not on Miller has to (potentially) play on a less outfit/squad oriented server.
Option 2) means loss of account benefits and there is the potential for getting accounts banned.
Option 3) means less potential outfit members, at least for events, which may doom one or more outfits.
The best option is 4) which is that SOE just provide a faction spawn lock of a couple of hours to prevent quick switching but that is obviously out of our hands.
Well, you can always do that with a second account so this really doesn't stop anything. As it seems they are afraid of people switching over to the winning empire in fights but I don't see why they deem this a huge problem. For one people can just go to another continent where their empire is winning or use a different account to do the same. It's highly unlikely that most of the people who do that are paying customers anyway.
And still hoping for option 4 but well, I doubt this is going to happen. There are a few threads in the official forums but I won't get involved there. The official forums are like arguing with donkeys.
*edit*
No, I take that back. After reading some more that would be unfair to the donkeys.
Last edited by bonkers; 21-11-2012 at 09:47 AM.
I've just decided to make a second account for now. My NC on Miller will be my main, but I've got a second account for VS.
Well, a second account is fine for you guys, but I paid good money for Alpha Squad and I fully intend to keep using said Alpha Squad benefits. I don't want to hop between accounts, and risk losing the one with Alpha squad on it. Subscription people would also be screwed.
Legion would be pretty upset with our Consensus at the moment.
Did you make a new account?
I was playing in the beta and my account worked fine with the version of the game I got off Steam.
i never bothered with steam and just downloaded the client from the international page, entered my SOE login and could play whereever i wanted.
Yeah I played the beta a bit, but apparently the version you get off steam is NA-account locked, so EU players must download the ProSiebenSat.1 version if they want to play on EU servers, and I'd like to play with RPS folks. The thread I linked is very informative about the situation.
Ok, good to know...
Steam
GW2> Treloi [RPS]
Sounds strange. I have the Steam version, which as the link you provided said is locked to NA-accounts, but I have no problem logging into it with my beta account.
As far as I remember they said that all players in the eu would have to change/would automatically be swapped over to a PSS1 account, but they backed out on that saying that instead you would get a choice if you already made a beta account.
They also said it doesn't matter if you're on a PSS1 or SOE account, that you can play any of the servers.
Mh, I have been playing beta and downloaded from steam (also EU) and can play just fine.
EU players who participated in the beta can keep playing on the American version using their SOE account, it's still possible to play on the EU servers if you do this. If you didn't participate in beta you should get the Pro7 version.
thats odd, as I'm using the steam version and I am playing on the EU servers with no problems
(well when they stay up and dont seem to loose the BR I achieved before it went down)
Alright so apparently since I have a beta account I'll be ok. Thanks everyone.
Steam
GW2> Treloi [RPS]
Same thing happened to me starmatt. I've not been in any beta or created any accounts for PS2 before yesterday. Downloaded off Steam, went to create an account and got redirected to the ProSiebenSat.1 site and got sorted. Then, oh hey look at that, apparently my account was not valid.
Read about the issues with the EU client so gave up and went to play a game not run by drooling morons.
So Miller seems to be overloaded, it's going down every few hours for a few minutes. Currently it's down again. Woodman has a 181 people queue (but this might be because Miller is down)
Also both EU servers are already at a "very high" population (and it's not even rush hour) so I hope they are going to open new EU servers soon.
Urgh... What a gyp. I want to play with RPSers as both NC and VS! I've really enjoyed Purple Wednsdays so far, but VS are 2nd choice. If we put both outfits on one server, we split the players or have to have four outfits, which is evidently stupid. What a pain.
- Wizardry“Technology is a bad thing, people”
As a big fan of PS1 back before it all went wrong I'll be all over this. NC for lyfe yo!
I suppose nobody has tried to play on a GT540m. Looking forward to playing with you, but a bit nervous whether my laptop can handle it. I will give it a try tonight.
On a side note. Bonkers, are you THE bonkers commander that ordered all 9 marines to buy flamethrowers when playing tram in natural selection 2.....when the alien com was playing shit? If so, good game sir!
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