Why is NC so Popular?

[Troscus]

Originally Posted by SideOfBeef

No, because that's largely false. And irrelevant.

Originally Posted by Crator

You're irrelevant!

Originally Posted by Ratstomper

This whole idea is irrelevant. I actually chose NC because they are distinctly anti-establishment.

Originally Posted by Crator

The idea, or the topic? It's a general question that is fun to talk about. Not sure how my statement was irrelevant in the context.

Originally Posted by Ratstomper

I meant the NC = blue/gold = police = good guys. It just seemed really tenuous. I understand the color scheme is similar, but I think in reality the NC would be somewhat anti-policing.

I dunno. Maybe I'm jumping at nothing. Seen too many police do some not very good-guy things to really understand the comparison.

Originally Posted by Crator

Oh, so you mean the "FUCK THE POLICE" stance that some take? I see... Whateva' G

Originally Posted by Ratstomper

No, that's not what I mean at all. In my eyes NC are about freedom and self-regulation, not doing sociopathic things in spite of the law. Theres a distinct difference.

Now, if you'll kindly stop trolling this thread, we can get back into some semblance of logical thought.

Originally Posted by Crator

I'm not trolling... And I still don't see how my comment was irrelevant in the least...

All of above is irrelephant. More importantly, elephants are the biggest land mammals still alive. They have been divided in two families: The Elephas and the Loxodonta. Actually, there are only three species of elephants still present: The African bush Elephant, The African Asian Elephant and the Asian Elephant (Indian Elephant). The mammoths were part of this family, but had completely disappeared by 2000 B-C.

[windlord]

The world map on facebook is completely broken or perhaps I should say non-functional.

[Ratstomper]

Originally Posted by Jaenus

So stow the country hate and discuss PS2.

Seconded. Stop mixing your real world depressing bullcrap with my PS2.

[Goku]

Lets take a chill pill folks.

[Jaenus]

Originally Posted by Goku

Lets take a chill pill folks.

Thanks Goku.

[LostAlgorithm]

Originally Posted by The Degenatron

First, the Blue and Gold are not ugly. I think they look great together.

Problem is that most of the time it doesn't really look Blue and Gold, it looks like Blue and Light Yellow. They need to make the NC yellows darker.

[Chinchy]

A picture is worth 1000 words.

[Kriegson]

Originally Posted by Chinchy

A picture is worth 1000 words.

I concur!

[Chinchy]

Originally Posted by Kriegson

I concur!

He he he

[Crator]

Originally Posted by Goku

Lets take a chill pill folks.

Which one you got? Blue or red? Cause if it's red my body can't take it. :P

Originally Posted by Troscus

All of above is irrelephant. More importantly, elephants are the biggest land mammals still alive. They have been divided in two families: The Elephas and the Loxodonta. Actually, there are only three species of elephants still present: The African bush Elephant, The African Asian Elephant and the Asian Elephant (Indian Elephant). The mammoths were part of this family, but had completely disappeared by 2000 B-C.

Talk about irrelevancy!

[Troscus]

Originally Posted by Crator

Talk about irrelevancy!

Irrelinfancy.

[Landtank]

Because Freedom!

[kaffis]

Since this thread got dug back up, I'm with Hamma. I don't think I ever saw global pops skewed more than maybe 36-37% in my playtime. That's pretty damn even for a moving target.

Personally, I chose NC because I fell in love with the Gauss Rifle. The fairly tight 3-round burst followed by WTF BLOOM!? felt good if you could control it well. Sure, it's not Vanu accuracy, but it was still accurate enough to reward aim.

I grew to love the Vanguard's 150mm, though I appreciated the Prowler's heavy arc on occasion -- shelling over walls into courtyards was always a fun treat, since the Vanguard couldn't really manage it. I never liked the Sparrow as much as the Burster, but that goes without saying.

It was the Gauss and the helmets that sold me on the faction, though.

Originally Posted by Kalbuth

And in the first months of PS1, when VS was the underpowered "common pool" empire (apart from 2 weeks of Lasher 2.0 folly), we were doing stupid stunts most of the time. Our tank was known for mowing people, not for his canon

This kind of amuses me, because you say it as if being known as the "Magmower" was derogatory towards its efficiency at killing enemies. Trust me, it wasn't. Most Magrider drivers had more kills than Vanguard gunners, I'm pretty sure.

[WNxThentar]

Originally Posted by Otleaz

I was arguing with a friend about what faction we should play, he was saying VS, I was saying TR. Eventually we got to a point where I said I thought VS would be the most popular so it wouldn't be fun, and he goes and says NC will obviously be the most popular, with the VS being the least popular.

I called bullshit, but all evidence says it is true. Why is it that the faction with the ugliest colors, slowest vehicles, and worst overall goal are the most popular?

You base this on a sampling of you and your friend? I didn't know a sample of 2 was statistically relevant.

You'd be surprised at how balanced the empires where back in the day.

I think the 3 factions cater to 3 different play styles. But with the new customisation you can tweak your weapons to behave like one of the other empires. Then you can base it on more role playing choices. For those that say this isn't a role playing game I'll ask you "How many of you actually have fought in a war ... like this one :P"

This hopefully won't be like SWG where there was just stupid implementations of incentives. To give you an example in BETA and release if you were on the Empire's faction you could get a AT-ST as a faction reward and that pet was killer. As a rebel...furniture to put in your house. :/ I can tell you I never won a single PVP battle due to the desk I put in my office.

[Malachi]

It's not complicated - people like bullets. Lots of bullets. (I'm under the impression that TR is the most popular, btw)