As someone who was in the CC beta.. I /love/ the caverns. Some of the battles that I've had down there are the greatest ever by far. But the problem with Core Combat is that people just won't go down there. Newbies go down there, say, "OMG! What's this yellow stuff? What do you mean I can't just run in a straight line and get there? This suxorz!" and then they never go down there again. I've heard my outfit mates say many times, "I dunno. I just get lost down there, I never have fun there." That it drives me nuts. And I think this is the general sentiment among players, so they won't go, so people don't buy it, so no one goes down there, etc. etc. etc.
But if you look at the foundation plans.. if that doesn't get people down there, you can bet they'll do something more drastic to get people into the caverns. (I still caverns should be lattice links between continents or bases on continents.) Once people start fighting in there and realize just how /awesome/ it is, it'll improve.
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