Alert Frequency

[EVILPIG]

I do not like to start any poll with bias, so I do not vote on my polls.

How do you feel about the current frequency of alerts?

[Calista]

Yeah we don't need Alertside. Somewhere in between is OK but just tone it down SOE please.

[Ghoest9]

There ois no reason not to have non stop alerts.

[NewSith]

You are reading my mind, admit it. I was going to create a thread stating that Alerts happen far too often, and this ruins many good fights.

[EVILPIG]

I just hate the automation of player motivation. They're cute and fun at times, but all day long over and over? How about 2 a day? That's 4 of 24 hours of potential gameplay. That's playing Alertside 1/6 of the time.

Here's another idea. You win the Alert, you win the continent and it completely flips to your color.

[Calista]

Originally Posted by EVILPIG

I just hate the automation of player motivation. They're cute and fun at times, but all day long over and over? How about 2 a day? That's 4 of 24 hours of potential gameplay. That's playing Alertside 1/6 of the time.

Here's another idea. You win the Alert, you win the continent and it completely flips to your color.

Whoah. That might be a little extreme but I like where you are going with this.

[bpostal]

Agreed, alerts should be a kind of last resort when fighting has become sporadic. Really, there shouldn't be an alert if all goes well during prime time.
To say that winning an alert = capping a cont...that's a bit much. And by a bit I mean a byte.

[ringring]

What we had was continent-side
Now we have alert-side
What we should have in planetside.


In other words it should be a war and the war should be sufficient reason to motivate the fight. At present the motivation is the XP provided by the alert system (which happen back to back with a deep breath in between) but the motivation should be winning the war which rages across continents.

XP is a poor substitute.

[Sunrock]

Originally Posted by EVILPIG

I do not like to start any poll with bias, so I do not vote on my polls.

How do you feel about the current frequency of alerts?

Well you already made the poll bias with your questions. You gave no neutral option to it so those that does have no opinion on the question will not vote. This makes the poll not display the opinion of the entire com unity.

[Sunrock]

[QUOTE=ringring;929081

In other words it should be a war and the war should be sufficient reason to motivate the fight. At present the motivation is the XP provided by the alert system (which happen back to back with a deep breath in between) but the motivation should be winning the war which rages across continents.

XP is a poor substitute.[/QUOTE]

Absolutely agree. The value of controlling land needs to be allot higher.

[camycamera]

i really don't mind, but i'd welcome any change.

[Hamma]

I feel like they are in a pretty good place.

[Rolfski]

I don't think there's any reason to discuss this because of this mechanic popping up too frequently. To me it seems that it's starting every 4 hours on low traffic times which feels right: Two hours on, two hours off.
You've got to remember that Alerts don't necessarily stop the regular meta-game from happening: You frequently see factions "abusing" the Alert to break/get a lock on another continent.

[NewSith]

Originally Posted by Rolfski

I don't think there's any reason to discuss this because of this mechanic popping up too frequently. To me it seems that it's starting every 4 hours on low traffic times which feels right: Two hours on, two hours off.
You've got to remember that Alerts don't necessarily stop the regular meta-game from happening: You frequently see factions "abusing" the Alert to break/get a lock on another continent.

Yeah they just:

a) Make people rush off to a continent that HAD a nice fight going.
b) Make people rush OFF of a continent that was nearly captured.

[Emperor Newt]

Actually, I think alerts need to go. Yes, they are good in theory but on servers which already have population problems the current alerts seem to drive people off. I am already hearing people in my outfit talking about how they are already sick of getting beaten on every one of them by the overpop faction. It's simply not a fun mechanic when pops aren't even, that's why we decided that we don't go for alerts anymore if it doesn't happen to be where we curently are at anyways.
It just strengthens the fourth faction. (not saying that my outfit is but when it's already pissing off seasoned players, what will John Doe do?)