Balance to companies.

I cant speak for other servers, i'm basing this on my own and then see the comparison for other servers i hope through the feedback, if i receive any lol.

Players ask for balance one way or an other through different ideas, either fe compared to ufe, noob protection to no noob protection, but what about company balance? on my server, the top company has over 7000 players, where the other 2 have just 3200 each. this makes events impossible to stand a chance having a go at being the top company, pvp is far over powered against numbers in the top company maps or their hunting parties in our maps and the company at top with all these players also have control over all 3 lower map battle maps so they can box due to the over crowding in their own company. i buy a box doubler to and like to fit in a few hours boxing a day but its almost impossible to box or fight back against the numbers against myself and a few others in those maps. its frustrating most of the time knowing you dont stand much of a chance before any fight or event has even begun. so .. my suggestion is .. is there anyway that a player number cap can be placed on companies? such as .. 5000 player maximum per company ( increasing/decreasing ) depending on bans, new players etc or how many are on a said server to begin with?

ive played another game that was based on joining a state at registration, and each state has a set amount of slots in it. if its full, you have to choose another. therefore making battles against those states more or less equal in numbers and all battles fairer.

why not do this for the companies in dark orbit as well ? events would be fair, fights would be fair .. or at least, the numbers would be, as long as players are active. just a thought. maybe you guys can add your own twist

 

I see what your saying, but some servers have more than 5k players per company e.g GA1. Maybe when you want to change company you are only allowed to join the company with less players but sept the one your currently in, and you could expand on that by changing to the other higher amount of players for double the price(just a suggestion)

 

i see what you are saying, but thats why i said maybe it could be based not only on for example 5k per company on MY server, but set different depending on other servers current total. .... "" such as .. 5000 player maximum per company ( increasing/decreasing ) depending on bans, new players etc or how many are on a said server to begin with? "" . as for paying double or more to join back with the higher player count company, it kind of defeats the idea of wanting to balance out player numbers in all 3 companies. that just keeps numbers unblanced. but thanks for the feedback

 

True but you have noobs who change companies for sb and influence etc, so it's quite hard for them to get 5k nevermind 10k, will even numbers out a tiny bit but if to low maybe 15k-20k

 

i know noobs and stronger players alike join the top company just for events such as influence and the likes, however they dont join for events like spaceball or capture the beacon. this is why im requesting a balance to stop any company hopping during events and to always keep the numbers balanced. if theres 2 or 3000 more players than the other 2 companies then they shouldnt be allowed to join the top company until numbers decrease and all 3 become more equal with maybe a 500 difference player count be allowed between each company. being able to change comp just for an event still doesnt give any matter of fairness to the smaller numbered companies. pvp hunting parties still out number the smaller company members online, palladium is noncollectable due to the top company thinking THEY own the map because THEY are the top company. and no, i dont palli lol. but i know people who want to but get popped out as soon as they jump in with no other company member there to help.

 

nice idea, but almost impossible to do it...

 

This is a laggy game. When you sign-up DO puts you into the closest server unless you override it. Makes no difference, but a nice idea.

 

It would work for new servers but it would not work for old ones. To many people would get butthurt over one day being in one color then being in another color the next. Plus clans and would be destroyed. Maybe good in some cases but for me a good clan is hard to find.

 

i dont mean pull people out of the companies ( id presume this would have to be a random moving of players if was the case ). i was suggesting a player cap so as to not allow anyone to move to the larger company via change comp function, or for new players registering to be able to join a currently over populated company. in other words .. vru 3000 , mmo 3000, eic 7000 at current ... place a cap of vru 5000, mmo 5000 and eic 5000. new registrations would have to go to the lesser populated companies, and if players left the larger company for a smaller company they wouldnt be able to return until BALANCE was roughly equally divided between all 3 comps.

balance seems to be trying to be placed into the game so that players have equal chances so why not make companies also balanced somehow? events would be fairer, boxing in bms would be fairer or even PvP through enemy maps , they would also be more evenly spread out in numbers. hard to do events when you are massively out numbered and the only option left is to dump honor worked for just to be able to take place in an event which really wouldnt be that much fun when you pretty much know from the start that youre going to win anyway.

and as ive said before, other online games have population caps between sections, maps, companies etc so why cant darkorbit? ..

 

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Enjoy the game.

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