Curse

MMSDome · Jul 02, 2007, 12:44 AM // 00:44

Join Luxons. That is what my guild did and you get in real quick on the Luxon side.Also try and amuse yourself like start arguements and what not in local chat. My personal favorite is "Subway Sucks" so many people get angry over that one and fists fly over Quiznos and Subway and many other Hoagie restraunts and which is the best. Make the best of your time

Vyral · Jul 02, 2007, 03:24 AM // 03:24

Just got sick of waiting on the Luxon side of Kaanai Canyon. There were 7 districts and we waited through 40 resets. No luck.

Honestly, with the nerf to losing side faction gain I can't see why any appreciable number of Kurzicks would be playing on the Kaanai Canyon map, which probably explains the excessive wait time.

So, the latest AB update makes it so that players who would otherwise want to participate in ABs see no gain (minimal faction gain per unit time) to playing on the extreme disadvantaged side. Similarly, the other faction has the extreme advantage and so more people from that side flock to ABs. The result is a very low number of available players on the disadvantaged side and grossly inflated number of players on the side with the advantage - the disparity causing huge wait times to those with the advantage.

So, the net result of the recent AB faction update seems to be that, on maps where one side has an advantage, very few people _want_ to play on the disadvantaged side, and very few people _can_ play (due to excessive wait times) on the advantaged side. Or, in other words, everyone is unhappy. Sounds like an effective update to me.

HawkofStorms · Jul 02, 2007, 04:08 AM // 04:08

Well, on the Luxon side, I never had to wait more then a miniute this entire weekend. That is due to two reasons

A) More Luxons AB for faction since they do not have as easy of a repeatable FFF quest (thus if the AB map is against the Kurzicks, those hard core Kurzick faction farmers switch over to quests instead of ABing for efficient faction gain)

B) There are more Kurzicks to Luxons overall. I really do believe this is true, judging from the armor amounts I see all the time (Kurzick armor is more common then Luxon) and the number of districts in Cavalon and HZH back when Factions was still new.

Omniclasm · Jul 02, 2007, 04:12 AM // 04:12

There is no point in abing when you are guaranteed to lose. Spending 15 minutes for 100-150 faction is a waste of time when you can just walk over some enemies in factions and get 500 in 10 minutes. It's not even like it's fun being at that much of a disadvantage, you just get rolled over and hunted.