With two factions you can never balance game purely 50/50. Players will eventually pick stronger faction. Third faction is a cure to everything!
How? When one faction is becoming visibly overpopulated then two remaining ones can become allies. That is making them equal if not stronger. Constantly shifting politics would be funny to watch
Population is fine… There are lower populated games than have more factions. I would prefer three factions over turning this game into one faction that will eventually happen. Useless Alliance cant keep-up
This doesn’t make any sense… there will simply be 2 weak factions and 1 strong.
Needs to be good in PvE too. And it must be something so clearly OP that people will legit switch faction for it while simultaneously causing a forum explosion.
And then, once balance has begun to return…
nerf it to normal levels
change PvP rewards so the winners don’t walk away with more loot/conquest than the losers. As weird as this sounds, the only way to stop faction swapping to the stronger side is to have it not matter whether you win or lose. The state of ‘the strong gets stronger’ is currently a problematic feedback loop that needs to go.
I am not a fan of introducing a third faction. Everything in the game is based on two, all the established guilds, communities, the cities, etc etc.
I’ve not heard anything about the covenants being at war with each other in WM, and it’s not really a very good idea IMO either. Many will choose whatever covenant is strongest for the type of content they do.
I don’t think so.
According to another player in that topic the covenants will be class specific, which means if you have five players with different classes wanting to min/Max everything they will end up in different covenants (enemies).
Apparently from what I read from one of Leafkettle posts that was hinted by Ion in his recently interview. I still need to confirm this.
But it’s interesting, debating the idea.
It sounds like a good idea until you realise that the shifting alliances means you constantly end up not being able to play with your friends when you could yesterday due to external forces, seemingly at random.