122337-mixed-factions-in-pve-servers

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RPer here. I'm all for cross-faction grouping and even guilds. :P Your concerns over exploits and friendly players in battlegrounds aren't actually problems. Take a look at Rift.


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Not really... If they were to just combine both Dom and Exiles into one faction then that means all content from that point on could be based on. The whole leveling would not have to be redesigned, maybe just those quests where you specifically do quests against the other faction. Or they could take the same approach as every other game. Where the questing path is also in chronological order. Star Trek Online in Chapter 1 you are graduating from the academy and getting your first ship and getting into a few fights with Klingon NPCs because at that point in the story you are still at war. But towards the last few chapters Fed and Klingons have made peace. But they didnt go back and change the early chapters. Take a look at WoW too with the Horde, Thrall was warchief on release, then Garrosh became warchief a few expacs later, then Vol'jin in this latest expac. All those changes to who is warchief but the story doesnt change. There is a huge story arc in the TBC expac (their second expac) where Thrall rediscovers the Orcs in Outland but back in their capital city Garrosh/Vol'jin is the warchief. So that is just two examples...a lot of games treat the leveling process as a time based thing. Where a level 1 is leveling in the year 2409 but by the time they hit level 50 it is supposed to be the year 2415 or whatevers. WoW *tried* to go back and make all the low leveling zones fit the ongoing story during Cata. But as a result of that rework to all low level content the high level content development ended up suffering. Even some devs have been quoted in articles and interviews saying that same thing. Ohh yah and just like Hamsalad said there doesnt have to be one faction. Just change the status between Dom and Exile from "at war and we hate each others guts" to "uneasy peace and we work together but we still dont fully trust you". And using Star Trek Online as an example again even while Klingons and Fed were full on at war with each other they still cooperated with each other in dungeons under the "put aside our differences to fight the greater evil" reason. AND they are already doing that in Wildstar right now with Dom and Exiles fighting against the Strain instead of each other (in PVE).


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