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[OJ191]

note: when I reference clans I mean the player organisations not the much-hated invaders.

There are inevitably going to be many, many people with friends from all over the world. If you region-lock they have to run multiple accounts (and won't always get what they have payed for, which on the other hand some companies would do just for that reason). Additionally it makes it a pain for clan play as well - for example if accounts are region locked and you are australian in an NA clan and we get an oceanic server down the road, you can either transfer your account for lower ping (and lose all your stuff on NA where your clan plays) or you have to start entirely new from scratch.

Personally I think the best solution is to have a central master server containing all the account data for everyone, then select a region on start-up and play wherever you want to play at the time.

Edited by OJ191, 09 June 2012 - 05:51 PM.

[Spleenslitta]

My fledging merc corp was ruined by the official statement Garth made in another thread where he said that merc corps would be locked to a region.
It's not Garth's fault...he is just doing his job.

Oh well....either way we couldn't make a corp because of it and now we have to figure something else out.
I'm still hoping for a miracle or something, but you know how that goes...it goes nowhere.

[OJ191]

Spleenslitta, on 09 June 2012 - 05:59 PM, said:

My fledging merc corp was ruined by the official statement Garth made in another thread where he said that merc corps would be locked to a region.
It's not Garth's fault...he is just doing his job.

Oh well....either way we couldn't make a corp because of it and now we have to figure something else out.
I'm still hoping for a miracle or something, but you know how that goes...it goes nowhere.

eh corps locked to a region kinda makes sense for metagame etc, but if they don't lock accounts you can just make the same corp on another region with the same players

[Deathz Jester]

Im worried that people will make more than one account and find a way to "boost" C-Bills

[Vodkavaiator]

+1 Region locks are silly.

[Shamrock Jenny]

one of the best memories i have is playing with clan ghostbear, we were made up of people from europe and us, if we cannot join together to make clans it could effect player interest. i know i'd like to join my american friends as well as my european friends.i had high hopes for this game to allow the same. we can only dream

[Woodstock]

Haven't they already said you will be able to join any server you want ... just be aware there will be more lag if you live in Europe and join the NA server.