4 replies to this topic

[Turbo Corvair]

There seem to be a lot of us who want to play as loyal warriors of a particular house, yet have a desire to form a player run unit who play together on a daily basis.

Please put a system of some sort in place for this, or if there is already something like this planned let us know about it!

Thanks

[Victor Morson]

This isn't a practical idea at all given the scale of the player base we're talking about. In NBT a house unit could a house, that consisted of at most 50 people - and it was a logistical nightmare.

Here houses could easily reach 50,000. And battles are fought 24/7.

The best we can hope for is that house units will, after racking up enough faction points, maybe be able to initiate attacks on planets or something of that sort to give the absolute top tier teams some additional options to shape the game. But no way should any players actually run the houses. Honestly it's better if all strategic stuff is automated or heavily controlled by PGI.

[Turbo Corvair]

Victor I believe you misunderstood me. What I am asking for is to have in game tools similar to the mercenary system available to house players.

Essentially the only difference between the mercenary system and the "House Unit" system I'm suggesting is that this system would not include the bidding and related functions. A player run House Unit would only be able to do battle for their own house and be held to the same rules as House players who are not members of a player run unit. Even ranks within these units might remain game controlled, we just need unit tags, chat channels, etc. similar to the mercs.

Edited by Turbo Corvair, 15 April 2012 - 04:07 PM.

[Nik Van Rhijn]

I think that they said this would be put in "after launch", I agree that an awful lot of people on these boards would like such a system.

[Kudzu]

Will there be sub-units to join within factions? In other words, can my friends and I join a specific regiment in order to assure that we will play together beyond lance-based formations? –Kudzu

[BRYAN] As part of ranking up players will be able to join faction units. Post launch we will support the ability for players to create their own faction units.

http://mwomercs.com/...munity-warfare/