08-21-2009, 04:00 PM
The other POTBS problem was that you really didn't have a big in-game reason to care or notice who was winning.
In Planetside, if NC were dominating the map and you were playing TR, it wasn't like you could just ignore the NC. You literally wouldn't be able to fight anyone BUT them.
In POTBS, if the British were dominating the map entirely, there was nothing stopping the Spanish from continuing to attack the French. In fact, as Hoof mentions, there was actual incentive to just avoid the strongest team.
So definitely "3 teams" is not, in itself, a full solution. You have to also design the game so that as one team begins to dominate, the other two teams are somehow coerced into fighting the leader rather than each other.
In Planetside, if NC were dominating the map and you were playing TR, it wasn't like you could just ignore the NC. You literally wouldn't be able to fight anyone BUT them.
In POTBS, if the British were dominating the map entirely, there was nothing stopping the Spanish from continuing to attack the French. In fact, as Hoof mentions, there was actual incentive to just avoid the strongest team.
So definitely "3 teams" is not, in itself, a full solution. You have to also design the game so that as one team begins to dominate, the other two teams are somehow coerced into fighting the leader rather than each other.