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I'd say doing that on NA probably wouldn't hurt because of the current population but it will still take time, effort, money away from the EU. Oh sad news bears. My excitement for phasing is not so great anymore.

Shows how much I know, I seriously thought phasing was everyone getting to play together. Ok so, phasing would just be matchmaking between different Districts on the same Server but Jericho West/East and Citadel would still remain separated? And where would the server be? On elon's space internet?

Aren't all these things essentially just different ways of describing phasing which is currently in development?

I really thought this was going to be the case when those very first screen shots of whatever this mode was going to be (in 2017 I think?) I think would have worked out better being more than the RIOT/BR mode we ended up with. It would basically be the Area Control final mission/FC mode but on a larger scale, tweak it to make it majority rule or you have to destroy/take over consoles to gain the full area, or anything idk I haven't played Planetside 2, and it would really work out. Fresh map, something that could be jury-rigged into the lore to explain why the Enfos and Crims are scrambling to control it, sprinkle some Joker Tickets, maybe Daily Tasks, New Contacts (or let us level current ones of our choice) and we've got ourselves a nice alternative to FC.

Yesss. So much this. Like seriously, so many people seem to whoop out this giant-patootie book of UN sanctioned rules for pressing that B for Backup but damn I don't care what the team is like if I can spam B, I'm spamming B, the more the merrier! I love the giant missions, I just wish it would add more time to the timers when new players arrive because we've all felt those times when backup finally calls but there's only 40 seconds left and you're already 800m away. It was disappointing when LO said they'd be sticking to 4-player groups, I feel like APB gets better with more players in missions, yes there is a critical mass and I get why some players would dislike it if they're forced into those missions every time, but that's the glory of giving us OPTIONS those who do not like can simply opt-out, I just don't understand why some people disagree with having an option. I see that down arrow above but all I did was offer an option - you like bronze-stomping? Tick the "APB Nightmare Mode" box. No like? don't tick the box! What is there to dislike in getting offered both options and being allowed to choose your own play?

Maybe that should level of matchmaking should be optional? APB Nightmare Mode. Those that want good matches get to few but "balanced" matches. Those that just want missions get matched up with everyone.

With all the tweaks to matchmaking, I wonder why does the game even try to put Ts and Bronzes up against Golds? I get why silvers get knocked around cause we're trash but Golds? Even Yellows? Like how the Districts don't allow them to enter Bronze tier, they shouldn't really be allowed to enter matches with those lower threat players. I think I said it before that new/low threat players really need some sort quarantine zone around them, either physically (like a T District) or just in the code, so they've got a bubble of protection so they never really have to experience the harsh realities at least until they've experienced the game a bit better. Or, how about bots? Huge task I know, but I think if low population is still an issue after the Update, the game should really consider filling the gaps with Bots instead of just chucking any (ie Gold) player into the match. I'd love to see this happen I really enjoyed the gun games and think having a the odd "this gun only" mode in FCs would spice things up a bit.

Look at me thread-necroing. Just wanna give a head up that Little Orbit have implemented this suggestion and thank them and everyone for this QoL improvement.

Late to the game as usual - but I just wanted to send out my deepest and sloppiest thank you to LO and the LO staff for making this dream a reality. I can't tell you, but will try, how much it means to me to be able to play this game at a slightly higher volume now and not living in fear of having some awful person's toxic theme ear-no me. I know I'm just some pleb on the internet - but Thank you so much . Can scrub this one off the old signature now.

This quickly turned into a "What clothing I want in game" rather than "What clothing I use in game". But in case y'all don't already know there's this Super Sexy List of clothing a few lovely people were working on. (I see that zolerox copy-pasted his post from that thread, but as is the zolerox way, only post his own suggestion, ignoring the rest of the community. Try not to do that too LO.) And if seeing this list fills LO employees with a daunting sense of dread, don't worry that is the appropriate response, but let me alievate some of those feelings with this awesome solution to all your clothing problems. Back on topic; Knee-High Work Boots. No outfit is complete without them, all other footwear just falls short. (literally, loloolooloolol) That and the trusty old Utility Belt - how can I call for back up without a radio, or arrest without cuffs? This belt has those covered.

I know I'm being completely antedoctal - but sometimes I barely get to spend an hour or two in most events, mixed with a good dose of bad skills, poor timezone, and latency issues, translates to only 1 character getting the goods and the rest getting nothing. If I wasn't so cheap I'd get those event items too as well as Account Bound items but yeah I have no idea what happened to them, they used to pop up every time I opened up the ARMAS store luring me to just pay a few hundred more to get Account versions of all my Character bound crap, but now those offers have disappeared, or at least haven't been to aggressive in their advertisement, maybe they're still around, but so is my cheapness, so lose-lose for knifu's alts.

I think you know the amount of work that requires outweighs the benefits and it really breaks down when there's an event on, especially if you're a time-poor pleb like me. Having to choose which character gets the Event Reward/Achievement from my list is like trying to choose which child is the favourite. But I agree it is nice to be able to try to auto-balance Districts and FCs by swapping sides, makes for very little down time in the little time I do have. Also woe to anyone who chose the seemingly cheaper "Character Bound" option for any purchase.

Then they should go for it - assuming there isn't anything else to do on their end other than simply asking nVidia to add the game because it would suck if it becomes a situation like with the consoles where LO have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get stuff done and another platform gets disconnected from community at large. But hey, I wholeheartedly believe they'll pass that message on and someone will look into it, it may not happen overnight, and maybe LO will think it'll make a better PR move if they postpone adding it to the list until after the Engine Update where things run a little smoother on high-end machines, but wheels are in motion, so that's something.

Will it cost LO anything? I feel like there's more involved that LO just sending an email to nVidia asking them to add it to the list. If it does cost anything, then I'd say no - like above there just isn't the population/demand to justify the extra cost. Maybe in the future once APB is fully utilising all the power of hardcore machines and have the budget to burn, it's a good choice, but for now, if there's any cost, it'll be too much. If it's free - then go for it I guess. I mean I'm guessing this is sort of a future of gaming, at least considering that access to internet is outbidding access to hardcore hardware, at least as far as costs are concerned. It'll be a bad idea for APB to miss out on stepping into the future of gaming, assuming it's at no cost to them.

Well now I don't know what to believe. If the juggernaut that is Blizzard couldn't keep their factions from drinking from the same fountains, APB never stood a chance. There's no going back now, might as well give Crims LTL and Enfos ramraiding, embrace the transition of red vs blue into a vague purple blur.

I knew it was your down arrow even before scrolling down. Just embrace it - faction identity is a muddy grey mess now, there's not enough of us left for this full scale war of sides, shrug off those ancient hatreds and just accept we're all in this together dying to fuel the BigJoker machine.

I'd love for LO to just unlock everything, faction, gender, lore, (rank?) be damned - give us the loot! But as I understand it with the unique way APB's current code deals with items, it's a little more of a task than just turning a 0 to a 1. So we have to wait and dream.

Sakebee: We can't do any coding things rn cause engine update. Everyone: Can you add in all these coding things? But srsly, to me Baylame (yes I'm stealing that) was always a terrible spawn-spam-fest the fights barely ever reached out of two main areas with the only breaks being when people were running through the maze to get from one shooting barrel to the other. So I welcome our new Territory Control overlords, but this is all just evidence that Asylum is just so much better in every way. So my coding thing to add in is to delete Baylame and just add in a palette swapped version of Asylum with different spawn points, they'll love it.

Are you guys playing a different Asylum to me? Now, I totally get that Baylan is trash, if I see that FC up, I send it back. I agree that the tasks are waaay too tedious and too grindy for the average player to realistically complete in a single session - although I guess this is why FC resets every week instead of daily like the Mission District JTs because you're meant to grind them over the space of a week, which sucks if you're a working pleb like me and can only play a single session a week anyway, but the point is, I hate Baylan due to the amount of time it legitimately takes to gain the same amount of JTs compared to Asylum (or even Mission Districts now). And the design is just awful, you basically just play "cat and mouse" with the red arrows in two main areas while the rest is just annoying boxes in the way of you easily getting to one of the two areas people mostly fight in. I have no idea why it's so popular. Asylum is a completely different and is my bread and butter for juicy JTs, so you can understand why I'm all sorts of confused why y'all struggling to progress here but since no one else is mentioning "the rules" I'll have a go; Asylum's matches seem to be tied to the instance's population, so low pops will get short missions, either TDM or Item Hold. Higher to max pops will get you those """long""" matches, although tbh I can't ever recall ever being in a 30 minute long match. Maybe 20 minutes tops? But for me it's between 5 and 15 minutes. Higher to max pops will also get you some extra mission types like dual-VIP and Area Control/Domination. Progression in Asylum is directly tied to your scoreboard score - kills and assists - which is boosted to whether you win or lose the match and AFAIK Premium adds to this too. So, all you have to do to progress in Asylum is get on the scoreboard, that's it - one assist or kill and you're golden and you can chillax (lol as if, you're playing APB) until next round. The progression is slow to be sure, but as I said, the Asylums I play are shorter missions and I make do with barely single-digit kills/assists and mostly losing every match but it still adds up and I can smash out Bronze and then Silver rewards in about 30-40 minutes tops, which is why I'm confused as to how on earth y'all are getting such bad rewards over such a same period of time. But then once I clear Silver, I'm done, I'm happy with 200JTs and call it a week. Chasing the Gold rewards is another story. Those "sick people" with scores in the $100ks, all they do is smash face, they're the ones topping the scoreboards and winning almost every round - and of course play a over the course of the week, but Gold rewards aren't that difficult, you just have to be in the top bracket, not on the top itself. I used my "just get on the board" tactic to get Gold rewards a few times, sure it took logging in daily, but still only 30 minute sessions. The explosives spam - that's annoying af but explosives are annoying everywhere, it's just magnified in Asylum due to the closed quarters. But not everyone is using them, in my experience it's usually 1 or 2 repeat offenders, in fact there's one particular moron who doesn't use anything else and tends to kill off the district once they join so often I think they do it just to spoil everyone else's fun, but now I'm starting to rant. I say buff Flak Jacket, right now it stops you getting 1-shotted from these blockheads, but like I said, explosives are annoying everywhere, so why not toughen up the counter rather than keep nerfing the explosives?

Do you mean point and laugh?

Never give away the originals and always use duplicates, unless of course they're paying and you don't care. Also you're going to need to dedicate a whole new character to housing this gear, or you're some weirdo who only uses 1 outfit.

Played since 2012 but surprised that one of the most complained about exploits is finally patched? There's playing the part of the pea-brained meta-gamer stereotype and then there's outright turning it into your entire career.

Exactly. Considering the ToS/CoC that's actually really vague statement to make - these plagues of violators could be doing anything from hacking to selling accounts for irl profits. The point is, there are quite a few rules in the ToS so if we had 1 violation for every rule per day, would that be enough to it a skyrocket of flagrant violations? All that in mind, I feel the servers have been really dodgy lately, or maybe it's just my connection, but being able to tell who is cheating and who isn't is a really fuzzy line for me at the best of times, I can't imagine it being any better for other players, but that won't stop vague accusations.

Yes, let's let the same toxic community who can't be trusted with a Music/Theme Designer, immersion access to more of our senses...

+1 for banana Pretty much this. Just keep putting your stuff up for cheaper (hope you made copies) and the economy (aka cheapskates) will sort them out. Sucks for those who ignore the first 6-8 pages in the symbols department because it's mostly trash back there, but those looking for a bargain will be grateful and ultimately steer the price down.