119074-wildstar-faction-changes

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Hello wildstar community,
First off will like to say that I love your game carbine, where yes it has its flaws the meat of it is very enjoyable, for me any ways.
 
Onto my topic, Faction changes.
The Australian community on the dominion side of entity is almost dead, my last count was 10ish players. My mates and I are desperate, better still begging for a fraction change to bring the ocianic community together.
 
Is or will there be any fraction change option in the forsee able future.
 
A dev response to this would be highly appreciated.	
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			You dare betray the Dominion, cassian?	
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			Yes I dare, if it means I get to raid agein.	
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			Make another character if you're "desperate" instead of asking for something which will ruin one faction (dominion) on the long-term like server transfers killed pvp servers.	
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Iv only got limited play hours. For me to get to my stage again will take me months.
 
And how would you like it if for you to play a game you enjoy, is to drop you toon that you worked hard on, done everything you can to get the best out of it.	
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Make another character if you're "desperate" instead of asking for something which will ruin one faction (dominion) on the long-term like server transfers killed pvp servers.
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Jesus stop saying this, not everyone wants to spend the time grinding to 50 or perhaps as the op stated the time to do so. I seriously doubt there are that many dominion folks that would move to the exile side. I tried to do an informal poll but folks kept getting sidetracked and it was a failure.
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			I'd love to play an Exile Chua or Draken, yes!  :D	
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Another solution that could work (thanks guildies)
The exile and dominion forces must unite to over come the threats to nexus, but some still hold grudges towards the opposing faction.
 
That way instance stuff could be mixed but still keeps pvp the way it is.	
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"But the faction divide must mean something! Somethiiiing!"
 
Sorry. Everytime someone mentions the Exiles and the Dominion in a situation that suggests they wouldn't immediately shoot at each other, those are the words that resonate on my head. I will never forget them. I will never stop mocking them.
 
With that said, the writers have been doing something a bit weird in the later stages of the game. They have been making the Exiles and the Dommies fight common threats, but also take cheapshots at each other during those conflicts. The latest examples are in the Defile, where they take time to kill each other's researchers while deep in Strain territory, and during a fake 20-man quest where each player is tasked with rescuing members of their own faction while also killing the captives of the other faction. It seems like a very token attempt and indicating to us that the factions will never ever work together for more than a few minutes. Because when there's an Eldritch Abomination threatening all of the universe the best course of action is to attack the only other guy that agrees with the idea that the Eldritch Abomination needs killing.
 
Of course, they could always go the RIFT route and make the Player Characters be smarter than their factions and realize that, if certain threats are not taking care of, there will be no Exiles nor Dominion at the end of the day. It's a solution I like, personally. But I don't expect it to happen.	
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I love how this made in Rift. On PvE server you have common chat, you can form guilds, group up and so on. Only NPCs attack you if you dare to go to their hubs.
 
Also in PvP. You have not enough members of your faction to form full group? Put some member of opposite faction, put "mercenary" buff on him and go, fight.	
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			This kinda reminds me of going rogue. :ph34r:  Personally i think allowing that in the game will destroy the lore of it. 	
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Overzealous of Entity is willing to help the leftovers of your OCE community, we're recruiting at the moment we could definitely assist in the process of leveling from 1-50 :) , we had just gotten the Ohmna kill and are looking forward to loot pinataas via DS minibosses. We can help you get attuned like some fellow Insurgence players from the dominions that is in our guild at the moment.
 
Hit Star Proto up or Walking Corpsy in game (Entity, Exiles, NA) :D cheers	
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			Im one of the insergence players, im just finding it hard to let my work on my main toon to sit there and rott	
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Its not just the levelling, its the AMPS/REP
 
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	Edited November 26, 2014 by Chillia	
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I agree, just the thought of doing the rep grind again gives me a headache. I enjoy the lvling process so for me getting to 50 would not be such a big issue. A number of us have invested a quite a bit of time into our dominion characters and do not want to abandon them that readily just to be able to play/raid with others. 
 
As the oceanic community continues to dwindle on the dominion side I cannot see what other options are available for those of us that can only play at certain times (generally NA off-peak). 
 
Please add in faction changes! or a way for the rep grind to be less painful for those of us that are considering re-rolling just to be able to play with those in our own time zone.	
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			Even the Globellum comments on you (whichever faction) facing a common threat (itself) yet you choose to kill the other side instead of coming together to fight.	
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As one of the few raiders left on Oceanic dominion, my choices are as follows:
 
1. Wait and hope people get bored of The Game That Must Not Be Named faster than people quit Wildstar because they can't raid due to lack of numbers. Not really an option - in Oceania, that game has local servers and Wildstar does not, so it's 20 ping there or 200 ping in this game. The biggest selling point this game has is raids, and we can't attract people from other games if we can't promise them that we'll have the numbers.
 
2. Raid with a weekend US guild, of which there are a couple. This limits our raid times to (Oceanic) weekend mornings. Possible for a few of us, but obviously not all.
 
3. Reroll Exile, as there are still several raiding guilds on the Exile side. This will ruin the Dominion Oceanic raiding scene for good if we all do it, but it will let me participate in the best content this game has to offer. It will also take literally hundreds of hours to get to 50 (which is reasonably fun), do all the appropriate rep/prestige grinds (which is very much not fun), and get to some semblance of where I was before. 
 
I'm currently leaning towards 3, and obviously it would be a huge step up to be able to keep my character, all her gear, plat, ability/amp points, rep, and achievements. If something like a (paid or unpaid, whatever) faction change is in the works, then I'd love to hear about it right now so that I can AFK sub until it goes live, and don't burn out grinding Blighthaven rep on some Exile alt that never gets used. Equally, if there are no current plans, then we'd love to know so that we can get started.	
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			No. Reason: trivial to level.	
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No. Reason: trivial to level.
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I'm not sure "jesus" can do anything about it. You only have doubts, the state of the pvp servers are facts.
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It will in fact not take "literally hundreds of hours" to get to 50 ... so much for the English language and the understanding of "figuratively" vs. "literally".
 
It may "seem" to take a long time to get to cap but, in fact it is relatively short and trends to the new normal of MMORPGS these days due to the capricious nature of the customer base that all MMORPG developers are dealing with.  So the short answer is "the problem is you".
 
BTW, you CAN have your cake and eat it too because you can first "have it" and then "eat it" but, you can NOT "eat your cake" and "have it too" because once you eat your cake it is gone.
 
I weep for the age of modernity.	
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