118555-faction-change-poll-updated

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Ok this is a very simple poll, I'm not interested in your whys or wherefores just a simple yes or no and please if you take the time to view this take the time to answer.
 
Faction change yes or no? And which direction would you be going?
 
I vote yes	
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			Only if LOPP was a faction:)	
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Yes.
 
Although I personally play both sides, I still would like it as an option for other folk. :)	
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Why would anyone want to leave the Dominion?
 
In all seriousness, why not. Doesn't hurt anything.	
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			Sure, why not.	
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			No. Your heart must belong and serve one faction and one faction is all you'll ever need.	
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			yes	
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In all seriousness, why not. Doesn't hurt anything.
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			No.	
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Remember how everyone jumped to PvE because that's where the population was....have you seen the difference in numbers from each faction? 
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Remember how everyone jumped to PvE because that's where the population was....have you seen the difference in numbers from each faction? Just a theory anyways, not saying it'll happen but.... it's possible.
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			Yes. It's a paid service that should be in any MMO.	
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			Yes, needed to the point where i might have to quit without it due to no longer having a guild i'm interested in on Dominion.	
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			yes but only to balance then no.	
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			lol awesome 108 views 13 responses how hard would it have been to say yay or nay, thanks to those of you that responded the rest of you suck.	
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I like the idea, but it's not something I think I'd ever use.
Although, I'm all for Carbine generating more income from other sources (transfers/factions/name change/appearance change and hopefully a merchandise store in the future... ;) )	
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You...you want them to charge real money just to get a haircut for your character?
 
You are a bad, naughty person, Nifty. Only coal for you this year.	
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I think as far as PvP is concerned you'll see a massive migration from exile to dominion. Some of the good exiles who mostly solo queue will go over, but they'll get a bunch of the baddies in quest pve gear too, who blame the faction as a whole, and could win if only they had gone dominion.
 
So Yes to faction changes, i would love shorter queues.	
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			 Nay.	
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I think as far as PvP is concerned you'll see a massive migration from exile to dominion. Some of the good exiles who mostly solo queue will go over, but they'll get a bunch of the baddies in quest pve gear too, who blame the faction as a whole, and could win if only they had gone dominion.
 
So Yes to faction changes, i would love shorter queues.
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			Chua against idea.	
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			nahI'm not even for a race change, but I know a lot of folks enjoy that feature being available. Even hairstyles I'm kinda 'meh' unless they introduce new ones later on...	
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			No, that's why rerolls are for.	
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			yes	
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			Hard locked factions are just boring.  There's no reason to have such a thing when 99% of your PvP is instanced.	
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			It depends what kind of faction change you're talking about. If you're talking about keeping your characters race and simply changing faction (via some sort of betrayal quest) I am not sure that would really work in this lore. A paid one where you change to a race of another faction would be fine, only IF there was also a paid option to change to a race of the same faction as well.	
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It depends what kind of faction change you're talking about. If you're talking about keeping your characters race and simply changing faction (via some sort of betrayal quest) I am not sure that would really work in this lore. A paid one where you change to a race of another faction would be fine, only IF there was also a paid option to change to a race of the same faction as well.
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No, thanks.
 
While normally I would support a service like this, even if this was a paid option, I can only see it ending one way:
 
Instead of 80% Exile / 20% Dominion, we end up with 99% Exile / 1% Dominion.
 
If they offer incentives that somehow encourage people to balance out the factions, then maybe I'd reconsider, but as it stands right now, the next Drop may as well write in the Exiles winning the war.
 
/inbeforeflames: statistics made up to illustrate my point	
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No, thanks.
 
While normally I would support a service like this, even if this was a paid option, I can only see it ending one way:
 
Instead of 80% Exile / 20% Dominion, we end up with 99% Exile / 1% Dominion.
 
If they offer incentives that somehow encourage people to balance out the factions, then maybe I'd reconsider, but as it stands right now, the next Drop may as well write in the Exiles winning the war.
 
/inbeforeflames: statistics made up to illustrate my point
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			yes	
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No, thanks.
 
While normally I would support a service like this, even if this was a paid option, I can only see it ending one way:
 
Instead of 80% Exile / 20% Dominion, we end up with 99% Exile / 1% Dominion.
 
If they offer incentives that somehow encourage people to balance out the factions, then maybe I'd reconsider, but as it stands right now, the next Drop may as well write in the Exiles winning the war.
 
/inbeforeflames: statistics made up to illustrate my point
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Remember how everyone jumped to PvE because that's where the population was....have you seen the difference in numbers from each faction? Just a theory anyways, not saying it'll happen but.... it's possible.
 
I don't care, I play both.
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			I just want to be able to play with whoever i want to play with in this game without having to worry about things like server or faction or whatnot... Why should it be something to worry about? why divide the tiny community?	
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Yes.
 
This should be a poll, rather than having people comment to vote.	
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			100% Down for this	
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Yes.
 
This should be a poll, rather than having people comment to vote
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Like... How?
 
 
 
Do it though.	
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You...you want them to charge real money just to get a haircut for your character?
 
You are a bad, naughty person, Nifty. Only coal for you this year.
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Like... How?
 
 
 
Do it though.
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A poll you say? How would I go about doing that [...]
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Can you clarify the query please?
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How would it go about being done?
Would it just be a "Now you're on the dominion side, careful around those exile guys".
What about all the story stuff, the prisoner things and the bad guys?
 
I'm all for it, but what if it goes the way of "action" combat in eden eternal and feels totally forced and garbage-y and actually makes the game worse?(maybe not the last one)
 
You are now an Aurin torturing Aurin while a Chua tells you about how awful Aurin are.(might not be an actual thing, but my point still stands)
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No it would be a faction and race change, not a you're an exile in a dominion uniform. Not familiar with Eden Eternal so can't speak to that.
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YES
 
Because I play for endgame, the leveling phase only resonates with me the first play through. I don't see a problem with a person investing to keep the time played on their character to take it a different direction.
 
No specific side I personally would transfer to but the option is needed to extent potential guild request and recruiting.	
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Wouldn't a race change label make it the same exact thing? >:I
Whatever... Still for it...
 
Before that we'd need all races to have access to all classes, which probably won't come about for a long while with the way things have been going.
I'd figured on it already being a thing in the future for the people what wanted to be an SS Granok and had to settle for being an Aurin.
It'd be a *cupcake*ed up and lowlife thing to do with the state of the game on release.
 
Eden eternal was an average tab target game with stationary fights and then the dev team wanted to combat to be more "action-y", so they tweaked the stationary thing and made the whole game all slide-y and whatnot.
It could be argued that it wasn't a terrible decision, but it was a completely halfhearted and garbage change that DEFINITELY had a LOT to do with making tooooons of people leave.
 
The link between them is halfhearted implementation of "not necessarily unnecessary and maybe wanted" changes.
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Remember how everyone jumped to PvE because that's where the population was....have you seen the difference in numbers from each faction? Just a theory anyways, not saying it'll happen but.... it's possible.
 
I don't care, I play both.
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Everyone jumped to PvE because that was the only direction people could go. All the pvers who wished to come over to pvp could not. As a result the Pop shifted towards pve then started snowballing as people believed there was a mass exodus (thanks to the announcement of a couple major pve guilds on the pvp server)
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			And yes I would switch from exile to dominion	
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I say yes if they are free (or maybe 1 CREDD) on a 7+ day cooldown.
 
Everyone come to Exiles! I think splitting players into factions in a niche game is silly.	
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			I vote yes. Though we'd probably see all the PvPers switch to dom, and the PvErs swap to exile. 	
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			No	
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It's going to happen whether you like it or not, let's just hope we get at least 1 free shot for the race/class locks on release.(Which weren't supposed to be there, according to the devs)
 
@OP's response to my post in the locked thread
Until Chua can be warriors and Aurin can be engineers and all the things under the rainbow, faction/race/class changes won't happen.(If they do I'm done.)	
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It's going to happen whether you like it or not, let's just hope we get at least 1 free shot for the race/class locks on release.(Which weren't supposed to be there, according to the devs)
 
@OP's response to my post in the locked thread
Until Chua can be warriors and Aurin can be engineers and all the things under the rainbow, faction/race/class changes won't happen.(If they do I'm done.)
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sounds fair
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			Yes only to balance out factions then shut it down	
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Yes only to balance out factions then shut it down
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Not so much "fair" as wholly deserved(1 free change) and necessary(all races all classes).
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Ok this is a very simple poll, I'm not interested in your whys or wherefores just a simple yes or no and please if you take the time to view this take the time to answer.
 
Faction change yes or no? And which direction would you be going?
 
I vote yes
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Deserved? how so?
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RIFT - Do what RIFT did.
 
Doesn't have to be only faction transfers, but let the factions unite against the strain or w/e and let people play together, factions are pointless.
 
As for world PvP (as if that happens), if you're on PvP server or PvP flagged you cannot group up with the opposite faction. Although tbh, a game with no factions where you and your group/raid are against all, would bring more world PvP than faction games anyway, i dont understand why MMOs keep bringing factions and separating their community.	
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Why would you want to faction change when leveling is so fun :)
 
Anyway I'm not against it if it comes as a paid service and it can also be used to balance faction pop, by opening it one-way only and only at times.
Like now they could open Exiles--->Dommies faction change but not the opposite, in the same way in the case Exiles become grealy outnumbered in the future you can open it Dommies to Ex. If wPvP was a thing I would totally consider transfering (for moneyz) to make it more balanced and enjoying for both sides.
Or keep it open to and from both sides if population is balanced.
 
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If you're talking about keeping your characters race and simply changing faction (via some sort of betrayal quest) I am not sure that would really work in this lore.
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			Only opening faction changes to one side while numbers are highly uneven is probably the best idea if they do it. I'm going to guess they'd want to have barbershop/body changes available before they do faction changes though.	
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Because of the unfair limitations on release.
Now "unfair" is probably a harsh word, but it's the word I'm going to use.
 
Carbine themselves stated that all the races were supposed to have access to all classes and that they couldn't finish the animations before they had to rush the game out.
People kept spouting bull about "lore" and junk, but the official story is as I have stated.(HELLA not gonna go dig up the posts)
 
Other people might think otherwise, but I think it's deserved.
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I'm going to guess they'd want to have barbershop/body changes available before they do faction changes though.
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RIFT - Do what RIFT did.
 
Doesn't have to be only faction transfers, but let the factions unite against the strain or w/e and let people play together, factions are pointless.
 
As for world PvP (as if that happens), if you're on PvP server or PvP flagged you cannot group up with the opposite faction. Although tbh, a game with no factions where you and your group/raid are against all, would bring more world PvP than faction games anyway, i dont understand why MMOs keep bringing factions and separating their community.
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I would like a faction transfer but not a paid one.
 
This is not my idea, I have read it in other forums and part of this one. I would love to see a big faction change quest, a story of betrayal. That would be awesome, and at the end you could go to the opposing faction, and somehow there  is Protostar machine (Efficiency!) or some Eldan thingy that changes you into a desired race on the opposing faction.	
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			If you are trying to solve the population imbalance , wouldnt it be better to give bonuses to the smaller populated faction to give iniciative for ppl to make toons with that faction . Your idea could be implemented too , but it should be a one way ticked ( only transfering from higher pop faction to lower ).	
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Yes for faction balance.
 
Dominion could use a lot more players right now.	
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			I am all for faction changes. I also think thought that pvp and lfg tools should be updated to allow both factions to use the same pool of people. The only thing in the way is lore. But I think if it was allowed for mixed faction fighting in pvp and for lfg, a lot of the queue woes would disappear. Especially with drop 4 having some incentive to queue up.	
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			Just had another thought too for faction. Could also pull an Everquest and all the factions can group and speak with each other. But if exiles go to dominion towns the guards will still be hostile too them and vice versa. That way you can still have the lore of Exile vs Dominion, still can keep your pvp servers as faction vs faction, and still allow both factions to mingle outside of their faction-specific quest hubs and cities.	
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