118643-faction-change-part-two

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This is for those of you who said yes, trying to establish here whether faction changes would deplete Dominion numbers. What direction would you wish to transfer?
 
1) Exile to Dominion
 
2) Dominion to Exile	
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Exile to Dominion because I wanna be a damn Chua Warrior.
After that neither, because that's all I want.	
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			I would support it, but wouldn't change myself.	
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			Id love this! Please just not for 25$.....that's so stupid.	
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I would support it, but wouldn't change myself.
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Exile to Dominion because I wanna be a damn Chua Warrior.
After that neither, because that's all I want.
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Chua can't be warriors.
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Ok I think you guys may have missed the point of the thread.
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Pretty sure saying that choosing not to use it is as important as saying which direction you would go. I support faction changes as well, but wouldn't utilize them. I WOULD utilize race changes that should come along side faction changes, because I'd like to swap around what races are what classes, but I already have every class on both factions, so there's no need for me to faction change.
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 :) I was really just trying to sort out if the dominion would see a mass exodus as some folks are suggesting.
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And someone saying they'd stay Dominion is as important as someone saying they'd leave or join.
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Faction changes would go the same way that server transfers have gone - people don't trust that their populations will balance out, so they take that opportunity to converge into one area.  But if we want to look at this kind of thing in MMO's historically, none other than WoW hosts a better example.  Before PvE-to-PvP server transfers opened back in The Burning Crusade, the populations of PvE realms and PvP realms were fairly stable.  The problem in WoW became that - as online gamers tend to do - people wanted to experience e-fame vicariously through hardcore progression guilds and PvPers that had rolled on PvP servers.  The biggest factor today however is that people want to find groups and do everything faster, so changing and joining the larger population is the path of least resistance and most reward.
 
And that's where the problem lies, and will hold true in WildStar over time if faction change becomes a thing.  Most players aren't generous enough to faction change for the sake of helping the lower population - they're concerned about their own enjoyment of the game.  The disparity would only grow as players took the path of least resistance and more and more went Exile.  Look at Illium vs. Jabbit as a good example of what happens when players are allowed to self-congregate.  While it would be a much slower process, you end up with examples such as WoW's mega-faction servers like Illidan where you see 98% Horde.  It was a problem that added services were intended to help, but the solution ended up compounding those issues instead.
 
So in summation, be careful what you wish for. There are many factors at play, but player psychology has historically lended to faction disparity only growing.  It's instant gratification and immediate award of a larger player pool to play and group with vs. waiting and trusting that you'll be rewarded.  Most players don't want to see change immediately, as you can see given the amount of posts here demanding answers for things that take time on a daily basis.	
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			So I've asked a mod to delete this and the other thread because it's pretty obvious that no one actually read my op, not sure why this was such a difficult thing to do.	
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			Discussing the repercussions of the question at hand seems perfectly valid to me.  I'm not sure what you expected to get on a discussion board out of a binary question relating to a topic that is important to a lot of people.	
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Discussing the repercussions of the question at hand seems perfectly valid to me.  I'm not sure what you expected to get on a discussion board out of a binary question relating to a topic that is important to a lot of people.
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Read the goddamned original post, "this is for those of you who said yes" and 2 options left to right or right to left, nothing difficult about it not asking for open discussion, just a simple question. Again it's a moot point of Chillia fulfills my request, this thread will be deleted and I'll forget I even asked.
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Everyone read the post - just because they responded in a way other than what you desired didn't make their replies or feelings they wanted to post any less valid. You need to not be so angry all the time.
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Angry all the time? Hyperbole much? You don't even know me or for that matter whether I was angry when I posted this, here's a clue nope not at all just a little frustrated.
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I read the forums a lot, whether I post or not; I also know you got suspended from the forums at one point and you just cursed at me and the tone of your replies in the thread - if you're not awfully angry a lot, then it's sure hard to tell.  Anywho, this is turning a bit personal so I'm just gonna step back to the Housing forums now.
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This is for those of you who said yes, trying to establish here whether faction changes would deplete Dominion numbers. What direction would you wish to transfer?
 
1) Exile to Dominion
 
2) Dominion to Exile
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Here you go http://www.poll-maker.com/
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			Since the OP has a previous thread about faction changes going on here - https://forums.wildstar-online.com/forums/index.php?/topic/118555-faction-change-poll-updated/ - I'm going to close this one to keep everything in one place.	
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Did you actually read my original post or just the title? All I was looking for with this poll as I stated in my op is which direction would you go given the opportunity to go? Not would you go as that was established in another thread, why is this hard?
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