Post 1.1 Ilum PVP Issues Discussion

I'm a level 62 pvp Republic player and this spawn camping garbage by the Empire side is pathetic.

How did Bioware not see this coming?

Their has been countless threads about population issues/Illum and of course - common sense...

Sad, sad. 2 days and my Sub is up.

Pandas to the rescue.

Terrible , can't even log into ilum

Everyone else can just stop posting this wins the thread.

All you people who are complaining about being outnumbered like 300 to 1 should look to King Leonidas for inspiration.

Horrible lag fest. Even if the turrets aren't being camped, the only other 'acceptable' option is to group en masse and fight face to face at one point on map. There's no point to this garbage. I've played other MMOs where my computer could handle world pvp with lots of people with no problem. Why is it so awful here? Please just shut west Ilum down until you guys come up with something worthwhile that has been thoroughly tested.

Ok, think about it in a business sense. They don't have "proof", they have screenshots and some data floating around. There is no way they would shut down servers on a maybe. There is probably red tape to go through to get anything major OK'd. This means having data most likely in a predetermined format. They probably have some issue escalation process, which involves some form that has to be filled out with data they've collected and sorted etc, about what the problem is. Then they have a meeting about it. Then they go through the data and see what the best course of action is that would least likely impact $ but also provide a sense of "we're listening and care.

They can't NOT care. They want to have jobs, no one wants something they work on to fail. They'll try their best, maybe it will be enough for some people, maybe it won't be enough for others.

Am I happy about the current state? (not just the PVP issues) Not really. Did I change my sub to 1 month- yes. Will I wait to see how they handle this- yes. Will I continue to give them another chance- yes.

I like the game in general, but if I have to unsub for a bit until I'm comfortable coming back so be it. Or maybe I'll be fine with what they do and people will be like "oh we didn't actually get valor really fast".

I do feel like how they handle this is key, that's why they won't be making some rash decision or some poorly put together official response. I'm waiting, somewhat impatiently, and hope for the best!

Take the money and run.

these changes to ilum pvp are very bad, especial on servers that have 10:1 ratio for either rep or empire. there are very lil crates, spawn to long, either up the crate spawn time and count, or let us.

What took maybe 30minutes will now take hours, forget about how long weekly will take on servers that have no republic or no empire

I actually prefer Warhammer's end game city pvp to this garbage. Even if the instance you were in was overrun with the opposite faction, you could force them out slowly if you organised yourself since each instance was balanced in numbers when it was full.

Even with the lag when there were hundreds of players in the zone, you could still enjoy the pvp.

They could perhaps use powerful NPC soldiers to even the balances out for either side, if one side outnumbers the other. As in, for example, if there is 10 Republics and 20 Imp's then give the Pub's 10 additional NPC soldiers. I think I've seen a game or two that used a similar tactic to decent effect . . .