Anubis wrote:I'll be playing, and playing as a Sith.
If the majority want to play as Galactic Republic, which I have kinda been expecting if I am honest, then I'll roll an alt and keep it in the guild - trying to be active with it as much as I can. But yes, my main will be Sith regardless. Normally I am not one for making such decisions, and I'm sorry if it seems like I am being selfish with it (as indeed I probably am).
Wouldn't say selfish mate, not for me or anyone else to dictate how you're to play the game. I would however like to hope that others are willing to play as either side though even if they do have a preference. If everyone else has made up their mind and won't budge then our groups not gonna get off to a very strong start at all and could cause problems further down the road.
The problem I have with alts in our clan rather than main in the clan and alt elsewhere is that in WoW for example, QD didn't go play as Horde on his Paladin on a different server, in Neocron Rah didn't go off and join Black Dragon on his APU but keep an alt in our FA clan. Every single one of us played as Alliance and the Fallen Angels on our main characters. Sure some of us may have jumped factions with our characters in NC to get other faction rewards but it was only ever temporary, and we may have had alts in other factions for various reasons too but the clan was
always the home of our mains. In WoW the game wouldn't even allow you to play characters in both factions on the same pvp server, it was one or the other so it's a good job we all agreed to go Alliance lol.
My worry is that for those who don't game very often either because they don't have the time, have a life, play other games at the same time or are a "casual" gamer, if they happen to play a main character outside of the clan but keep an alt in it instead. How often are people going to see them actually active WITHIN the clan?. Will we ever see them?. If we're gonna be recruiting new people the more of us existing members that are active within the clan the better. That way any new people that join us are more likely to logon and have other people in the clan to chat & play with and we're off to a good start. If they're logging in to nobody/hardly anyone because our members are scattered between the 2 factions then some (not all) will likely start to look elswhere. If none of us are logged in at the time then that can't be helped of course, can't be on all the time. But if it's because of the former then it's something we could have avoided and would only have ourselves to blame.
People playing clan alts will also be underleveled compared to everyone else because they'll be playing their clan character less than their main and even less than if they were just a casual, and so they may end up playing with randoms or alone more often. That is until we've got some new members and have people of all different levels that they could team up with. That could start to bother some people.
The other problem I have with it is that with MMOs there's only ever so much one can do solo before you need a clan. Playing solo you're limited to the amount of story you can experience, bosses you can kill, places you can go, all of that. Some may be completely fine with playing their main like that but not everyone will be and that's a given. What's to say someone decides to play the opposite faction to us, shoves an alt in the clan but then gets to a point where they want more out of the game and the only way the can do that is by joining another group of people with their main character? This is much more likely to happen than if it was just an alt outside of the clan that one would just play casually on the side because it would be their main character which they use the most... Unless we're to start allowing multiclanning all of a sudden to avoid such complications and let people have their main in 1 group and their alt in our clan if that's what they want. Maybe it's just me but none of that sounds good and is completely ridiculous when we have a gaming community right here and I won't be one agreeing to such an idea should it ever be suggested.
Maybe I'm jumping the gun with some of this and thinking of problems where there may never be any but like I say, I'd want everything to be perfect and to try and avoid any possible problems or needless drama before they could happen. Things like the above we should maybe consider so we don't run even encounter them.
Anyway, so far it's 3 for Sith and me being easy either way would make that a 4. Maybe we can all come to one decision afterall? lol.
). That being said, I'm happy to play as the dark side if that's what everyone else (or the majority) seem to want to go with. Sith may also be a nice change for us as a group I suppose. Group is my main interest so I'm not fussy either way really.
