Fellow pilots, as I looked over the new development plan I noticed this:
"As part of the development of Star Conflict universe we will more clearly describe the confrontation of different races in the vast galaxy. One of the measures we take to solve this problem is requiring the players to go into battle on ships of only a single side of conflict. However, the mercenaries are always quick to move from one side of the conflict to another … "
That would be the dumbest move the devs could ever make. Very few people only stick to a single race. I fly a mix of empire and fed and I’m very pleased with it. Forcing to pick 1 faction would really really piss me off.
What are your thoughts?
Fellow pilots, as I looked over the new development plan I noticed this:
“As part of the development of Star Conflict universe we will more clearly describe the confrontation of different races in the vast galaxy. One of the measures we take to solve this problem is requiring the players to go into battle on ships of only a single side of conflict. However, the mercenaries are always quick to move from one side of the conflict to another …” (i.e. you don’t have to stick to a single race, just one race set of ships per battle)
That would be the dumbest move the devs could ever make. Very few people only stick to a single race. I fly a mix of empire and fed and I’m very pleased with it. Forcing to pick 1 faction would really really piss me off.
What are your thoughts?
Bolded to emphasize a point ^ Overall I still dislike this personally, I am under the impression that the system for taking over the universe was going to be corp based, not faction based, so there is no need for this and I would rather have a much more open ship choice in each battle 
One race of ships per match is what I am against. There is a reason I only use fed Intys and empire fighters and frigs. Forcing me to take only 1 faction means I have to use empire Intys which I don’t like.
I hope they at least leave game mode(s) where you can fly mixed ships. More than just “training” modes.
The only reason why people fly a mix of ships is because each faction plays very differently with no similarities. Usually when it comes to faction in MMO’s, its more or less a bonus or a type to a class or play style, in this game the current way every faction has their own style of play with every class of ship thus players cant really focus on one faction unless that one faction can fit such a style of play. If ships from every faction played similarly but differed in terms of faction bonus, you then might have a game similar to EvE, WoT, some RTS games and other games that work in such a way. Currently if such a thing was put in, it would keep players from being flexible.
An example to what I just said, lets say I fly empire because I enjoy hull tanking ships, but I want a fighter that cloaks, but all the fighters for empire do not cloak but instead they all use overdrive. So I need to use a federation ship to cloak but federation fighters cant tank as well as empire so I have to make it rather speedy as maneuverability is usually how federation ships tank. Though this situation would not appear if some of the empire fighters were capable of cloaking and that little idea that the dev’s came up with might work out.
I think it would be interesting, butit would be very hard to get used to
Whilst this is ‘meh’ for me personally as I play empire nearly all the time these days I can see a lot of folks being pissed off if they’re restricted to one faction.
Odd, I for one would love to see that. Having to deal with strong points // weaknesses is always more interesting, imho, instead of always trying to pick the absolute best ship for a given role. Although, as I see it, that would be in the scope of some specific game mode, not through the whole game.