Battleground Questions

[:1]First off, I love battlegrounds. They are what challenge you. They can also really p*ss you off. lol

Anyway, a couple of questions:

Never mind the first question, I found the answer.

2. Why is everyone obsessed with getting the flag in EotS? The Alliance always seems to be fighting for the flag. Then they fight over who runs it. Who cares about the flag if you cap the towers?|||The answer to #2 is usually, 'because they're idiots'. it can usually be expanded to 'because a lot of people prefer to be fighting vs defending a tower which sees less fighting.

Sometimes the answer is "because we can't take and hold 3 towers, but we can hold 2... and the flag will give us the victory in those cases. But mostly it's one of the other answers.|||Quote:








The answer to #2 is usually, 'because they're idiots'. it can usually be expanded to 'because a lot of people prefer to be fighting vs defending a tower which sees less fighting.

Sometimes the answer is "because we can't take and hold 3 towers, but we can hold 2... and the flag will give us the victory in those cases. But mostly it's one of the other answers.




Don't get me wrong, defending sucks but someone has to do it if you want to win. Just like being the token healer (unless you just like healing).

I have no problem with people going after the flag if we have two or more towers. But if you only have 1 tower, the flag serves no purpose. Work on getting a tower or two would be more beneficial. I was just wondering if you got extra honor for running the flag or something.|||Well you don't have diminishing honor from HKs anymore so I'm sure that some people farm HKs in them middle... but they did before the change. Honestly, I think it's just that sometimes people don't care about winning vs losing and just want to PvP... not sit at a tower.

This is the issue with PUGs of course, esp ones thrown together at random. Some people just want to go fight, others like the challenge of winning the flag, others want to win but don't care about maxing the honor, others want to win and max honor. And this varies by day and time of day... the FPS kiddies tend to want to get in and fight, damn strategy.

It's a lot less stressful if you don't need honor or marks too... if you do, winning is more important.|||acheivements.