With the Battle for the Ark, the entire idea seems a little superfluous without any real weight attached to our choice of character allegiance. I know that the current achievement require completion of campaign on both side with the same character, but doesn't this take away from our character being Resistance or Security? I personally do not have any personal allegiance, I just want to have the Stat Maps have the Attacking Team have a higher percentage. So I have been trying to play on the pushing team instead of defending more often. But anyways, that is off topic. I just want to know what others think. This may have been a thread already, but it is far enough dead that I think a new one should be permitted without FLAMES :flamethrower: .

How would you restructure things to give your side more weight?

Yah I didn't understand that, I chose my resistance character and next thing I knew when I was playing online I was on the Security team.

Using MAG seems like a bad comparison from what I heard the game was unbalanced.
I would advocate for persistent sides if the two sides were different game-play wise but since its just asthetic (most people ignore the reasons behind the factions) I say no, for now.

I would have been okay assigning my guys to a side as long as I could create guys on the other side too, but it's too late to try and work it in now. It would have required a lot more effort than could be patched in.

Maybe next time.

From what I've heard, and this is speculation at this point...but when Clan play starts, whatever side you make your clan on, that's the permanent side. So non-clan matches would be as it is now, but if say...you join a Security Clan, you'd only play as Security. But like I said, it's speculation at this point.

Majority of players are resistance so security would be under-powered.

I stay on resistance like my life depended on it. I hate playing security for some odd reason, even though their attire is a little better.

Do it like I did MAG? What, create 3 accounts so I can have one for each of the factions...? :laugh: Seriously; http://www.magleaderboards.com/view-player/Super-Pangolin, http://www.magleaderboards.com/view-player/Dedashi, http://www.magleaderboards.com/view-player/Ghost-Pangolin. In order of creation, hence ascending quality of all-time stats... though the SVER stats are miles better because I still think the game is imbalanced to favour their weapons anyway, my weekly/monthly was always much higher when I played frequently.

I did primarily remain loyal to Valor, serving most time there, but really faction loyalty was a total joke and an annoyance more than anything, the only reason to even stay on one faction was because you liked their weapons better. Resistance & Security have the exact same weapons, so it'd be pretty pointless forcing faction loyalty upon people.

Every game is 8 vs 8 and there are more than 8 security players.

Even then there's bots.

Your argument is stupid.

No.

Yes..please yes.

I have no loyalty to one side at this moment.

I would like to play with my friends.

This.

I have friends on both sides, and while I lean towards Security, I'm not against the idea of playing Resistance if I get to do so alongside friends.

No your assuming all matches are always filled. Resistance would have a better chance of not having bots. Humans no matter how bad in my experience are always superior to bots in this game. so yes every game will have 8 but if I wanted to play with bots I'd play single player. For example last night i played security and we were constantly undermanned. maybe everyone on x-box hate security?, maybe no one got on?, but it was sad to be doing 2 on 7 all night, because honestly the bots are nothing more than bullet shields[and not very good ones at that]. SO if we did play like mag like this thread is about our faction [security] would routinely be underpowered. while faction size may play a bigger part in mag where you have 100's of people in one match, the fact remains that if we make brink like mag then resistance has an inherent advantage. Imagine if in mag your faction has 20 players and your playing one with 100 that's 80 bots you have which is a recipe for disaster.