Town control is it worldwide ?

Well someone asked me today if town control is restricted to each servers or if it's a worldwide competition and i couldn't give him a relyable answer.

I know for sure who was controlling the Zu Helltzer House for a long moment during the FPWE, so i ask if anybody who's a member of a guild who had control over this town during the WE to give if possible :

- The time during which his guild controlled the ZU Helltzer House
- The server on which he is playing

Thx in advance

Playing on the euro server, zu Heltzer was controlled by [love] (Fun Loving Criminals, but I cant remember which parts they misspell ) for a while. If this control was also observed by someone on the american server, you have your answer.

yes fallot, same alliance controlled zu Heltzer ^_^ been watching the boundaris closely.

the border lines are worldwide as well.
I logged-in two accounts, US and Europe and talked to a GW-Taiwan friend (well from Hong Kong actually) and also reported the same borderline.

maybe this is only for FPE since there are few FPE players than retail players in any games

Bah, TTA held zu Heltzer for alonger priods of time then [love]. And they were holding it at the end.

If Town controls are truely worldwide like favor rather than region server based, then less of the GW population will be ever be able to see the Elite missions....ever......

And that would be sad. In the first installment, I never made it to the HoH. My guild was small, and we just never could get there in PUGS. So if the control is on a HoH equivalent then I fear that this game will not be what I was looking for in a game.

I hope it is a regional thing.

Also,I saw Braveheart(this review was cut from the amazon.com review). What kind of numbers will be in these battles. Hundreds? Thousands? I hope so.

Let's wait for the game to come out first, mkay? Then you can complain/whine/shout what ever you want, just stop assuming.

What about 12? Yes, thats 12. Straight from Braveheart

ROFL Maaaannnn I hope you're wrong.

But he's not

Hopefully i will be busy enjoying the game without a reason to do so which i still will regarless of how things turn out...at least for a while.

We can only assume many of the things that arent made clear but yet are important considerations for many players in helping them decide if Factions is the game for them. There exist many posts and threads telling pple that this isnt WoW etc and endgame is PvP focus, if you dont like it maybe GW isnt for you bah bah bah. If only such information are more specific and made clear before we blindly went on to buy the game then after to know that its not what it promised or perhaps not for everyone.

To complain/whine/shout then would serve no purpose other than to invite flames and post like: "bye and dont let the door kick you on the way out" The issues addressed here and in other post pertaining to Faction mechanics are concerns to many people and with its release not too far away, the lack of information to critical play elements are still left in the dark left to guessing and assumption of good will.

I think it's worldwide. I'm in an American guild but on the Euro servers and I could see on the Euro servers when my guild held a Luxon town.

Yeah you can make international alliances as well so that would be logical yep.

It was definitely worldwide. Since our (putative?) alliance is international, I checked with our allies a couple of times about who held which towns (as one attempt to get an idea on whether alliances could be international). Every town we both had was controlled by the same alliance at the same time with the exact same map shifts and so on.

More reason why it is worldwide is because of the boundaries.
We can face other regions in the Faction Arenas, and the frontline depends on the boundaries.

It will be illogical to fight in say deep inside the luxon territory if in your region the boundary is deep in the Kurzick side.

So yes it's worldwide.

If it is worldwide, and if theres only 55 towns that can be contested and factions points can be farmed from PvE, i can foresee guilds from Japan, Tawain and Korea doing very well if they are smart enough not to be on the same side competing but rather spreading themselves out between Factions.

Grinding/farming is very prominant asian attribute (not saying it doesnt exist in western society but its just more prevalent in the east due to the traditional grind MMO genre offered hence people are more used to/expect such gaming experience) and so its not unrealistic to see them going berserk grinding and farming for points for their guild-delication. In a way i suppose it a trade off, they get Elite missions and we get favor for UW/FoW.(assuming they are not holding Halls as often as they are now.) Glad i still got GWP to go back and play UW/FoW still.

Pity he isn't lying, huh?

In the second part VGM interview with Jeff Strain, he mentioned that there will not be any significant advantage that Elite missions (in terms of loot) will give players that dont have access to it but rather for hardcore players who want to take their gaming experience to the next level testing their skills in those highly challenging Elite missions.

there shouldn't be a problem with this town mecanic because it is not a single guild that holds the town it is the leader of the allience of guild.
but it is deffiantly world wide

Yes it is.... I guess that Factions is not for me. Too many issues. The game has such great potential though, it just seems neutered to me.

I won't rant since I realize there are many who prefer it the way it is or will be. It does have it's charm, and I'm sure it will do well in sales.

I just wish for the cap to have been raised on the levels a bit, the max on weapons to have been raised a little, and the PvP battles to have been bigger like 50 on 50 or 100 on 100.

I played chapter 1 for around 1000 hours, and got my money's worth, I have no complaints, I was just hoping for more progression for my existing lvl 20s. Having more skills is a fairly moot point since you can only have one elite at any time and only 8 slots anyways...