Global Strike Force
Website: Outfit Statistics Page
Leader: Trask

First off, make sure you have some time on your hands before you go any further as I have quite a bit of writing here. I also ask that you take everything said here with a grain of salt. There are many angles to this problem, some of which I’m sure I’ve neglected to include, but I think what’s given here should be plenty to prove my point.

Zerg (zuh-err-g) n.
1. A massive number of incompetent and poorly equipped people used to accomplish a goal.
2. A force that consists more of quantity than quality.

vt.
1. To overpower something with the use of overwhelming numbers as opposed to strategy.

(Definitions provided by www.urbandictionary.com)

I figured I'd get that definition clear before I go any further. Even by its definition, it sounds like a cheap tactic (if it can even be considered a tactic at all), and in-game it looks even worse than it sounds.

Zergs are the bane of all Planetside gamers, and here's why. Consider this scenario: A huge mass of enemy players floods into your home continents. They make their first hacks and start to sweep up all the towers. The moment the first base is captured, the linked bases immediately become hacked. Soon enough, your guys start to notice the enemy movement. Then you hear some CR5 guy announce to the world, "Our home continents are under heavy attack!" Then everyone drops what they're doing and tries to help out. We get there with our squads and relentlessly try to push the enemy back, but they always keep the pressure on. Our resistance ends up turning into their fuel to keep going, and before you know it, we've just wasted 3 hours for maybe a couple thousand XP points, lost our continents, and left with a huge mess to clean up.

The reason the enemy is almost always able to win is pretty simple. It’s because this game has a serious balance issue, but it's not where everyone thinks. It's not having a larger force on any given continent. I've talked to many enemy troops who have reported 100+ spots left for their empire while we’ve been defending with a pop-lock on our end. It's also not that one empire has any advantages over the other, so STOP COMPLAINING! I've been playing since the good'ol beta days, and I think many people will agree that the weaponry in-game has never been this equal between the empires. And the quality of the players fighting at any given time has always been relatively equal across the board. No, the real balance issue is something more general. It's something that affects every player in the entire game equally, yet is continually warping the playing field in someone's favor. The real imbalance is in offense and defense.

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