Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-108.162.142.90-20121202225844

First off let me say this game is amazing and in my eyes has raised the bar for online FPS gaming. I've been playing the bejeezus out of it since release and have enjoyed every minute. The sheer scale of the battles (and how smooth the gameplay remains during them) is mind boggling!

Now, I did play Planetside 1 a bit and ultimately what turned me off the game was a lack of rewards for my effort. Specifically, when your faction captured an entire continent (the whole point of the game), you got nothing for it. I'm disappointed to see that this is still an issue in Planetside 2. What happens when you capture a continent? Not much. Yes, you get a 10% resource discount, and that's great... but you wouldn't even know that you capped the continent without checking your map!I mean, capturing a base... even a smaller base, gives you a nice big faction logo smeared across your screen, and all kinds of awesome sounds going off. You can hear the base shut down and start to power up again with your factions colours. This is /rewarding/. Kind of like you won at a slot machine, or something. It's great! And yet, when you cap the whole continent? Nothing. Happens. There's not even a bunch of XP, certs, or store credits as a reward. What!? Give me something to fight for! Pushing through those last few hexes on a continent can require some serious effort and what currently happens when you succeed at doing it can ONLY be described as anti-climactic. It wouldn't take much to fix this!

TL;DR Give us something... XP, certs, store credits, gosh even just a visual effect... when our faction caps an entire continent! 