Being Competitive vs Dominating ramble

Just some random thoughts that came to mind after recent posts and the return of some to planetside.

Everyone who played Planetside for anytime saw the effects of balanced empires versus ones that are dominating.

When any "side" in a game is constantly dominating a game it quickly stagnates. Why? People get tired of doing the same thing, always losing, or cause they simply have nothing to do cause of the situation.

I've seen this across many games now from Daoc, Planetside, and Shadowbane as well as a few others.

I want to win just as much as the other guy. Infact it frustrates me to no end when people could do something about it but they aren't. Thing is I want to win when they have a chance.

Alot of this came up from seeing whats going on over in VCO and remembering what happened in planetside.

I would hope we keep this in mind as we make alliances in our games and try to keep from just becoming a group of zerglings. I am all for 500 vs 500 or even more. Hell bring it on .. but we should not show up with 500 when the enemy has 50 (typically).

There is more to winning than just dominating fights its also about respect. Its one thing I lost for Vanu as a whole in planetside with the constant gen raping. People would just log off or not even bother to play anymore because of it. Yeah great you won.. hey where is everyone? Hell that was one of the biggest nails in the coffin for me. It was hard enough finding fights and when first thing people do is blow a gen.. fights over.