I'm thinking war mode should be put into classes and let each class battle it out for rewards. Syndicate wars has syndicates ranked but, that doesn't seem to do anything except give you better xp/wp if you attack a higher synd and less if you go for a lower one. The weak synds are always going to feel left out of the real rewards. Why not do rewards for each rank just like boxing or something. Who's the heavy weight champ, the bantam, the light weight? Giving rewards to each class might be more effective than just giving a better reward to the synds that are already winning all the time and letting them only get wps in their class would keep the weaker ones from feeling like they are just punching bags. If you split into a ranking system, maybe consider putting all synds into a war state. Pretty much any attacking you do in that case would earn you war points as long as you are attacking in your class. For those that don't want to put the effort to win, they could just kind of ignore it and it would be little different for them than being on the fight list. You can't opt out of the fight list and you will get attacked from time to time so, I don't see how this would be a big issue. But, for those synds that want to go for the win, they would have plenty of opportunities to gather up war points (no need to make alts ) and go for the win. Maybe set up a second fight list but, make it a war list and populate it only with people in your class. That would make finding targets really easy for those playing for the win.
Even though this is a war game, some players don't like the fighting, listing, punching, killing, etc. So, although I like the idea of everyone being in warmode, (to me thats the main point of the game) I don't think it will fly. Some players might leave because, they prefer just killing bosses and getting the drops, and don't want to get forced into the WM bloodshed where they will need to get used to being dead most of the time...
Should i give the standard response? This is a fighting game!!! j/k. I'm sure there are players that would like to opt out of the fight list and probably wouldn't ever do a fight if not for gamer points. Some probably don't even worry about that. There has to a middle ground here though. Just need one of the smart devs to find it. I think probably the thing that would annoy the non fighters the most would be getting listed, punched, killed. I have a war mode poll going right now and someone had the idea of including a surrender button in war mode so that individual players could just waive the white flag and get out of the line of fire. Perhaps this idea could be the solution.
