I have to say that the animations were something that I will miss. Maybe a easy compromise in the interim (hope they will bring them back in the future) would be a fade out/fade in with sounds of you getting in and out of the seat. This would only be viable if the devs considered the delay a strategic element the same way Jef does.
As for the 'what are we fighting for', maybe take a page from GW 2 and have the battles go on for a predetermined time (GW2 is 2 weeks) and there is a winner at the end. The winning faction could get whatever is used to buy in game items as a reward. Then it starts over. Higby has said that he thinks stuff like the individual missions and having the battle interrupted by a 4th AI faction that we all have to fight back should break the monotony and we'll have to see.
@Danthaman Hey, I just got off of live chat with Marvin from the Origin online support and he added the game for me to download. I pre-ordered a month ago.
@Hyakku EXACTLY!!! and it DOES do mkv and a ton other formats.. AND has subtitles support.. AND they are promising 720p support on next update... where has that news been?
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Mar 24th 2012 11:25PM (Massively)As for the 'what are we fighting for', maybe take a page from GW 2 and have the battles go on for a predetermined time (GW2 is 2 weeks) and there is a winner at the end. The winning faction could get whatever is used to buy in game items as a reward. Then it starts over. Higby has said that he thinks stuff like the individual missions and having the battle interrupted by a 4th AI faction that we all have to fight back should break the monotony and we'll have to see.
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Aug 9th 2010 11:26PM (Engadget)EXACTLY!!! and it DOES do mkv and a ton other formats.. AND has subtitles support.. AND they are promising 720p support on next update... where has that news been?