planetwars button is more of an insult at this point

Planetwars is offline. Check back "later".

I think its about time to remove it, as we all know its not coming back.


was a pretty fun gamemode though, idk why it was dropped

I enjoyed planetwars despite the RaEgE inducting underhanded tricks people pulled off

Because those who want it badly usually can't do much more than just keep asking for it, and those who know what to do about it don't have the time/motivation/mana/you name it to do the work needed to make it work or to teach those in the first category to do it themselves... A sad state of affairs, and I'd vote for the button to be removed for now, too. Maybe someday someone will come and have the energy and the know-how, and then it can come back to reflect the happy occasion, but a mostly dead button is really not a great thing to have on the UI.

There should be a mini planetwars tourney every month. Like a satellite wars where everyone gets sorted into three/four teams every month and they join a queue to defend a map. Basically small teams all welcome but you get to see a map change colors
Or just bring back planetwars

I agree, I think the Planetwars button should be removed unless actual progress is being made to bring it back. I think it's misleading in how it makes people think that Planetwars is either offline at that moment or is coming soon, and when people find out no progress is being made I'm sure it doesn't do the game a favor in their eyes.
I do really like the concept of Planetwars though and I think it would be a worthwhile investment for ZK

If I recall correctly there were a few problems with Planetwars.

1) There was some sort of way to crash a game resulting in a null result iirc. So you could be about to win the whole thing and have to redo an attack because the null result meant the defenders "won" the round.

2) There were privateer guys that would join faction fights and they were actually on a faction side. I had that happen to me when the highly rated privateer on our side said "I am about to do an amoral thing" and logged out leaving me and another turkey to get cornholed big time by the pros on the other team.

3) There were smurf accounts that I think were run by the opposing faction that would join a fight at the last second when you'd already agreed on a team for the planet. I had one of those where the guy began to build cerberus right off the bat meaning we died horribly. Or they would build noob shit like storages killing overdrive and your chances.

4) Games were horribly unbalanced. Now, this is half the fun of Planetwars but when its your fourth time in a row facing 2 purples and a blue with a bunch of noobs on your team it wears a bit thin. That said I remember some amazing games. I was on Randy's side one game when it was just the 2 of us facing down like four guys. I asked him if we should resign and he said simply "I don't think so". He proceeded to absolutely MAUL those four guys while I sat at home doing eco and housekeeping tasks. Epic shit.

5) Yeah, it would be cool to have PW back. I might actually be useful now.