What do YOU want for Planetside Universe?

[Hamma]

What services would you like to see in place here at Planetside Universe? We are still on the ground floors of development. Starting to get the main site in order, etc. Now is your time to voice what you want :D

More ideas the better :]

[Rayzer]

Info about the game? :p

[Hamma]

hmm.

na, who needs that.

:p

[Flashingfish]

Outfit support

[Hamma]

You mean hosting?

[Flashingfish]

This forum is alive :D

Well that, and an outfit directory, and tips, and other stuff I'm too lazy to think of now.

[Unregistered]

This forum needs a Guard Dog.

[Rayzer]

I volunteer.

[Isic]

General chat, news section. Just steal from PsI.

[Rayzer]

Stealing is wrong.

[Isic]

If you play your cards right, you might come close to PsI. Now PsI is good, so if you want to come close, you need something special. A kick ass layout if you ask me.

[Rayzer]

We have me, we are already special :p

[Arglaar]

Don't forget Emagyn .... she's hotT

[eMaGyN]

Hamma can be our poster girl.

That puts us ahead of everything :)

:love:
eMa

P.S. Thanks Argy Hugs and Tings to you
:love: Argy

[Arglaar]

Originally posted by {{eMaGyN}}
P.S. Thanks Argy Hugs and Tings to you
:love: Argy


/me especially :love:s the Tings......

[eMaGyN]

/me blushes

tanky tanky

:love:
eMa

[Hamma]

Originally posted by Flashingfish
This forum is alive :D

Well that, and an outfit directory, and tips, and other stuff I'm too lazy to think of now.

I had some of those things in mind, outfit directory would be great. I also may offer outfit hosting (possibly free) in the future :)

[eMaGyN]

I'm going to create and outfit named "Outfits" and we are going to all dress up and do cute things together!

*enter stupid girl laugh*

:p

:love:
eMa

[eMaGyN]

Hamma,
When can we expect to see some pages come up into the site?

Like the index and a few links?

If you don't know yet thats fine... lol you still have plenty of time :p

:love:
eMa

[Hamma]

Maybe a week or 2. Cant say for sure right now ;)

[RG_Vortex]

I want a copy of the game... can you get me one?

:p

[Hamma]

If I could get a copy I'd be playing right now :(

[RandoM]

PS pr0n

[Isic]

Youz need to come with a 3lit3 banner. I mightz helpz youz withz thatz

[Manitou]

Divisional sections. Maybe a breakdown of the teams showing positions, tactics, and some team tips for newcomers.

[Zarparchior]

I agree with Vortex there... A copy of the game would defintely put this place on the map. ;)

I guess I'd also like anything we know broken down into numbers. You know, like gun delay, offensive power, radius of explosion, stuff like that. Since numbers may be difficult (nigh impossible?) I guess I'd settle for things like "Medium" range, "Gigantic" explosion radius, or "Piss poor" recoil.

And by the way... I'm looking for a |33+ guil- er, Outfit to join. If anyone would like someone who's adaptable and versatile(Capable of all positions, including commander :p) I'd be glad to grace the you guys with my presence. :D

~Zararchior of the Great Central Sun

[Unregistered]

Most of the people that post here all know each other from our days with -CDL- in Tribes 2, and will proabbly start up our own outfit, or possibly come back togeather under the -CDL- banner once more.

Only the future knows for sure........

Drop by the IRC server and hang out, I'm sure you'll fit right in with the rest of us.

[Zarparchior]

IRC is of the devil! Thee DEVIL! :evil:

BTW, you did a exigente job on the smileys Hamma (i.e. Hamma Rulez!). Now not only can I overuse just a few, but I can overuse many! w00t!

I guess I can lower my standards enough to use some kind of instant messenger service again... as long as Ema doesn't start hitting on me. ;)

And, using my excellent powers of deduction, that'll make no sense to anyone but me. But hey - the best jokes in the world are inside ones... even if they're only between me, myself, and I.

[Hamma]

IRC owns ;)

[Hamma]

btw the smilies arent all my work. thank Arg as well :p

[Arglaar]

Indeed...

<===== Co-Forum Nazi


In fact.. some of the Smilies are my own creations....

Like this one....
:nazi:

[Kaikou]

I made this one ---> :o <--- ok well I didn't MAKE it...but I do a lot of it around here :D

[Zarparchior]

Righto... You rulez too then Arg... I guess... :p

[eMaGyN]

Guys, with the soon to be unveiled PSU site it is now important to get your ideas together and post them for us.
Tell us what you think, how you percieve this site to be developed, what you think thus far.

Your comments and constructive criticism is extremely appreciated.
Thanks to those who take the time to post.

:love:
eMa

[Hamma]

^^^

[Rayzer]

Well....

If you want a real answer this is mine.

What I think makes a great fan sight in the long run is content and simplicity. You can have the fanciest sight in the world, but if its a pain in the ass to get around, its no good.

Sites like Alakasahm (sp?) for DAOC I don't like. They try to pack way too much shit onto a page and it just makes crap hard to find. KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid. Check out http://www.classesofcamelot.com That is probably the best fan site out there. He has the most accurate information available, a lot of it fed from the fan base b/c mythic can't get their act together.

Its not the worlds greatest layout. But shit, it takes me 2 min to find anything I need if you just think logically.

So first, you need a lot of information, good and accurate. Establishing a relationship with the gaming company is always a good thing. But the fans will learn to trust what you say if you have accurate info and will come back.

Second, keep it simple. Easy to navigate, quick to get around. Don't be so caught up in animated menus and such that you lose simplicity. 99% of the time all that crap just become annoying and slows you down after your first initial "Wow neat stuff".

What would I like to see as a n00b looking for info?

Simple breakdowns:

-Realms (Race, whatever the call it)
-Weapons (By realm)
-Vehicals (By realm)
-A very indepth and accurate, easy to use FAQ

-If you read the FAQ on classes of camelot you basically know 90% of what you will ever need to know about the game.

-Sieges (details about taking forts)
-Maps (One thing you can't beat in MMOG is maps, but you may just want to link to sites with them, let someone else do what they excel at, just provide easy access)

-Leveling (MMOG there has to be some kind of persistant economy or such. Ways to make your toon better? Better equipment, training in vehicals and such)

-Links (Link to everyone and their mom, thats fine. But make the important ones stand out. )

My 6 cents. Keep it as informative, accurate, and simple as you possibly can, be better at those things than the other guys, and you will have the #1 fan site.

Oh yeah, no adds and pop up really help :)

[eMaGyN]

Thanks Rayzer !!! :love: ya

eMa

[Zarparchior]

What I don't understand about pop-ups is that they are EVIL. Everyone knows that, everyone hates them. Why do the advertisers continue to plague us with them? If it was a product that under normal circumstances the viewer would be interested in, they immeadately loath and despise the sight of it. It's always good to barrage customers with advertisments, but if they're interactively annoying or cause problems, they'll lose business.

Or at least that's I think.

As for the perfect site... What Rayzer said. :cool:

And while I think simplicity is generally good for websites, I did grow accustomed to Allakhazam's for EQ. While it was incredibly packed per page, all information and links to that information were straightforward and easy to understand.

And I do think that fan-sites for games are for information as opposed to just lookin' purdy. And while I love eye-candy as much as the next person, it shouldn't be what it's all about... unless it's a site dedicated to eye-candy. :D

And if PSU is planned to be the end all get all of PS info, then you staff and staph members are in for a reel treat. While it is technically easier to maintain current info for this kind of game as opposed to a game such as EQ, AO, or DAoC (not worrying about every single little item obtainable for every god-forsaken quest) it will still be a lot of work to keep info current and universally gud.

And if you need any help in that aspect, I'd be glad to offer my services. Of course, I'd understand if you don't want any of my help though... I'd be a little sad, and my self-esteem would probably crash down into the deepest depths of the darkest drainpipe, but I'd be okay.

Eventually. :p

And my former English Teacher would love me to death for starting each paragraph with "and," over and over :rolleyes:. Great word, and is. Probably the best conjuction out there, with the exception of but. Then again, I guess it depends on who's. :brow:

[Hamma]

There will be no ads.


well, maybe some porn popups here and there. :eek:

[Unregistered]

I was thinking that once the site is out we might be able to have a "News Paper" type of section and report on diffrent in game events.

Don't you think it would be cool if you ot to work in the morning and could read up on the diffrent battles that had occured, or on what Outfits had clahsed.
Be pretty cool, but we would need some roving reporters to help gather up the stories.

[Manitou]

I want a lag free environment! :D

Has there been any word as to what the servers will be like? I am curious if it will be anything like the other games in this style of play.

[Manitou]

Originally posted by Unregistered
I was thinking that once the site is out we might be able to have a "News Paper" type of section and report on diffrent in game events.

Don't you think it would be cool if you ot to work in the morning and could read up on the diffrent battles that had occured, or on what Outfits had clahsed.
Be pretty cool, but we would need some roving reporters to help gather up the stories.

Hey! I would LOVE to do that! I may have to look into that arena, Doggy!

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Manitou
I want a lag free environment! :D

Has there been any word as to what the servers will be like? I am curious if it will be anything like the other games in this style of play.

Find an EQ player and ask them what the servers are like. The PS, and Star Wars Galixies servers will all be in the same places.

Of all the things I have heard EQ players say I have never heard them complain about the servers. Then again when someone tells me they play EQ I'm usually laughing to hard to hear much of anything they say.

:D

[Zarparchior]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Of all the things I have heard EQ players say I have never heard them complain about the servers. Then again when someone tells me they play EQ I'm usually laughing to hard to hear much of anything they say.

:D
:scared:

...

I was actually just giving an example, you know... like, uh, I didn't actually ever play the game. I just knew about that site. Because... um... because I like to surf sites about games. A lot. Regardless of whatever game it is. Yep.

And as long as no backround checks are issued... I have never played EQ. In fact, the only thing I know is that it's a MMORPG that was made by Verant Interactive. That's all. Any balance issues or actual things regarding in game things I know nothing about. ZERO. If you were to ask me how to complete the Wizard's Acumen Mask quest for the Temple of Solusek Ro, I would shrug. I would not know that the items you have to get and turn in are a Bonechiped mask that drops from a Goblin Headmaster in the Ocean of tears, a glowing mask that drops off a skeleton monk in Upper Guk, nor would I even have guessed that I need a darkbone Mask from Unrest. And it would be beyond me to find a patch of shadow that drops, obviously, from shadow men that is also needed for the quest. So it would be no big surprise that I would not know the stats on that mask, which is 5+ int, 3+ wis, and an effect of Gaze. So it is quite obvious I have only heard of that game from friends of mine- er, who aren't friends anymore. Because I don't like EverQuest. None of my friends play it. As soon as they said they played it I was like, "Jeez! You're not friend of mine since you play that game." Yeah. And that's the truth.

:rolleyes:

[Unregistered]

Don't get me wrong Zarp, I have nothing personal against EQ players, it's just that most of the ones I have talked to are, well to say the least a little odd.

I mean who doesn't enjoy the ocasional romp through the dungeon to slay an evil Dragon and rescue the damsel in disstress? Infact just last night I was telling Arg that we should try and get a little NWN action in this weekend.

It's the EQ players that go on and on about how they own a Tavern, or that their crops are going to be harvested soon that I don't get. Hell some of them have hardly even slain a cave rat much less gone on an adventure!!!

Call me crazy, but the last thing I want to do when I get home from work is to fire up a game and spend another 8 hours at my "Online Fantasy Job".

I'd rather just kill things :D





p.s. I have never played it, and all I really know is that it's as addictive as herion and should be regulated by the FDA.

[Arglaar]

Originally posted by Unregistered
Infact just last night I was telling Arg that we should try and get a little NWN action in this weekend.


You said that?

When?


I missed it...

[Unregistered]

In between Reigns Screams of "Bullshit" while I was joining the SoF2 server.

[Rayzer]

Originally posted by Manitou
I want a lag free environment! :D

Has there been any word as to what the servers will be like? I am curious if it will be anything like the other games in this style of play.


Mani, this is a HUGE issue in MMOG. I don't think it is as huge an issure in EQ b/c it is sololy based around PvE (Player vs. Environment) with the exception of a couple of PvP servers. However, DAOC, much like PS is a Realm Vs. Realm game. In some of our more glorious battles you are looking at easily 150+ per side. So around 300 people near eachother. You drop to 1fps :( Now DOAC addmitdly, by Mythic, does some really dumb shit. But that is also b/c of the graphics engine that they used and its limitations. But with the new engine coming out at the end of the year, there is supposed to be a huge improvement.

Even T2 lag is bad and we are talking 32 people max. I don't think the specs on the servers they will use will be very important. Surfice it to say that they will be the most go aweful powerful computers you have ever seen. I'm sure each world (gaming server) will be made up of multiple servers and stuck on an ungodly internent connection. Hardware is actually relativly cheap. Once the initial cost is shelled out its all pure profit. Look at EQ. After 3 years they have over 400,000 active subscribers and are running at a monthly PROFIT of 2mil +.

It all comes down to the game design. When you are going to be putting 300+ people in area's near eachother....well your engine better handle it properly, b/c the greatest server and greatest client in the world won't make a differance if it doesn't.

But no matter what, lag will still be an issue, lets just hope its a minimal one.

[Manitou]

Thanks Rayz... I was wondering about how it was currently in DAoC's environment as well as EQ. The biggest thing is we are going to be dealing with flying vehicles, and other contraptions, so this could become a nagging problem.

I am hoping that the technology to handle these numbers has been developed. You kind of want to hope that if the dev teams are designing this new game and are hoping for massive participation, that they would take that into consideration when planning the host server equipment, etc.

I guess the proof will be in the pudding!

Hey Arglaar... "Get yo'..." :D

[Hamma]

Hopefully a beta will come soon so we can at least get to test/see it@!!

Looks like I'll be upgrading my PC before this :p

[eMaGyN]

oh god... my computer won't survive this...

/me cries
eMa

[Unregistered]

Originally posted by Hamma


Looks like I'll be upgrading my PC before this :p

That's what the Poll at the Official Site is.

"Will you upgrade your computer to play Planetside?"

1) Yes!!!

2) No, I'll be playing Solitare cause everyone else will be playing Planetside on their new computers.

[Hamma]

:rofl:

I prefer freecell

[Manitou]

So whats the best Soundcard out right now? I am considering upgrading. Opinions?

[Arglaar]

Originally posted by Manitou
I guess the proof will be in the pudding!

Hey Arglaar... "Get yo'..." :D


:rofl:

[Arglaar]

Originally posted by Manitou
So whats the best Soundcard out right now? I am considering upgrading. Opinions?


Soundblaster Audigy .. Hands down.

[Unregistered]

My Audigy causes me some headaches, but it's not so much the sound card as it is the speaker system I got with it. To get Surround Sound to work, I have to set it to the 5.1 Speaker settings, and I only have the 4.1 speakers.

The 4.1's have no center channel so anytime something trys to play through the center channel I don't hear it. Most times I have been able to fix it by messing with in game settings, but others times I can't.

My recomondation would be to get the Auidgy, but don't get any speakers other then the 5.1 surround sound system with it.

[Hamma]

I've still got a live with 2 speakers.

I'd have nowhere to put 5 damn speakers and a sub in my PC room

[Unregistered]

Their small speakers.

[Arglaar]

Originally posted by Hamma
I've still got a live with 2 speakers.

I'd have nowhere to put 5 damn speakers and a sub in my PC room

you could always move the Alien poster...

:O_O:

[Manitou]

I bet he has a l33t speaker system in his truck cab, and its smaller than his PC room. :rolleyes:

[Unregistered]

Yeah, but he doesn't have 2 Comps and a Lap Top in there!!

[Hamma]

Originally posted by Manitou
I bet he has a l33t speaker system in his truck cab, and its smaller than his PC room. :rolleyes:

Indeed, 4 speakers and a sub in there :p

[Rayzer]

Bose has a new system that creates surround sound using only 2 speakers and a big ass sub/audio processing box. It comes with dvd player....

Only catch....$999...ouch

:cool:

[Hamma]

wts only 999?

/me orders

[Rayzer]

gah!

I can't find a link to it. It was on shopNBC as I was flipping though the channels last week and was being sold directly from Bose....but they don't have shit about it on their web site :(

I was very impressed...

Now if only I could prove it wasn't a dream :p