Auraxis Global Network Discussion

[Marsman]

Welcome to the AGN (Auraxis Global Network)

Read about it here. (http://www.planetside-universe.com/articles.php?articleId=28) :D

Comments?

[Jinxmasta]

How would you be able to cover every single server? Other than that, it sounds awesome!

EDIT - However, why is his voice so messed up?

[diluted]

the project is just way too huge. i like the idea but ehh too news-ey. i like the idea but a couple changes need to made. no "live broadcasts" and reports and crap like that. just stats on the empires and their progress. big base capture reports, stuff like that. at first i thought it would be how reallly really good commanders (high cmd rank) could broadcast through the entire planet, to all the forces.

[Jinxmasta]

I think you should make it a flash cartoon instead :)

[diluted]

i just downloaded the mp3. lol its really weird - btw you say "planetside residents" its auraxis.
ahh i just dunno man. its a cool idea

[Unregistered]

Have any of you ever heard a shoutsasted Tribes match? Live would deffinately be exciting, and the way you cover diffrent servers is to have reporters on each one. Or do a show like Sports center that reports from all servers every few hours.

This is going to be fun.

[Jinxmasta]

I still wanna know why the voices are all weird...

[Marsman]

Sony is supposed to provide a web site that will detail the current statistics on the empires and outfits. This will be a source of news, etc.. What we do with this is totally up to the community. If someone wants to call the action from the battle front - that's cool. If you want to write a news story and post a screenshot of your outfit's great battle - that great too. If we want to get on-air and discuss aspects of the game in a call-in talk show - that's awesome also. This is an open forum for the community to be creative and have an audio expecience with the game. We can do as much or as little as you all want. :cool:

[Jinxmasta]

Why won't anyone answer my question??? :mad:

[Marsman]

Originally posted by Jinxmasta
I still wanna know why the voices are all weird...

It was just an effort to give some different sounds to voice parts recorded. Not a professional studio here :p This was all done with simple tools on a pc.

[Unregistered]

pssst......it's Marsman's voice, so he proabbly doesn't think it's weird. Personally I think he sounds like Barry White. I just want him to say "Hey Baby, come get some loven Planetside style" or something :D

[Marsman]

:rofl:

[Marsman]

Originally posted by Jinxmasta
How would you be able to cover every single server?

Well you couldn't, not on one shoutcast station but if "live" coverage is something players find interesting, each regional server could have it's own regional shoutcast station bringing you live action on that server. Current games already have large networks with multiple casters all doing different casts of matches, sometimes ever over multiple games. It can be as varied as the community is willing to participate in.

[Manitou]

Marsman's incredibly far-sighted idea is a massive undertaking that is easily accomplished with the right people in place.

PSU will find those people because we have found some of them already. The imagination is a vast expanse that humanity has never found the depth nor end.

Marsman's imagination and intuitiveness is legendary within the -CDL- and within the small group that knows him so well. You watch and see what he is capable of. It will blow your socks off. ;)

Mars, you quite simply rock bro. :love:

[�io]

I think is as a lot of potentiel. I agree with the flash thing.

What i would think would be perfect is a AGN.com site. The main page would include, among others things :

Official reports : Sony aproved reporters from each empire and each server who would tell their view on what's happenning.(more regional and personal then AGN updates)

-Media: Posted text, images, in game movies.

Public submissions : News reports from anybody willing to post them. Inspected by staff before posting obviously as to keep spam, vulgar language or pics and stuff like that out.

-Media: Posted text, images, in game movies.

Official AGN news update : Short 5-10min Flash animation with 1 or 2 anchorpersons telling us the recent important events worldwide (i.e. for all the empires and servers, more international and professional then the official reports).

-Media: Posted text, images, in game movies, flash animations and/or other types of movies and animations.

Stats-Xpress : No chit-chat, numbers and only numbers. Stats of every player, squad, outfit and empire on Auraxis classified by servers, empires, outfits, squads, age, e-mail,etc,etc,etc.

-Media : Up-to-date Stat board.

Forums : This is where the people of Auraxis talk about any of the prebviously mentioned medias may it be the last AGN update a few days ago or the Publis submission about a new squad just posted a few hours ago. This would be the only place where anybody can post freelly as to keep the other news sections clean and organized.


And any other info they want. Links to fan sites, fan fiction(RP stories) etc etc etc

[Marsman]

I just want to make it clear that the AGN is not from Sony.

This is a PSU work of fiction just like the Triumvirate. The AGN is a "concept" with a storyline attached to justify it's existence. This project was conceived by PSU and intended to be a community based and supported venture. What we do with it is up to us as a community. How much we all participate will determine it's future. :)

[�io]

Yeah i know, my post is what i would hope Sony would do.

I'm dreaming i know but it would still be damn cool. :D

[Marsman]

Funny - I had the same dream. :D

[diluted]

its a great idea but ahh i dunno. would be cool if you heard live feeds whe in-game. they could be like "reports of certain base under attack" and you could bring your outfit in there to help out. something weird like that.

[Marsman]

Well that's not entirely impossible. I know tribes players who listened to shoutcasts of the match they were in while they were playing it. Only problem is most shoutcasts are delayed 40-60 secs behind the actual action due to buffering. I would think that would be distracting while playing myself, but if you wanted to listen I suppose you could. Remember the idea of shoutcasting is to provide entertainment and not to give any team an unfair advantage. Shoutcasters usually make special efforts to be impartial and not to reveil tactics or positions within the game.

[Vimp]

My word. That is some impressive stuff you did there Marsman. (Barry White indeed, lol). I look forward to more to come.

[RageMaster]

It is an outstanding idea, from more than one point of view.

As with the Gulf War news coverage on news channels, you could flash reports on conflicts in the area, so you know where to go to for action. Secondly, I guess because everyone on the entire server wants to participate in the big news evenets there'd be much more enthusiasm about fighting, about your faction and your division. You'd mourn your losses and you'd celebrate your victories much more than other simple teamgames.

Potentially, from a gameplay pov, shoutcasting could impact posetivly on faction territory balance issues. If the radio reported more on the more on a successful faction, valueable information on locations and battles for instance would give the underdog factions an intelligence advantage. Those players listening in would know where and what to fight

And also it'd be cool if succesful individuals on the server could become famous amongst their faction and infamous amongst their enemies. There would be the potential for celebrities to surface, VIPs, targets for the enemy.

I also reckon the strive by players to participate in persistent world mass media would drive the content pretty well. And the constant feed of information would focus gamers attentions inwards more towards the conflict as opposed to "fraggin' the next llama".

I'd love to see it in the finished product. Its a unique game element for MOGs.

[zMessiahz]

This idea p0wnz!

[Coliostro]

:O_O: Wow:jawdrop: I have to say, i really like this idea. I also like some of the other ideas people have shared to make it work even better. I think another way to do it would be in-game news stations (if the devs agreed of course). A kind of terminal that you go to for news. Whether it's audio, video, or just text it could be a daily or bi-daily news of the day. There's also the possibility of emergency broadcasts or something of that nature for base attack notices.."Such and such base is under attack by Vanu forces, all available reinforcments please respond." That kind of thing.

Just my 2 cents

[Duritz]

Marsman, you might want to try to ask Sony if they like the idea. They might either pay you, or at give you support in doing this. They might evn put up a staff to help you,.....or they might just brush it off of their shoulder...

Any direction it goes, I believe that this is a great idea. My friend and I were talking just a few days ago about trying to start something along these lines, and I'm extremely happy that you are.

I would like to know if there is anything I could possibly help with. I'm only an ok writer, so I doubt I would do any of that, but once the game comes out, I would gladly help in reporting stories.

[cenglish]

Hey Marsman....just curious,
Is the "special report music" you used from the old Eyewitness News Channel 7 NY.

-CE

[Marsman]

heh - Sharp ears. Yes it is in fact. :D

[Hamma]

Also note IRC Channel #agn

:D

[JohnClark]

This seems like a really interesting idea, a couple of things might hamper you though.

1.) Shoutcasting is rather bandwidth intensive, even doing it at 40/22 it takes up quite a bit if you get a good number of listeners, and if you plan on having a stream for each server that would take a huge amount.

2.) Staff. It's tough to find people who actually sound good on the radio. As easy as it may seem, some people just dont have the voice/proffesional attitude/talent.

That said, it sounds like a great idea, and if you can overcome those hurdles I think it'll be great.

[Marsman]

Thanks for the post. Well if anyone knows what it takes, you folks do for sure. Networks such as TsN, WSBN, etc... have set the standards for this project and it's just following in your footsteps. With such a large potential community, I'm sure talent is out there and getting it all put together is without a doubt going to be difficult. I didn't envision AGN to be a singular effort - rather it's more of a storyline concept to account for shoutcasting within a MMOFPS environment. I hope that we will eventually have many supporters diversified throughout the community with AGN acting as a portal to those resources. AGN is in it's utter infancy - we'll just have to see where the road takes us and who wants to come along for the ride. Again - thanks for commenting. :cool:

[Qanamil_Rafiki]

Interesting.

[CrazyMike]

The idea might very well work. I have my doubts about the "live" coverage though. I've never listened to a tribes shoutcast but can I assume that they do it through the use of "observers" who are using the spectator code? PlanetSide isn't going to have "spectators" so to provide live coverage you would have to be in the warzone. What is the "live" reporter going to do when someone frags his ass and sends him back to the respawn chamber? When it gets around (and it will) who the "reporters" are, don't you think it might occur to someone that it would be fun to specifically hunt these "reporters" down and kill them? Even if they lurk in the fringes of the war zone or hide behind a stealth suit it wouldn't be hard to do if you listened to the shoutcast and figured from there where they are.

I definately see some potential for a newspaper type coverage though.


CrazyMike

[Hamma]

It remains to be seen what sort of things we can do with the AGN. It certainly is an interesting concept tho hehe. Tribes and any other shoutcast from that matter is usually done from an obs mode, which would make a PS type cast a bit more challenging than anything else.

As for newpaper type reports, thats what our newswire will be all about. :D

[Navaron]

I don't know if it would be worth it to start this thing up, before logging in, but It was really well done. It did sound alot like the news radio programs today. They did a good job.

[Buck]

Its a cool idea only if I can give a shout out to all my NC homies out thea', w00t w00t waddup homeslice? Need some new shoes?

[Marsman]

But of course. :D Shoutouts welcome. :cool: :love:

[Buck]

Sweet man

�a c'est cool

[�io]

Another frenchie? And from the looks of it Quebec too. :)

Where you at Buck?

[Buck]

Im in Levallois-Perret Just outside the 17th arrondissment de Paris

[�io]

Really? Huh, didn't think frenchies from France talked like us.(Quebec) Well :wave: and welcome! :p

[Buck]

I just live here now man. Im from Boston, my wife is Parisian.

[�io]

Ahh, still i'm surprised the frenchies over there (who pride themselves are speaking a better french than the quebec people) talk like us. :p

[DiosT]

only problem i see is.. you'd need half a dozen reporters or more per server, you cant 'see' what the other 2 empires are doing, so wont be able to see/report on fights involving the 2 other empires...

unlesss sony adds a 'reporter' type that cant do anything but run around and watch =p

[Coliostro]

Originally posted by DiosT

unlesss sony adds a 'reporter' type that cant do anything but run around and watch =p


Ya know what DiosT. I think that's a really good idea. I don't think they'd do it but that would be really cool if they did. I'd just bet that people would do it if they made it available. Hell, you could probably even put it on your resume'. The things you wrote, the events you covered...could lead to a job with CNN. Ya just never know. :D

[SmokeJumper]

A "reporter" class would be interesting, but difficult to automate. In otherwords, we could add a "reporter" certfication, and give you access to a special area to post in if you had that cert...but we couldn't make you write any articles...much less police the quality of those articles. So it's not likely to be an "official" part of the game.

On the otherhand, I would seriously love to see some great shoutcasting of this game. The shoutcasts for Tribes were excellent and I'd like to see that sort of coverage happen in this game.

Of course, the traditional shoutcasting just plain old won't work. The games don't ever end.

However, if the "shoutcasters" followed an Outfit and sort of created a CNN-like diary of what that Outfit did for a week or month, distilling all the cool stuff together to give a better overview of what happened during that time, it would probably be an excellent download.

I'm thinking more of the "Wolf Blitzer"-style report from Desert Storm. I don't see much else working...but my mind is open.

Thoughts?

[Cuthbert]

I'd love to be a part of the AGN and help out in some way if it ever get's going.

[Hamma]

As far as news articles are concerned, we have plans for a newswire section where people will be able to report from the front lines. It would look like a newspaper complete with a screenshot of the event. Id have to say somthing in game would just be a nightmare for whoever is put in charge of it lol

THis will be seperate from the AGN for the most part. I have some server plans in the future that will accomodate the AGN better, as far as live casts, and downloads. A CNN style reporter to follow the tracks of a specific outfit and their battles would just be intense, and give those outfits some great exposure. The possiblities of what we could do will be very fun to look at..

I am really psyched to see how this turns out. :D

[Cuthbert]

I'd love to do a bi-monthly newsletter or something :) that would rock. My outstanding journalistic skills are yours for the taking.

[Manitou]

The whole concept Marsman brainstormed has me stoked. I for one love to write and this will just give me another avenue for that love. :D He allowed me to help with the AGN start-up recording you all downloaded and that was pure fun. Of course I don't have the "Barry White" voice Mars does. :p

We have been going over some great stuff lately and mixing some great ideas for intrigue and other attention-grabbing content.

Hamma is HARD at work preparing the way for the necessary requirements, and the whole PSU staff is excited!

I think you will probably see reporters just like SmokeJumper alluded to, Wolf Blitzer style, braving the frontlines or maybe even accompanying covert S&D raids. The sky is the limit. We are only bound by our imaginations... ;)

[Hamma]

The Newswire will be more of a freelance, people will be able to submit their articles. THen an editor (PSU Staff member) will read and approve them. Well, that is the plan anyway.

[Navaron]

It would be neat to see a newspaper article where a reporter follows around a forum personality. It could make them famous or a laughing stock. I'd like to read about Dio retreating or people boycotting hammas galaxies bc he kept crashing.

[�io]

Damn these cheap forums, always mistaking "retreating" for "kicking ass". :no:

[Navaron]

See this is what I'm talking about. Look at Dio. These poor little dyslexic VANU kids are so illiterate they make up excuses for their actions. It's gonna be ok. We'll get you some help. From as fast as you run away, you could probably get a track scholarship.

[�io]

I can't wait to shoot some plasma up your ass! ;)

[Navaron]

So you're part of "that crowd" too huh. Explains the purple. I'm flattered though.

[�io]

Gay jokes, ah how i love the FPS crowd. :rolleyes:

[Navaron]

"I can't wait to shoot some plasma up your ass"

What'd you expect. Where else can you get this kind of humor? No where that right.

[�io]

:lol:

I was kidding about your comment but seriously the FPS crowd does get on my nerves with the "gay" as an insult thing. I'm not gay (woman rulez! :brow: ) but i just think it's so fricking juvenile and dumb. (not saying you are though ...well....nah...)



:love:
:D

[Navaron]

*WHATEVER **** Youre just gay.

:p

[Cuthbert]

It's not really just the FPS crowd. Most groups of elitists tend to use it.

[FraBaktos]

Well... Phycologically its usually the repressed gays that use gay as an insulting term. Just thought I'd help out a fellow Vanu with an argument

[Coliostro]

Same type of thing with the racism issue. I was playing MechAssault on xbox Live and this guy was singing a made-up insulting *** song at the top of his lungs. I was stunned. It's not like i could report him because with voice chat you can't tell who's doing the talking. I'm not Jewish but even I was insulted by this guy.

We're getting off topic though guys. Let's get back on track.


:nazi:

[Navaron]

"Well... Phycologically its usually the repressed gays that use gay as an insulting term"

For fucks sake - I get so tired of all these people who don't know a joke when they see one.

Well "Phycologically" what does it mean when a friend of mine calls his gay friends queer, *** and a million other names? GOD, talk about the radio thing.

There needs to be a little name Icon for people who don't have a sense of humour, or are preachers. Man.

Crap. Sorry. Flame off.

[FraBaktos]

Lol, I think your the one lacking a sense of humor. I was just joking... sorry if you take that so seriously. Didn't think you would spaz.:eek: :confused:

[Navaron]

:D

[Coliostro]

Jesus, you guys can't even spell Psycologically. :D

[BigTony]

what im thinking is the perfect broadcast would be where a group of reporters would get feedback from an optical cam in side of each helment of each infantry :rock:and could use those to create a story plus have access to every channel and satalites to get overviews of battles kinda like a video game...o wait it is a video game woa look at the time 330 man...hmm isnt an admin gonna edit those posts b4 this one? hmmm yea: :domotwak:

[Barge]

I love this idea. There are alot of things kinda like this but they are real low scale. ALL PSU needs is a Flash animator and you have the potential to do something really cool

[SandTrout]

I'd be willing to do reports for the chanel, weather pre-recorded or live. I'm looking into a real-life career in journalism anyways, might as well start with what I love.

[Spinnaker]

:evil: will you be able to (currupt) agn reporters and be able to send some propaganda? or bad mouth other sides?

[SandTrout]

Depends on the reporter and what you offer.

[Coliostro]

That was probably a tongue in cheek question anyway but if you were serious I think that opens up a whole new can of worms that we didn't need opened. I think the premise is interesting enough (if you have some good people to help pull it off) without adding things like corruption and propaganda to it.

[Civilian]

I think it would be pretty difficult to bribe a reporter that is basically working for "the fun of it." You could stop this from happening, by "hiring" a reporter from each faction and allowing them to discuss the battle in a "round-table" type segment and then you could get views from each faction and no-one feels left out or that the host/co-host are biased.

TribesTalk made me think last night, are there any plans to have commercials during the broadcast? Maybe each faction could have a recruiting commercial during the show, to help bring in new recruits. I dunno, I'm just throwing ideas out...

[�io]

Yeah Tribestalk is pretty darn cool, i'm listening to it for the first time right now and it's cool (although a bit unorganizied :D), would be cool to have a PSUtalk kinda like that. :)

[Marsman]

"Planetside Chat" will be one of the features of AGN - similar to the Tribestalk format. :D

[MasterGnr]

Dave! great to see you around here. I am the soldier you met at tribesCon3 in Portland....anywho

I am blessed to have Marsman as my technical director for TribesTalk. An online talkshow about Tribes2 which has been on the air for almost a year. So when I opine on this idea, I do so with a little experience...

Unless Sony gives us an observer mode, perhaps only available to certain players on each server, any type of live casting would be impossible.

Thats not to say a live show is not doable. A weekly show on what happened that week would be simple. However, let me throw a different idea out there.

Ya'll remember the OLD days..think WWII. The world was in chaos...front lines changed daily. The battle raged on and the most anticipated thing on the homefront was the infamous MovieTone News....and Mr Murrow. A collage of updates and news...

I see screenshots....but are there demos? You could make short news footage films and either make them downloadable or better yet a live stream.

There are many possibilities, and as Mars says...the community will determine how little or much gets accomplished. I would be more than happy to help, as this game truly looks to be a great experience.

And I remember Dave telling me about his dream to make "a huge MMOFPS that people would get absorbed in"......

looks like he found it

oh yeah....email me Qix!

MasterGnr

[MasterGnr]

Originally posted by Dio
Yeah Tribestalk is pretty darn cool, i'm listening to it for the first time right now and it's cool (although a bit unorganizied :D), would be cool to have a PSUtalk kinda like that. :)

ok...gotta defend myself here....

Since March of last year I have done about 30 shows. Covered just about every topic in Tribes2. When interviewing arranged guests, the show is professional and organized. Shows like when we talked with the latest patch's dev team and the brand manager all together. 100+ listeners.

We strive to have solid questions we have researched. Having hamma on was a spur of the moment thing due to T2 not really having anything going on. Thats why we are considering changing venues to other games as well.

I do NOT take offense, I just think if you had listened to the other 29 shows, you may have reconsidered your wording.

[�io]

I truly hope i didn't offend you. I think the show is great! I'll probably be tunning in from time to time from now on. I was just kidding a bit about Sky not having any planned news or the tech probs you guys had. Don't worry it was just a tiny joke. :)

[Navaron]

Dammit Dio, that's it. How many times do I have to tell you not to flame guest??? Hmmmm? That's right....you're lucky I don't kick your ass. Apologize again, and this time like you mean it. I'm so ashamed I don't know what to do.