AGN's Planetside Chat Dev Interview #2 posted

[Marsman]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/index.php#404

Please feel free to comment about the interview here.

[1024]

WOO! :rock: finally, downloadable. I forgot and went to a movie yesterday. Oops :p

[Lonehunter]

My speakers don't work!!:mad: Somebody get the interview in text so I can read it! Please:D

[Grease Monkey]

Originally posted by Lonehunter187
My speakers don't work!!:mad: Somebody get the interview in text so I can read it! Please:D

Its over an hour and a half long of solid talking! Medal to whoever types it all out!

Its a good interview, lots of groud covered and interesting topics covered :)

[BigFreak]

Personally, it makes me think more positively about the future; at least SmokeJumper makes it sounds that they've got a lot coming up :)

[NoSurrender]

if u did u would see Marsman messed up my name when i sumbmitted a question :(... but he still rules even though hes TR

[Marsman]

/me sux at names :confused: :p

[starrider]

that was FUN last night on IRC trying to get somke to answer our questions and then asking spork when smoke got tired of us.

[Hamma]

Yea shoutout to Spork and Smoke, they didnt have to come on IRC ;)

[JackBoCracken]

I can't understand how he confused the "will different empires have different bases" question...you know, like different looking/structured bases....

[Trexer]

Great interview, unfortunetly I missed it live as I got caught up in playing PS. But after listening to that interview I cannot wait to see what PS evolves into.

[Squick]

JackBoCracken, I can see where the confusion would come in... Would you make the continents connecting to a sanctuary be that empire's "home continents?" So Hossin, Cyssor, and Solsar would have the "NC bases?" Then what about Searhus, would that have it's own set of bases? Four sets of unique bases would take a LOT of work to design, and would be a massive download, that sounds more like an expansion to me.

Or are you saying that when we capture a base it should switch to the layout of our empire? Those brave painting gnomes that repaint an entire base in the middle of a war after a base is captured do enough work, who is going to rebuild a base in the middle of a war?

I :love: painting gnomes!

[BlakkyZ8]

Originally posted by Squick
JackBoCracken, I can see where the confusion would come in... Would you make the continents connecting to a sanctuary be that empire's "home continents?" So Hossin, Cyssor, and Solsar would have the "NC bases?" Then what about Searhus, would that have it's own set of bases? Four sets of unique bases would take a LOT of work to design, and would be a massive download, that sounds more like an expansion to me.

Or are you saying that when we capture a base it should switch to the layout of our empire? Those brave painting gnomes that repaint an entire base in the middle of a war after a base is captured do enough work, who is going to rebuild a base in the middle of a war?

I :love: painting gnomes!

Are these the same gnomes who repaint hacked vehicles? and are these gnomes paid by the specific factions? and which faction pays the least?:p

EDIT: YES! I'm a Vet:eek: :D

[Duffman]

No offence to Dave but he seemed clueless on quite a few topics.

He didnt know about the doors not being able to hack bug i mean come on thats been going on since beta.

[Doppler]

He didnt know about the doors not being able to hack bug i mean come on thats been going on since beta.


Maybe because he's a dev and not a quality control guy.

Ted Turner might not be aware when CNN looses signal to it's boston affiliate at 4 in the am.

[ObnoxiousFrog]

Oh, and btw, Marsman pronounces "beta" as "bater"........

[RexDent]

Really IMHO the interview wasn't all that great. I didn't really hear any kind of "important" questions dealing with lack of empire weaponry, lack of overall strategy within the game, lack of situational weaponry, the grouping of completely different weaponry in the HA catergory, will their be a more evened out rewarding system to stop people from playing nothing but offense. I mean most of the questions were vague at best.

This is of course my opinion and noone has to agree. But when is the liberator coming, are facilities going to get benefits, are there going to be neutral type bases and sh*t half of that is answered by the Official Web page and nothing was even asked about the lacking areas of the game.

I would suggest next time getting a huge amount of questions for the interview ahead of time so good ones can be picked out. The fly by asking of questions seemed to where you guys didn't even understand what the person was talking about in the first place.

Next time let me drill that fool about where this game is heading and we will get some serious information or a serious avoidance of questions.

[BLuE_ZeRO]

OMFG BAN HIM!!!! :mad:

[RexDent]

LOL blue. You wouldn't like me in real life to much then, cause I tell it like it is. I wasn't rude about it, just trying to be a little more informative and unbiased. It would run really smooth if the questions were sorted with the trash and good stuff before hand and get some good quality intel. It's fun giving out some questions off the hip through IRC from the players but you really need to sift through that stuff really fast.

[BLuE_ZeRO]

lol I was just kidding man. People are entitled to their own opinions and for the most part those opinions are accepted here. A bunch of us (including Hamma) were talking on Teamspeak when you posted that so I posted that for a good laugh. :D

[RexDent]

haha sweet

[kidriot]

my favorite part of the interview is where the question gets asked about bugged doors

georgenson: "i've been on vacation the past few days is this something that came up then?"

how CLUELESS are u, good sir.

[Valcron]

The biggest problem is Hamma got a little lazy with the interview. He decided to bring up questions that were intially asked but were solved in a patch a few days later.

The interviers need to do a better job weeding out the bad, ambigious questions next time. Dave had a few questions that were "I'm not too sure what they mean by that". Hamma and whoever the other dude was should have weeded them out.

[Hamma]

Ok sorry, you can take over next time.

Here's what happened:

The first time we went to do the interview Daves sound card was fried. Thus delaying it a few days. We also had our main Voice server completly go down, we had to transfer to another box and reconfigure everything there. So I was unable to go through and weed out the questions which were answered in the patch.

And these were questions from the community, How am I to know what is going through peoples mind's when they post these questions?

Trust me, I am not lazy around here. I spend 90% of my time online working on this damn site.

[Valcron]

Hamma,

Seriously, I will help filter the questions next time if you want.

[Squeeky]

Originally posted by Valcron
Hamma,

Seriously, I will help filter the questions next time if you want.

We have 11 staff members. Got all the help we could ever want....

[Valcron]

Then there is absolutely no reason to ask questions that had no meaning.

11 members? Pure lazyness

[Lonehunter]

Originally posted by Squeeky
We have 11 staff members. Got all the help we could ever want....

Do you guys get paid? If so, how much?

[Squeeky]

Originally posted by Lonehunter187
Do you guys get paid? If so, how much?

It is volunteer work.

[Intruder]

Originally posted by Valcron
Then there is absolutely no reason to ask questions that had no meaning.

11 members? Pure lazyness

You've got some nerve, why not instead of tell people that you think they are lazy, get off your butt and start up your own site and see how much work is involved,, I know that the team here has not responded as such because its too much work to deal with someone such as yourself, but someone had to say it.

I personaly take my hat off to the guys here at PSU, they do a awsome job for 1. no money, 2. not much recognition.

Show us your webpage, your work, your interview with the Staff, then you can comment on how lazy you think the staff here at PSU is. Until then wheres that [i] button.

[Hamma]

We dont make a dime, there is no money in fansites. Why do you think there is such a lack of good fansites now? :( nobody wants to shell out the time and money it takes to make a good one.

I spend over 600$/mo to keep PSU running and admined :p

[kidriot]

Dave Georgenson was clueless regarding one of the most glaring bugs in Planetside

unhackable doors

Discuss.

[Hamma]

That I have no excuses for. hehe

[BlakkyZ8]

I honestly thought the Dev chat was great. Some parts were disturbing... Dave thought a Platoon transport was a good idea :ugh:.

[NoSurrender]

damn hamma cmon ppl lets all buy some thongs sadly im saving up for a new comp but if someone wants my CD and is willing to make a donation to PSU ill give it up... :)
3 cheers for hamma HAMAMA