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Reveller
2003-10-13, 05:56 PM
Cool features that would make Planetside A LOT more entertaining and fun for all:

1. Ranking system in game
(Number of Kills, Kill Ratio, Kills over time, Experience Points, Ranking of alll players, etc.) I can't stress how important it is to have a beautiful multi-featured ranking system in game, not on a website. This would just make the game complete fun and addictive. People play first person shooters to be competitive most of the time.

2. Show a player's kills from the beginning of the game, whether your in an outfit or not. Your kills SHOULD NOT be erased after going up in battle rank everytime. What if I like getting Battle experience from just killing players instead of sitting at a base doing *&%*^% all.

3. Outfit points SHOULD NOT just be tracked in an outfit, but always.

4. The cone of fire formula should be more like Wolfenstein or Rainbow Six III.
No more bad accuracy due to mostly to programming. The game would be more skilled oriented with emphasis on a players reaction speed.

5. Better implants that do not use stamina at such a accelarated rate. Most of the implants in PS are useless or too weak. DL, Surge, Adv Target and Zoom were the only ones that were the most helpful. Surge is really only good for infiltraitors, AT for vehicle pilots and zoom for snipers.

Implants should give a real advantage over other players who do not have them. Or the higher the level you are the less stamina they use. OR ALL implants should be accessible after death immediately!

The Combat Boost implant should allow a player to kill anyone with 1 hit with the knife is secondary mode, 2 if its not in secondary mode.

Implant suggestions:
- Increased Stealth while running
- Increased Hacking ability, beyond Adv Hacking
- Increased Stamina cap, doubles your total stamina points
- Increased rate of fire for infantry 15-25%
- Increased accuracy, 15-25% decreased cone of fire percentage
- Increased Stamina regeneration
- X-ray/Infra vision, this would really useful

6. Fix the freaking CAMERA view to allow 360 degree rotation, so many times have I needed to see what was behind me in the air, in battle or while hacking a control console. Its not like soldier's in real life can't look over their shoulder!!!

7. No more holding the mouse button down when repairs vehicles or armour.

8. Less grief for weapons with high splash damage radius. The few game sessions where I used a Pounder/Burster MAX, or Pounder with any ammo type have I hit weapons lock it isn't even funny. The grief is just expontial!!! That is not just right.

Sony should look at system like Ultima Online's Aggression System.
If a person kills or is the CAUSE of death for too many friendlies the person then recieves grief. Also for excessive damage. Or just have no friendly fire for splash damage at all.

9. Players should recieve huge amounts of grief for kicking other players out of vehicles over water. But no grief if a player ejects themselves.

10. Air vehicles should continue on the axis they were flying toward when you eject. So many times has my mosquito or reaver veered off in another direction when I'm trying to kamikaze something. It is such a great feeling when your reaver smashes into an enemy vehicle destroying it. :)

11. The sniper rifle should be one shot kill with the crappy motion reticule accuracy time they got for it now. Either quicker accuracy time with a little less damage and no bolt action OR lower accuracy ONE SHOT KILLS. If you have ever played a good sniper game like Wolfenstein or Rogue Spear, you know what I'm talking about. The reload time is also a little to long for bolt action. You think with some much technology they could make it with a quicker reload. I doubt it would change game play for the worse.

Well thats all for now.
What do you think about these changes?

Reveller

EarlyDawn
2003-10-13, 05:59 PM
Don't you dare touch sniping.

Aen
2003-10-13, 06:12 PM
- Increased rate of fire for infantry 15-25%

Implants should buff the character, not the weapons.

;)

Reveller
2003-10-13, 06:21 PM
I know implants shouldn't affect weapons, but maybe
from a fake character reaction speed or something.

Would be nice to have though. :)

Aen
2003-10-13, 06:26 PM
Yeah, I know what you were trying to get at. Rate of fire is supposed to be TR's advantage.

Besides, would you really like to see an agile NC with the JackHammer, Surge and a rate of fire increase? That=you dead.

Peacemaker
2003-10-13, 06:27 PM
Sniping = fine
Grief = fine (ESP Kickin ppl out over water)
Cone of Fire = fine
Air vehicals continued motion = more lag

Reveller
2003-10-13, 06:31 PM
So far people have only comments on the stuff they don't like. =P

Black
2003-10-13, 07:46 PM
heres a new implant i thought off its jus like advanced regen but it repairs armor instead

bryan25
2003-10-13, 07:52 PM
How about it repairs both?

Black
2003-10-13, 08:07 PM
or that but it would take a lot of stamina like 5 stamina per second (or however long it takes).

00AgentDuck
2003-10-13, 08:09 PM
I don't think sniping should be one shot kills. It would make for a very good close range weapon if you can just shoot once and kill someone, we shouldn't be making the bolt driver into a golden gun that can reload quicker then it does now. It doesn't give the person being shot at a fair chance and everyone would pick up sniping. And if you think sniping should be one shot kills then what about weapons like the decimator? When someone gets shot at with a rocket laucher, their shoes should be the only things left of them.

Overall good ideas though, I would just leave the sniper as it is.

Black
2003-10-13, 08:16 PM
Maybe they should make a adv sniper cert so it does take one hit to kill anyone in standard(of course), Agile(of course), reinforced(maybe)

dscytherulez
2003-10-13, 09:40 PM
7. No more holding the mouse button down when repairs vehicles or armour.

Agreed, this wouldn't even give anyone any more advantade/disadvantage, it would just be more convenient! Repairing should be just like the hacking thing, press once to start, again to stop.

Paingiver
2003-10-13, 09:55 PM
for #6 all you have to do is press T and you can see behind you. I also would like to see a better reticule system for the sniper scope.

Reveller
2003-10-13, 10:05 PM
I want a real look behind function, say someone is following you like a infiltraitor and you don't even know it. You should be able to rotate the camera 360 degrees. Also especially when flying a reaver or mosquito, it would help a lot.

Jagd
2003-10-14, 03:24 AM
Yeah I'd really love to have a "loose" camera that can sweep around in 3rd person view, although most of those implants sound a little too superpowered. I like the idea of increasing stamina with BR, but what about extending it even more so each level you get 5 points that you can add to your health or your stamina. That'd be killer!

Bad Mojo
2003-10-14, 08:42 AM
2. Show a player's kills from the beginning of the game, whether your in an outfit or not. Your kills SHOULD NOT be erased after going up in battle rank everytime. What if I like getting Battle experience from just killing players instead of sitting at a base doing *&%*^% all.


I started reading your post, but your second point hints that you don't even play the game.

Reveller
2003-10-14, 04:07 PM
Sounds like you don't play the game, not until you reach BR 20 does your kills stay. Every time you go up in BR your kills are erased.

I'm BR 20 CR3, go check it out:
http://myplanetside.station.sony.com/character.jsp?charId=472156&worldId=15

I got around 3-4k kills ever BR from 13-20. Every BR level your stats are erased.

Reveller
2003-10-14, 04:30 PM
Go and look at someones kills at level 16 or a good player will have 3000 kills before they level up. When they do level up their kills are reset to ZERO on website and in game stats. I tolaled up my kill for kill per BR and I have over 65,000 kills. GODJOEY for instance has his kills now (45,879) + 20K he got leveling up to BR20. So he has like 65,879 kills or so. I played for 2 months!!! He's been playing since the game came out. There could be a lot of players out there that are way better and we will never know it.

NOW the thing is, Sony doesn't offer "most kills in a period of time" or "kills to death ratio" stats. So you could play for two years, long after GODJOEY quits and have the most kills just, because you played longer. I want accuracy stats also (shots:misses ratio). Would be great.

Number of total kills says nothing about how good a player you are and its even worse the way they have it now, being erased every BR. A lot of people don't even notice this, most high BR players do.

I've had players named * and *|GM|*Second***9658;To***9658;None, they changed my names to Teal654 and Teal346, because people complained.

I know more about this game then almost anyone.

bryan25
2003-10-14, 06:18 PM
Exactly what i was gonna say AGENTDUCK. :)

bryan25
2003-10-14, 06:20 PM
Dont get mad at PS for erasing Stats evry new BR it takes quit a bit a space to store all those stats for all the players.

Reveller
2003-10-14, 07:48 PM
Not getting mad at PS, just the guy above my post says he "got the hint, I don't even play the game..."

I hate when people tell you off and they themselves don't know the information.
LOL :blowup:

I don't mind the stats being erased, as much as just the total kills...
They want people to be competitive not by kills, but by points. The game to them would be too competitive if it was all about the kills.

Bad Mojo
2003-10-15, 12:50 AM
My kills have never reset and I've leveled up 18 times now.

Reveller
2003-10-15, 08:16 AM
Well that is unique then. :)

Indecisive
2003-10-15, 08:26 AM
6. Fix the freaking CAMERA view to allow 360 degree rotation, so many times have I needed to see what was behind me in the air, in battle or while hacking a control console. Its not like soldier's in real life can't look over their shoulder!!!

It was like that in beta. They didnt like that it like that, and changed it.

Indecisive
2003-10-15, 09:02 AM
My kills have never reset and I've leveled up 18 times now.

:nod:

18 times here. As well. No erasage.

Doppler
2003-10-15, 09:22 AM
Err yea my kills whould be higher but um, it's been erased every level, umm thats it.

TheRagingGerbil
2003-10-15, 09:49 AM
Guess you could add a zero to the end of my kills as well...:huh:

Check out the link attached to my RagilusGerbilus stat sig. His stats have been tracked on hugh's since he was BR10. You can clearly see that the kill count was never reset.

The reason you think it keeps getting reset is every so often there is a database error and it shows zero's on all of you ingame stats. Log out, and log back in and every thing will be fine. Trust me, you are not losing any of your precious kills.

Reveller
2003-10-15, 05:17 PM
That's a good idea about the database errors. That is probably the problem.

SkunkPunk
2003-10-15, 11:13 PM
I know more about this game then almost anyone.

U dont think ur boasting just a little bit? my bro plays the game almost 24/7 , im not even joking he stays home and plays planetside all day, i would too if i didnt have school, so far hes got 3 BR20s and a CR4.5, we know tons of tricks ingame, just cuz u got a * in ur name dont mean ur the guru of everything...

Doppler
2003-10-16, 08:40 AM
U dont think ur boasting just a little bit? my bro plays the game almost 24/7 , im not even joking he stays home and plays planetside all day, i would too if i didnt have school, so far hes got 3 BR20s and a CR4.5, we know tons of tricks ingame, just cuz u got a * in ur name dont mean ur the guru of everything...

Ok letes simmer down here, yes Reveler kinda made himself look less then brilliant with his statement, especialy in light of the fact that theres recruit by his name and not say. Planetside Developer (or whatever pops up when Spork/victor graces us with his presence). However simply playing the game isnt exactly a great measure of actual knowledge of the game, however reguarding you and your brothers time played it brings up the something thats stabbing me between my eyes.

Where the heck are you parents when he's doing this?

ZeusCali
2003-10-16, 08:43 AM
How does one manage to get those special names any how?

Doppler
2003-10-16, 09:31 AM
To the best of my knowledge you dont unless some special circumstance, the ranks go by number of posts.

TheN00b
2003-10-16, 11:57 PM
yep

SkunkPunk
2003-10-16, 11:58 PM
my brothers 25... so he dont gotta do shit, he works sometimes so he has money to live and play PS... i on the other hand still gotta go to school :(