psu ANT race!

[scarpas]

We should have an in-game meet with a big ant race, i dunno how it would work though....

Discuss :cool:

[FraudulentBob]

no

[JetRaiden]

YES. test server, i dunno, sometime next weekend. talk to hamma about it.

[Sentrosi]

better than the ant would be a switchblade race.

[Rayder]

How about a router race? First one to run over 10 guys wins.

[Hamma]

no
Way to contribute.

Actually I think someone has done this before :p

[1024]

no

why not? just feel like shooting down someone because you feel like you have a bigger e-penis?

[321]

Yes lets do it on the test server though! That would rock! Any empire.


TEST
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[TeraHertz]

yeah, great idea :-D

*TeraHertz gets his outfit to hide in varoius places with boomers and reavers, and a galaxy to take him to the finish line Wacky Races style.

[SilverLord]

SkyGaurd race!!!

[321]

*TeraHertz gets his outfit to hide in varoius places with boomers and reavers, and a galaxy to take him to the finish line Wacky Races style.

OS them before they have a chance to shoot. :groovy:

And if you didn't know http://boards.station.sony.com/ubb/planetside/Forum15/HTML/000001.html to set up the test server.

[Ait'al]

You could add a builing refill thing to it to give more elements to the race(ant race.) 8) have to start at the base that is your starting place drive to the place to charge batteries and drive back adn fill the bse ntus. You could one person for each base and have everyone base involved. Split them up in Easy intermediate and hard dificulties based on distance and terain.:brow: and set up a turnemant and rules, Part of which would be deciding on base catagory for each base. You could have a neutral person(official group of them) at each base to send time from the in game clock(they could ask for the time rignt at finish and then copy it in a message, it would be just like a stop watch). of completion to the record people to post the times for each one.

You could add thing like Deadly mosquito race where you allow mosquitos to attack them and make the respawn at there base and get a new vehicle adn start over obviously making hter time worse. 8) If you cant get htem a respawn at the base give them an ams next to it or in it that they can.

Once you have an official team to run it and base difficultiues set up you could do a random thing for hwo gets what base.

You would do all continents or smaller continent races. teh continent one would just need a peson with the time to send a private messege to the person who is keeping record. They could be all CR5s if its necessary.

If you cant get cooperation from everyoen to do this, it could stll be done by empires who are currently holding a continent or continents and are willing ot host enemies on htere turf. It would add alot of randomness to teh bases used based on who holds what bases. May have to do empire specific races in this case to allow recharging but you could still do it by having racers get a character for each empire and getting a vehicle cert real quick. You would jsut have to notify racers and have a list or something for your League thay have to join to be notified. then you could eliminate trouble makers by kicking htem off the list and not notifying htem of races.(notifying means emails and or private messages). Ug, let me think what else.

You would make an official list of difficulty lv for each base. You would only run the one difficulty at a time or figure out a proper time to add to it to balance the race(IE 5 minutes to people who have a novice base during a dificult lv race) so its the same as the higher difficulties or make official booby trap areas for each base path based on the main dificulty running. You would amke a general large area and booby trap it with mines and stuff in order. This would mean you need and official enemy empire person to set traps.

You could make up a crap load of official perminent rules for making bases even and categorize them in whatever way you want to use in whatever base your using in whatever type of race your running. Even multiple type reaces with starting base for racers and type of traps etc random sometimes so you cna get a certain lv base and not know how hard it will be to race on it.

Remember part of the race can be being blown out of the race and having to start over if you want. Just make up rules and scout out bases so they make sense and have there own unique experience.

I hope i stated this clearly enough that you understand what i mean.8)

[xuur]

you could do vehicle class races at every level. ANTS, Deliverers, Sunderers, even the bikes. You could have multi-leg races from Sanctuary to a far-point two continents away.

You know, a real race.

winner gets...oh, I dunno...to say 'yay I win'

could be fun

[Ait'al]

yea craploads of types of races. I didnt add htis before but my race would be form base to recharge to when hte ntus are completly full at your base.8) have both legs times too and do a scoring system like in olympics/national races. :brow:

[Tssha]

The only problem with multi-continent races is that not everyone loads at the same time. People with faster Processors or faster RAM would have an unfair advantage. Plus everyone would reappear at a random spot inside the WG bubble. You'd also have to shut down more than one continent.

As for shutting a continent down, you could probably get a few CR 5's to make sure that no one invades, especially if every empire can participate. Of course, then 2/3rds of the participants would be shot at by the wall turrets, unless you could find a way to disable them (wall turrets shoot at ANT's of different empires). Unfortunately, such measures (killing the gen, making bases neutral, killing the turrets) all have their drawbacks, like making the bases nice juicy targets for an invading army. Plus turret killing is dangerous and tedious, and there would be so many to kill. Plus you'd have to make sure they stayed damaged.

But overall, I look forward to such an event. Here's hoping we can pull it off.

[Kikinchikin]

i could do it but i dont have test server. maybe on emerald tho.

and if we do a basilisk/switchblade/wraith race the turrets wont shoot at us

[Thrik]

Ooh, you mean a little like this (http://pages.infinit.net/gralo/antrace.html)?

[delta]

Yeah let's do this.

[321]

What about a race where I could OS the racers!

Edit: Ok so when should we do it?

[Biohazzard56]

At the starting line , evil bastard :evil:

Note: I didnt give you that idea *cough* take screen shots *cough

[321]

What about Saturday?

[ChewyLSB]

Well, the question is where, when, what server (probably test), and what empire.

[321]

Here is what I would think would be good
Where: Forseral or Cyssor (not too mountainus)
When: Saturday 3PM Pacific (6PM EST)
Server: Test
Empire: Any

[FraudulentBob]

Emerald, all empires.

I have a CR5 there and could make a recording of the race from my Liberator's belly-cam, and then OS all the ANTs, and record with Fraps, :brow:

[321]

Why don't we both OS:)

One in front of the other

[321]

So should we make it this Saturday?