Imagine if something came to Auraxis

[Otherick]

i just watched final fanty the sprirts with in and the thought came to me, wat if Auraxis was invaded by lets say an lesser species like the bugs from Star Ship Trooper, or the Vanu decided to pay a surprise visit. I though this mite prove an interesting topin, i know the devs said no NPCs, but theres always the big "IF". Imagine if the Vanu, Terran, and Conglomerate had to fight side by side to negotiate this new threat

[delta]

That would be very cool.
Hard, very hard to do, but not impossible.

[SilverLord]

That would be very cool, if the three empires had to ally on a continent to fight an invader to save the planet. Very good idea.

[Otherick]

iam glad someone took this post seriously. But wat do u think this new race would be, where did they some from, why did they come here, and who leads them. This may seem like spam, and please no silly answers like "I would want bears to come out from the ground and fight the VS cause i want them to", cause that will lead to spam and spam leads to lockage. Thanks

[Chaaos]

Well if the Vanu popped in then i doubt the VS would take up arms and fight them. But maybe some other alien race came that would be very sweet.

Like maybe the story line was that this other "more advanced than the vanu were" race that wipped em out came back to finish up the humans.

[Otherick]

i like the idea about the Vanu but if u listened carefuly to the AGN thing it was the Vanu who made the portal in space by using the warpgates to make a triangle inside a triangle and another triangle inside another one to escape the planet for some reason (maybe an infestation like the flood in halo and went to lets say sleep as their food supply went out, and were dormant in the caverns, and now that they have an edable food source they came back) if u have no idea wat iam saying download the first 3 ANG files from the downloads and pay attention to the story line, or check out the factions sites think the TR site has something on the matter. But very nice may the posts keep coming

[Chaaos]

aaah yeah.. ok maybe the race didnt destroy the vanu, maybe they were attacking the vanu so they warped out to escape. :shrug:

Would be a bit like Independace Day to see the TR, VS, and NC join up to fight em. lol

[BDMJ]

Lets have mobs too, and some ph4t l3wt while we are at it! NPCs would be the death of planetside.

[Otherick]

this was a good topic until u came along. This just a "what if" thread and like i hear people say alot "if u dont have anything nice do say dont say anything at all", so unless ur going to appreciate the topic i think u should find some other place to spam

[JFPhoenix]

that'd be cool for awhile but can't miss out on the constant PvP action.

[Otherick]

btw way i was going to post this earlier but got side tracked. This "invasion" mite take place for say 2 - 3 months, and would affect future gameplay, like if this lets say bug swarm captured/infested lets say a dropship center and was then eradicated the drop ships or equipment vehicles wat ever would lets say maybe jam up or mis fire or maybe infest u turning u into a zombie like the zerg did in star craft and u slowly lose health and the only way to get it back would be to kill, and once u die (in zombie form) it take another 30 min for u to log i because they need "clean" u up. This would give some flavour to the game while not eradicating the pvp action going on.

[WritheNC]

Actually, the TR could have the wormhole reopened, and they could have the other Terrans come back.

And then the NC would appeal as freedom fighters to the uh, Protoss.

And the VS would create a mind control device for these buglike creatures called the Zerg!

And we can call it Starcraft 2...

Ok probably not.

[Otherick]

yeh i doudt it.

[SilverLord]

NPC's won't be the best...I don't know then.

[1024]

Sounds cool, but it woudln't happen, because they'd have to intergrate an AI system.

[Otherick]

yes but 1 can dream yes

[Phaden]

since auraxis is a long lost colony the humans from earth could come and try to take the planet back by force. Then people could play as this new empire like the previous ones, or depending on how well people like the new empire it could end up being everyone vs. the invaders.

[BlackHawk]

I was actually thinking about this a long, long time ago, and I had come up with the "Vanu come back and don't like humans" thing too. I was thinking more in the direction of the Vanu being controlled by the devs, or maybe some special option for long time PS subscribers, rather than NPCs though. The Vanu would be more powerful than the regular human soldiers, so a smaller number of them could take on a larger army and still have a good chance of winning. So even if you had a limited number of people playing as Vanu, they would still pose enough of a threat that the empires might have to work together to beat an invasion back.

[scarpas]

it couldnt happen...

Where are our little fuzzy non-destruckible animal creatures who give us extera health and can have little races bettween each other and can enable us to spit acid, plus they could also vomit easy bake ovens for use in demolitions?

[Setari]

if there were NPCs everyone would try to shoot em....

[JetRaiden]

yea and if you dont have AI from the start, chances are it would be VERY buggy and very expensive to run. nice idea though.

[Sentrosi]

What if the DEVs secretly would change your character to this "new race" for a day or so. It would be completely random. Then you'd go back to your original character after a 24 hour period. It would be funny, but I think a lot of people would be pissed rather than happy that this happened to them. Too bad. Talk about your random play.

[Seer]

MMO AI is always, always terrible. There isn't enough processing power at our current level of technology to make decent FPS AI opponents on this level.

[xmodum]

:fro: Sweet , wish they would put this in the game.The only thing i would change is that it would just be another race.Like the empires , where every1 could play on it :spam:

[apachepilotpat]

this sounds cool but it would proboly have to be bought and then ony played on a certain server

[Rayder]

How about, instead of NPCs with AI, We use routine NPCs, such as the HART. These NPCs would at random intervals, swoop down from the sky, and destroy the turrets and anything outside of a base in it's SOI. Then, 1 minute after that, the base would revert to a grey color on the map, showing it has been taken over by the <insert NPC name here>, and all the equipment would be restored to full health, and random mines, spitfires, and other defenses would be set up inside the SOI. They would shoot at all three empires, have increased ranges (turrets only [includes base turrets]), and do slightly more damage. Pending on the base that got attacked, you would either wait 15 minutes for the hack, or get an LLU to the linked base. The base turrets however, could not be destroyed, and would shoot at all vehicles, making it a harder base to take. And if the base isn't at least hacked after 10 minutes, one base that is linked to it would get hacked, and a 2 minute timer would be implemented. It would spread, and each time it went to another base, the hack timer would increase by one minute, and the time before the next hack would decrease by 30 seconds.

These attacks would occur at random intervals (always at least 30-45 minutes seperating each attack). The continent and base that got attacked would be determined by the population of each continent. The conts that would be viable to attack, would be the one with the highest current population, to the one with half the highest current population (by current I mean the time that the NPC decided it's attack). If there isn't a cont with half the highest pop, then the cont with the next highest would be the minimum. How this would work, would be the continents would be assigned a number. These numbers change every hour or so. For instance. Cyssor has the highest current population, and Amerish has half of that pop. Cyssor is number 3 on the list and Amerish is number 1. The continents that would be viable for attack would be 1, 2 and 3. If Cyssor was 2, and Amerish was 5, then 2, 3, 4, and 5 would be viable for attack.

The base that got attacked would be determined by where the majority of the population is on that cont. For instance. On Cyssor, Itan has the big 3-way battle. The base to it's right (whatever it's name, Kaang I think) has the 2nd most people in it's SOI. Gunuku has the 3rd most. Gunuku would then be the base chosen by the NPC for attack, because it has the least population of 2 bases linked to the one with the highest. If the base with the highest amount of people is linked to only one base, the base that is linked to the base that is linked with the highest, would then become the 3rd base (or 2nd base if you exclude the first). The linked bases would be chosen at random.

This would cause for less AI, more hectic battles (if the base your at is attacked), the opportunity to royally screw your opponent if the base that is attacked is a key base that you needed, and lots and lots of fun.

[xmodum]

sounds great, but i would still love to either play on another team or play against other nmes on the battlefield other than just random hackin nmes

[Otherick]

well like i said this "invasion" could be random for a short period, but i like the idea about this elite race, maybe the vanu, and certain players were chosen to play this race, now if the guy want to go back to him Empire, then he passes this power onto some one else, there would lets say be 15 5 for Emeral, 5 for Markov, and 5 for Werner. Thses guys would be mucho strong and have weapons that cannot be used by other empires as their Vanu, and no one would be able to figure out how they work.

But if this did ever happen (which i strongly doudt) the VS would not fight them, making another point that they could be an enemy of the Vanu and when they came for the planet there was this other race so now theres a 3 way war plus the 5 super cammandos this new race sent. But seeing as their only five these could be a lost race that knew the Vanu well and had close relations and when they see the Vanus home planet taken over by the humans and they Vanu are gone the probably assume that they killed them all and would take up arms.

[Xxzard]

NONONONONONONONONONONONONO!!!!!!!!!!! no stupid frickn bug aliens or any other of that sort of junk. we're supposed to kill each other not some alien thing :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Rayder]

this was a good topic until u came along. This just a "what if" thread and like i hear people say alot "if u dont have anything nice do say dont say anything at all", so unless ur going to appreciate the topic i think u should find some other place to spam

[xmodum]

:rofl: yea i like the idea of the "5 from each" idea, maybe tho, make it 5 from each empire 15 on each server , makin it :confused: uhhh, something like 24?j/j
but then more people could get the chance and maybe at least every1 would get to be this new "invading" empire. also , put like a 24 hour timer on ur place as the invading race so that no1 can just stay as that empire forever becuz they love it so much , this would give the other people a chance to be an invader :cool2:

[BDMJ]

Ok, instead of just criticism, I will offer constructive criticism.

Planetside functions as a game because population levels are stable across all three empires, the only battles are pvp, and the weapons are balanced. Throw in a 4th race and all that makes planetside original is lost. Populations numbers start favoring one empire or the new 4th empire, weapon balance must be completely redone, and non-pvp play emerges. At that point you might as well play DAOC or some other MMO, because what made planetside unique would be lost.

Think about why planetside is enjoyable, and think of what your ideas would turn it into. Is that really the same game? Is it something that you would enjoy? It's not that your ideas are bad, it's just that you didn't appear give a seconds thought as to how they would affect the game. If you want to generate ideas regarding planetside, keep your ideas within the scope of the game.

my 2 cents

[Rayder]

This is a "what if" thread. Not a "they should implement this idea right now" thread.

If you want to generate ideas regarding planetside, keep your ideas within the scope of the game.What exactly IS the scope of the game? You didn't seem to mention that.


Think about why planetside is enjoyable, and think of what your ideas would turn it into. Is that really the same game? Is it something that you would enjoy?
Thought about it, thought about what it would turn into, yes, and yes.