How quickly do you gain battle points?

[SolidHavoc]

I mean, is it probable that the majority of players will be at max rank within the first month?

[afex]

devs have stated that it will, on average, take a "few" months to achieve battle rank 20.

so i'd guess about 3-4 months.

[CDaws]

It really depends on how much you play and how often but, like Afex said 3-4 months is about the going average before you get max rank. Don't forget you can train in the VR and get up to level 5 before you even step foot onto a real battlefield in the game.

[Navaron]

Not me, I'm gonna haul ass right out the door with what the hell ever I spawn with. I wanna be the first casualty of PS. Hey, at least I *have* a goal.

[Hamma]

They were estimating a few months even for hardcore gamers. Its speculation tho, until people start getting in game.

[Guardian AngeL]

do you get bp from transporting people in a galaxy???? I hope so...

[Navaron]

Cap bps are shared among the squad. If you want more, you'd better get off your ass and out of that plane.

[Flashingfish]

Even if you get to the highest battle rank, it won't make you any better that the next person, it just means you will have a wider choice of ways to kill him ;)

[ABRAXAAS]

this whole squad thing has got me concerened does anyone know how there formed is there like some kind of sub menu that you place yourself in a group of other people ,Take my clan for exsample were going to be teaming up with another clan so does that mean we can for a squad (permanently) and not allow anyone else in etc its seems to be verey confusing :confused:

[Warborn]

Squads are temporary. You form them on the fly and lose them whenever you log out. They're not permanent unless you yourself make them permanent (ie. you never join any other Squads and only group with those other people).

[ABRAXAAS]

is there no way of making a permanent gruop of some kind?

[Moloch]

outfits/clans are/can be permanent
you can remain in an outfit/clan as long as you damn want.

[Hamma]

When I played, inviting people to a squad was as simple as /invite nickname

Platoons and squad linking were not in place when I played :( neither were outfits. If it was there, it was not shown to us :p

[BLuE_ZeRO]

Did they stick you in a room and say "Go at it"?

[Hamma]

For the most part - but they went over the basics with us ;D

[Flameseeker]

Moloch, do you play Neveron?

[Ouroboros]

Hrm, i wounder how outfit insignias will work. Would you be limited to one image or multiple?

[Tobias]

You have one image, but there are lots to chose from and most of them are pretty good, of course i only assume this because the Artists are mostly Vanu, and Vanu rock.

[Ouroboros]

Hrm, I figured Outfits could upload their own insignias?

[Zhor_Prime]

i doubt they'll let you upload your own. i wouldn't want to d/l a bunch of pictures each week that are for the most part not going to be seen by me becase of all the different servers.

[Lexington_Steele]

Originally posted by Ouroboros1
Hrm, I figured Outfits could upload their own insignias?
Devs have said no on this one.

However they promised that the ones they have are pretty sweet.

[Tobias]

Originally posted by Ouroboros1
Hrm, I figured Outfits could upload their own insignias?

Nope, no custom skins or insignia, no mods, atleast not at this time, and proably not in the future. But trust in the Vanu to produce a killer set of insignia for us.

[Format]

Ya know tobias, im all for vanu and all, but your just makin them sound to overly great. Bring it down a notch, that way we can overwelm them when we show them our l33t vanu skillz. :vsrocks:

[ABRAXAAS]

HAHAH VANU is gonna get raped:ncrocks:

[Moloch]

wat is Neveron? is it always off? if so, I couldn't possibly have seen or heard it. ;)
answer: no

[Tobias]

Originally posted by ABRAXAAS
HAHAH VANU is gonna get raped:ncrocks:

Yes, us Vanu males get Date raped by the Hot Vanu Babes all the time. After awile all the Sex just gets old and you want to go do cool stuff, like play chess or study physics.

[CDaws]

The more you drink the better the women look. So the Vanu guys must have a pony keg in one of there equipment slots at all times. :D Just like one of thoes hiking packs with the drinking hose.

[Navaron]

Yeah right, they are the biggest bunch of light weights ever. You heard about the Zima incident. Over 50 Vanu in the hospital with alchohol poisoning. I guess they all split a 6 pack of zima. There were rumors of wine coolers....

[Tobias]

The more you drink the better the women look. So the Vanu guys must have a pony keg in one of there equipment slots at all times. Just like one of thoes hiking packs with the drinking hose.

We drink wine thank you. Drinking increases the amount of sex your likely to have by like wise it decreases the quaility, drunk people and old people both have sex in the same way: slow and sloppy.

[Navaron]

Name 4 bottles of Wine that you can afford. I know wine fairly well, so don't just do a websearch. Describe their tastes, flavors, hell even colors. Hmmm, did I call your bluff, I think so. Back to the stawberry spritzers ladies.

[Tobias]

Real life like? I drink like 20$ a bottle wine's (I think its foolish to spend more), heres some of the top of my head:
As for Chardonnay's Turning leaf is good, and its fairly cheap, Robert Mondavi is also good, bit more though, and Kendall Jackson is also good. Chardonnay's are white wines. Sutter Home and Berringer (sp?) white Zinffidal (again sp?) are excelent cheaper blush wines, and though I am presonaly not fond of red wine, i believe Blacksiche (sp?) is a good merlot.

[Navaron]

Wow, for a few bucks more and less, you can get "real" wines. I don't mean the stuff that's mass produced for grocery stores and walmarts, but good wines.
There has been a major overproduction in American wines and it has flooded the market. The American wines are far infererior to Australian and Italian wines, however America is one of their most important markets. So to compensate, they have dropped prices drastictaly in the past 3 years.

You can get an amazing array of quality Italian wines from the northern provinces for pennies on the dollar. Go to you local winery, or fine alchohol distributer, and ask for a Lefant chart for the past few years. He should definately have one, and it will show you the degradation of value for the same year wines over time.

For example, you can get a bottle of Moscato D'asti in an average year - 2002, but for 7 dollars more you can get the same wine in a great yeat 2000. It's a light white wine, with just enough fruitiness to add to the spectrum of flavor - not detract from it. Great stuff and it runs about 18 dollars a .750 liter bottle.

Here's good rule of thumb, if it comes in jug, or with little wooden wrap, DON'T BUY IT. :D

[Lexington_Steele]

Originally posted by {BOHICA}Navaron
Wow, for a few bucks more and less, you can get "real" wines. I don't mean the stuff that's mass produced for grocery stores and walmarts, but good wines.
There has been a major overproduction in American wines and it has flooded the market. The American wines are far infererior to Australian and Italian wines, however America is one of their most important markets. So to compensate, they have dropped prices drastictaly in the past 3 years.

Here's good rule of thumb, if it comes in jug, or with little wooden wrap, DON'T BUY IT. :D

I would not say that American wines are inferior, they are just different. That is akin to saying American Microbeers are worse than imports. They are not worse, they just have a different flavor philosophy (they like to go extra heavy on the tannins). As far as American wines you probably don't want something older than two years anyways (also having to do with going heavy on the tannins).

BTW isn't it not Chianti unless it is in a little woodden basket?

[NapalmEnima]

Originally posted by {BOHICA}Navaron
Cap bps are shared among the squad. If you want more, you'd better get off your ass and out of that plane.

I'm pretty sure you're wrong.

BEP are given to everyone in the squad (so long as they're relatively close by... no hard distance has been mentioned).

If you're on your own, and you kill a guy, you get X BEP (I've seen 170 or so in the screen shots).

If you're in a squad, and you kill a guy, everyone in that squad gets 170 BEP.

Lemme say that again, because it's CRITICAL: EVERYONE IN YOUR SQUAD GETS THE SAME BEP.

There's no BEP reason to solo. To level up faster, get in a 10-man squad and commence ta killin'.

And BEP (and CEP) are also given across platoons... so being involved in anything less than a 30-man blood-thirsty horde-o-death is cutting in on your BEP.

Kinda sounds like I'm off my rocker? Lemme point you to my sources:

GAH! Can't find it... SJ recently announced that the platoon features had been added. The way he described it lead me to believe that CEP and BEP were shared in a more general way, rather than just for capping the base.

And if you look at this screen shot, (sheesh, had to really hunt for one) http://planetside-universe.com/media/viewer.php?cat_id=37&img_id=11 you'll see that someone else killed TRaced, but the player (NotYourBitch) got 120 BEP for it.