Empire Loyalties

[Kam]

I have a NC and a TR avatar on Markov and a TR and a VS avatar on Emerald. I frequently have the following problem, and I can't seem to get past it. When I first made the TR avatar on Markov I simply could not shoot at a NC. Whenever I got into battle with them I would feel sick when I shot at one. My solution to this was shooting to disable or damage them to the point where they would retreat. You can see how this could be a problem. On a few occasions I ran into my outfit members or friends and I would just freeze, and most of the time we would just move past each other without firing. I then decided to make avatars on Emerald and when I first played as Vanu(yes, the evil Vanu) I could not shoot a TR. I feel like I am betraying my other empire. My solution to all of this was to get back into arms dealing, where I rarely have to fire a weapon. I really want to fight; I can't be the only one that has/had this problem. Any advice?


Maybe I think about PS too much, I have a tendency to over think things or take things to seriously. I consider you people a second family for instance.

Also, does anyone know of a way to get a lot of xp really fast?

[I Hate Pants]

Maybe I think about PS too much, I have a tendency to over think things or take things to seriously. I consider you people a second family for instance.
As a member of your second family. I'm troubeld with your oppssesive behavior for PS and feel you need to go out and meet girls. And don't talk about PS when your near them. Or make gun shapes with your hands and start making shooting and laser beam sounds.

You'll be fine

[Kam]

I actually got courage from San Andreas (as sad as that is) and asked a senior (I'm a junior) to dinner. I actually spent 93 dollars on her and it was alright, we talked for like two hours. We diddn't hit it off or anything, and I found out she has a boyfriend a foot taller than me...


ANYWAY, lets stay on topic.


Quote from the top banner:
PSU: Planetside - the perfect alternative to a girlfriend
I think PSU is trying to tell me something...

[DeepStrikeck]

Hmmm....dunno what to tell ya, just don't think about shooting them, i used to have this problem but i just got used to shooting nething w/ a red name above them. I gotta NC and VS character on Markov (BR10 CR 0, BR 20 CR 3 respectivly) and when I play NC and see one of my VS buddies I purposly will let other VS/TR walk by me (NC is a cloaker) and go directly for 'em, and since we are both on the same vent...hehehe.... All I can say is that you'll get used to it eventually.

[AbramsVS]

err...i basicly dont a have prob who to shoot.
I also got NC character on Emerald and VS on Werner(main), firs day i played new NC guy it was weird to shoot purple guys and not to shoot yellow guys.....but it wasnt something i felt bad about it, just a bit weird.....since if you played only and only VS its hard to get used to new character...

[CassH]

Put your fellings aside if you are red shot blue and purple, if you are purple shot blue and red, etc. if you kill your outfit members send a tell and lafe about it.

[Baneblade]

I used to feel bad slaughtering NC while playing TR, but after dying to the JH a few times, boy was it easy to get over.

[WritheNC]

This is how I do it:

I look at the names. If the text is in red, shoot. If green, don't shoot.

I used to believe in empire loyalty in the beginning, when I was NC. Then when NC on emerald had 40+% I realized empire loyalty doesn't mean a damn thing if too many other people don't feel the same way.

So now I play for fun and usually that means playing for an underdog empire. You just have to realize everyone that plays this game might love it, but they also pay $13/month...and they're not going to get their thirteen dollars of fun if you don't shoot back. ;)

[Hamorad]

Also, does anyone know of a way to get a lot of xp really fast?Yep. Get air cav and go to cont where you have no allies, find a hacked base. Shoot up the ppl in CY and when you're almost dead you bail over the BD and go inside. Then you shoot up all the AFK ppl and get about 1000 xp per kill.

that's how i get it real fast anyway. :D

[6thEdition]

I think the whole idea of being unable to kill anyone in ur fave empire when ur on a different is just silly. It's a game! OK, sure when I first started to play anything other than Vanu Sovereignty I couldn't shoot them, but that was just because I was accustemed to fighting with them. lol as soon as i'd respawn and see nc everywhere around me id go mental and kill everyone. But i finally got accustemed to killin vs as nc and nc + tr as vs :). (I do 1 empire per server, so I don't run into any friends from a diff empire)


Muahha on werner on Searhus once I found lots of tr and nc snipers, all spread out. goin up to each as AI Max, i'd be fairly confident that they couldn't kill me, and they'd know that too so i'd just go 'Well Met.' They'd be friendly and id say 'i wont kill ya mate' and when they finally believe me and turn back to sniping id kill em. I cant turn down easy xp :)

[Lartnev]

Shows you the treacherous tactics of the Vanu Technophiles tbh :P~

[Kam]

When I made a Vanu avatar I felt like I was doing something forbidden, they are so evil. But, I felt so good finally being on the right end of a lasher...

[Warborn]

Hey, non-TR guys, does anyone else find tha the TR look really evil when they're an enemy? I mean, the red and black armor, the red names, they just made TR look like they must be the bad guys back whenever the last time I played an alt on Markov was.

[Baneblade]

I must admit, TR dont quite look right from the TR side.

[Black]

When i was NC on Konried server i called TR Nazis :p then i called the Vanu terrorists and NC was America

[Kam]

When i was NC on Konried server i called TR Nazis :p then i called the Vanu terrorists and NC was America

Well the TR are the oppresive dictatorship.
The VS are the crazy anti human people that want to merge with ancient tech.
The NC are the crazy tree huggers with only positive intensions.

[AbramsVS]

yea, like some guy said here.....
Today i played my NC character on Emerald(not same server as my main character), so i was kinda sad that NC tkin over Amerish, but after dying couple of times from "old good lasher" i got sooo mad, i thought that VS weapons are crap, but when that "crap" shooting at you from like 100m and you can do nothing about it with jackhammer that even will not hit the guy.....

[Kam]

Ya you know I felt bad using a lasher, it's such a insta kill weapon. Three hits for rienforced, six for max.

[Warborn]

Ya you know I felt bad using a lasher, it's such a insta kill weapon. Three hits for rienforced, six for max.

I love that gun. When I use HA, I always try to fight Vanu. Its ability to kill not withstanding, it's just such a break being able to fire without really needing to aim, having the shots go in the general vicinity of the enemy being sufficient. Once you get a feel for the speed of the projectiles it's really quite the groovy piece of hardware. Sure it's not as good at medium ranges as the MCG, but it's really fun and effective to use where it counts.

[WritheNC]

Ya you know I felt bad using a lasher, it's such a insta kill weapon. Three hits for rienforced, six for max.

I'm guessing you're joking. I think you meant 5 shots for rexo and 30 for a max? :)

[Rbstr]

The NC are a bunch of Warmongering hippies

that settles the NC realther nicely, TR are the epitomy of a regime that once was good but became overbearing and currupt out of good intnetions

[Kam]

I'm guessing you're joking. I think you meant 5 shots for rexo and 30 for a max? :)

No actually I wasnt. I really did kill atleast a dozen maxes with 6 shots and about 30 rienforced with three.

[Warborn]

No actually I wasnt. I really did kill atleast a dozen maxes with 6 shots and about 30 rienforced with three.

The lasher used to do that, but it doesn't anymore. Either the targets were really damaged or you're thinking of the overpowered lasher from before.

But the lasher still is really good for killing MAXs. Even VS MAXs.

[Kam]

I think something was wrong with my PS. I was getting insane kills, like I killed a BFR with a lightning and it had full shields. My computer crashed though, and then it was back to normal.

[martyr]

i think empire loyalty is as important an aspect as variety for the game.

that sounds contradictory at first, but i can say with complete confidence that the two reasons i'm still playing planetside are psu and my outfit.

to be fair, mostly my outfit.

i'm proud to be an "old" vanu with the rest of our officers, and the working relationships we've built are a lot of fun. heck, i've even met some of them in person, which was a lot of fun.

as for disloyalty - i do, on rare occasion, try out enemy empires - but only on other servers. even then i have trouble shooting at the vanu, but at least i know that it's not my own outfit.

i can't avoid fighting friends, since i have made many on every empire of every server




kam: were you using the 12mm cannon? that thing goes right through the shields without any trouble

[internetn]

Personally I have no problem shooting the NC, ok I lied as I play the NC.

Martyr is very true, if not for my outfit, I would of quit PlanetSide right before the bending, it seemed like a stupid idea to me :)

But the Terran's are Cynical Neo Communists (SP?)

The Vanu are just plain wierd, so I try to stay away from them...

And the New Conglomerate are the Freedom Fighter, simply put.

The conflict between the TR and the NC seems to be able to become a game itself as thier relationship is like a son(NC) getting just as good as his father(TR) in basketball(War)

I kinda stole that...

[Warborn]

But the Terran's are Cynical Neo Communists (SP?)

It's not the spelling that's wrong with this sentence.

And the NC aren't freedom fighters, they're rebels and traitors who have a ridiculously unrealistic vision of how the human race should be. As Sporkfire said, they're dirty warmongering hippies, and the other empires consider think naive and idealistic.

[Kam]

Yes, and the Vanu are freakin murders. They want to merge with ancient tech and kill all regular humans. The way I see it the TR are the only reasonable people left, and I'm NC. Atleast with communism all the TR would have jobs, the NC would all be poor and lazy and the vanu would be machines/cyborgs/whatever.

[Warborn]

Yes, and the Vanu are freakin murders. They want to merge with ancient tech and kill all regular humans. The way I see it the TR are the only reasonable people left, and I'm NC. Atleast with communism all the TR would have jobs, the NC would all be poor and lazy and the vanu would be machines/cyborgs/whatever.

I don't think we've ever been told what form of government the Terran Republic actually operates under.

[Baneblade]

I don't think we've ever been told what form of government the Terran Republic actually operates under.
It is described as an oppressive empire, which implies totalitarian.

[Warborn]

It is described as an oppressive empire, which implies totalitarian.

We all know that, but we don't know if they're a communist society, or a socialist, or something in between. Calling them communist isn't neccessarily correct is all I'm saying.

[Baneblade]

True enough, they could just be religious zealots.