Back Online!

[Hamma]

Well here I am again after around 6 months of downtime I have decided to revive the site. I know, you're saying "Hamma, why don't you just give up" well I am just not the type of person to give up. I recently started playing PlanetSide again and ever since I closed PSU I have missed running it. It turns out I was not alone.

I got to talking to our evil coder Gryphon about the site and decided to bring her back to life. Much of what you see is almost exactly as we left it. We have updated some content but most was still valid so we decided to leave it. Below is a list of changes since the site went offline last year.


Patch Notes Section (http://www.planetside-universe.com/ps/patchnotes.php) - Updated with the most recent notes, as well as the notes from the past year.
Files Section (http://www.planetside-universe.com/files/) - Brought offline (More on that later)
Merit Commendation Information (http://www.planetside-universe.com/p-merit-commendations-59.htm) - Fired up new page with a short description of Merit Comms. Unfortunately it needs to be updated and we will do this in the near future.


How will we remain running this time you ask? Essentially PSU had a massive downloads section with almost 2GB of data, more than half the size of the entire site was used by downloads. We since decided that in order to keep the site running we need to run on a minimal downloads section so it has been closed for the time being.

During PSU's height we ran 3 servers, a web server, an IRC server, and a Shoutcast/Voice server. Now I am down to one server - a web server. This lowers the cost quite a bit and allows the site to continue running. Now, if it turns into another beast we may need to revisit the requirements..

The forums have all the old archived posts but they have been cleamed up a bit to make it a bit more streamlined. We have made some modifications to the user groups, permissions and we have cleared the banlist. As for moderation you can expect a laid back atmosphere as we just about always had here, abusers will be punished but there will be no nazi'ing threads spelling or content because we don't like how it looks. (Unless its objectionable) In short, we are starting with a clean slate - a whole new outlook on PSU.

So please feel free to start posting again - and welcome back to PlanetSide Universe!!

[Ghryphen]

Welcome everyone!

[Marsman]

Indeed, Welcome back All! Enjoy! :D

[MrSelfDistruct]

Nostalgia... sweet nostalgia...

[Hamma]

Strange.. I was surely expecting a "1st" reply since - you are the first non staff to come back :D

Welcome :p

[Jennyboo]

Welcome back everyone.. this has come as a shock to me as well .. Hamma only recently came to me and said "Im gunna re-open" Which i full support. Although it was never really gone in his heart and mine (Im sure other's feel the same) Lets catch up everyone :) I play PS Everyday Br 19 CR 2 :love:

[Hamorad]

Neato

[Hayoo]

Welcome back, PSU. Just wanted to send a /wave. Nice to see your familiar faces. :)

[Destman]

Welcome back.

[THrONeBeaST]

:wave:

[BlackDrop]

Awesome.

[Tigersmith]

Wow, I cant believe it. Welcome Back PSU!

[Cyborgmatt]

v-v-e! :)...

[Ghoest9]

Yay Hamma.

Great to see PSU up again.

[ORANGE]

Will you fix my tag this time please, this is ORANGE btw. :)

[Derfud]

I Am Experiencing Tears Of Joy.

[Luke1987]

V-V-F! Welcome back :).

[Teichgraeber]

Feels good to be back :)

[LiveWireTehSoda]

*sniff sniff* I... I love you guys!:groovy:

[Flashingfish]

Yay :D

[Navaron]

Well fuck a duck.

[Hamma]

:lol:

[Baneblade]

Miracles do happen. :p

[elana]

Welcome back to the internets! I was actually just talking about this place a couple nights ago when I was shooting at marsman and jennyboo over at the Interfarm on Cyssor :)

[Marsman]

So YOU"RE the one! :p :lol: Great to see ya here again.

[Rbstr]

This damned site just won't die, ARRRRRG!!!!!

:p

[Hamma]

It's immortal. :brow:

[Jennyboo]

I hate Interfarms :p nice to see you again :)

[Rbstr]

I hate Interfarms :p nice to see you again :)

what's an interfarm?

[Baneblade]

what's an interfarm?


Interlink Farm

[Rbstr]

Yeah that answers the question....


EDIT: I can't mess with threads in the tech forum anymore :(

[Hamma]

lol yea we cleared everyting for the time being until stuff gets going again. If it picks up - you will be re-instated at least - if you want to be ;)

[l3lizz4rd]

Wha... where am I? And why am I dripping with goo...

[Breed]

Hey all, good call on getting this community back together :)

I don't play Pleanetside anymore but the fond memories are still very much in my heart!

[Lise]

Gleebuckets.

A girlfriend, a job opportunity, and PSU coming back? There is a God.

[AimHere]

Wow. Maybe it's time for me to make a comeback as well. On the other hand...I still hate SOE with a passion.

Former PS, SWG, EQ2 player

[OneManArmy]

sweet mother of god.....

THE POWER OF CHRIST COMPELS YOU!!!

[Setari]

Like, omg!

[mistled]

:cheers:

[Carver]

And I just checked the site yesterday.. and this happens.

[Biohazzard56]

Words cannot describe how fucking awesome this is.

I hope to lawl on many occassion in the future.

[Peacemaker]

YOU BASTARD


YOU BASTARD!!!!

ITS BACK ITS BACK! :love: :love: :love: :love: :love: OMG ITS BAAAACK

[Electrofreak]

Woooooooo Hoooooooo!! \o/

[kcirreda]

Just read my E-mail and posted on my outfit's PS forums. Any chance AGN will come back too? BTW, I seen Hamma about 2 weeks ago when I was waiting on some que and I rammed him with my Fury

[EineBeBoP]

Oh mai.

[BlazingSun]

I hope the total player numbers keep raising as well.

[SniperSteve]

Sweet! Welcome Back PSU!

[Mugsy]

Welcome Back Guys!!!!

[Jaged]

:brow:


Oh how i missed that emoticon.

WELCOME BACK BITCHES!!!!!

[SDM]

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/7869/welcome117bd.jpg


:trsucks:

[RuskiVodka]

Go back home!!!



Welcome back guys, good to see you all again.

[Majik]

Now we just need fodderside ;)

[Hamma]

Just read my E-mail and posted on my outfit's PS forums. Any chance AGN will come back too? BTW, I seen Hamma about 2 weeks ago when I was waiting on some que and I rammed him with my Fury
Not sure - thats one of the things that costed a bit more money to do.

[Jennyboo]

More money = Loose :p

[Jaged]

Its like the second comming.

[BUGGER]

Holy crap.....Holy crap.....

I just randomly saw the link to psu on my favorite bar and i decided to click it.....holy crap....

saweet!

[xuur]

hmm....well I'll be damned.

welcome home Hamma.

[Hamma]

:love:

[StrangeFellow]

Whoo, I'm happy to see this back, whoo again!

[OneManArmy]

ah good ol psu, so sweet are thyne hallowed threads of spammage.

[Lartnev]

How dare you all post before me!

err, I mean hi :wave: :D

[Miir]

Welcome back PSU.

[firecrackerNC]

w00t good to be back guys!

[xmodum]

I love you all.....errr.....Welcome back!

[jedi]

Greetings to all. It's great to this site back up and running.

[Mag-Mower]

My lord! this is fscking awesome! the only website I ever loved is back! w00t for PSU!

[Firefly]

Welcome back, Kotter.

[Boomer]

I told you to bring it back hamma!

<3.

New Homepage

[Phaden]

Yay!! i was just thinking about this place, and was going through Gryphons page with the dev tracker and i decided to try the link. Yay!! Very cool, seeya all in game!

[Mag-Mower]

Almost the same thing that happened to me. I remeber a few months ago, I visted here, and saw the address for the IRC room, So a few days ago, I decided to go back to the IRC, but forgot the name. So I came here to get the link, then noticed that I was greeted with the main page of PSU, I though 1 of 2 things: (1 FireFox was loading older pages OR (2 That hamma or an admin was just messing arround with the old page. I visted the forums, and saw that the site was for real, then I was happy, and Still am happy.

[Hamma]

:lol:

Someone on the official forum actually found the site/forums before I even opened it.

[Peacemaker]

Thats exactly what happened to me.

[BadDogEDN]

I LOVE YOU HAMMA THIS IS THE BEST SITE EVER (AGAIN) thanks for bringing it back

[WildEagle]

Hamma we should have custom titles since u love us so much. please!!!!!
:love: :brow:

[Mag-Mower]

And we should bring back hamma time! that pwned, the last one i remeber that is...

[Hamma]

ahh the drunken antics of Hamma Time :D

[Kyonye]

Wow..I would have never come back here but I accidentily clicked on this bookmark instead of my email.. Luck? Thank god :) . It is awesome to see this website back up. I truly missed it.

[OneManArmy]

holy shit im in his sig...

[QuakCow]

woa...now this is a funny feeling. never thought id see the day id be posting on PSU forums again...hell i havent logged into planetside in 3 months.

but id say its about time to dabble about yet again. :lol:


its like coming back home!

[Kyonye]

holy shit im in his sig...

I couldn't tell you how long it's been since I even took a look at changing my sig. Besides, it's a good quote.

[Kikinchikin]

Hot damn... Feels great to see this place back again.

[Hamma]

onoes teh chikin

Welcome back ;)

[Kikinchikin]

:) thanks, nice to see most everyone from before has returned as well.

[Mag-Mower]

i want ham time back

[OneManArmy]

http://www.giftedindesign.co.uk/acatalog/Smallpigclocksm.jpg

[Hamma]

I'd assume you mean "Hamma Time" :D

Dunno.. perhaps in time we will see ;)

[Electrofreak]

Yaayyyyy! Drunken Hamma Time is always fun. :D

http://hamma.ytmnd.com/

[Indecisive]

Hawt.

[Hamma]

:rawr:

[Psy]

Yaayyyyy! Drunken Hamma Time is always fun. :D

http://hamma.ytmnd.com/

lol, thats awesome, good to have PSU back:D

[Ait'al]

Well here I am again after around 6 months of downtime I have decided to revive the site. I know, you're saying ]"Hamma, why don't you just give up" well I am just not the type of person to give up.[/U] I recently started playing PlanetSide again and ever since I closed PSU I have missed running it. It turns out I was not alone.

I got to talking to our evil coder Gryphon about the site and decided to bring her back to life. Much of what you see is almost exactly as we left it. We have updated some content but most was still valid so we decided to leave it. Below is a list of changes since the site went offline last year.


Patch Notes Section (http://www.planetside-universe.com/ps/patchnotes.php) - Updated with the most recent notes, as well as the notes from the past year.
Files Section (http://www.planetside-universe.com/files/) - Brought offline (More on that later)
Merit Commendation Information (http://www.planetside-universe.com/p-merit-commendations-59.htm) - Fired up new page with a short description of Merit Comms. Unfortunately it needs to be updated and we will do this in the near future.


How will we remain running this time you ask? Essentially PSU had a massive downloads section with almost 2GB of data, more than half the size of the entire site was used by downloads. We since decided that in order to keep the site running we need to run on a minimal downloads section so it has been closed for the time being.

During PSU's height we ran 3 servers, a web server, an IRC server, and a Shoutcast/Voice server. Now I am down to one server - a web server. This lowers the cost quite a bit and allows the site to continue running. Now, if it turns into another beast we may need to revisit the requirements..

The forums have all the old archived posts but they have been cleamed up a bit to make it a bit more streamlined. We have made some modifications to the user groups, permissions and we have cleared the banlist. As for moderation you can expect a laid back atmosphere as we just about always had here, abusers will be punished but there will be no nazi'ing threads spelling or content because we don't like how it looks. (Unless its objectionable) In short, we are starting with a clean slate - a whole new outlook on PSU.

So please feel free to start posting again - and welcome back to PlanetSide Universe!!


That will be ironic when the site outlasts the game. :lol: I can just picture it now. "I"M NOT GIVING UP!! No well buy servers from sony and set them in my Basement!

As much as we might wish we will never find better programmers than the corporation can. Unless you are one of them! I still think the game is going to bomb after they cant fix the bugs in the game and the new people mostly leave from frustation trying to play a game much simpler and more frustrating than the old one. The full scope of the game concept and balance are just too far above everyones head for anyone to backprogram it properly without a lot of time(maybe years) to play with it. And without other examples of this type of game genre and design you wont have a culture to help you.

Just call me the bringer of bad news!!

This is a hard game to bring out when the majority of the people who are behind the culture of gaming that spawned it are all leaving the culture in general. Not even RPGs are the same culture anymore. I think you really need to hope everyone learns the game really well and starts playing better. If this game does get back up you can probly expect a pretty bumpy ride. The way some things in the game development went knocked it down pretty hard IMO....... (Forgot the last of this comment!?)


And hello!

[Hamma]

:lol:

If the game dies then so be it - we can still be here if people still come ;)

[ChronoSphere]

Whoa back :)

[Hamma]

:brow:

[Ivan]

http://www.tridot.net/images/stuff/Shocked.jpg

OMG! NOOOOooooo!!!!

When I finally over come my addiction to the internet and all video games in general, PSU comes back to pull me back in. Damn you Hamma, Mars and Gryphon, you are like drug dealers to me.

But hey, I'm unemployed now so I might as well get addicted again.

Hey everyone that might remember me!:wave:

http://www.tridot.net/images/stuff/PSUWelcome.jpg

[Hamma]

omg! teh Ivan hath returned :eek:

Welcome back - you are not allowed to leave :p

[Mag-Mower]

At this rate, it will be like old times, in no time!

[OneManArmy]

ah ivan. how I missed thee.

[SDM]

Ivan is my Brokeback buddy :brow:

[Navaron]

Ivan is my Brokeback buddy :brow:
I wish I could quit you.

[Ivan]

Ivan is my Brokeback buddy :brow:
Oh how I longed to have a reason to use this again...

http://www.tridot.net/images/stuff/SDMLook.jpg

SDM, because of you, my "real" life friends and I use hookers and ice cream as our inside joke. Though it started here.

[HawkEye]

Hey, good to see this place is up and running. This is where i first learned about PS, and when i found out it was shutting down it made me sad :tear: goodtimes here.

[Hamma]

Well we're back ;) No more sadness :D

[HawkEye]

Well we're back ;) No more sadness :D


Indeed.:p

[ViperGTS]

Wooo! The second most hated man on the internets is back!
Hi guys B)

[Rbstr]

You didn't come in second.

In the Internet rankings for "special" people, Everyone Wins!

[Hamma]

:lol:

Welcome back! :D

[ViperGTS]

Maybe I have missed it but I was wondering.. Why clear the ban list?

[Hamma]

Why not? Starting again fresh :)