Free day when you buy planetside?

[Mega_AL]

I'm really interested in buying planetside and the expansion core combat. I was just wondering if i will get like a free month with the game or something. Because you get a free month with most online games. Or maybe i get one month with planetside and one more with core combat (I'm buying the separete). I live in sweden (europe)

[Geist]

You get 1 free month from PS original but not 1 from each.Be TR.

[EVILPIG]

Yes, you get a free month, but DO NOT buy the original PS box or Core Combat. Buy Aftershock, it's both of those two boxes in one.

You can find copies on Ebay fairly cheap.

[Mega_AL]

Ok I seeee...... Well first of all I dont buy stuff on ebay or any site like that, and second, its kinda har do find the box with both of em. Who cares anyway, together they cost about 170Kr which is about 19dollars.

Oh and another question. Now that the 12 month free thingy is coming, will i count as a paying customer if i never pay them over the internet and instead buy 30/90-day cards?:confused:
cuz i dont really know if dad wants to give out his creditcardnumber to something hes never heard of. But i might convince him that it's safe later on so ill start of with a 90-day card. Who knows, I might not want to play more then 4 months at the moment. Oh I'm just writing alot of crap now....

Edit: You still get the same stuff if u buy ps and ps:core combat that u get with aftershock, right?

[Hamma]

The freeplay thing is seperate from a paying customer. If you start subscribing you will always be a paying customer you cannot revert to a freeplay account. If you buy gamecards it is the same thing as subscribing.

And as evil said - get aftershock it has the expansion too :D

[Mega_AL]

But that must mean that i can buy the game and that way become a "paying" customer then i can play for free for 13 months (12months free time thingy + 1 months you get with the game) but have all benefits a paying customer has!? thats crazy!

And once again, buying ps+ps:core combat is the same thing as aftershock, right?
Ahhh all of this is really confusing, but i think this is my last question.

Edit: HANG ON! Juuuust one more question, if i buy a 90-day card, can i first play like one month then not play at all say.... half a year then continue on my 2 remaining months. Question is do i pay day for day or for 3 full months.

[Hamma]

Ok you are confusing me :lol:

Here's how it works.

If you buy the game - you get 30 days free and have to subscribe after that time is over. Subscribing via credit card is the same as a game card.
If you want to wait for the Reserves program you can do that - its a 365 day trial but it hasnt started yet. Once it does you download the game and install it for free, you can play up until BR6. Everytime you quit PS it will link you to a page that explains how to subscribe.
When you use a game card or pay for a month - its a month from when you activated the card or paid. If you dont login that entire month and cancel - you are done.


The two are not interchangable.

[Mega_AL]

Ok, but what if i play on the 12month free thingy until i reach br6 and then pay them for a few months so reach a really high br-level (what is max level anyway?)then stop paying to go back to the free thingy but with much higher level? Possible?
And once again aftershock is the EXACT same thing as ps+ps:core combat?
and I didnt understand the pfrase "The two are not interchangable"

Edit: OH sorry, i remeber that you told me that i cant go back to the 12 months trial...

[Hamma]

Yes Aftershock is core combat AND planetside together. And right - you cannot play on the free account, then subscribe then go back to free again.

EDIT: This page has some detail on reserves:
http://www.planetside-universe.com/p-planetside-reserves-faq-64.htm

[Mega_AL]

oh nice page! i just cant wait to buy it! A few years(?) back when planetside was new i got a 7-day free play time with pc gamer, i really liked it and there were so many players! Anyway since the game is so old now, is there still loads of players playing? I thought this game had lost all players when it got old?

[Hamma]

Not as many as there once was - but still plenty for fun ;)

[Mega_AL]

But theres still 1000's of players on each team, right?
I mean its not like theres 250 players on each team. That would be boring.

[Hamma]

No idea what the numbers are - it's pretty hard to tell.

Where there used to be 4 or 5 large battles going on at once there are usually only 1 or 2 now and many times they are 3 way.

[Mega_AL]

theres different servers too right? i guess the european server is more empty than the us server? Or is there only one server, or do all servers link together somehow?

[Hamma]

3 Servers US East US West and Europe.

US East = Emerald
US West = Markov
Europe = Werner

I don't know the population differences on the servers.

[Marsman]

Well if you consider your team to be people on the same continent, you are limited by pop-lock. I think, (someone correct me if wrong) in a even three way between all empires on a single continent, it works out to about 166 players per empire for a total capacity of 500 players on a single continent.
So yes, in that sense you coud be talking 250 players of your team in the same place at the same time against 250 players of an enemy empire.

However, potentially there could be as many as 10 such fights occuring in the "world" - universe, i.e. on 10 continents, for a server maximum of aprox 5000 players. (and yes, they did stress the servers up near the 5000 player limit during tests) True, we are no where near that number, but a typical day in planetside sees at least one pop-locked continent with several smaller battles on the other continents and even occationally two pop-locked. Obviously there is still plenty of room for more players.