What Empire?

[Incompetent]

in an effort to start some conversation and get to know you guys, what empire are you planing to be, heres a quick once over if you need a refresher (eMa, listen to the colors)

Terran Republic: RED AND BLACK, NOT ORANGE AND GREEN, their basic philosiphy(sp?) is shoot as many bullets as possible, keep the enemy far away, and use lots of army, speed isn't important to these people.

New Conglomerate: blue and gold, NC troopers are the best for CQB, as their mostly armed with short range, area of effect weapons, taking a facility from these people won't be fun.

Vanu Sovreignty(spelled wrong): purple and blue, The Vanu are the finesse soldiers, utilizing what seem to be slower firing but deadly accurate weapons.

I plan on going TR, because i prefer their weapon selection and because i like the RED AND BLACK colorscheme.

[Hamma]

I havent put much thought into it. But in what I've read I will probably look into the Terran Republic as well ;) Seems like a good choice.

And black and red ownz

[eMaGyN]

I want to be orange and green!

lol, anyways...

Um... i dunno what i want to be... i want to see pics of the fem armor!!!

:love:
eMa

[Unregistered]

Terrain Republic is what I'm shooting for, but ti will mostly depend on where my other buds want to play.

[eMaGyN]

yes, wherever my friends play I'll join that team :)

:love:
eMa

[Isic]

Well, I don't want to wear those nasty goggles and the colours of the NC lookz mighty l337

[THrONeBeaST]

too bad you cant change colors , be red and green :)

[Rayzer]

Vanu sounds cool, though I don't know what some of your acronymn mean.

<-- n00b

I'll have to do more research. It just that everyone is always the boring old Terrans. Unfortunatly, they always seem to be the best in anygame. Its like the "all around" realm. They get average everything. But when they try to balance other realms who are good in some things and not so good in others, they always seem to fall short.

Anyway, I'm with Dane, I'll fight wherever my buds are and use the weapons I have available.

[Hamma]

o_O

[eMaGyN]

So there will be no PlanetSide skinning?

I think that kinda sucks...

:disgust:
eMa

[THrONeBeaST]

Can you pick up weapons off dead people and use them ?

[eMaGyN]

No CTF, no skinning

*sigh*

Lol, jk

:love:
eMa

[Hamma]

Originally posted by THrONeBeaST
Can you pick up weapons off dead people and use them ?

I think so. Not sure about skinning.. probably not givven its an MMO game

[Rayzer]

They might not have full skinning but surly the will let you add badges and such to your armor to allow you to identify team mate?

I mean in DAOC we have guild cloaks, they have a crude in game builder for them, but hey, its better than nothing. I'm sure the will have something like that in game for patches and such.

Lets face it, lack of skinning limits the cheating possibilities. I would rather have no skinning than rampant skin cheats :|

[Hamma]

True, things like bright yellow glowing enemy's are lose

[Isic]

Well, colours will be used for rank and you can make your own outfit colours to some extand, with logo I believe.

[Rayzer]

This is a USA board, its color :p

[Unregistered]

WooooooooooooHoooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!

[THrONeBeaST]

w00t

be cool with a higher rank get different armor , that way some gunt has to salute you :p

[Isic]

Well, your high ranking ass will most likely be with low BEP. CEP will make you rise up in rank but that is most of it basicly. Weak asses are the ones without BEP.

[Manitou]

Originally posted by Rayzer
Anyway, I'm with Dane, I'll fight wherever my buds are and use the weapons I have available.

^^^^ What Rayz said... I am where my brothers-in-arms may be found.

[Unregistered]

So then Terrian Republic it is!!!

[Kaikou]

I'm gonna be flying dropships...so as long as the empire has dropships, I'm there

[Unregistered]

They all get Drop Ships.

[THrONeBeaST]

Along has im playing with my friends and love one , ill be there :)

[Mauser]

I'm gonna be a medic/stealth guy for NC. NC get lots of shotguns, but they also get the most powerful assault rifle: Teh Gauss!

[Unregistered]

Well as long as you don't shoot it at me it's all good :D

[Arglaar]

Hmm... since all of me brothers are saying that they'll be joining whatever empire that their other brothers join.... I wonder who is going to make the command decision for everyone?

Who will take the lead that others will follow?


I'd be interested to see a list of the percieved Strengths and Weaknesses associated with each different Empire. Perhaps one of the PSI veterans could give us a Quick synopsis...

[Rayzer]

Who cares about strengths and weaknesses as long as we look sexy? :p

[Arglaar]

"It is better to look good, than to feel good, and dahling, Joo Look Mahvelous!"

[Rayzer]

LW4?

[Arglaar]

Originally posted by Rayzer
LW4?


???
:confused:

[Rayzer]

Lethal Weapon 4?

[Unregistered]

Sounds like a Billy Crystal quote to me.

[Arglaar]

Billy Crystal, Saturday Night Live

[Zarparchior]

Sorry to break this up... but I had to add my $2.43, okay?!
Alrighty then... let's compare!

What we know about the three empires from a story/roleplay perspective:

Terran Republic - Still loyal to the rest of the Republic, despite being seperated from the rest of the empire via the closing of the wormhole. It is assumed they are to be slightly more of a millitary dominated society then the other forces, much like Sparta from ancient Greece. But that is assumed only.

New Conglomerate - Wants a freer society. That's it. This could mean that they are trying to break away from the tyrannical TR to form a system of government similar to the US, or it could mean they're a bunch of yahoos who hate rules, and are fighting for anarchy. It's probably not the latter, but it is not specified. Probably akin to the Athens of ancient Greece.

Vanu Sovereignty - Wants to monopolize on the alien technology. Whether this is for the benefit of mankind or to enslave it is not specified. Probably will be most like the corporation of Microsoft during the early 21st century.

From a weapons standpoint (minus vehicles, as I beleive we haven't been informed of all the vehicles yet):

Terran Republic - Focuses on a machine gun type strategy. Seems to have more moderate damage, low delay, and medium ranged weapons. This type of weapon is usually good in most conditions. Only problem I can see is that they'll eat ammo like a bunch of termites traped in an old wooden antique store. This means it may be expensive to keep ammo supplied, and/or ammo will take a lot of their inventry space.

New Conglomerate - Has more of a shotgun approach. High damage/delay, short range items. Not to say that all of their weapons are high delay or short range, but it seems to focus on that. As someone said earlier, it will be difficult to take a base from them if you need to go inside the building. Of course, in the open their uber shotguns will not be as useful... unless you hapen to let them creep up right next to you.

Vanu Sovereignty - Uses energy weapons... From what little knowledge we have on this, it seems it will either use no ammo, have a type of "battery," or all of their weapons will use same kind of ammo-type (energy clip?). There doesnt seem to be any recoil penalty on these types of weapons. Their pistol is high damage. but short range. The rifle/anti-vehicle types have long range and medium/high damage respectively. Also, they have a strange weapon which will inflict medium damage if hit with actual projectile and light damage if close to it. As to the pro's and con's of this... your guess is as good as mine.

What this displays in writting: we know NOTHING of these empires! All we have is what they're supposed to look like and what kind of hand held weapons they'll have. So... as of right now... if we decide exactly what empire we'll be, it's like making a decision on which clothes we're going to wear in 6 months from today. We'll probably have some of the same clothes we do now, but we'll also have some new ones. And some of our old clothes may get holes in them, or some friend may come over to your house, like that shirt, and STEAL it! Then you'll have to hunt him down and beat the snot outta him because he didn't ask. But anyway... yeah. Not enough info.

Based on what knowledge of the above I have, I say I'll go Terran. They look DAMN cool, and before they took off the two empire pics, I liked the way their heavy armor suits looked. Well-rounded. Pun intended. :p

And to answer someone's observation: no, Terran seems to be the least chosen right now. I've seen a MILLION people all shout NC in one unified (yet slightly ugly) voice. Well, maybe not a million, but at least 10. They say they look... cool. Ergh. Don't know what they're smokin' but hey. It's what makes the world go round.'

~Zarparchior of the Great Central Sun.

[Incompetent]

Originally posted by Arglaar
I'd be interested to see a list of the percieved Strengths and Weaknesses associated with each different Empire. Perhaps one of the PSI veterans could give us a Quick synopsis...

Here (http://planetside.station.sony.com/weapons.jsp) is the page with the weapon listings. (yeah, someone sorta refered to me as a vet)

[Incompetent]

damnit, beat me to it.
But i have a link to vehicles (http://www.planetside.info/forum/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=728)

[Rayzer]

Is it me, or do those pages have a Starship Troopers feel?

Love the movie.

[Unregistered]

Well I am really leaning toward the Terrain Republic. It's just my stlye to want to crush the Tree Hugging Free Thinking Hippie New Conglomerate, and what can I say about the Vanu Sovereignty? they'll be easy to spot on the battle field with there Tin Foil hats (so the aliens can't read their minds), and their Star Trek wanna be phasers. Beam ya up??? I'll beam you straight to hell!!!!

Thanks to both Zarparchior, and Incompetent for the great posts.

[Mauser]

A very good website for any of you who want to read some stuff about planetside is http://plaza.ufl.edu/hower/PS/PS.htm


I suggest you guys check out CrazyMikes Weapon Analysis.

[Zarparchior]

lol. Glad to be of service! I think I'm gonna like these boards... people actually have a coolness factor here.

But more importantly... you have an original smiley!

:nazi:

w00t!

~Zarparchior of the Great Central Sun

[Hamma]

More original smilies coming im sure ;)

[Rayzer]

interesting writeup

[THrONeBeaST]

more smilies please :) the :hi: one would be nice :)


:love:

[Unregistered]

And get a real eek.

[Zarparchior]

:confused:

[Zarparchior]

Bleh... Can you change the confused smiley to have white question marks over it's head? I mean... it looks like it's just sitting there... looking sad when it's really just confoosee ray'd.

[Hamma]

indeed we need to remedy that

[eMaGyN]

Everyone just give Hamma Some time!
/me jumps infront of Hamma (who is cowering in the corner) and cracks her whip... forcing the heathens back!

RAWR

:love:
eMa

[THrONeBeaST]

/me grabs and Sex0rz Ema while the others get hamma :p

[Flashingfish]

Well here is an analysis of the weapons by Crazymike....

http://plaza.ufl.edu/hower/PS/Weapons.htm

-edit- Oops mauser already posted that.

And I think that actually the NC are more the all rounder empire ^_^

[DirtyBird1]

Well since I want to be a Sniper or a Galaxy pilot which are both common pool I think I am going to be the Vanu because I think they look the coolest and I really like that Beamer.

[Zarparchior]

Good ol' Crazymike and Privatemonkey...

I can't remember which one (I believe it was Private?), but one of them made a huge deal over PS not having a sphere of influence, and not being able to capture islands from a strategical standpoint... I guess the dev's where listening, because lo and behold! we have them now!

Man, this game is gonna be sooooo awesome! I can hardly contain my liquids.

[Incompetent]

Originally posted by DirtyBird
I am going to be the Vanu because I think they look the coolest and I really like that Beamer.

i bet your gonna like it alot more when i kill you from twice as far as you can shoot with my repeater

[Unregistered]

I'll be the guy in the Heavy Armor blowing things up, which I'm sure will on more then one occasion include blowing myself up.

[Manitou]

Okay, my question then, is who is going to lead this band of Terran soldiers?? Who will be racking up the CEPs???

:D

[Unregistered]

Beats me.

[THrONeBeaST]

i'll Help , just have to give me time to figure the game out :)

[Zarparchior]

I figure I'll do a little bit of everything... or whatever interests me at least. Commanding sounds coo, but difficult. If I do end up being some huge tactical leader, though, I would probably want to be 3rd down the importance rank. You may ask why being the 3rd most legendary leader would be better than being 1st or 2nd?... Well, I say this: Because being 1st makes you a HUGE target! If you're that high in rank, then either you've been around for a long ass time and know your stuff or... you "gimped" your character with CEP.

And as much as the wannabe commanders would love to focus on CEP, that'll deprive them of the also much needed BEP which will in turn force them to either stay behind while their Outfit takes a base or die early on in the battle, due to their less then impressive combat skills and/or lack of BEP. Or at least that's how I see it...

Also, I do see one huge problem with the CEP concept in general. So, I give this message to all future commanders. Sure, you may have a high rank, feel beefy, and actually be smart enough to lead people... but will they actually follow your crazy crusade when you say we've waited long enough and that now is the time to strike the evil forces that have occupied your former territory, taking back what's rightfully ours? Will they rally to your call? Will they raise their eyebrows in disbelief? Or will they just drop to the floor, laughing their asses off at what a complete moron you are? I think we all know answer:

:rofl:

[Unregistered]

Well if it's Yasser Arafat and he wants me to attack a Bus with Dynamite straped to my chest I'll be doing the :rofl: part fopr sure :D

[Manitou]

A true leader will instill his vision or goal in a way that the people around him view it as their goal also. Once this is achieved, they will follow their/his goal to the death.

[Unregistered]

Damn Sheep!!!

[THrONeBeaST]

MANITOU FOR LEADER!!! :thumbsup: :)

[Zarparchior]

How would you do that if you're surrounded by slackers? :D

***

"And so, we must make a sneak attack on the enemy and use surprise to compensate for our small numbers."

*mutters of how diccicult it is to stay hidden*

"Alright then... we can make a series of hit and run tactics instead, and then-"

*groans about how running around that much is more work than its worth*

"FINE! How about we wait here for them to come to us so we can have a quick trip back to our spawn point?!"

*murmurs and nods of agreement*

"...I quit."

[Unregistered]

:lol:

"But Sir, their shooting at people over there."

[Zarparchior]

:rofl:

Exactly. :D

Also...
Originally posted by Zarparchior
*mutters of how diccicult it is to stay hidden*
:doh:

Doh! I hate it when things get diccicult.

[Unregistered]

In the words of the imortal Homer Simpson: Doh!

[AltaEgo]

Terran Republic are your best bet. Decent colours, nice array of weapons, not to mention good vehicles. :trrocks:

Diccicult? Say 'wah? :p

[TheN00b]

Holy Thread Resurrection, Batman :eek: ! Alta, can you read post dates??? :doh:

[Incompetent]

...

This thread is a year and a half old you fucking moron, why couldn't you let it die in peace.

[Eldanesh]

Omg necromancy.

[Shalashaska]

LMAO :rofl: Nah leave him alone hes obviously new, anyway its good to remember the past ;)

[HunterKiller]

Your new too Shalashaska.

[Shalashaska]

LOL your mighty perceptive i'll give you that, my account is new but i am not, anyway we all make mistakes so lets let this post RIP once again ;)

[Onizuka-GTO]

I'm just wondering how many pages back did he go though just to necrorise this thread.... :lol: ....

[Shalashaska]

I'm just wondering how many pages back did he go though just to necrorise this thread.... :lol: ....

I know this is a rhetorical question but I'll answer anyway.....339 too be exact.

[Onizuka-GTO]

I know this is a rhetorical question but I'll answer anyway.....339 too be exact.

:eek: :eek: :eek:

[Jaged]

Edit: I apoligize for my stupid friend that posted on my name.

[AztecWarrior]

I have never seen such vile, evil thread resurrection, ever. ONE AND A HALF YEARS! 339 PAGES! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING?

Oni-GTO, he's British, go and kill him please.

[Onizuka-GTO]

I have never seen such vile, evil thread resurrection, ever. ONE AND A HALF YEARS! 339 PAGES! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING?

Oni-GTO, he's British, go and kill him please.

Killing him is just too barbaric. I'll just take away all his alcohol, his seasonal football ticket to his local ground, unplug his internet and cable/sky TV, and ban him from all the Pubs within a 20Mile radius.
:lol:
Now that's TORTURE!!! :rolleyes:

[NoSurrender]

wow who the hell is stupid enough to go back like 18 pages look this up. post and go hmm i contributed to the community. he needs to be stabbed with nails until he gets wounds. then salt poured over and have the stab wounds periodicaly slashed.

[AltaEgo]

No I didnt realise the date. :p But atleast its caused a stir and brought some life onto this empty thread. Just sending any messages to any post, despite the date. :huh:

[Onizuka-GTO]

Just sending any messages to any post, despite the date. :huh:

So....by what your saying........you were deliberately sending :spam: :spam: :spam: :spam: ? :rolleyes:

[HawkEye]

:lol: funny stuff

[Baneblade]

AE here likes to show up for the war late...

[I Hate Pants]

Omg necromancy.

:rofl:

[UncleDynamite]

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/forumfun/misc11.jpg

*ponders*

"By posting this, I'm kicking the thread up as much as everyone else..."

*smacks self*