Preservation of PlanetSide 1 - User Sandbox Servers

[Neurotoxin]

Hello everybody!

I have a proposal that is quite simple and humble. If PlanetSide eventually becomes discontinued, I would request that SOE kindly provides server and client files required for fans to set up their own legitimate Sandbox server for PlanetSide.

[ODonnell]

Everything has an end. Planetside had a good run, but just like all things in life, you eventually have to say goodbye.

[robocpf1]

Everything has an end. Planetside had a good run, but just like all things in life, you eventually have to say goodbye.

That's the silliest thing I've ever heard, we're on the Internet! :D

[Crator]

Yeah, I doubt SOE will want to hand over secret in-house built code to the masses. Have you ever heard of http://www.swgemu.com... They basically reverse engineered Star Wars Galaxies... Crazy stuff....

[Neurotoxin]

That's the silliest thing I've ever heard, we're on the Internet! :D

Exactly. One of my biggest issues with modern console and PC games is that there's no way to get back in once service has been discontinued. Since PlanetSide has no single-player mode, there is no way for players to get back in to do anything or even look around after the online service has been discontinued.

[Mastachief]

Let it die with dignity.

[Wahooo]

Simply, that is not something SOE does or ever has done.

[kaffis]

SOE probably doesn't want to give people the tools to "compete" with itself.

And before anybody objects that PS2 is way better and more awesome, so it wouldn't offer any competition, two things to note: if you're objecting, clearly you want to continue playing PS1 to some level. SOE would rather channel that desire into playing PS2. Secondly, go look at user stats for the original Counter-Strike -- it's still going as strong as Counter-Strike: Source. Again, SOE wants those people playing the new product.

The worst-case scenario in SOE's mind is that they release the PS1 code and allow private hosted servers, and people go to town modding it, increasing interest in not-PS2.

[Eyeklops]

Let it die with dignity.

This. A new era is coming to fruition for Planetside, we need to be looking forward, not worrying about how to handle the relics of the past.

Aside from that, what the hell would you really do with it? Planetside 1 had notoriously difficult code & assets to work with.

[ODonnell]

That's the silliest thing I've ever heard, we're on the Internet! :D

Not really. We aren't talking about a Singleplayer game. Multiplayer games and MMO's all have an end. A new or better game comes out, popularity fades, companies go bankrupt and can't support it, etc... Planetside 1 doesn't deserve to fall from glory and remain a shell of its former self living in the shadow of its potentially better, bigger, and more successful big brother. If PS2 was a total flop I could understand wanting sandbox servers, but at this time PS2 looks like everything we hoped a sequel would be.

[Krishtov]

I would like an offline mode reinstated to allow you to go and look about. Even Old Oshur.

You -can- do this with original discs...there -is- an offline mode...so I know it is in the coding.

[Baneblade]

Even if an independent server were opened, it would suck due to lack of people.

[Eyeklops]

Even if an independent server were opened, it would suck due to lack of people.

But at least you would get to play with yourself in a sandbox....ummm...wait. That didn't come out right.

[Pine]

I would assume that this would not be in the cards, for all the reasons already sited. While I dearly loved and am still playing PS, when the time comes I will be ready to make that a memory.. a very good memory.

[Neurotoxin]

Keep in mind that PS1 won't necessarily be taken down the moment PS2 is live. It may be switched to free-to-play and left running for players to see what the original was all about.

[Baneblade]

Anything is possible.

[ArcticPrism]

Has Planetside even ever had private servers made? I'd love it if someone created an emulator in the event the PS1 servers go down.

Let it die with dignity.
It's hardly letting it die with dignity when the only real thing they've done after abandoning the game years ago was nerfing the Lasher.

[Goku]

Has Planetside even ever had private servers made? I'd love it if someone created an emulator in the event the PS1 servers go down.


It's hardly letting it die with dignity when the only real thing they've done after abandoning the game years ago was nerfing the Lasher.

Someone at one point had a private server, but it was never released to the point of people playing on it. As far as I remember he only played around on it to figure out more about the game. No idea how he got it running either.

[Death2All]

It would be nice, but unlikely. I recall when SWG got shut down that SOE refused to release the source code. SWG had a much bigger following than PS did, so I would really doubt they'd ever release source code/they even have a source code since they never acknowledge it's existence.

[Buggsy]

Let it die with dignity.

like SWG

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Damn thing just won't die.

I would honestly love to see PS1 "private servers". I doubt it would ever happen but it would be nice if PS2 doesn't light that spark that PS1 did.

[Baneblade]

Even with private servers, it will just be a ghost of the game we all loved. Like SWG Emu. It's nice to visit once in awhile, but it just isn't the same.

[bodypopper]

someone on here had an idea about planetside subs being incorporated into ps2 subs.personally i think this'd be a great idea.

the old bastards can have their fun,and new PS2 players can see what planetside is.

bit like a tour of a NASA rocket facility by liberals.

[ALIENationalist]

Hah, PS2 subscription doubling as a PS1 subscription. That could actually be a good way to go....

[Huntsab]

someone on here had an idea about planetside subs being incorporated into ps2 subs.personally i think this'd be a great idea.

the old bastards can have their fun,and new PS2 players can see what planetside is.

bit like a tour of a NASA rocket facility by liberals.

That sounds awesome :) Many people cannot run PS 2 at acceptable frames right now anyway.

[voc]

Its free now try it low pops due to no hacker prevention buts fun.