Where do you plan to specialize?

[Damianamaru]

Obviously, as we actually get to play the game and try out different stuff everything is liable to change. But which certs/skills/classes do you guys currently intend to spend most of your time on?

I myself plan on working on specializing as a sabotage infiltrator and mosquito pilot.

[Pepsi]

Galaxy/Sunderer pilot. Engineer/Medic classes.

Full support. All day, er' day.

[Sledgecrushr]

I intend on specializing in my outfits air wing. Specifically as a fast attack fighter jockey. I want to be able to perform air superiority, indirect cluster bombing, and air support for our ground forces using the available air to ground weapons. I have just recently bought a very nice hota flight stick from thrustmaster. I am going all in on PS2.

[Pancake]

Reaver, Galaxy, Liberator and Engineer, Light Assault

Lots of Flying. Lots of Repairing. Lots of Killing.

[willaguy]

I want to see how the command certification tree works before I make any final decisions. But I'll probably cert in the Scythe and the Medic, also, does anyone know if the Medic gets an AR like the Engy does?

[GreatMazinkaise]

Hi-Mobility Engie that moonlights as a DC MAX with a CDL for both Prowlers and Sunderers. Might have to give the Lightning a go as an AA platform, but it appears useless otherwise.

[Noivad]

Squad leader, Platoon leader Outfit Leader, are primary, Light Assult for the unit type, Mosquito, as my transport only.

[Comet]

DItto on the flying for me. All air vehicles and engineer.

[haticK]

Scythe and then it depends if I like Light or Heavy Assault more

[AzureWatcher]

Medic with a splash of Heavy Assault.

I might flirt with the Scythe a little bit, but probably not too much.

[Damianamaru]

Looks like flying is going to be pretty popular.

Anyone else considering infiltrator? I feel like it's going to be pretty much hit or miss with the infil at this point. Sniping wasn't all that great in PS1 (compared to other certs) and I haven't got a good idea how effective it would be to sneak around blowing generators up. Either way, it's fun stuff.

[ruskyandrei]

Engineer (with special emphasis on turrets <3 ) + Lightning / Vanguard certs.

Later will go for some Liberator gunner certs, and maybe a bit into Reaver certs as well.

[Cotadz]

Reaver, Galaxy, Liberator and Engineer, Light Assault

Lots of Flying. Lots of Repairing. Lots of Killing.


New Best Friend

[SUBARU]

Engineer/Galaxy then everything else

[Dubious]

atm infil and lightning to start with, dont realy like air vehicles
maybe sunderer if it can cloak itself when parked
not read so much about the game..

and/or max

but i can change my mind when i get to try it out in beta

[Emperor Newt]

Most likely tank driver. For infantry I haven't not settled yet, although getting something with AA weaponry seems likely, which surely limits choices.

[Spiritoffire]

Mosquito fighter interceptor with engineering for combat CE when the skies are too contested.

[Blue Sam]

Scythe, then Medic, then Command. Might move some command stuff forward if it's needed to increase outfit size (unlikely, but possible).

[HEISTT]

Once I 'get' the flying controls I will be mostly focusing on Mosquito, Logistics (Galaxy/Sunderer) and finally Infiltrator (sniping) skills. I've heard it was harder than flying in BF3, so I will have to take my sweet time practicing flying. :D

[krakendoom]

I plan on Cert inf for long range sniping, see just how far you can kill from, 4k draw distances it would be cool to get kills from that far out....pretty epic too, And engineer probably with shotty certs so long range and up close and personal. After that probably look in to pimping my prowler....yes i'm going TR

[fb III IX ca IV]

PS2 is going to be a FPS and a combat flight simulator :D I think I will play engineer/medic on the ground, and be in a Scythe in the air.

[Tribu]

Support enginer and pilot.

[Rico Suave]

Here is the problem, I like to do everything. I fly, I tank, I drive, I gun, I heal, I resupply, etc etc. There's going to be so much to do I'm going to have that kid in a candy shop moment. But if we went from past games and experiences (note: never played PS1), I love blowing up everyone else's vehicles, they can walk like the rest of us.

Hopefully I don't pull a "fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

[Littleman]

It depends on how the medic works out. I suspect he'll be able to bring more to a squad than simply heals and revives, such as his aegis shield generator being a good method of keeping harm from ever coming to his allies as just one example. But I will be working on the HA class for sure.

I'll be looking very much into the MBT's and air superiority fighters this time around too. In Planetside there were flaws I didn't like: MBT's I couldn't gun and drive simultaneously, and air craft mechanics devolved dog fighting into boring circle strafing contests.

[Hobitt]

Assasination, recon, sabotage, stealth

[NoDachi]

I guess I'll settle on two characters / accounts.

My primary would be a Vanguard specialist. While I'll also want a TR HA / SL specialist for well, dakka.

[TR Oakley]

Everyone and their grandmothers seem to be going aircraft piloting (can't blame them, it looks sweet) I wanted to do that as well, but oversaturated airmarket isn't fun.
I will be going Light Assault / Engineer and focus on certing the Prowler.

[Ghstmarauder]

Engineer, MAXes, and probably mounting AA Turrets on a Lightning to take care of the pesky aircav

[CidHighwind]

Full command tree + Vanguard/Armor Tree. Oh hey there Mr. Rommel...

[SFJake]

Here is the problem, I like to do everything. I fly, I tank, I drive, I gun, I heal, I resupply, etc etc. There's going to be so much to do I'm going to have that kid in a candy shop moment. But if we went from past games and experiences (note: never played PS1), I love blowing up everyone else's vehicles, they can walk like the rest of us.

Hopefully I don't pull a "fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

I feel the same. Might be hard to decide what cert to get when you can't get everything at once, though.

[Hamma]

Haven't decided yet. :D

I was a flyer mainly in PS1 but I really LOVE infantry combat in this game.

[ExplodingSilver]

Scythe and squad leading

[BlueSkies]

Sniper/Medic + Reaver most likely.

does anyone know if the Medic gets an AR like the Engy does?

Skip to 30:40. He switches to combat medic and customizes the Gauss Rifle with scope and grenade launcher.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=017I9ghLsYA

[DarkChiron]

Assasination, recon, sabotage, stealth

I plan on this as well. How much time I spend on whichever roles will depend on how well those cloaks work. It sounds like if you go for the melee-centered customization the cloak is indefinite and complete. But we'll see.

[Solidblock]

It depends on how deep the squad based combat is in the game. My prospective outfit is mainly an armoured spearhead, but I would love to provide some air support in the form of a liberator being the pilot. However, I keep getting the feeling theair will be saturated, bad for a liberator, so I dould be playing on the ground.

On the ground, I want to feel part of a specialised squad, be it a hacking team, but I'm even more hopeful of being in a dedicated squad of engineers, making a certain point completely impenetrable with series of turrets and a maze of AT mines. If recon in the game is something valued more in this game, a spotting and sniping team would be incredible.

Sorry for the long post, I just have so much I'd like to do haha!

[Shinjorai]

I want to focus on infiltrator, not so much sniping but as a cloaker infiltrating bases and hacking gens and anything else i can get my hands on. When im not doing that ill be providing intel to my outfit/empire. Im really hoping they have rifles for the infiltrator other than sniper rifles, or at least some semi auto sniper rifles, if they have those im set.

When im not playing infiltrator ill probably be playing medic and engineer. So i can help my team out, whichever is needed the most. Ill mess around with flying and tanking some to get a feel for it to learn how to do it, but will probably at the start just focus on infantry, because like most of this thread reads, a TON of people will be in the air, so theyre gonna need people on the ground.

Im gonna practice until i get as good as i can at the infiltration gig. Dont know why that appeals so much to me but just sounds like a blast. I think the reason is because in this game infiltrators have an actual job, instead of how they end up in most shooters, being very sittuational or stuck being snipers. Now dont get me wrong i like sniping too, im not knocking it, or its usefulness, but you know yourself if you ever played bf3,or any of the games like that most of the time the recon classes end up sitting somewhere out in right field not really helping their team, even when i snipe i try to be helpful and not just sit in one spot the whole map a million miles away on some mountain or something.

I like the way this is settup because of the size of the maps you can actually do some flanking, real flanking not that shit they sell on cereal boxes lol. All jokes aside though alot of times in games the best flanking routes are blocked because the map ends there and if you go off the edge of the map its considered almost like exploiting or cheating , so itll be nice to have that tactical option that even though it may be a longer walk its safer and a better option in which youre less likely to be seen and your mission of sneaking behind enemy lines successful.

All that aside my main focus I plan to make on teamwork. Thats whats got me excited the most about this game, the possibility for real teamwork. I'm very tired of supposedly team based games that end up being you and a bunch of random people that even though theyre in a squad might as well not be because they dont cover each other, dont revive etc.I think these games can best be described as single player games with mulitplayer elements. Its sad to say but in most BF3 games id trade my pub teammates in for a bot set on the slowest and lowest difficulty setting, just because i knew theyd actually help instead of just shove me into an enemy or block the door or bitch about hacks for an hour lol. So I plan to focus on being the best team player i can.

[The Admiral]

I plan to spend most of my time with vehicles, flying the galaxy primarily with some mosq and prowler driving and maybe a bit of infantry action as well if the engineer gun isn't underpowered.

[Rabaan]

Engineer, anti air lightning possibly reaver anti ground

[MasterMind]

Engineer, with my magrider.

Hopefully they will allow you to sidegrade to let the passenger control the main gun.

[Sanfard]

I will hunt down and eliminate enemy Infiltrators, especially Snipers, with extreme prejudice as I did in PlanetSide 1. Especially so if they are Terran Republic.

If they add a cloaking mechanism to the Flash (like the Wraith in PlanetSide 1) I'll probably be fooling around with that most of the time harassing enemies from behind the front line.

If they ever add anything like the Phantasm to PlanetSide 2, ohhhh. That thing was sweet. Instant squad appears from out of nowhere and just goes haywire, especially if you have multiple Phantasms. I would dig that.

[NCLynx]

Since pilots and drivers are pretty taken care of in my outfit I'll likely go the HA/MAX route.

[derito]

I'll give the reaver and light assault a look. Many people want to do it but if the flying is as hard as the ones who played say, it may seriously limit the number of pilots.

[Rivenshield]

Combat engineering. EVERY Terran should know how to lay land mines and wield a glue gun, or they're doing it wrong.

The Mossie also intrigues me. Our armor may be gimped, but having the fastest aircraft means the Terran Republic will rule the skies -- IF we have enough people who are interested in pure air-to-air. I never learned to fly in any game I've ever played, but I'll learn for this one. I'll even go get a decent joystick.

[therandomone]

Assasination, recon, sabotage, stealth

^This guy knows what's up.

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."

[Hobitt]

^This guy knows what's up.

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."

This quote describes exactly as i feel nothing beats the satisfaction of stabbing your enemy while he is unaware

[Steambot]

I'll probably be a solo HA to start off with at least, interspersed with pinches of AA MAX. If I join a squad, I might play Medic or do some sniping. If I ever drive a tank, I'd be focusing on blowing aircraft out of the air with tank shells.

[regisp]

I plan on being a good person to rely on for support, as well as being a combat medic, extra combat :).

As for vehicles, I'm gonna avoid the flying crap, cause I am terrible at flying. I'll focus more on the Sunderer for my outfit (whenever I join one :doh:)

[Sephirex]

Engineer/Scythe Pilot

[Zebasiz]

So much to choose from!
But I've really been feeling Engineer, Medic, Long Range Sniper. Perhaps a bit of Galaxy and Sunderer driving in there.

[Emperor]

Command certs primarily, and a ton of Scythe. One of the things that has me so excited for this game is being able to customize a dedicated air-to-air fighter, so that's one of the big things I'm going to focus on.

[therandomone]

This quote describes exactly as i feel nothing beats the satisfaction of stabbing your enemy while he is unaware

Couldn't agree more. There is nothing more gratifying than bringing a knife to a gun fight and winning.

[Damianamaru]

I want to focus on infiltrator, not so much sniping but as a cloaker infiltrating bases and hacking gens and anything else i can get my hands on. When im not doing that ill be providing intel to my outfit/empire. Im really hoping they have rifles for the infiltrator other than sniper rifles, or at least some semi auto sniper rifles, if they have those im set.

love it. same here.

[Superbus]

Going to focus on air combat with a bit of light assault at first.

[Doxy]

Support Engineer(repairs/turrets/shields)/Either Lightning or Magrider as my transportation.

[fod]

i will be putting all my certs into vehicles (tanks/transports/lib) first
then maybe engineer and max
then once those are fairly well done maybe some HA and infil

but vehicle driving will be my priority :)

[Sikee Atric]

Gonna be a Engineer with a Sunderer for wheels. Aiming to be the mobile repair point myself....

[explosive]

Mosquito and medic for sure.

[StumpyTheOzzie]

Galaxy/Sunderer pilot. Engineer/Medic classes.

Full support. All day, er' day.

I hear dat! Fo realz.

Might go up in command a bit also depending on that bonus XP for squaddies and who else in the outfit is doing it.

Edit: Actually, reading how many of you are going for air superiority, i might specialise in AA! :)

[infected]

i thought we were all going to play 80 hours a week and fully cert into everything?!

yeah, i hear soe say it will take years to cert everything... but is that timeframe in regard to a casual (majority) player's playtime? because there's a major gap between them and those who will play 24/7.

i plan to cert everything. i'm curious how much i can cert if i play 24/7. :)

i hope they don't intend to implement some ridiculous diminishing returns on how long it takes to gain another cert after x amount of certs gained. that has always proven to be a bad game design choice. i think soe is doing it right by allowing all vehicles to be useable by default w/o certs, so less reason to implement diminishing returns.

[StumpyTheOzzie]

You ever played Eve?

Man... that was some epic timewasting. To get a fully kitted mining ship with uber mining lasers took something like 18 months. And that was just the miner, then you had the battleships (like 8 types) and the scouts and the interceptors and the cannons, missiles, combat lasers, drones, marksmanship, leadership, self repairs, shields, salvage...

I think it took 27 years to "fully spec" in everything in that game. And then they brought out an expansion with new skills, weapons and ships.

[wraithverge]

it's all so awesome I can't say. I think I'll drop enough points in tanks so I'm never waiting on a timer, If there's a closeup assassin then def cloaker, I loved sticking my amp to their forehead and assassinating people. I'm probably going to make a mosquito as close to a wasp as possible, then as close to an a10 as possible, and during this entire time, I'll be leveling engineering deployables.

I guess what I'm saying is I don't plan to specialize there is too much amazing stuff for me to even consider it.

[infected]

but eve doesn't give you exp for playing. its 100% hands-off leveling. the only way you can speed eve leveling is through boosting your stats.

ps2 won't be like that. you'll gain offline and online depending on your efforts. so yeah, not totally worth comparing. i'd expect you will be heavily compensated for your online time in ps2.

[StumpyTheOzzie]

but eve doesn't give you exp for playing. its 100% hands-off leveling. the only way you can speed eve leveling is through boosting your stats.

ps2 won't be like that. you'll gain offline and online depending on your efforts. so yeah, not totally worth comparing. i'd expect you will be heavily compensated for your online time in ps2.

Yes, all true, but they did say they were modelling the levelling system off games like Eve.

I would expect training in everything will take longer than we have before the next expansion.

[Flaropri]

Galaxy/Sunderer pilot. Engineer/Medic classes.

Full support. All day, er' day.

This.

Although I may splash in some Infiltrator or even LA to provide indirect support behind enemy lines (spotting, hacking/blowing gens, etc.)

[BraavikStal]

Heavy assault/medic and Prowler/mossie or libby pilot.

Heavy weapons all day long baby!

[Timealude]

Galaxy and Inf/Eng Class infy with the sabotage and eng mostly for repairing

[maskedskull]

I'm mostly aiming to go Pilot with a support class for ground combat however my backup would be Sniping/Recon with the Inflitrator

[Rasui]

Infiltrator... all of it.

Of course there will be a million wannabe sniper-ninja's at first. Most of them will realize they actually have to be good to be of any use and quit. Then the real hunters of men will remain.

[NMnine]

TANKS

[Pillar of Armor]

Liberator Pilot / Mag Driver / Eng

Always been a huge vehicle fan.

[Ratstomper]

Infiltrator mostly; recon and sniping to cover my squad. Hacking and other sabotage when possible. Also reaver pilot.

Also plan to play engineer a lot, but intend to try everything... :D

[Eyeklops]

I plan to specialize in the below listed skill tree.
Canned goods->whoopass->opening

[SilverPaladin]

Thinking Combat Medic and Sunderer myself. Gonna be driving the whaaambulance. I may try my hand at the Galaxy, but I must admit I'm a pretty terrible pilot.

[Vydofnir]

I plan on specializing in LA more than anything else, but I definitely want to spend at least some certs on all of the infantry classes. As far as vehicles are concerned, I would like to be able to get involved in air superiority if the situation demands it, so I will probably invest a bit there. I'm very curious to see what the Flash has to offer in terms of certifications, and I may explore Sunderer if there aren't enough people going that rout.

The command tree is appealing to me, but I'm not sure that I can convince people to take me seriously enough to let me tell them what to do. After I've played the game a while, if it seems like I've got any talent as a squad leader, I'll probably start investing certs into command. I just don't want to throw points away if I can't lead or others won't follow.

[Vetto]

Max Trooper.

[eybro]

Light assault with red dot carbine and the prowler
I'm one of the few that won't cert aircraft straight away :P

[Dart]

Command certs primarily, and a ton of Scythe. One of the things that has me so excited for this game is being able to customize a dedicated air-to-air fighter, so that's one of the big things I'm going to focus on.

The same. In fact I suspect DT lynch me if I cert anything but command stuff to begin with.

[Jownzorz]

I'm going to pour all of my points in to Command stuff right off the bat. As Dart said, my outfit would be pissed if I didn't. I do like that there will be a smaller number of commander for PS2 (hopefully).

[Toastyz]

I'm part of a Spec Ops outfit that focuses on capturing bases from behind enemy lines, so I'll be putting lots of certifications into Infiltrator, and if they add a cloak for the Flash I'll be doing that too. For front lines fighting, I'm going with Mosquito, Liberator gunner, and Heavy Assault. TR FTW!!! :groovy:

[Lythca Frost]

Like many of the above, I'm also planning on speccing out my Reaver. Though, with the airfighters high popularity, perhaps the AA Lightning is the way to go :P

I'm also thinking, I may go Light Assault to compliment my Reaver (if the Ejection Seat otherwise takes up useful customization). Otherwise, with the new TTK, the infiltrator is looking like a fun class to play.

[GLaDOS]

I plan to specialize in the below listed skill tree.
Canned goods->whoopass->opening

Awww yeah baby. That's what I'm talking 'bout.

[TheApoc]

engi, red & purple killer, anti tank/air

[pengalor]

Definitely working towards the 'rogue' sort of role they talked about for Infiltrators. I have faith in my sniping so I'm not too worried about pumping points into that right away and it would be nice to have that backup role for assaulting bases.

[Emperor]

The same. In fact I suspect DT lynch me if I cert anything but command stuff to begin with.
Someone's gotta take the command certs after all, while everyone else picks the 'fun' stuff. (Though, commanding can be the most rewarding in the long run!)

[Ravenclaw]

I really no idea what I would focus on, I love to have lot choices in games, so likely be spread out across lots classes, tho I may dedicate more time to medic or engineer to start with as I like support roles...


Oh and maybe some anti aircraft weapons, just because I can't fly and I jealous, and like to take out on them by shooting them down.

[WVoneseven]

Scout/Sniper Inf point man probably take a flash a few minutes ahead of the raid team, set up post, spot and take down some higher priority targets mid fight. If there is ever a wing suit base jumping cert for inf i'll spec into that for fast entry into bases from clifftop nests.

[DrShadowSML]

I'd like to focus on Reaver and Sniper. MAXes also look awesome with the customization possibilities!

[Boomhowser]

Vanguard & Lightning / Engineer & Infiltrator would be main choices though light assault will be looked at once game starts

[Figment]

Specialise? Heh.

Apparently I will have access to a MAX and aircraft now.


That makes me feel like a zergling and a generalist, not a specialist.

If you mean, where will you tune your character FIRST, probably infiltration, but only if it's worthwhile and I can drop the sniper rifle in favour of full time cloaking and infiltration. Otherwise I don't know how long I'll be able to enjoy the game if my class is balanced on the basis of being a @$*(&$#^$ melee range sniper.

Beyond that, as OL of an outfit, command certs. Probably Sunderer certs next.

[Solidblock]

Specialise? Heh.

Apparently I will have access to a MAX and aircraft now.


That makes me feel like a zergling and a generalist, not a specialist.

If you mean, where will you tune your character FIRST, probably infiltration, but only if it's worthwhile and I can drop the sniper rifle in favour of full time cloaking and infiltration. Otherwise I don't know how long I'll be able to enjoy the game if my class is balanced on the basis of being a @$*(&$#^$ melee range sniper.

Beyond that, as OL of an outfit, command certs. Probably Sunderer certs next.


Looking forward to it Figment.

[ThermalReaper]

Jetpack, scythe, probably medic. And Lasher.

[Thunderhawk]

In the following order:-

LA
Scythe
Heavy Assault
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.
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[SteinB]

Mainly Engineer/Sunderer, with Galaxy and Command certs as needed.

Organizing a team of Engineers to create and maintain forward operating bases. I want to be the fortification specialist that disproves the 'Galaxies won't work as a forward spawn point' faction.

[Nausicaa]

For me infil class with ps2 wraith (whatever the atv is called) and a side of maxing to go.

The PS2 infil class has my two favorite certs rolled into one; sniping and cloaking, i really want to see how the class plays as well as how the certs define the different aspects of the class.

Im intruged as to how the ps2 team view the state of infils with longer/full cloaks in terms of their defined roles on the battlefield; are we going to be pure recon/dirty tricks, avoiding being seen taking down critical elements behind enemy lines or are we going to be invisible ninja assassins, sneaking about and stabbing or gunning down unsuspecting people.

[Pyreal]

First goal will be to have the biggest explosions with my shiny-purple hovertank, or maybe my shiny-purple hoverjet.

[SgtMAD]

Making ppl cry and then rage quit.

what else is there?

[HeatLegend]

As some have already pointed out: Wow that's a lot of air-freaks.

I don't blame them though, I'll most likely play a lot of reaver as well but I'm mainly gonna go Light Assault, that class just appeals to me in so many ways. That's where I'll most likely specialize at first but obviously I'm gonna go all roles whenever they're needed for my team.

[ArmedZealot]

As some have already pointed out: Wow that's a lot of air-freaks..

TBH there was already a ton of aircav in PS1, and PS2 is only making piloting more fun.

[Wakken]

Galaxy pilot and infiltrator/engineer!

[Deadeye]

Mainly Engineer/Sunderer, with Galaxy and Command certs as needed.

Organizing a team of Engineers to create and maintain forward operating bases. I want to be the fortification specialist that disproves the 'Galaxies won't work as a forward spawn point' faction.

Yeah, I'll do the same except instead of command I'll throw a few points into vanguards because I love being a tank driver (Though I hate 'just' being the tank driver, if you know what I mean).

Couple of things to note: sunderers are a lot smaller than lodestars now and we can't be hacked out of our vehicles anymore! YAY!:groovy: Going to make those forward repair posts a lot easier to maintain.

[Reizod]

Air support/combat for me with full certs and sidegrades as well as the Engi class.

I'm hoping with the flying being as hard as it is, that that would deter so many players wanting to be the next "Maverick". Though, in a way, that would just be more targets for me when I'm in combat mode.

[JesNC]

As some have already pointed out: Wow that's a lot of air-freaks.

First cert choice: Skyguard turret. I'm so gonna drown in XP....

Then probably Engineer infantry-related stuff, Sunderer and Infiltration - in that order.

[derito]

Well, aircrafts will probably not capture territories so the pilot count will balance itself over time.
Not to mention the difficulty to handle aircrafts properly, the AA, the resource cost and the very long cooldowns without the proper certs.

[Eyeklops]

As some have already pointed out: Wow that's a lot of air-freaks.

Makes you want to spec out AA huh?

[SleepyZombie]

Mosquito / MAX / Lib Pilot

I got ma flight stick ready =)

[Exmortius]

infiltrator, command, sniper rifles, shotguns to start.....possibly dropping some certs in prowler so i got something to drive around in. oh and definitely hacking that will be handy. so much crap i will need x.x need boomer certs too.

[FPClark]

AirCav/AirTrans