Lets put things in perspective...

[Saieno]

For people new to Planetside 2 trying to grasp exactly what 2,000 players means is tough. So I've done a very quick comparison between 16 player, 32 player, 64 player, 128 player, and 2,000 players. Hopefully this will help put what the developers are trying to achieve in perspective.

http://i48.tinypic.com/ouzhc3.jpg

[Sephirex]

Gotta be honest. Red and Blue blobs look like they don't have a chance against that Purple blob.

[haticK]

lol how long did that take you

[vVRedOctoberVv]

Please note, all onlookers, that red rose to the top.

@Hatick

Probably about thirty seconds. Copy and paste does wonders.

[Sephirex]

Please note, all onlookers, that red rose to the top.


Look closely and you'll see they're actually fleeing.

[Razicator]

Look closely and you'll see they're actually fleeing.

I was going to crack a joke about red-shifting light, but then remembered I'm TR...

[ExplodingSilver]

your picture really works for me
excellent job

[Envenom]

Wow. That really puts things into perspective.

Though I think you should give the NC a few more dots since everyone knows that's the handicap faction.

[OnexBigxHebrew]

Gotta be honest. Red and Blue blobs look like they don't have a chance against that Purple blob.

Lmfao

[Xyntech]

One thing is for sure. Those 112 players in the middle are going to get fucked by the crossfire.

[RSphil]

i see a dead TR with a dead VS lead ontop of him lol

oh sorry thought it was a test :P

good work though. puts it into perspective well i think.

[JoeDragon]

I'm in the process of counting those dots to legitimize your claims OP.

[TheBladeRoden]

I think your 64 players are actually 128 players

[MCYRook]

Don't mean to split hairs, but what you labelled "64" actually has 128 dots. :p

Edit: Touché, Mr. Roden!

[Harasus]

Could you show us 200 players aswell?

Mount and Blade Warband and all that fun stuff, if anyone is wondering what game I am thinking about.

[DirtyBird]

Your 64 is 129.

[PoisonTaco]

At least the red dots are on top.

[JoeDragon]

Update: I've given up counting dots as I was distracted by http://astretchyhand.com/

[vVRedOctoberVv]

Could you show us 200 players aswell?

Mount and Blade Warband and all that fun stuff, if anyone is wondering what game I am thinking about.

No..

[Blackwolf]

I think he's done enough dots. He gave us a perspective and I think people will finally understand what kind of hellish chaotic scenario they are going to walk into and have so much fun trying to walk back out of.

I have to agree though, the guys in the middle are doomed!

[FINALCUT]

Could you show us 200 players aswell?

Mount and Blade Warband and all that fun stuff, if anyone is wondering what game I am thinking about.

That game is awesome. Shit graphics but some of the best gameplay ever. I spent many nights on that game with sword in hand upon my trusted mount.May have to fire it up again till PS2 Beta starts.

[vVRedOctoberVv]

Your 64 is 129.

He's correct actually.

The first couple are 8 on 8 and 16 on 16 then that one is 64 on 64 (ish)

Fail example is fail

[WILDWAYNE]

Could you show us 200 players aswell?

Mount and Blade Warband and all that fun stuff, if anyone is wondering what game I am thinking about.

I love Mount and Blade. Those games show some epic scale battles, but nothing compared to what Planetside will bring.

[KALU]

I like this. GW

[FINALCUT]

Update: I've given up counting dots as I was distracted by http://astretchyhand.com/

Damn you. I cant stop playing with stretchy hand now. I am hooked.:mad:

[DirtyBird]

I lost count again, is that 2000 blue, 2000 red and 2000 purple?
Or was it 666 each plus an overlord?

[Boomhowser]

well Ive stared at the picture for 20 minutes now and I still dont see Higby's face!! damn these 3d illusion's I can never work them. :D

[Gonefshn]

Let the dot wars begin.

[JoeDragon]

Damn you. I cant stop playing with stretchy hand now. I am hooked.:mad:

It has us now. ALL GLORY TO THE STRETCHY HAND!

[Raymac]

moar dots!

It's actually a really cool way to visualize the numbers we are talking about here. Well done.

[Simokon]

I hope you didn't make all those one at a time lol

[Harasus]

No..

Uh, okay? Not sure what you are saying no to, but sure, I never asked you anyway...

I also have to echo previous statements, your 64 pile is a tiny bit more than just 64.

[WiteBeam]

Hahahaha such an awesome idea.
I wish the average person that knows nothing about PS2 could understand this. And understand its not a Halo/CoD/BF copy and paste.

[Saieno]

I think your 64 players are actually 128 players

You are correct! I actually threw it together very quickly as you can image, so I have corrected it. And there are actually 64 dots there. From 16 it's all just copy and pasted even though some think they are seeing more than 64.

Could you show us 200 players aswell?

Mount and Blade Warband and all that fun stuff, if anyone is wondering what game I am thinking about.

I have positioned the 64 and 128 close together, so that will get close to your requested 200.

[That one noob]

update: I've given up counting dots as i was distracted by http://astretchyhand.com/

10/10 goty all years

[Minigun]

10/10 goty all years

Should have never clicked it >.< that is the kryptonite to my ADD

[bullet]

You forgot to add in the 4th empire. They count man! THEY'RE HUMAN TOO! :cry:

[WNxThentar]

Update: I've given up counting dots as I was distracted by http://astretchyhand.com/

great ... thanks...now that is 15 minutes of my life I can never get back!!!!....be back in about another 15 minutes!

[Death2All]

That's neat but all 2000 players are never going to be in the same area.


Planetside was the same way. Conts would get triple poplocked but you never had all 133 people from each empire fighting in the same place.

[The Kush]

I think your 64 players are actually 128 players

Lol do you know how to count? Graduated kindergarten?

[Hamma]

Great post! Puts things in perspective for sure.

[Sephirex]

Lol do you know how to count? Graduated kindergarten?

That was pretty random bashing....

[Saieno]

Lol do you know how to count? Graduated kindergarten?

No need for that at all.

For your information it was labeled 128 as 64, but I corrected it.

[vVRedOctoberVv]

YAY! The dots are correct now :D

Previous statement:
Fail example is fail!

Changed to:
Good example is good!

[Accuser]

moar dots!

hahaha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtvIYRrgZ04

Great memories.

[Mauser101]

Could you show us 200 players aswell?

Mount and Blade Warband and all that fun stuff, if anyone is wondering what game I am thinking about.

Or possibly 333 v 333 v 333 of ps1.

[vVRedOctoberVv]

Oh, and I forget who said it, and I'm too lazy to go look it up again, but somebody said what the pop cap was in PS1. I knew it was >100 but not sure by how much, so thanks!

[Goku]

Or possibly 333 v 333 v 333 of ps1.

PS for most of its life was only 133 v 133 v 133 with a total of 400 per cont.

[Mauser101]

Or possibly 333 v 333 v 333 of ps1.

PS for most of its life was only 133 v 133 v 133 with a total of 400 per cont.

Thanks, cell phone posts and not proof reading often make one look the fool.

[Blackwolf]

Now imagine yourself as just one of those dots and suddenly you realize just how insignificant you really are!

Also you need to realize that 2000 is the pop cap of a single continent. Full server means all 3 continents are pop locked and the war becomes epic.

Still I don't like the lack of a world war feeling, seems like you will just log in, be sent to a random continent, and that's where you fight. PS1 had a world war feeling to it. Ah well.

[vVRedOctoberVv]

@Blackwolf

What do you mean? I do not believe you're sent to a random continent. For one, that would completely destroy outfit ops.

[Doxy]

http://drawception.com/pub/panels/2012/5-1/6WqQMdTNQL-8.png

[RSphil]

Update: I've given up counting dots as I was distracted by http://astretchyhand.com/

lol. damb you. ya had me for like 20 mins then lol:rofl::doh:

[Shadowrath]

Wow. That really puts things into perspective.

Though I think you should give the NC a few more dots since everyone knows that's the handicap faction.

lmao!

Thanks for the post. It definitely puts things into perspective.

[Flanlord]

So... the dots and their presentation was interesting, but subjective (and/or random) density and formation was bothering me.

So here are the same numbers displayed differently.

http://i.imgur.com/gGZpv.png

Yay for not really contributing to a discussion or thread while posting!

[Slavgaard]

One thing is for sure. Those 112 players in the middle are going to get fucked by the crossfire.

ok..now that was funny!

[Blackwolf]

@Blackwolf

What do you mean? I do not believe you're sent to a random continent. For one, that would completely destroy outfit ops.

Each continent has a pop cap of 2000 players. If you log into the game and the continent you were on is locked, you are likely going to be sent to a different one.

This is a weakness of not including sanctuaries.

[RJTravis]

hehehehehe

[ArmedZealot]

Each continent has a pop cap of 2000 players. If you log into the game and the continent you were on is locked, you are likely going to be sent to a different one.

This is a weakness of not including sanctuaries.

TBH I prefer it to the events that lock the sanc and you can't even play the game.

[RJTravis]

This is what happen 2min after the OP left & stopped watching.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v448/sopdelta/ouzhc3.jpg

[Canadian Vanu]

Update: I've given up counting dots as I was distracted by http://astretchyhand.com/

Were as this been all my life!

[Mookie]

how about this
http://i.imgur.com/K5a2O.png

[Eyeklops]

how about this
http://i.imgur.com/K5a2O.png

Would be perfect if you could keep the dots all the same size.

[Rumblepit]

ill tell ya what guys, lets just say they didnt have the tech to pull this off ,and we had to look like those dots so we could see a 2000 man battle , id still pay 15$ a month to play.

[Frugal]

All kinds of win XD

[RJTravis]

666vs666vs666 is 1998 wtf are the last 2 guys?

[Sephirex]

666vs666vs666 is 1998 wtf are the last 2 guys?

Spectator slots.

[RJTravis]

..... no just no ......

:rolleyes:

[Sturmhardt]

Nice post, I hope they will reach the goal of 2000 players!

@Mookie: Make the dots the same size :)

[Sephirex]

..... no just no ......

:rolleyes:

Not serious. If anything they'll have 1998 or 2001. That extra player isn't going to break the server. But 2000 is a nice round marketable number.

[Rasui]

Gotta be honest. Red and Blue blobs look like they don't have a chance against that Purple blob.

^^^^

[Evilmp]

What a great idea. Silhouettes help me understand scale better, so for any who think the same way, here you go.

http://s10.postimage.org/fondzxmxz/silhouette_comparison.png
http://s10.postimage.org/fondzxmxz/silhouette_comparison.png (http://s10.postimage.org/fondzxmxz/silhouette_comparison.png)

[Sephirex]

@EvilImp

Is this the image you wanted?
edit: looks like you got a link up in the end.
http://s10.postimage.org/tv34v5xt3/silhouette_comparison.png

[Goldeh]

If you look closely the blue dots are bigger than the red and purple dots.

[Rivenshield]

2000 is a nice round marketable number.
Yes, but it gives all three empires the Poplock Of The Beast. Even in our modern era, that might kind of be a marketing fuckup....

I've been figuring with the bases being twice as big as the old ones, and the distances between them twice as great, that they'll need to double continent pop just so population density can keep abreast of what we're used to... and even then it'l be diffused over a larger map.

To *improve* on PS1, I figure they'll hafta increase that in turn by a bareass minimum of 50%, or a good round 250 per. empire. If they can manage a bit over half the continental population they promised initially, or 400 per., I still think that has epic shitstorm potential.

Anything after that is mana from heaven.

[cellinaire]

OMG dots....so many dots..

[soulsurfsublime]

Who would have ever thought dots could bring so many people together in this age of technology. But seriously, very effective post to demonstrate the greatness that is PS2.

[Erendil]

This is what happen 2min after the OP left & stopped watching.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v448/sopdelta/ouzhc3.jpg

That's just the VS being smart. Just like the recent theatrical trailer, they're waiting for the NC and TR to finish slaughtering each other so they can move in and easily mop up the few survivors that are left... :D