PSU - Post NDA

[Hamma]

Now that the NDA has been lifted (I sound like a broken record today) We have been working in the background updating content, and working on some new features and new admin backend we are planning on putting into play in early May. Most of this will be transparent to you, the users, but not all of it :D The AGN is also high on our priority list, once we get our new server next week sometime.

This leads me to the point of this thread, what would you like to see here at PSU? What new features would you like to see in place now?

As always, it�s the community that keeps PSU where it is today. We want to continue expanding and offering more services to you.

[thelastzero]

Call me a noobie, well thats what I am as I jsut signed up today but whats NDA?

[Rogue]

Non-Disclosure Agreement, it kept the beat testers from telling about features and bugs in the game. A lot of Beta tests have them in place to keep what the devolpers want to keep a secret.

It was recently lifted (as is obvious by Hamma's post, so I have no idea why I'm saying that).

[Trance]

Some movies would be most welcome!

It would also be nice to see what changes the latest patch has incorporated. If the guys at Sony don't already have those posted of course.

[Delirare]

m00bies are bandwidth slayers. I'm all for giving out redirects like outfitname.planetside-universe.com to the poor bastards who are stuck with outfit url's like http://usetactics.latinoheat.org/ for their outfit website! Redirects not hosting. be an uber thing to do for the community :) Also how about something like a beta journal site for people on the forums to post their experiances with screenshots in a nice layout or something

just suggestions 0.o

[Chanfan]

War updates from the field, perhaps?

Summarys of changes to specific items over time might be nice.

Tips and tricks for better play.

Walk through on maximising you beginning BEP training in the most efficient manner.

[simba]

suggestions? Well I would like more movies made by the PSU ppl.
Also from malvision :D .
And some more info about the vehicles/weapons/armour, how fast the armours and vehicles go, how fast vehicles accelerate and some more stuff about vehicles.
The PSU community has grown and is wot I think has the best and kindest people ive seen.
Good luck in the future hamma and the rest of the PSU staff!
:cheers: :cheers:

PSU: where everybody knows ur name..... :p

[EarlyDawn]

I'd like to hear discriptions of planetary events over AGN. Tactical reports, first-hand accounts of major battles, and skewed viewpoints on who's winning from biased sources.

[Strygun]

Some of what has been mentioned is already in the works. Stay tuned! =)

[Sputty]

Live, in fight, AGN broadcasts of certain battles from mutliple people on different sides and in different vehicles/areas of the battle. Basically, be war correspondants

[LesserShade]

yeah I think the AGN will be awesome for drawing some of the attention off Cyssor hopefully. Some reporting of Ceryshen, might convince some people to go visit more interesting locales ;)

Other things that would be cool at release would be forums for individual servers perhaps. Also, once the stat tracking starts, if they do it anything like DAOC all that juicy info can get ported to PSU which would be nice.

[Tolvy]

My suggestion: More AGN!!!! You could also give stats for each weapon like: Damage with each ammo type. I can't think of anything else that could make PSU better. (Except for forcing eMa to come back)

I haven't seen Marsman much lately.

[Tevalyn]

How about a War Story Forum. more vids and screenshots would be great too

[Cyanide]

I would like to see each person able to upload a small amount of screenshots to the site (like maybe 128 - 256k per forum member, whatever you can give cause i don't know what kinda hosting package you have) so they don't have to find a host. This would definately make it easier to post screens.

Or you could do it by individual posts instead. I'm pretty sure vBulletin has a feature that will allow the user to attatch an image to a post and then display that image in the post. Check out www.blizzforums.com to see what i mean.

[powdahound]

Wouldn't you all enjoy a Picture of the Day too? :thumbsup:

[Airlift]

Base maps, so we can study at work ;)

[Homicide]

I would really like to see guides on Tactics and such for different types of players such as pilots/medics/infiltraitors ect.....

Also I think It would be cool if ya'll could do somthing like www.camelotherald.com (http://www.camelotherald.com) does for DAoC and have constantly updating base ,player , and outfit stats and such. :D

[Strijder]

Screenshot of the day might be cool. Not sure how much it'd jump your bandwidth usage if its thumbnail is on the homepage.

Possibly have a matchmaking service to allow outfits and individuals to hook up? I.e. individuals can check off the certs and give a brief self-description, and the outfits can search by skills / certs to fill slots they have open. Should be fairly simple to slap together in PHP / sql.

Movies aren't a priority here... I know how much bandwidth costs, and I'd hate to see intrusive popups or banners.

AGN sounds really cool. It'd be great to have a seperate window playing streaming newscasts. Ad's would be acceptable on the player window.

[BladeRunner]

I think a user-based journal would be awesome. A place to post stories of war, and perhaps screenshots (or provide easy insertion of outside hosted files).

You're doing a magnificient job I have faith whatever you do will be awesome.

:thumbsup: PSU Rules

[Hellsfire123]

Id love Maps. Anything to help me get around bases would just be plain usefull. Right now the ingame maps can get annoying when there are 5 floors and you cant see the stupid flags. Stats of weapons and such would be nice, but that would have to be broken down by range(I.E. 5 m, 15m and 30m).

[simba]

Originally posted by LesserShade
yeah I think the AGN will be awesome for drawing some of the attention off Cyssor hopefully. Some reporting of Ceryshen, might convince some people to go visit more interesting locales ;)

Other things that would be cool at release would be forums for individual servers perhaps. Also, once the stat tracking starts, if they do it anything like DAOC all that juicy info can get ported to PSU which would be nice.
mmmm war reporting.
I have also always loved guides, engineer/medic/pilot/infantry or anything would be fun to read.
war reporting from hossin continent :D

[Omicron]

Pic of the day would be sweet.
I don't know if it is possible, or even worth the time, but an update of who is controlling what on the different servers updated regularly would be cool. Would be really cool if one of you uber code monkeys could write code to somehow update it self, dunno if that is realistic though.
Other than that, once things get to a point where they aren't nerfing/loving everything, give every little detail possible. This gun does this damage with this ammo, etc. etc.
I am sure you guys will do a good job no matter what ya do :p

[BladeRunner]

About the stats page, like the Camelot Herald..

I think SOE has said in interviews and such that they plan to support XML stats (that's what the Herald uses) eventually. It might be a waste of energy for PSU to create such a complex system if SOE is going to supply it eventually anyway.

just my $0.02

[quiet]

Very detailed weapon info.
Instead of descriptions like;
Damage = high
ROF =medium"

something like
Damage = 40 soft targets, 10 hard targets
ROF = 300 rounds per minute

A description of how damage and armor work would be nice also.

[Sputty]

Wow...That would be hard. Most people don't spend their time looking at the info screen and testing each weapon against people, somehow killing them while look at the screen

[BladeRunner]

I think that could be accomplished quite easily if two people created characters on other empires and just found a remote location.

After all, it is beta... test... thing..

[Unknown]

Here's an idea I just thought up:
Take a few screenshots of important parts of the game, like the normal FPS view with all the icons, chat screens, etc., the map and weather screens, inventory terminal screens, etc. Then run them through an image slicer (PSP7 has this, I'm sure other programs do too, but you can even do it manually, just crop the each important part of the picture, then assemble them together again in HTML so the multiple images just look like one screenshot) and have the important parts of the image link you to a description of that item/hud. You see what I'm getting at here? I personally would love to know what all those icons mean/how to use them. Aww heck with it, I can just do it myself if my beta slot I won ever goes through...

Anyways, what many other people listed sounds good. Battle Journals (1 a week or more from the official site isn't enough :p), perhaps even give each of your staff members a page for jotting down planetside stories at their liesure, or even recruit a few 'reporters'.

Won't know what other content to suggest until the game comes out as the Official site is supposed to have alot of stat tracking, current status reports, etc.

[BladeRunner]

Unknown your idea is pretty good but I think once you play you will understand why it might be a waste of time to have such a feature.

After only a few days you'll understand completely what all HUD items are, I predict :D

But I think your idea is still valid, it might be included in the "guide/strategy" section if someone chose to submit it.

[Hamma]

Originally posted by Airlift
Base maps, so we can study at work ;) I tried to get my hands on some maps, no dice (yet) we will see.

Right now the only way to get it is to take screens of the minmap and piece them all together.

[Hamma]

Originally posted by BladeRunner
I think a user-based journal would be awesome. A place to post stories of war, and perhaps screenshots (or provide easy insertion of outside hosted files).

You're doing a magnificient job I have faith whatever you do will be awesome.

:thumbsup: PSU Rules This is something I have always considered since day one of PSU, hopefully we can get something going :D

[Hamma]

Originally posted by BladeRunner
About the stats page, like the Camelot Herald..

I think SOE has said in interviews and such that they plan to support XML stats (that's what the Herald uses) eventually. It might be a waste of energy for PSU to create such a complex system if SOE is going to supply it eventually anyway.

just my $0.02 ^^ correct, SOE will do something like that *hopefully* with XML support so we can pull it out and display it on our own pages.

[Hamma]

btw bandwidth is a non issue.

[afex]

we'll have stats whether or not they offer them via XML

its just a matter of how hard it is for us

[Sputty]

Better get working now Afex. MWAHAHAHA..Hamma will have to get out the whip and dungeon and whip you coders til you bleed! MWAHAHAHAH

[d3ath4u]

Yes, I agree with airlift. I would like to see some base maps. That way, when explaining to my squad how we will execute whatever mission we may being doing, I will be able to edit it with MS paint, or whatever, and show my teammates the plan. That is, til I get to CR 3:cool2: :cool:

[Squeeky]

:whip: You guys are gonna love the Post-NDA/Pre-Release PSU

We got lots in store :)

[d3ath4u]

:love: :cool: ;) :) :D :clap: :groovy: :brow: :rock: :cool2: :cheers: popcorn: :nod: :hug: :drools:

[Novac]

Base maps would be excellent!! To study and get strategy ideas!
Dunno how they should look like though... Screens or more blueprint like, if possible...
Anyways... Base maps!! YEAH!! :D

Also, some sort of Strategy section... Well, just a couple of ideas :D

[mistled]

Have to also put my support behind getting basemaps. Heck, I'm still trying to figure out which types of bases have the cc on the roof and which are in the basement. :)

[Marsman]

Ok here is a little word game I use to remember where the cap rooms are in the 5 base types:

These are all in the bottom of the base

Bio - Bottom
Dropship - Down
Interlink - Inner/Inside

These are at the top:

Amp - A, top of the Alphabet
Technology - Top

Hopefully that helps some folks. :D

[d3ath4u]

thanks marsman......pics would still be nice though.;)

[Chanfan]

Good mnemonic!

[Kilgs]

Hamma-

Sure that you discussed this with SOE. But it would be neat if you (AGN) could load characters that said "reporter" or "Neutral" as thier Tags. That way they could get good screenshots and act as reporters.

I think the whole AGN concept is just killer.

[BladeRunner]

base maps should be available soon (as I just spent the last 4 hours working on some instead of playing Planetside)

[Hamma]

Welcome to my hell :brow:

hehehe, facil's section should be up tonight.

[BUGGER]

I thought i was the only guy here that has hell in everything (look at my AIM profile......weakly hell....and stuff).



I like everything, I'm still drooling over all the new stuff updated......the only thing i would recomend updating is the new cert calculator, and make a weakly war journal one of your best battles in the week.....since like i hear very little battles about the TR.

Just update what you think needs updating......or else I'm gona have to be donating money from my moms creditcard everyday.:D

[Nitsch]

How about more detailed equipment discriptions (strengths, weakness, why people like, why people hate). Have people rate a weapon. Maybe even have some user quotations (not a forum on the weapon, but take submissions and post the best ones).

Also screen shots of players using each (I like the screen shots on the PS site, but they look to Press Release'ish).

The strength of PSU is that ya'll can be subjective about the game and the equipment. The offical site cant say a weapon or vehicle sucks, but you can.