Mobile phone apps for Planetside Next

[Miir]

Thought it would be cool if the new Planetside supported mobile phone devices with some sort of application that let you:

• Get updates on your outfits/empires current progress.
• track in game sensors / listening posts (outfit/player deployed) for troop moments.
• Give commands to your outfit to attack a certain targets etc.
• See which friends are online.
• Send messages in real time between the mobile device and your friends/outifts in game.
• Perhaps even send in orbital strikes (or requests)

From a cash grab stand point. I'd pay $5 to $10 for an app like that.

[Firefly]

From a cash-grab standpoint I'd pay good money to see your Planetside movies, and see one for PS:Next as well.

Just sayin'.

[Miir]

lol... nice.

Yeah I put a couple movies up on Youtube. I have www.malvision.com pointing to my youtube page currently.

I'd love to film some Planetside Next... but since I haven't heard anything about a beta test. I guess we have to wait until the March release. (assuming that's what is being released in March?).

[Firefly]

Well, how far did you get with your Planetside project? Wasn't it called "Shadows of Auraxis" or sommat?

[DviddLeff]

What I would want is the basic functionality of the official website back in the say with the ability to track current and recent territory ownership, and check out statistics for characters, squads, outfits and empires.

As for apps that actually let you do stuff "in game" you could have people directing troops around somehow.

[Firefly]

You mean using global chat? Because that's really the only "directing troops" one could do in the original Planetside. And in all honesty, I don't want a bunch of idiots using their phones to type to me in-game from their phone - like they're sending a text message...

I think it's good enough that they could get game & continent updates, or see outfit rankings or player standings within their outfit.

[Miir]

Originally Posted by Firefly

You mean using global chat? Because that's really the only "directing troops" one could do in the original Planetside. And in all honesty, I don't want a bunch of idiots using their phones to type to me in-game from their phone - like they're sending a text message...

My thoughts were more for a command tool for outfits. I know some outfits are very serious about command structure and giving commanders tools to make decisions and communicate isn't a bad thing.

I wouldn't want it linked into global chat at all. Friends/Outfits only.

The can just get rid of the global chat all together as far as I'm concerned and come up with some alternate way to communicate between CR5's for coordination purposes.

[Firefly]

I think Global and Continental chat, as well as Command chat for CR4 and CR5, were effective tools. However, just like any chat channel, it can become an annoyance.

[TheRagingGerbil]

Would definitely be cool to see some integration with external devices.

Hopefully the next iteration of Planetside will have true territory control mechanisms and the ability to own city/bases/towers/etc. Having the ability to see feedback on the status of your empires territory or your outfit's property/structures would be awesome.

Another cool feature would be the ability to communicate with the members of your outfit. Send a request for bodies, or notify of an impending attack.

[DviddLeff]

Yeah I don't mean global-ling or anything.

I do like the idea of using phones to call in reinforcements!

[Traak]

Heck, I have an even better idea for a phone application: make it so we can play via our phones. Play and do what? Stuff that we can do anyway if we lack in great computage capabilities: heal, repair, deploy, whatever. Decentralize PS from homes and make it so we can dash in anytime, anywhere, and join a fight for a few minutes. The new smartphones are close to as capable as the rig I had when I started playing PS years ago, probably surpassing it. Why not a narrow-windowed view of the PS universe where I could jump in and repair a turret in a base battle from anywhere I happened to be?

Imagine PS anywhere. Oooh, mama.

[Miir]

Originally Posted by Traak

Heck, I have an even better idea for a phone application: make it so we can play via our phones. Play and do what? Stuff that we can do anyway if we lack in great computage capabilities: heal, repair, deploy, whatever. Decentralize PS from homes and make it so we can dash in anytime, anywhere, and join a fight for a few minutes. The new smartphones are close to as capable as the rig I had when I started playing PS years ago, probably surpassing it. Why not a narrow-windowed view of the PS universe where I could jump in and repair a turret in a base battle from anywhere I happened to be?

Imagine PS anywhere. Oooh, mama.

That would be very cool. I think my original thought was more of a command tool but I like your idea better. I could picture the avatar of a mobile app to be a small utility robot. That would just float around and repair, set mines and turrets.

I'm not sure how feasible that would be with the gameplay but I would definitely be interested in an app like that if one was made available.

[Tigersmith]

Originally Posted by KornDemon

"You have been killed by an Orbital Strike - sent from an iPhone".

Awesome.

Lol. That would be funny as hell

[Evilmp]

it would be pretty cool to issue orbital strikes anywhere in the soi of the base your character has logged out in via mobile device. i'd buy that app in a heartbeat!

[HELLFISH88]

I would pay good money for this service...that would be unreal.