A Planetside 2 App, My Ideas, your suggestions!

[dobs]

So my idea for a Planetside 2 App and what features it should have.
You could make it so it resembles a handheld of a ps2 soldier. (3 themes for the empires)

Show your char. Possibly in 3D (rotate). Mainly for showing it to friends (aka cheapest marketing known to mankind).

Handle ingame Private Messages and respond.

Calendar: To show upcomming events.

RED ALERT: Phone starts playing an ALERT sound. Like an emergency call to every member of your outfit that they are needed ingame right now. (more of a goodie for outfit leaders).

Chat: See your outfit chat. Chat with ingame players.

Outfit Manager: Create Events. Promote/Demote Players. Maybe configure Outfit things.

Youtube Channel featuring PS2 Vids.

Forums.

Stats of course

Vehicles/Weapons catalogue.

Set your Skill training in the app, not just in the game.

Utopic stuff:
set attack targets for your outfit.
view a minimap of the continent youre on atm. With currently controlled facilities etc.
Create character loadouts to use later.

Suggestions by other ppl:

NapalmEnima - Write all the recorded video/screen shots to the hand held and do the sharing from there using its standard Activities for such things.

(i will add your thoughts here!)


Please discuss and add your ideas

[Crator]

So kinda like EVEMON for PS2. I likes! Yes please!

This is something the community will have to develop.

[dobs]

The Problem is. If its done by the community you can only do:
Stats
calendar
youtube
forums
RED ALERT

for the other things you need more api functions from soe.
//edit: already thought about developing it myself (i have a bit of expierience with android) but you could not add the most interesting things due to the lack of api.

[Crator]

Not certain they've released much info. on the APIs yet for PS2. I would hope they would have something like this though.

[NapalmEnima]

Originally Posted by Crator

Not certain they've released much info. on the APIs yet for PS2. I would hope they would have something like this though.

Precisely. Without knowing what all they plan to expose, there's no way to know whether or not Feature X will work.

But I can make some guestimates based on what I know about android development myself.

For Instance: Rotatable 3D view of your character: Almost certainly not. Your PC might be able render and upload a video of loadouts X, Y, and Z... but storing and processing all the model, texture, and animation data needed to render a character with "in game" resolution? Not bloody likely. The 3D hardware isn't there.


Your "utopic stuff" sounds like using the Android screen as Another Display for the game. I don't know if anyone has gotten an X Windows server to run on an android, but it IS running Linux under there. Remote UI shouldn't be a big stretch for an Android.

That sort of thing was the first thing that occurred to me. Mobile-atizificate the squad command UI. Or the loadout/respawn picker, so you already have a location/loadout chosen when you die and can get back into the action that much faster.

Like the Cash Shop, you'd want it to be a convenient way to do something you could already to ingame some other way. Kinda gimmicky to be honest. But cool.



Here's one: Write all the recorded video/screen shots to the hand held and do the sharing from there using its standard Activities for such things.

I'd really like to see some way to be notified when your empire/outfit Needs Your Help! A spiffy app wrapped around some relatively common communication protocol would be just the ticket. I'd also like to see some way to let the app know when not to bother me. "I'm available from X to Y, don't bother me outside these time periods on those days". It should also know when you're already on so as not to send out a desperate plea for aid from someone who's already vigorously fragging their enemies. There's some complications in terms of players/characters/servers, but that's the sort of thing that keeps software development from getting boring. :/

[dobs]

Originally Posted by NapalmEnima

Precisely. Without knowing what all they plan to expose, there's no way to know whether or not Feature X will work.

Yeah, but you can expect them to open it for stats. Cant imagine they will allow much more

Originally Posted by NapalmEnima

But I can make some guestimates based on what I know about android development myself.

For Instance: Rotatable 3D view of your character: Almost certainly not. Your PC might be able render and upload a video of loadouts X, Y, and Z... but storing and processing all the model, texture, and animation data needed to render a character with "in game" resolution? Not bloody likely. The 3D hardware isn't there.

Actually the Hardware is there. I made some stuff in OpenGl on android and its quite capable. You would not have to store all the information on the handheld. I imagined it like this:
You log in, the data for your model + weapon + specific stuff is wrapped up and sent to your mobile. it is then rendered. This would allow to render it without storing all the models on it. Something like this would be easy to realize in unity. As they also have scalable detail for handhelds.
(a few thousand polygons arent a problem for galaxy s1 and better. As long as you render just 1 model it should be possible). If not, you could still do it with flash. As a Prerendered video where "rotating" is just moving to a different timeframe. The video could easily be rendered on a server.

Originally Posted by NapalmEnima

Your "utopic stuff" sounds like using the Android screen as Another Display for the game. I don't know if anyone has gotten an X Windows server to run on an android, but it IS running Linux under there. Remote UI shouldn't be a big stretch for an Android.

I didnt rly think of an extended Screen running visual information from the pc. More like a simple 2d map. Thats not hard to implement and doesnt need much performance.

Originally Posted by NapalmEnima

That sort of thing was the first thing that occurred to me. Mobile-atizificate the squad command UI. Or the loadout/respawn picker, so you already have a location/loadout chosen when you die and can get back into the action that much faster.

Like the Cash Shop, you'd want it to be a convenient way to do something you could already to ingame some other way. Kinda gimmicky to be honest. But cool.

Yeah gimmicks are fun and make people talk about it(PS2)

Originally Posted by NapalmEnima

I'd really like to see some way to be notified when your empire/outfit Needs Your Help! A spiffy app wrapped around some relatively common communication protocol would be just the ticket. I'd also like to see some way to let the app know when not to bother me. "I'm available from X to Y, don't bother me outside these time periods on those days". It should also know when you're already on so as not to send out a desperate plea for aid from someone who's already vigorously fragging their enemies. There's some complications in terms of players/characters/servers, but that's the sort of thing that keeps software development from getting boring. :/

Hmm i dont think that making that would be much trouble as long as you can see from the api if a player is currently logged in.

thx for the input

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