Please do not record death counts.

[berzerkerking]

You call it camping but some people call it strategy. In war camper survive to fight another day. People will never hand you their lives (even in a game) on a silver platter. For the rest of us this is a useful and nostalgic feature. I like to see my progress over time positive or negative.

[Baneblade]

I think the bottom line is that stats, especially leaderboards, encourage specific types of gameplay that are not necessarily good for the game as a whole.

[SKYeXile]

Originally Posted by Sobekeus

I think the bottom line is that stats, especially leaderboards, encourage specific types of gameplay that are not necessarily good for the game as a whole.

keeping people playing is bad?

[Baneblade]

Originally Posted by SKYeXile

keeping people playing is bad?

If you play for stat spooge, I don't think anyone will miss ya.

[SKYeXile]

Originally Posted by Sobekeus

If you play for stat spooge, I don't think anyone will miss ya.

People always miss me, infact i boost my outfit subs every time i resub and playplanetside because people enjoy playing with me and i always get tells ingamewelcoming me back.

So, you thought wrong.

[Xyntech]

Originally Posted by Sobekeus

I think the bottom line is that stats, especially leaderboards, encourage specific types of gameplay that are not necessarily good for the game as a whole.

What's bad for the game is low populations. Team play is important, but it's never as good without the backdrop of massive zerg battles to prop it up.

Maybe you wouldn't miss any one individual stat whore, but I'll take 1000 stat whores over the current PS1 populations.

Team play will always thrive, because of team oriented outfits and players. PS1 really wasn't that marvelous about encouraging team play across the board, as reavers and mosquitos prove, yet there were tons of organized air operations regardless.

Worry less about forcing team work and more about attracting and keeping a playerbase. I'm all for promoting team work at every opportunity, but team work will happen by itself among those who want to use it.

[SKYeXile]

Yea, good thing about Planetside it caters to so many different types of players and playstyles, while teamwork isn't required in ps1 it certainly helped to have afew guns backing you. I liked how i could travel around, zerg it up, roll with FC or just go around solo blasting people. Others liked to solely play as a team and cap bases or backhack continents for a false sense of winning at planetside because they know they fail as an individual player, thats fine too.

[Baneblade]

Originally Posted by SKYeXile

People always miss me, infact i boost my outfit subs every time i resub and playplanetside because people enjoy playing with me and i always get tells ingamewelcoming me back.

So, you thought wrong.

How is that relevant? And last I checked PS1 hasn't had active public stat tracking since Gemini.

[SKYeXile]

Originally Posted by Sobekeus

How is that relevant? And last I checked PS1 hasn't had active public stat tracking since Gemini.

Sounds about the time i quit playing.

[duck]

So has Higby or anyone mentioned that they were removing deaths and KDR from the game? Seems like a lot of people (such as myself) really want it out of the game because KDRs have no affiliation with the theme of Planetside.

[Gonefshn]

Originally Posted by duck

So has Higby or anyone mentioned that they were removing deaths and KDR from the game? Seems like a lot of people (such as myself) really want it out of the game because KDRs have no affiliation with the theme of Planetside.

No he hasn't and don't get your hopes up its not going to happen. They know damn well people as a majority will expect it. Removing it will be bad for population.

[Baneblade]

Death stats were not recorded in PS1.

[Gonefshn]

They will be in 2 though. They already have talked about it, showed screenshots, and in video the whole info screen.

Plus they are making a huge push for external sources having access to all that information like gun kills, captures, kills for use in making apps and websites. If anyone thinks they are leaving out death count they are fooling themselves.

I agree though I kinda wish it wouldn't be in the game but thats just me most people will want it.

[Baneblade]

PS1 was proof that recording a public death tally was completely unnecessary. But if it is in PS2, I'll have to adjust my playstyle to be more ridiculously annoying and less useful.

[p0intman]

Originally Posted by IMMentat

it'll be like eve allover again, i'll make a tag.
Welcome to (EVE online)planetside2 you WILL (loose ships)die

Welcome to online gaming, you will die, a lot. Deal with it.