Question about early planetside

[Squick]

I am trying to remmember if a dev chat I read a long time ago was for Planetside or some other game.

It was a MMFPS, and one of the key features I remmember is it would dynamically look at the usage of the world and if one spot became a dead zone the game would dynamically drop something valuable down there like an energy resource. You would then go to your empire's boss (NPC) and get a mission, if you were a pilot the mission would be to bring a fuel ship out to that dead zone and get the energy ore. If you were a grunt the mission would be to escort the pilot to the energy ore.

Am I thinking of the early vision of Planetside or some other game? I am pretty certain it was the '99-'00 vision for planetside...

Squick