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Originally Posted by Hamma

Well here I am again after around 6 months of downtime I have decided to revive the site. I know, you're saying [I]"Hamma, why don't you just give up"[/I] well I am just not the type of person to give up. I recently started playing PlanetSide again and ever since I closed PSU I have missed running it. It turns out I was not alone.

I got to talking to our evil coder Gryphon about the site and decided to bring her back to life. Much of what you see is almost exactly as we left it. We have updated some content but most was still valid so we decided to leave it. Below is a list of changes since the site went offline last year.

• Patch Notes Section - Updated with the most recent notes, as well as the notes from the past year.
• Files Section - Brought offline (More on that later)
• Merit Commendation Information - Fired up new page with a short description of Merit Comms. Unfortunately it needs to be updated and we will do this in the near future.

How will we remain running this time you ask? Essentially PSU had a massive downloads section with almost 2GB of data, more than half the size of the entire site was used by downloads. We since decided that in order to keep the site running we need to run on a minimal downloads section so it has been closed for the time being.

During PSU's height we ran 3 servers, a web server, an IRC server, and a Shoutcast/Voice server. Now I am down to one server - a web server. This lowers the cost quite a bit and allows the site to continue running. Now, if it turns into another beast we may need to revisit the requirements..

The forums have all the old archived posts but they have been cleamed up a bit to make it a bit more streamlined. We have made some modifications to the user groups, permissions and we have cleared the banlist. As for moderation you can expect a laid back atmosphere as we just about always had here, abusers will be punished but there will be no nazi'ing threads spelling or content because we don't like how it looks. (Unless its objectionable) In short, we are starting with a clean slate - a whole new outlook on PSU.

So please feel free to start posting again - and welcome back to PlanetSide Universe!!

That will be ironic when the site outlasts the game. I can just picture it now. "I"M NOT GIVING UP!! No well buy servers from sony and set them in my Basement!

As much as we might wish we will never find better programmers than the corporation can. Unless you are one of them! I still think the game is going to bomb after they cant fix the bugs in the game and the new people mostly leave from frustation trying to play a game much simpler and more frustrating than the old one. The full scope of the game concept and balance are just too far above everyones head for anyone to backprogram it properly without a lot of time(maybe years) to play with it. And without other examples of this type of game genre and design you wont have a culture to help you.

Just call me the bringer of bad news!!

This is a hard game to bring out when the majority of the people who are behind the culture of gaming that spawned it are all leaving the culture in general. Not even RPGs are the same culture anymore. I think you really need to hope everyone learns the game really well and starts playing better. If this game does get back up you can probly expect a pretty bumpy ride. The way some things in the game development went knocked it down pretty hard IMO....... (Forgot the last of this comment!?)


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