PSU Interview With Higby!

[cellinaire]

Originally Posted by NapalmEnima

Okay, here's the question list, as sorted by rating. This is a copy-paste from the spread-sheet I typed it all into, so most of the questions have been made Quite Terse. It's also Tab-separated-values, so the formatting blows goats. Deal. Check out the attachment if it'll make you feel better.

If your question vanished:
A: I may have simply missed it. This was all typed out by hand.
B: It may have been merged with a similar question by a previous poster
C: It may have sucked.

Author	Question	rating	category
Crator	Gal spawning?  In air?  Equipment term?	6	spawning
Sirisian	Seats in a liberator	6	vehicles
IdukeNukemI	Advertising?	5	advertising
Sirisian	Boomers?	5	CE
Basti	Continent count at launch?	5	continents
NapalmEnima	MAX armors: weapons only, or hacking/eng/etc	5	MAX
NapalmEnima	Creative Director != PR.  How did you become the Face of PS2?	5	personal
NapalmEnima	How has the data mined from PS1 influenced PS2's design?	5	ps1
NapalmEnima	Has the resource system reduced or removed the need for equipment timers?	5	resources
NapalmEnima	Balance goal with resources?  How common will the expensive stuff be?	5	resources
Kaffis	Encourage CE defense building?	4	CE
Lzachariah	CE? Deployable turrets, explosives, etc?  Focus?	4	CE
Kaffis	What are the available classes?	4	classes
Miir	What is the largest group they have tested with	4	dev
Basti	forgelight tech specs?	4	dev
NapalmEnima	Hacking: as common as PS1?	4	Hacking
Kaffis	User-created Mission system examples?	4	missions
Sirisian	What can be purchased with resources and how often?	4	resources
Kaffis	Resources?  How can an underdog dig themselves out?	4	resources
Kaffis	Resources earned at individual/squad/outfit/empire levels?	4	resources
NapalmEnima	Will we be able to move characters between servers?	4	Server Pop
NapalmEnima	Generic time to the end of a skill tree?	4	skills
NapalmEnima	Training: per char or per account?	4	skills
DocBadWrench	Social networking hooks?	4	social
Kaffis	Design principles for ground transport vs Gal vs get some tanks?	4	vehicles
Basti	Reaver: 1 seat or 2	4	vehicles
Basti	New vehicles that weren't in PS1?	4	vehicles
HtSgtMAD	Hot dropping from mossies/all air	4	vehicles
Miir	Plans for further video footage?	4	videos
Raymac	What design concepts are you using to improve indoor battles?	3	bases
Morf	Support abilities 	3	CE/medic
Graywolves	TTK info.	3	combat
Graywolves	Health system? Health & armor, shields?	3	combat
Graywolves	Any consumables other than medkits?	3	combat?
Graywolves	Character customization: what can we control?	3	customization
Miir	How big is the development team now?	3	dev
Morf	how long are your development sprint cycles?	3	dev
Sirisian	Why F2P?	3	F2P
Graywolves	Friendly Fire: Need it.  Not really a question.	3	FF
Klu	Can the enemy see into footholds?	3	footholds
Klu	Will footholds move/rotate?	3	footholds
FIREk	hacker class?	3	Hacking
FIREk	TR MAX: face exposed?	3	MAX
Graywolves	Music?  Don Ferrone's?	3	music
IdukeNukemI	Will the sun(s) effect visibility of aircraft/etc	3	other
Morf	How to deal with pop imbalance?	3	other
Bags	Lessons learned from PS1?	3	ps1
Basti	PS1 vet benefits?	3	ps1
Graywolves	Drops (from china interview with smed)?!	3	salvage
Graywolves	Spawning?	3	spawning
Basti	Spawning?	3	spawning
NapalmEnima	What is the Respawn Experience like? + medic res?	3	spawning
IdukeNukemI	System requirements?	3	technical
IdukeNukemI	DX 10/11?	3	technical
IdukeNukemI	Estimated servers at launch?	3	technical
NapalmEnima	GUI customization?	3	technical
Miir	Details on flight model?	3	vehicles
Morf	shoot player in open-air vehicle: hurts player?	3	vehicles
FIREk	empire specific versions of all vehicles post-launch?	3	vehicles
FIREk	Sunderer?  Redesign, AFV-like?	3	vehicles
Graywolves	Voice macros & in-game voice?	3	voice
FIREk	hear enemies talking via VIVOX?	3	voice
IdukeNukemI	Weather at launch?	3	weather
IdukeNukemI	what weather effects will there be?	3	weather
Cellinaire	Floating bases?	2	bases
PsychoXR-20	Class change at respawn or at inv term?	2	classes
Cellinaire	continent size?  	2	continents
Senyu	Will the maps change?	2	continents
Cellinaire	Reveal date of 3 year dev plan?	2	dev
Cellinaire	naval warefare	2	dev
SavageB	Purchasing unlocks not avaiable via BR?	2	F2P
SavageB	Premium subscriptions?	2	F2P
CutterJohn	Will there be a box price?	2	F2P
Bags	How do the uncapturable footholds on continents work?	2	footholds
Cellinaire	eye candy like t-storms and whirlpools	2	other
Bags	How will salvaging work without inventories?	2	salvage
Bags	Vehicle entry delay to make up for loss of animations?	2	vehicles
Talek Krell	Seat switching within vehicles?  Specific entry points?	2	vehicles
Bags	Killing power of grenades & other hand-held AOE	2	weapons
SavageB	Empire specific HA?	2	weapons
SavaveB	Maelstrom-esque grenades?	2	weapons
Mirror	So when is beta	1	beta
DviddLeff	Jump Jet Medics?  Jump jet engies?	1	classes
Heaven	Classes available at BR1?  How many classes/char?	1	classes
Pillow	AI MAX vs non MAX: slaughter or killfest?	1	MAX
Pillow	autorun?	1	MAX
Pillow	Max-killer classes?	1	MAX
Pillow	max timers?	1	MAX
Pillow	max res cost?	1	MAX
DviddLeff	Merits?	1	other
DviddLeff	Apply vs invite to join outfits	1	outfits
DviddLeff	Uploaded outfit logos?	1	outfits
Pillow	Self-kill command	1	technical
DviddLeff	How many people in a Galaxy?	1	vehicles
Malorn	Buggies? (Enforcer/marauder/thresher/skyguard)	1	vehicles
Dubby	Cursor at 0:33 in reveal video	1	videos

Whoa..... great work ^_^b can't wait!

(but weird. I expected FFire and inventory question being near the top of these, hehe)