will there ever be 2000 player battles?

[Papscal]

Originally Posted by FortySe7en

Not really. The way planetside has always been designed is CQB style. Sure there are open areas to fight in, but the majority of what makes planetside, well, planetside, is the intense fighting in close quarters.

222 players in a single base at a single time is very overwhelming.

Overwhelming has nothing to do with facts. Like i said,222 players in and around a base is profoundly different than a room. So ya really. A room is a room. Around a base involves OUTSIDE.

[Ruxios]

im leaning more towards the 2k per cont thing and even then after some days in planetside of seeing every cont locked and ques everywhere i just dont think that SOE would limit thier server like that they want it massive you dont get massive by limiting things

[kidwithstick]

What we were told pre tech test was 2000 per cont. thats 666 players per faction per cont. with 3 continents were looking at 6000 players per server.

obviously there is going to be more than 6000 people playing at once which is why there will be more than one server per coast line.

pretty simple stuff here guys....

[FortySe7en]

Originally Posted by Papscal

Overwhelming has nothing to do with facts. Like i said,222 players in and around a base is profoundly different than a room. So ya really. A room is a room. Around a base involves OUTSIDE.

No, not really. Let me re-iterate it to you by saying this:

[Rivenshield]

Originally Posted by Drakkonan

I have another great solution. They're called sanctuaries. One can wish, right?

With rotating warp gates, so we aren't constantly fighting the same enemy over the same terrain in the same bloody direction. Yes please.

/signed

[cellinaire]

...So, none of you here seem to follow Smedley's twitter very often, I guess.



And funny, 'cause basically nothing in this whole thread make me worry a wee bit.

[morf]

A player character is more complex in PS2 than it was in PS1 - with hitboxes, a player is now actually 5+ objects rather than just one. So I don't think it's productive comparing the number of players in PS1 as if they were 1:1 entities and assuming that PS2 populations will be astronomically higher due to newer tech.

I recognize that the goal is 2000 per continent as stated by the devs many times, but from everything I know and everything I've seen so far, my guess is that the goal was too ambitious and we won't see those numbers at launch. Just my opinion.

[Fyrn]

Yes, opinions of random people on the internet are what counts. Whenever I design software or infrastructure, I simply pay a random person on the internet $50 to hear their opinion on what should be done and then abide by it.

This is obviously how the world works. Deal with it.

Factual numbers given by official representatives have been quoted multiple times now (2000/cont), whether you believe these or not doesn't make any difference.

Also: everytime I see someone state "I believe there will be clusters of servers", as if that is a deep technical insight, I drown a kitten in mustard.

[morf]

Originally Posted by Fyrn

Yes, opinions of random people on the internet are what counts. Whenever I design software or infrastructure, I simply pay a random person on the internet $50 to hear their opinion on what should be done and then abide by it.

What can I say? Like everyone else in this thread, I'm a developer too, and I has an opinion. But in sincerity, I'm not pretending to know what kind of code is running this game - that would just be random guessing. I don't see how anyone in this thread could speak to what should be possible with the netcode etc without actually seeing the code. Rather, I'm basing my opinion on everything I do know and everything I have seen from this game, and trying to think realistically about what we will likely seee at launch. Realistically speaking, I think the 2000 number that has been mentioned as a goal is too ambitious.

Factual numbers given by official representatives have been quoted multiple times now (2000/cont), whether you believe these or not doesn't make any difference.

Right, I guess I'm crazy and because devs said they were shooting for something it must be true. It's not as if I've ever gone out on a limb and contradicted something that official SOE representatives said, and been called crazy looney batshit on these very boards and then ended up being right. (oh wait, that DID happen)

They aren't always right. Things change over time and those 2000 numbers are really old. Yes, this is my opinion but based on what I know and what I've seen, I feel confident saying we won't see 2000/cont at launch. Could I be wrong? Sure but it's pretty damn unlikely.

[Artimus]

6000 per server, 2000 per continent, 666 per faction

[gaz]

what about the remaining 2 players? ^^

[Morsong]

Even if there are battles that feature these many players, I honestly like smaller fights to huge, huge ones. I think 64 opponents is a lot to shoot at, and I don't mind over 200 players. But when it starts getting to the near thousand that might get a little too crazy for me.

I have always been into fighting in fights, but if it's too big and hectic then I like to wander off to cause some small havoc somewhere else, perhaps trying to capture another base. This is just my play style though.

[Hunterzen]

Originally Posted by Morsong

Even if there are battles that feature these many players, I honestly like smaller fights to huge, huge ones. I think 64 opponents is a lot to shoot at, and I don't mind over 200 players. But when it starts getting to the near thousand that might get a little too crazy for me.

I have always been into fighting in fights, but if it's too big and hectic then I like to wander off to cause some small havoc somewhere else, perhaps trying to capture another base. This is just my play style though.

Infiltrator or medic will be the class for you.