Exp is too fast!

[Jarlo]

It will massively slow down at BR14 anyway. I played a long time last night and had alot of fun and several caps and got to br6. Thank god darklifght again!

[LesserShade]

Originally posted by OneManArmy
no idea what all the posts are about, but I want to level fast, I want to get my certs and move on. I could care less about what level I am, this is a FPS, so honestly the faster I can vary my characters weapon loadout the better...

^damn yes exactly.

[Happy lil Elf]

Wanna know how you too can level extremely fast? Talk to an enemy outfit and make a deal. You both split up over two bases. You then spend your time killing each other but with both bases being hacked and then resecured on a regular basis. At 1500+ exp per resecure, exp starts going up rather quickly.

[Noxx]

With such large problems of this nature this early in the game I think Planetside could quite possible be taking a nose dive to the shitter.

[Cyber]

Noxx, what large problem?

People who play advance faster then people who don't?

BR is pretty irrelavent anyway, just play the game. If you enjoy that great, if not well, probably time to find a new game.

[SpacemanSpiff]

Originally posted by Airlift


It is definately shitty for them to jump over forum suspension, but your mistake was in choice of forum. Sony brass isn't going to let negative publicity be generated on their servers and bandwidth whether the devs are still looking for more opinions on it or not. It is irrelevent that you like the game, they will take whatever action they feel is necessary to make it stop. The idea is that a fewer suspended customers is better than a greater number of dissuaded potentials.

They probably aren't reading these threads anymore anyway. Undoubtedly they have a shit ton of feedback on the matter and aren't looking for more. I just hope that they take a step back, see which activities are rewarded in the system, and think about which activities should be rewarded to coax people into playing the fun way(s) again.

What about feedback in general? Is there a way besides the forums (the most practical way) to continue to give feedback to the developers without getting your account suspended? Heh.

[Banditman]

Originally posted by Unico

What about feedback in general? Is there a way besides the forums (the most practical way) to continue to give feedback to the developers without getting your account suspended? Heh.

No, I cannot post at all, I cannot play at all. I can post here, but that certainly doesn't get my point across to the developers.

Now I read the forums and find that the same issue that got my account suspended is STILL being discussed. I'd like to know how many accounts have been suspended.

I feel a bit singled out because I had a strong opinion. Was I upset and angry about the topic at hand? Certainly I was. Did I continue to express myself in unlocked topics? Absolutely. None of those things should suspend my ability to play the game. If they were really frustrated, fine, remove my ability to post. But to take away my ability to play a game I paid for is ludicrous.

[Airlift]

I doubt we are seeing the beginning of a nose dive into the shitter. Before this game would ever get close to the can, we would see a few things:

1. A restructuring of the Reward System, the flaws of which were irrelevent in the artificially bloated advancement rate of beta, but dominant over other issues at current rates.

2. Price discounts in either the boxed game or the monthly rate. I don't think rate changes are coming, but the box price will probably plummet if the game starts to have problems.

3. Accelerated content releases. This is likely to be the first and most common measure taken to thwart retention problems.

[Airlift]

Bandit, have you called the SOE support number? They have to at least tell you the duration of your suspension, even if they can't tell you a real reason for it, right?

[tmartinez72]

I thought the leveling would be slowed down for us real-life 8-5 working stiffs. To tell the truth, I'm leveling FASTER now than I was in beta!!!

Why? The humungeous cap bep. From getting 300-500 at the end of beta, I get 2000-5000!!! All I do is look at where we have a hack, go there, and camp. I'll fight if there's baddies (hopefully there is a lot to increase bep).

[LesserShade]

^yeah, but here's the catch. You have to find yourself a zerg swarm to get that kind of XP. Last night I was following my outfit all over the world and we were the underdogs in every battle which inevitably meant over the course of like 4 hours i got like from BR5.0 to BR5.8

[AcidCat]

Originally posted by kerosene31
Last night I stopped worrying about xp and just went out and had fun. .

I learned this lesson in beta. The best way to really enjoy the gameplay is to stop being a slave to exp.

[Banditman]

Oh, you can bet I'm gonna have a "chat" with one of the "Customer Service" people as soon as they open.

They are gonna have to give me a legit reason for sure. Right now it simply looks like I am getting screwed.

I may just grab the "friend" key and give that a try, though it would suck that all the experience I gain there would mean nothing for my main character.

[Plato]

That's fuct, they need to let you back in the game. As for XP it appears the major lvls are 6 and 12. After that XP doesn't really matter much at all.

You cannot carry around all that much in the way of weapons, equipment or conjure vehicles at any moment...so having BR will never make anyone uber but the implants are nice. I find myself with a very well-rounded character at BR12.

I'm BR5 right now and I want DL so bad!

[IDgaf]

Bandit,

Just post your story all over the web. Sony are stopping you playing for having an opinion. That is a very, very, bad idea on Sony's behalf.

Go and look at the Ts&Cs and find out where it says they can do that. It will say that. Be prepared for them to wave that in your face.

This is a big story guys. It's not just about planetside, it's about Sony's recently financial problems (posting lower than expected profits), the massmarket of online gaming and people being exposed to new ecommerce models.

If Sony continue to do this when people are outside their free beta period, that's when you can really make shit hit the fan.


IDgaf.