What can we do to make the community a better place?

[Xaine]

Its a free to play game.

The general community is going to be awful.

Sorry, that's just how it goes.

Get into an Outfit and ignore the public chat, luckily you don't really interact with too many people in Planetside on a 'talking' level.

[Otleaz]

Originally Posted by Xaine

Its a free to play game.

The general community is going to be awful.

Sorry, that's just how it goes.

Get into an Outfit and ignore the public chat, luckily you don't really interact with too many people in Planetside on a 'talking' level.

Free to play has nothing to do with it. That is like complaining about a papercut while your hand is broken.

[basti]

Originally Posted by Xaine

Its a free to play game.

The general community is going to be awful.

Sorry, that's just how it goes.

Get into an Outfit and ignore the public chat, luckily you don't really interact with too many people in Planetside on a 'talking' level.

Nope

It has nothing to do with the kind or format of the game. It really all depens on the existing community.

If people get greeted nicley, and find a awesome, helpful community, then most want to be part of it. If a troll appears, kill him before he lures other trolls.

If your community already went to shit, then nothing can really help you. So, we really have to be on our toes and dont slack, otherwise its gone.

Sadly, forumside 2 will be the craphole of the PS2 community again. Unless the SOE mods stop being light, and just smite! :>

[Sephirex]

If the community is absolutely terrible, I'll do what I always do and stick close to my friends and ignore the rest.

They're all just targets, either for me or the enemy.

[Otleaz]

Originally Posted by basti

If people get greeted nicley, and find a awesome, helpful community, then most want to be part of it. If a troll appears, kill him before he lures other trolls.

That is secondary. You need to accommodate something like that first.
How is a player supposed to be enthusiastic about joining a community when he knows he will probably never see the awesome and helpful people again?

If you aren't limited to one server, the community will fall into the category that reddit or 4chan are in.

[Policenaut]

I know I'm in the minority here, and it's unlikely that it will ever happen, but I love volatile communities who hate each other. It makes it all that much more satisfying when you're in the game killing each other, or constantly trying to 1-up your rivals on the same faction.

[GreatMazinkaise]

Since when did gaming communities trade:

I know I'm in the minority here, and it's unlikely that it will ever happen, but I love volatile communities who hate each other.

for:

If people get greeted nicley, and find a awesome, helpful community, then most want to be part of it.

Grow a spine; if you don't like being the punching bag of the elites then join them. Hate builds stronger bonds than all this fake feel good nonsense.

[Otleaz]

Originally Posted by GreatMazinkaise

Grow a spine; if you don't like being the punching bag of the elites then join them. Hate builds stronger bonds then all this fake feel good nonsense.

It is way too played out. So many games nowadays have shitty communities that it is getting old.

It makes you crave the good ol' days where you would exchange compliments, kill bad guys, pat each other on the back, and go home and romp.

[Sirisian]

I think directing players to outfits and giving players easy ways to communicate and form friendships will go a long way. The voice system I believe was a huge step for creating a community. If we can get some local chat going it would be even better. I can't tell you how many times I can't find the quick yell for "there is a TR on the other side of that tree... you are going to be mauled if you run at it".

On that note, giving players ways to support one another is a big part of it. You can't discredit how much gameplay affects whether players work together. In PS1 you had players healing each other randomly which was a nice touch. We need a lot of those symbiotic relationships. I'm part of the group of Planetside vets that plan to ramp up TTK during beta so players can work together more like in PS1 and it's less about solo play.

Originally Posted by Otleaz

If they allow easy server transfers, there will be no such thing as community in this game. You will have friends and outfits, but that is about it.

I was under the impression people are referring to outfit communities like in PS1. Unless you played a ton you probably weren't going to know everyone on your server. I didn't know any of the enemy names other than their outfits since I'd see squads of them. As long as large outfits stay centralized I'm fine. What the zerg does is not really important in a F2P title. It might be kind of condescending but most of them are going to be unnamed cannon fodder.

[GreatMazinkaise]

Originally Posted by Otleaz

It is way too played out. So many games nowadays have shitty communities that it is getting old.

It makes you crave the good ol' days where you would exchange compliments, kill bad guys, pat each other on the back, and go home and romp.

Maybe it's one of those things that just doesn't scale up well.

[Broadside]

As long as this community isn't like LoL, I'd say we're on the right track.

[RSphil]

be nice to others. answer question if you can and help anyone who needs it. in short dont be the normal trolling prick you get in most mmo's

[julfo]

Originally Posted by Zar

I think if your a fun loving person and teamwork loving player where you come from or what you played before realllly doesn't matter. if you're a dick people treat you as such if you love playing game's and building a fun long lasting game we have cake and would be happy to share and welcome you to a fun and hopefully successful game. what kind of put's people off from the ps1 community is that people from bf or cod come in and say we should do all of their mechanic's and non of ours from ps1 granted ps1 is oolllllldddd we didn't even have head shot's that's a welcome new mechanic that ps1 did not have the ps2 will. and a lot of new mechanic's are already in the game so either way its a new world and I am sure there will be room for everyone to kill maim and destroy each other with bullet's aircraft and tank's instead of bad mouthing each other on the forum's and I've done it to and its not good I agree. I am not a fan of bf3 or black ops evil game's imo but that's a point of view nothing more.

Exactly. Unfortunately, the community just isn't at that point yet.

[Bags]

What if like we were nice.

[SixShooter]

Originally Posted by Doxy

We need more Vanu to make this community a better place =]

^^^This



Sorry, I can't actually come up with anything thoughtful for this discussion other than I think that the PS2 community, for the most part, will follow the path of the PS1 community simply because of the type of game that it is.

PS1 vets and the PSU community will play its part but there will be a lot more new players this time around (like we weren't all new to it the first time), and as they can keep the hacking to a minimum, we'll see the new community grow into something awesome.

It just seems like there is so much more potential this time around and great opportunities for anyone who wants to take them.