News: John Smedley on PlanetSide 2

[p0intman]

Originally Posted by Hamma

pointman,

I was wondering why you got banned on other forums now I know why.

Now that we have that out of the way let me say this.

As the actual person who sat down with Smed and asked these questions, as well as spent time with him for a pretty fair amount of time (something he does NOT have to do for a community fan site, I know of no other company CEO that would do this) I can tell you that I believe he is in fact telling the truth.

He wants this game to be a success and is 100% behind it. Proof of that is in the pudding already, all of the support we have received as a fan site including the developer posting. AND things I haven't even spoken about yet.

Now if you want to be constructive, feel free to post again.

I think its bullshit. Nothing he says can be trusted. Again, my opinion but there you go.

[Jennyboo]

Originally Posted by pointmanFAF

I think its bullshit. Nothing he says can be trusted. Again, my opinion but there you go.

This is coming from someone who has never met the man I think you should think before you post.

[Hamma]

Well it's always cool to be negative for the sake of being negative. Some forum personalities love that persona.

[Tool]

Originally Posted by Bags

I thought it was kind of obvious this was going to be the case.

If I remember right from the video, they said "non-captureable?" I'm not 100% on that. So it's not known for sure I guess; but yeah it's the general assumption.

[Goku]

I still have no seen anything on this yet. Will the skills you train be permanent on your character?

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Tool

If I remember right from the video, they said "non-captureable?" I'm not 100% on that. So it's not known for sure I guess; but yeah it's the general assumption.

When they said "noncapturable footholds" first thing that came to mind was a base inside of a warp gate, tbh.

[Volw]

Originally Posted by Goku

I still have no seen anything on this yet. Will the skills you train be permanent on your character?

Yes. No respecs as you will get to choose which 'skills' to equip.

[Raymac]

Originally Posted by Goku

I still have no seen anything on this yet. Will the skills you train be permanent on your character?

I think it came up in regards to recerting. During the panel, or hell maybe it was in reddit, they mentioned there is no recerting because you don't need to recert. You just get more skill points to use in other skill trees, but the skills are permanent.

I could be wrong, though.

[Clyras]

Apologies if this has been brought up, but I haven't noticed anyone talk about the 3 year plan. While this is good news, I can't help but wonder what this means exactly. Or more to the point, what will happen after these 3 years are up? Will support decrease considerably like in Planetside? Or is this simply the 3 years they will tell us about what they propose to do, and then they will plan further?

[Bags]

I'd love to know more too.

[Malorn]

Mostly the 3-year plan is stuff they have mentioned revolves around building on the sandbox nature of Planetside.

They seem to want to make PS2 a combination of EVE online free form epic sandboxing with the action of the Battlefield Series. I think BF2142 probalby comes closest to capturing the combat syle (sans the mechs of course).

Things they have mentioned involves doing a lot more with resources and focusing the game around resource acquisition (much like EVE was about resource acquisition in 0.0).

They specifically mentioned:
* outfit-constructed facilities/towers
* an eve-like market system
* lots of customizations based around resources
* expanding the number of continents (and planets)

They want people to fight fiercely over resources and reward them for acquiring them and allow us to do a lot of cool stuff with them like building our own turf and laying claim to various parts of territories.

Probalby more I left out.

[WarChimp130]

I wonder if like EVE there will also be character skills that tie into how fast certain skills train. Like Intel, Perception that sort of thing.

[Hamma]

Well said.

I think the 3 year plan is to show players how much they have planned. I am sure when PlanetSide 2 is a smash hit (we hope! ) there will be another three year plan.

Because if they can capture the feeling EVE has for it's die hard players this game will be around for a long time.

[Malorn]

Oh and I think boats/naval combat & vehicles are in the 3 year plan.

[Goku]

Originally Posted by Volw

Yes. No respecs as you will get to choose which 'skills' to equip.

Does that mean there is unlimited skill points then? I just rather not get stuck with a configuration (more afraid of a badly planned character) and be unable to redo it.