My Ideal July 1st

[Eyeklops]

After a few hours of festivities courtesy of the PS1 hardcore group, my ideal July 1st goes like this:
1. Devs transport all players to one of the sanctuaries without warning.
2. After 5 minutes of everybody going WTF!!, all spawns get disabled and an Orbital Strike kill's everyone in one shot, with the name on the OS being "Planetside 2".
3. An announcement, "Dear Planetside citizens and warmongers, the Gemini server will be shut down for forever in 5 minutes."
4. After a short wait, just to build tension, another announcement, "The Planetside 2 beta server is live, please go download the client and enjoy - Love SOE and the PS2 Development team."

That would be the best day evar!

It would be really cool if they could make the OS charge up slowly over the whole five min, but I wouldn't expect them to spend time on something like that though. Kinda like one last epic Orbital Strike. The end of days OS.

Whats your ideal July 1st look like?

[The Kush]

Haha that would be pretty epic but probably would never happen

[Sledgecrushr]

I absolutely love that iklops. Much better than the way I kinda imagined just pulling the plug one day.

[NCLynx]

I'd say after the huge day of festivities is over, the SoE Devs reroute everyones recall point to be Old Oshur and disable guns. Effectively making everyone's sanctuary the same point, this is when all the CR5s online (or maybe give everyone CR5?) group up (all three factions) are able to place their OSes and have the biggest tri-faction OSathon in the history of the game. Dozens maybe even 1 or 2 hundred OSes shot off all at the same time.

Oh man.

[Bags]

Yeah, it'd be a great move to shut down PS1 servers while people have active subs, and then to open a beta that not everyone is in!

[Crator]

It would be neat to have something like this happen. I hate to be Debbie Downer and all about it but I doubt they will just throw everyone off of PS1 when closed beta starts... Maybe for open beta, or even better launch day, they can do something like this..... They're going to phase people into closed beta....

[AvacadoEight]

This would be awesome. Too bad I don't have an active Planetside 1 subscription...

[Eyeklops]

Originally Posted by Bags

Yeah, it'd be a great move to shut down PS1 servers while people have active subs, and then to open a beta that not everyone is in!

Bags, quit pooping on my daydreams. You know it would be awesome...just bask in the awesome

[Bags]

I'd love it, but I'm sure there's some people not looking forward to PS2 at all.

[SixShooter]

Originally Posted by Eyeklops

After a few hours of festivities courtesy of the PS1 hardcore group, my ideal July 1st goes like this:
1. Devs transport all players to one of the sanctuaries without warning.
2. After 5 minutes of everybody going WTF!!, all spawns get disabled and an Orbital Strike kill's everyone in one shot, with the name on the OS being "Planetside 2".
3. An announcement, "Dear Planetside citizens and warmongers, the Gemini server will be shut down for forever in 5 minutes."
4. After a short wait, just to build tension, another announcement, "The Planetside 2 beta server is live, please go download the client and enjoy - Love SOE and the PS2 Development team."

That would be the best day evar!

It would be really cool if they could make the OS charge up slowly over the whole five min, but I wouldn't expect them to spend time on something like that though. Kinda like one last epic Orbital Strike. The end of days OS.

Whats your ideal July 1st look like?

This ^^^

Except that after the mass OS, everyone respawns in sanc again and the announcement reads:

"The Hart Express Shuttle departs for PS2 Beta in 10 minutes! All aboard!!!"

Everyone rushes to the Hart building and stands around nevously twitching, watching the timer, while waiting for the door to open. After what seems like an eternity, the door opens and everyone floods in. Once aboard, it takes off to the heavens and fades to black instead of taking you to the map and then a large shiny button appears reading:

"The future starts now!"

You click on the link and the beta begins to download. The rest is history.

[Luieburger]

My ideal July first is where beta has already started on June 20th at 9:43PM PST and I'm just logging in for another awesome round of beta testing amazement.

Of course... I haven't played PS1 so I'm not as sentimental about it.

[Brusi]

Parade gets bombed to the shithouse by like, 200 liberators.

[Gonefshn]

I would find that a little too bitter sweet. Would be sad to not know the end was coming until five minutes lol

[Ruffdog]

Originally Posted by Eyeklops

Whats your ideal July 1st look like?

A red world lock on Gemini. Then...the next chapter. Love your vision (no pun eye).

[SurgeonX]

Originally Posted by Eyeklops

4. After a short wait, just to build tension, another announcement, "The Planetside 2 beta server is live, please go download the client and enjoy - Love SOE and the PS2 Development team."

That would be the best day evar!

Whats your ideal July 1st look like?

Pretty similar, except I'd have the devs secretly roll the PS2 beta download into a PS1 patch update.
Obviously it'd be massive compared to PS1, but I can dream.

After the festivities an announcement appears:

"Emergency deployment! All players proceed to the HART".

Everyone piles in.
The HART ascends into the atmosphere gracefully for one last time.
The Global Map appears.
It suddenly fills with static.
Disappears.
And is replaced by the brand new Auraxis global map from PS2.
You select a respawn point and click drop.
BOOM!
You're now descending through the heavens in PlanetSide 2 beta.