Cert Limit

Ex70 · 2002-12-18, 11:59 PM

You can only have like 20 of the 60 or so certs at once right? So once you have enough BEPs to get 20 certs, there's really no point in gathering BEPs? Cause if you want a different cert you have to "unlearn" one, and you get BEPs back(i think) so you can train it in something else after X time.

So... once you have 20 certs you've beat the game?

Hamma · 2002-12-19, 12:04 AM

As you earn BEP's you earn Certification Points, with those you purchase certs. Once you get to 20 (battle rank 20 that is) you are uber. But theres no way you have beaten the game heheh, thats impossible

Led · 2002-12-19, 12:06 AM

You can also have four characters per server.

Hamma · 2002-12-19, 12:07 AM

good call

afex · 2002-12-19, 12:09 AM

and it's not certs, its cert points (which you buy certs with)

some certs cost more than 1 point, so that doesn't necessarily mean 21 certs.

quiet · 2002-12-19, 12:19 AM

and then there's CEPs . . .

Hamma · 2002-12-19, 12:24 AM

Those are completly seperate, I dont think they have any effect at all on certs

Ex70 · 2002-12-19, 12:45 AM

Ok so once you're battle rank 20 there is no point in getting certification points then.

Myhouse43 · 2002-12-19, 01:07 AM

It's a good thing planetside isn't going to be released until febuary or later because this cert system is onfusing as hell and i'ts going to take that whole time to figure it out. O

(Or become not lazy ad just read the damn info myself)

P.S. I love that smiley

Led · 2002-12-19, 01:08 AM

Rank 20 aint really a rank. It is just fancy filler for your cert point cap. After you hit 20, you just go on fighting as normal

Just with more options than the newbie that just started out.

Saint · 2002-12-19, 01:49 AM

Basically all you do as you gain rank is change color and once to spend all 21 of your cert points on lets say 14-15 certs you can either go on playing as an elite, make a new character or unlearn them and try to rearange your character.

ft-Marauder · 2002-12-19, 02:35 AM

Anyone have any idea how long (roughly) it's going to take to get those 20 points. (I know, I know, it all depends on how things go fighting etc.)

If you keep getting your ass kicked, are you going to gain any experiance at all? Do you loose anything when you die?

Ex70 · 2002-12-19, 02:50 AM

I started a thread on Death <a href=http://www.planetside-universe.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=774>here</a>.

Basically if you had any empire-specific weapons that weren't your own you'd lose them. Otherwise you can just spawn anything you have a cert for at a terminal.

�io · 2002-12-19, 03:45 AM

Originally posted by ft-Marauder
Anyone have any idea how long (roughly) it's going to take to get those 20 points. (I know, I know, it all depends on how things go fighting etc.)

I recall the devs (aka Smokey) saying esitmated time was 3months. Of course some will take longer and some will have it done in 2 weeks but that's just life.

Myself i was hoping full Certs would require a good 4-5 months for a casual gamer.

Omega · 2002-12-19, 07:56 AM

Well I personally hope that it will cost alot of BeP's for just any Cert. Because honest to say you will have those people who are saddly going to play all the time without actually attempting to have a life.

Now maybe in some twisted deminsion you get paid to play Video Games, but I seriously DOUBT that you get paid to play them 24/7 without going outside to breath.

When you get these type of people it won't take them long at all to get to the max cert. So they will run around proclaiming themselves champions and crap then they get cocky and start doing things there way and again ruining the game for others.

Now hopefully we really won't get to this point but most likely there will be many who are just like this. But don't get it twisted I plan on playing as much as humanly possible BUT that will be disposed in an appropiate manner with me Balancing school in Florida. Friends and Sex.... so it might drop my play time to a casual gamer rather than a hardcore PS'er.

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