Everyone starts as n00bs w/o hacking right?

[RageMaster]

So what? Are all the bases just... empty? Do you just team death-match it for the first few levels with your pistols and common-pool basic weapons? Or would all the continents be completely empty while the first of us to subscribe cain through the simulator?

More daunting than that, what happens when the first person gets hacking? Who will stop his progression from base to base? Without a local respawn point for defenders, what stops him island hopping for 12 hours and taking half the map?

What happens when he does take half the map and no-one else has hacking by that point? Who's gonna re-take for the other factions? Eh?

Ultimately, what is going to stop the inevitable race to be the first hacker on your server?

My brain was just ticking over the first week in the life of PlanetSide. Hope you enjoy the brainfood, thoughts?

-RageMaster

[afex]

everybody can hack

hackers can do it faster

[Ouroboros]

EVERYONE can hack, it's just very, very slow. If you have hacking cert, you hack a lot faster. Faster still if you have advanced hacking cert.


Edit: Dang it afex...

[RageMaster]

Ah, right, I see! Thankyou, I'm enlightened.

Safe, well I guess that undermines the entire thread :-)

[Moloch]

there is local defens spawn point, spawn tubes inside the base

[Flameseeker]

I was under the impression that each side starts with a home continent, that it would be retarded to attack. So someone couldn't take the whole map. I'm probably not gonna get PS when it comes out, I'm broke.

[Ouroboros]

I feel your pain

[NapalmEnima]

In addition to hacking speed, you can hack new and interesting things as you increase your cert level:

http://www.planetside-universe.com/c...p?p=sdCertInfo


# Hacking
Allows faster use of the REK for hacking of doors and control consoles, and also allows temporary use of enemy-held medical and advanced medical terminals.
# Advanced Hacking
Like Hacking, but also allows the use of enemy-held equipment terminals, air vehicle terminals and ground vehicle terminals.

So someone with advanced hacking can actually change armors within an enemy base. Go in an infiltrator, come out a MAX.

Or you could spawn yourself a tank from their terminal, or whatever.

Much fun to be had with the advanced hacking cert.... and all at the enemy's expense.

[RageMaster]

Flameseeker,

I am aware of this. By 'whole map' I meant everything that can be captured. Everything with exeption of the sanctuary. And yes, thanks for the insight into hacking, NapalmEnigma :-)

[Moloch]

I think his name is supposed to be Napalm Enema, which would be quite unpleasant for the one on the recieving end of it.

[NapalmEnima]

Originally posted by Moloch
I think his name is supposed to be Napalm Enema, which would be quite unpleasant for the one on the recieving end of it.

Yup. And I'm aware that it's misspelled. I started using the nic in T2, and didn't feel like changing it... so I've just continued to misspell it.

I got the idea while thinking about a couple movie quotes:

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning" -- Apocolypse Now
"This town needs an enema!" -- Batman

And they become "I love the smell of NapalmEnima in the morning", and the quote in my sig.

I used to just whip up a nic on the spot for whichever game I happend to be playing, but have settled on NapalmEnima (sci-fi type stuff) and LeadPoisoning (for 'realistic' FPSes).

[Format]

Your also forgeting that its going to be very unlikely that theres gonna be a "first" person to play PS. When it comes out, hundreds of ppl will be rushing to play making it balanced when trying to take bases.

[RabidPlatypus]

Rename this thread to Napalm Enema's Life Story

[Moloch]

A tragic story, of life, lessons, and REALLY fucked up colons, intestines, and other ass-related body parts