So who has all the Auraxium?

Rat · 2012-10-09, 11:31 AM

This isnt a bitch thread, I am just curious what empires and individuals have been gaining according to your BR.
I play TR, mostly solo, I am currently BR 7 and have earned a total of 3500 or so Auraxium.
So what are you guys in the other empires earning? I am sure that the TR have dominated at some point, but I just havent seen it yet.
Again, I am not complaining. I am having a lot of fun fighting the good fight.
Thanks.

Hamma · 2012-10-09, 11:39 AM

I think I have about 2000 Auraxium as TR. Also I love how Chrome auto corrects "Auraxium" to "Uranium"

Frotang · 2012-10-09, 11:53 AM

Well im NC and as much I wanted to leave Esa to fight in Indar, the allure of the AUX farm and maxing out my nades and C4 was simply too great at times. I played Sat-Mon 8 hrs avg (rare for me but the holiday weekend gave me an excuse to go no life grinder for a bit) and in total I have earned 17000 AUX , Im BR 9 btw. Ive bought the reaper DMR and the right arm scat MAX, currently 500 away from my Crow.

Hamma · 2012-10-09, 11:54 AM

Auraxium is the single biggest issue the dev team faces right now. It needs to be tied to personal performance and not bases/territory.

Frotang · 2012-10-09, 11:58 AM

Agree, and you know it wasn't the AUX that was keeping me on Esa, when I did go fight on Indar i was earning similar amounts fighting at the big facilities. For me the uber +165 resource ticks kept me coming back every few hrs to max out my nades and C4, many lives were lost for the low price of 100 catalysts lol.

Qwan · 2012-10-09, 12:23 PM

Since ive been on from the new wipe, Ive gained about 4900 Aur. But playing VS we havent had, alot of dominance on either continent. Hope that changes soon.

EVILoHOMER · 2012-10-09, 12:27 PM

The game has made no effort to tell me what it is, didn't even know it existed until this thread.... what does it do? Played since Alpha and haven't bothered with certs or anything like that.... I find the UI around that stuff to be so hideous and complicated that I cannot be bothered. I still don't know how to use other weapons or anything, just been using the standard stuff.

I play every game out there but Planetside 2's UI design is horrible, it looks nice artistically but man it is a mess. I find my mates saying the same thing too, they just become frustrated with not knowing what everything is and quit.

Funny because SOE have tried to make this game so accessible with F2P and all that but the UI will be the downfall.

GuyFawkes · 2012-10-09, 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by Hamma

Auraxium is the single biggest issue the dev team faces right now. It needs to be tied to personal performance and not bases/territory.

Exactly, remove it as a resource, link it directly to player points. Treat it as a players salary. The more you do, the more points you earn. Kills, caps, support and leadership should all have equal weighting towards points.

Rat · 2012-10-09, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by Qwan

Since ive been on from the new wipe, Ive gained about 4900 Aur. But playing VS we havent had, alot of dominance on either continent. Hope that changes soon.

What BR are you? BR is really the only play time gauge we have...If you are only BR 2 and have earned 4900, thats quite a bit, but if your BR 15, that isnt soo much.

Qwan · 2012-10-09, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by Rat

What BR are you? BR is really the only play time gauge we have...If you are only BR 2 and have earned 4900, thats quite a bit, but if your BR 15, that isnt soo much.

Im br 6, working on 7, back in the day I had alot of time to play planetside 1 but, now a days I have family (twins) and stuff and dont have alot of time. Since its free to play, I may have to spend money just to keep up with you single guys, in gear and certs.

SpottyGekko · 2012-10-09, 12:51 PM

I play VS (euro), mostly solo, I am currently BR 6 and have earned a total of 3200 or so Auraxium.

Last night I had to play on Esamir (the game dropped me there even though I logged-out on Indar) as there was no way to get to Indar with the heavy demand for play slots. I rolled out 2 Maggie's (starter equipped) and was destroyed in short order by NC Vanguards sporting HEAT turrets and most likely extra armour and ammo capacity upgrades.

Once the tanks were gone, there was no way to get any more, because the VS had allready lost control of the tank resource hexes. So I spent the an hour fighting endless waves of tanks as a HA with that lovely VS dumbfire launcher. I suck at infantry, so I didn't get any tank kills other than a few assists.

Switched to engi and concentrated on support play, ammo supply and repairs. I earned pitiful amounts of XP and by the time I logged-off the VS were down to 12 AUX per tick.

At this rate, I'll probably get more AUX while offline than while online, lol

I fully expect we'll start seeing "NC are OP" posts on the beta forums very soon. The massive amounts of AUX earned by NC players on Esamir all of Saturday is going to give them a huge unlock boost. Those weapon upgrades will most likely make a significant difference, and of course your weapon unlocks and certs go with you whichever continent you play on.

Timealude · 2012-10-09, 01:11 PM

Originally Posted by Hamma

Auraxium is the single biggest issue the dev team faces right now. It needs to be tied to personal performance and not bases/territory.

I totally agree with this, I dont have much auraxium because i havent played much this weekend but NC holding one continent doesnt help with the server balance at all.

Hamma · 2012-10-09, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by EVILoHOMER

The game has made no effort to tell me what it is, didn't even know it existed until this thread.... what does it do? Played since Alpha and haven't bothered with certs or anything like that.... I find the UI around that stuff to be so hideous and complicated that I cannot be bothered. I still don't know how to use other weapons or anything, just been using the standard stuff.

I play every game out there but Planetside 2's UI design is horrible, it looks nice artistically but man it is a mess. I find my mates saying the same thing too, they just become frustrated with not knowing what everything is and quit.

Funny because SOE have tried to make this game so accessible with F2P and all that but the UI will be the downfall.

So wait you can't be bothered with probably one of the most important pieces of the game?

Auraxium can be used to buy implants and in game weapons. Have you provided feedback on this "horrible" UI to the development team in the official forums?

Arovien · 2012-10-09, 01:59 PM

TR on NA side. BR 7 with 4.5k AUX.

I usually pilot a galaxy/ roll HA when in infantry combat/ drive a prowler on the front lines.

EVILoHOMER · 2012-10-09, 02:31 PM

Originally Posted by Hamma

So wait you can't be bothered with probably one of the most important pieces of the game?

Auraxium can be used to buy implants and in game weapons. Have you provided feedback on this "horrible" UI to the development team in the official forums?

Na everything you post over there either gets flamed or goes to page 2 so quickly.

I've just spent awhile with the Certs and stuff but it is very hard to navigate. I thought weapons and stuff for your vehicles would be under certs, I just kept buying upgrades for weapons thinking it would give me them when I put one cert in lol. Struggling to find where the weapons are since I started playing lol.

No wonder they're all in a store that tells me I have no station cash when I do. I haven't even got enough Auraxium to buy one thing, it's frigging mental. They said it wouldn't be pay to win but I bet each thing will be like $5 which to me seems better than spending a week to get one weapon.

Just hope they're account based and not character lol.