New System Explained - Page 5

Navaron · 2003-07-23, 07:46 PM

SporkfirePS
Developer posted 07-23-2003 02:21 PM user search report post
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I completely understand the community's concern over the feature. It's substantial and it's a change. However, we also believe that such a system addresses some fundamental issues and that this can offer a great improvement over the current model. While people are bound to disagree, I'd like to ask as many people as possible to try it out on Test Server when we release it there before passing final judgement. We plan on leaving it there for some time to get as much feedback and gather as much data as possible before we call it a complete success and release it to the live servers.
Victor Wachter
Community Relations Representative
Many questions can be answered by reading the PlanetSide Game Info and FAQ

EDIT: The anti lettuce thread just broke 500 posts.

Here it comes and there's nothing you can do to change that fact. We all know the test server is a joke. At least we'll get 16000 xp while we beta test.

Hamma · 2003-07-23, 08:07 PM

Its that attitude of "The test server is a joke" which will result in the patch coming out in a less than desirable state.

(That sounded cool)

Navaron · 2003-07-23, 08:10 PM

It's the last patch which portrayed the test server as a joke. Not my fault. I put in my time over there, and several times it was me and 2 other guys all alone killing each other so some gm could test something out. I put in my time, and then they get on, have all kindsa fun and hand out xp and invincible ams's but then they released that fubar patch. I'm sorry, but I don't like having a more serious work ethic than the developers.

What sounded cool?

AtomicBanana · 2003-07-23, 09:00 PM

heh.. this mod sounds *exacly* like capture the chicken mod I remeber playing all those years ago.. randomly spawning chicken and all

The amount of things they have changed for no good reason has just become to many, too quickly. I can accept some to make the game work, lattice lines for example. But all this 'can't do this, can't do that blah blah blah' sounds like them patching holes in an already sinking idea.

it still has potential, and I must hold off comment until then.. but the random choosing of which base it has to go to makes no sense to me at all - and takes a choice away from the player.

If the player could choose which linked base, they could set up defences in advance.. plan ahead. But if it's random, they're just going to go 'fuck it, zerg boys!' and then all scrabble back to the base to get the exp from the base and the mini soi.

have to see how it goes