Need Help With the Training

endoftheline · 2005-03-27, 12:31 AM

I just bought the game, and I cant even seem to finish the training.... I'm up to the veichical training, and it tells me to click on the hasser icon. But there is no hasser icon there....

Ive looked everywhere, restarted the game and stuff, and its still the same. THis is a pic of What I mean. Could someone please help me out here. I really want to play this game.

Hamorad · 2005-03-27, 12:38 AM

Hint for ya: IGNORE THE TRAINING... THEY WILL ROT YOUR BRAIN...
seriously though, Training is worthless. Just talk to one person ingame (or here

) and you'll learn everything you need to know

Oh yeah, Clicky It's a little bit about the game to get you started.

endoftheline · 2005-03-27, 12:44 AM

well i just wanted to learn the game a bit first... The tutorial seemed pretty good, unitll it got retarted, with no icon there.

mechaman · 2005-03-27, 12:46 AM

Offline Training has been broken for years. Just talk to an experiance player and you can learn all you need to know

Lonehunter · 2005-03-27, 02:20 AM

Endoftheline... no way you'll be able to get that name in game. He was a popular NC guy that got banned a while back.

Lartnev · 2005-03-27, 09:53 AM

I don't think offline training has ever worked. But SamHayne (PlanetSide Lead Designer/Producer) has said that its something they're looking into.

endoftheline · 2005-03-27, 12:42 PM

well i have taken your advice, and someone did teach me a lot of stuff in game. Planetside has a very nice community in game.

One Problem though--> I cant log in anymore, its just say the operation has timed out. How often do the PS servers go ofline like this? And is there a way to check their status on the planetside page?

Lartnev · 2005-03-27, 01:50 PM

Not very often at all.

Hamorad · 2005-03-27, 02:06 PM

Yeah I'm pretty sure the servers went offline for a while today i've gotten that same message.

mechaman · 2005-03-27, 03:14 PM

Originally Posted by endoftheline

well i have taken your advice, and someone did teach me a lot of stuff in game. Planetside has a very nice community in game.

One Problem though--> I cant log in anymore, its just say the operation has timed out. How often do the PS servers go ofline like this? And is there a way to check their status on the planetside page?

Servers don't go down often but if you can get past the login screen then there should be message saying which servers are up/down on the right side of the screen

endoftheline · 2005-03-27, 11:37 PM

thanks, it works fine now

Lartnev · 2005-03-28, 08:24 AM

SOE had a big network outage yesterday.

FatalLight · 2005-03-28, 10:22 AM

All of SOE or just Markov?

Lartnev · 2005-03-28, 01:06 PM

Well, I assume SOE HQ in San Diego (or whereever Markov is based) since EQ2 also had outages for all of its US servers as well.

Electrofreak · 2005-03-28, 04:42 PM

As all the others said, offline training is bugged and has been bugged forever, and SOE doesn't do much about it because most people ignore it when they start playing PS anyhow. A pity, because complete nubs spamming broadcast with questions can be quite annoying. Don't get me wrong, everyone needs to ask a few questions when they start playing PS, its a fairly complex game, but if more people would actually read the manual or do some of the tutorial (well, at least through the part that works correctly) it would definately make things simpler for us veterans to explain to the newbies.

Typical question is something along the lines of "How do I get a vehicle" and the response is usually "Get certified for that vehicle and go to a vehicle terminal and press G". The problem are the nubs that then go "Whats certifications?"

That said, I'm glad someone has the sense to try to figure things out before diving into the fight. Welcome to PlanetSide.