Pop limit!

Ait'al · 2004-01-23, 06:26 PM

What are the pop limits now. Ive heard 100/100/100. Doesnt this seem a little low. I propose they up it to enough to have atlease 30 people at each base and tower and enought for about 50 out in the feild(continent) at all time to intercept oncoming troops per empire in the situation an empire has an entire continent.. That would give a wildly increased abilities in base and continent defense. It would still allow the same amount of people on the attcking empire and allow larger battles and more easily defendable bases.
Not to mention more diverse startegy like a continental sized pincer attack.

This would make it about 1000 per empire wouldnt it. Hmm ok bigger than i thought but waht do people think abou it. What would people think about 500 per empire. 1500 continental pop lock. Tell me what of this info is wrong.

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321 · 2004-01-23, 06:31 PM

I think that they should make it as much as they could but, not to much because the servers will go down if they push the limit up to much.

Kikinchikin · 2004-01-23, 06:32 PM

the lag is too bad right now. 500 per empire would just... ick no one could move.

I tend to think maybe 150 per empire. This would make battles more tactical and most importantly, would encourage invasions on nealry every continent at once, making it so players not wanting to take on a big battle could go have some small fight fun, while there would still be big battles to fight on. plus it would almost always give them a choice of defending or attacking as most of the continents would be under some sort of attack (at least at prime time)

321 · 2004-01-23, 06:33 PM

Originally Posted by Lilbird2431

the lag is too bad right now.

I disagree PS is pretty much lag free right now.

Morrik · 2004-01-23, 07:00 PM

Originally Posted by 321

I disagree PS is pretty much lag free right now.

Depending on the machine the user haves, PlanetSide is not lag-free. I don't think any online game will every be lag free. There will alwasy be lag, like there is night and day. However, the 100 population limit is perfectly fine. When everybody gets bunched up in one area and all those bullets/lazers/orbital strikes going on... the game can really just start choking.

Happy lil Elf · 2004-01-23, 07:01 PM

1000 per empire? No way the servers could reliably handle 3000 on a single continent.
You're insane. Imagine just a force of 500 people attacking a base with 500 defending it. Do you enjoy having a framerate of about 5fps? I know I don't.

Ait'al · 2004-01-23, 07:06 PM

Wouldnt the difficulty of getting 500 people together stop there from being that many people assaulting one base. ID imagine once you get to that number and higher you leave the realm of useing the maximum number of people the continint holds to what you are capable of commanding etc. And then slowly balance out the difference between how many poeple you ahve defending to how many people can attack as you get more people allowed per base when trying to defend the entire continent.

JakeLogan · 2004-01-23, 07:28 PM

Yeah My lag gets bad in those big fights (FPS lag mind you) plus 500 defending 500 attacking...........my god you couldn't blind fold your self pull you knife and run around in random directions with out knifing someone

Morrik · 2004-01-23, 07:30 PM

Originally Posted by JakeLogan

Yeah My lag gets bad in those big fights (FPS lag mind you) plus 500 defending 500 attacking...........my god you couldn't blind fold your self pull you knife and run around in random directions with out knifing someone

Agreed. Anymore people on one planet at one location would just kill the computer the game is on, figureatively speaking. I haven't had much problems with the populations cap with the exception of weird hours when there are not many people on and the action on all other continents are kind of slim. It's enough to keep me entertained though.

Rbstr · 2004-01-23, 08:56 PM

yeah 150 per empire would be ideal.

Less zerg, mosr fights on conts liek cery, oshur, and esmir

Neon Apocalypse · 2004-01-23, 10:18 PM

i was playing today, and at one time i was getting kinda slow fps, like 15-20 sec at times, and i have a 2.53 ghz p4 with a radeon9600xt, and 1 gig ddr400 ram, it was ick, lots of enemys and it was slow

Veteran · 2004-01-23, 11:44 PM

It should be 120/120/120.. Four full platoons.

edit: 150 is cool too, five full platoons.

I still see it conflicting with OBO. What good is it to be able to recall to your base if the cont. is locked?

Morrik · 2004-01-24, 12:03 AM

Originally Posted by Neon Apocalypse

i was playing today, and at one time i was getting kinda slow fps, like 15-20 sec at times, and i have a 2.53 ghz p4 with a radeon9600xt, and 1 gig ddr400 ram, it was ick, lots of enemys and it was slow

Man, if you can't deal with that ouch. I might be able to get 20 FPS if I'm lucky.

AMD Athlon 2100+
512 MB DDR RAM PC2700
GeForce4 Ti4400 128 MB RAM

It would be nice to play on your machine at least once.

I can't wait for the day I get another machine. Shouldn't be more than two months from now though. Just had to fork over 1500 bucks for wisdom tooth extractions (all four).

With the 100/100/100 population limit, it's more than enough to get adequate action. Even when you're not on the locked continent, there still is plenty of action going on elsewhere. Always love attacking a continent owned by an opposing empire.

martyr · 2004-01-24, 12:05 AM

Originally Posted by Ait'al

8)

you don't play planetside

Dharkbayne · 2004-01-24, 12:06 AM