Is planetside gonna become EvE/SW:Galaxies?

[Dreamcast]

I found this video and he mentions how Planetside is gonna try to do the opposite compared to eve going to FPS now as there long term goal


Now there is mentioned of resources and I heard them say that resources are gonna be more important later on....and I know they are planning on different planets.



So do you guys think we are going to see space wars eventually with player driven economy....seems like it is going to that.

They also seem to love SW:Galaxies sandbox aswell in one of the videos I saw.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/hu...tside-2/717178

4:20 at video

[Levente]

actually theres two QA videos at gametrailers, one is 17 min long and other is 33, why isnt it posted on the frontpage? fail

[Dreamcast]

I think it is now.

[Vancha]

Originally Posted by Levente

actually theres two QA videos at gametrailers, one is 17 min long and other is 33, why isnt it posted on the frontpage? fail

They were on the front page, when they were news. Now they're old news, and hence been pushed off the front page.

[Logit]

When SWG first came out it was a fantastic game.

Than, for some reason, they crapped it all up.

[BorisBlade]

Originally Posted by Logit

When SWG first came out it was a fantastic game.

Than, for some reason, they crapped it all up.

No, not really. If it werent SW it woulda flopped, it wasnt very good at all. Maybe good ideas, but badly implimented. And although i didnt play that new thing they did when they changed stuff all up, i hear how much it sucked all the time.

[headcrab13]

Originally Posted by Dreamcast

Now there is mentioned of resources and I heard them say that resources are gonna be more important later on....and I know they are planning on different planets.

So do you guys think we are going to see space wars eventually with player driven economy....seems like it is going to that.

Yeah it's interesting that Higby mentioned that -- I think there are many directions they could go with a spinoff based on PlanetSide 2's stats.

It would be awesome if eventually they made a space MMO where the control of certain planets and systems was actually controlled by PS2 players. Down the line, they could even add "mutual events" where a massive, week-long battle on the ground for a newly patched-in citadel would determine the permanent control of a solar system in the space MMO.

-HC13

[CutterJohn]

Originally Posted by BorisBlade

No, not really. If it werent SW it woulda flopped, it wasnt very good at all. Maybe good ideas, but badly implimented. And although i didnt play that new thing they did when they changed stuff all up, i hear how much it sucked all the time.

It had some really awesome aspects. The crafting was awesome(aside from inventory and repeatability issues). The mix and match class system was great. The completely player economy, with barely even any loot, was great. The sandbox was great. You wouldn't think sacrificing combat skills to be a hairstylist could work, but some people made it work. Player built cities were great.


It had bad parts too though. Class balance was whacked. Doc/dancer buffs were completely retardedly overpowered. There were bugs everywhere, some classes completely broken and never fixed. Cities that never went away sucked. Tatooine was border to border player buildings. Jedi sucked.

Sadly, the patches changed most everything that was awesome about the game, while leaving in much of the sucky stuff.

[1Shotwonder]

It does seem like that is a possibility but if you step back and look at it again it seems like they are bringing a lot of ideas into ps2 from a lot of other games out there and probably are what is helping them to create there 3 year plan they mention... All I hope is that it stays true to what it is and that's planetside, there are a few things I am weary about but we don't know all the facts yet so cant really judge it just yet... If being an eve/star wars galaxy is a good idea who knows but I am sure I don't really care to be sitting in space mining or whatever slow crap that those games have... never really like either of the two but that's just me

[Dreamcast]

Yeah it's interesting that Higby mentioned that -- I think there are many directions they could go with a spinoff based on PlanetSide 2's stats.

It would be awesome if eventually they made a space MMO where the control of certain planets and systems was actually controlled by PS2 players. Down the line, they could even add "mutual events" where a massive, week-long battle on the ground for a newly patched-in citadel would determine the permanent control of a solar system in the space MMO.

It sounds awesome, a whole player controller war that extends to galaxies with a player driven economy.

It does seem like that is a possibility but if you step back and look at it again it seems like they are bringing a lot of ideas into ps2 from a lot of other games out there and probably are what is helping them to create there 3 year plan they mention... All I hope is that it stays true to what it is and that's planetside, there are a few things I am weary about but we don't know all the facts yet so cant really judge it just yet... If being an eve/star wars galaxy is a good idea who knows but I am sure I don't really care to be sitting in space mining or whatever slow crap that those games have... never really like either of the two but that's just me

It will probably be an option like Eve is doing with Dust 514.....Planetside will still be planetside except now the game will be influenced by galatic battles and player driven economies.


It will probably improve the FPS aspect of the game since battles are going to take on different planets and maybe even space ships now.

[opticalshadow]

swg was a great game with alot of rust, it woudlnt have suceeded if not for sw prolly, but it wasnt due to a bad game, it was do to bad devs behind it. they had good intentions but the game was released unsinished and remained so for its life time, getting trashed with that worst patch in history patch.

i think it wont wander into what eve is, i think its going to take its ideas and hopefully the three year plan will work, and as a community we can steer it twords a game of its own.

[Bravix]

Favorite thing about SWG was being able to walk around in a spaceship as it participated in combat, and being able to see out windows as the combat happened. The fact that you could have one 1 pilot, 2 gunners, and a guy running repairing the ship from the inside was pretty sweet.

I want the space ships that they've talked about to be like that Engineers can run around inside repairing/upgrading the ship's defenses. Foot grunts defend from boarding parties when not manning turrets. Fun fun.

[Baneblade]

SWG's original design plan was awesome... on paper. SWG itself was a steaming pile.

[basti]

I dont think we will go down the Eve/SWG way with alot of crafting. The focus of Planetside 2 will always be the FPS combat. But potentially, with the additions of new planets, space wars could indeed happen.

And im not talking about Eve of SWG stuff only. Im talking about the FULL pack! Imagine 2 Battleships fighting each other, launching bombers and fighters, a massive space war. And you, a single soilder, stand on the hull of your empires Battleship. You jump, and float through space torwards the enemys ship, hoping that no enemy will open fire on you while you cant escape.

[kubacheski]

I don't have the vids and locations, but I recall the dev panel hinted at multiple worlds being an eventuality. And that resources will be required to build outfit towers and other structures. I kinda wonder if the resources will eventually be used for moving off of Auraxis (via spacetravel) to other planets with more or different resources for a greater variety of structures available for construction on Auraxis.

It would make for hotly contested off-world locations if a "rare" resource were necessary for certain construction "planetside" (see what I did there ).

Heck, it'd be sweet to travel to a "tournament planet" where top squads from different servers got to go at it head (TR) to head (NC) to head (VS). When PS1 had multiple servers you'd always hear faction A on B server couldn't touch faction C on server D. It'd be neat to see about that.