PlanetSide United Nations Website Needs Help

mcshlong · 2003-03-30, 11:27 AM

Hello,
My name is Mcshlong. I own www. planetsideun.com. I am building a website there that I hope will serve as sort of a Planetside United nations.

The idea is to have a place where people can come to make agreements between them. The UN would then certify the deal and have inspectors that would then rate the two sides for the level of compliance.

Both the treaties and the ratings of all teams would be public. This would be sort of a fun way for us at the U.N. to play the game and a useful Institution which is known for its neutrality.

So after all that the reason I am posting is Im looking for some help. I would like to find someone who knows php and mysql well enough to help with the site.

Building the site will be a fairly big job. Im hopeing to automate much of the task. I have quite a bit of experiance with this type of thing and really would just like to find one other individual who would like to throw into the job of building a complex site and has the time to help. The reward would be half ownership of the site and a chance to be a political leader in the Planetside game world and play it in a way that allows you to be front and center to all the politics of the game.(which will be super fun with 3 empires and all the clan battles)

So who's in? (contact Mcshlong at [email protected] on Windows Messanger for more info)

Mcshlong
PlanetSideUn.com owner

Flameseeker · 2003-03-30, 11:47 AM

What? The UN is a peacekeeping organization, do you want peace between three empires? I just don't see the point of a UN on PlanetSide.
"VS: I think that the NC are holding out on us. They have chemical weapons.
TR: Yeah, but I don't care, die you bastard!
*NC nukes the place."

mcshlong · 2003-03-30, 12:55 PM

Well its going to be very difficult in planetside for anyone to make any progress.

I guess I see agreements getting made to lock down continents being made between two warring sides as one of the ways that the game will be fought.

I see this as the only way to make significant inroads into the game. Planetside will likely have alot of political intrigue becuase of the 3 teams. I can see whole teams moving out of certain areas in coordinated efforts to lock down continents.

Relationships are going to form this isnt like quake or ut there are more then just 2 sides here.

Donkeysmiler · 2003-03-30, 01:06 PM

To be honset I don't see very many peaceful actions taking place in PS...... you could however have the site concentrate on outfits and their alliances within factions and information regarding them.

take a look at the AGO:

http://ago.dragonwolves.com

This is probably the biggest TR alliance so far, and I know the NC and Vanus have similar organizations.

I could help some with the site, just let me know what you need

Squeeky · 2003-03-30, 01:07 PM

no offense, but this is a horrid idea IMO

mcshlong · 2003-03-30, 01:13 PM

Just contact me on windows messenger at [email protected] and lets chat about it.

As for the horrid idea comment. There is nothing wrong with providing tools to help teams come agreement with each other in a formal way. Thats just a way to promote communication between teams.

Thats something that lacking in games and that PS should have in ******.

shiflett · 2003-03-30, 01:19 PM

see now thats all well and good. But how can a Team all decide to stop attacking a certain place?

E.G. There's no way that every TR will know not to attact a certain NC base. Who will decide who doesn't attack who and how will every individual person in that team know??

i'll be waiting for an answer

DuK2gO · 2003-03-30, 01:30 PM

is this UN for only 2 empires?

mcshlong · 2003-03-30, 01:37 PM

From all appearances Planetside will be a game where players will act as teams. Becuase of the nature of the game people will want to join in small groups.....the official FAQ calls these squads.

These will be temporary...however...they will be lots of Outfit members in squads. Outfits are sorta of like clans. Anyway Outfits will be grouped together under Empire leadership. The empire will have a leadership. They have allready started to form. I think we will see Outfits get the word that they are to try to take a certain continent. They will get this word from a leadership who is watching the game and evaluating what is happening. Outfits going into the game alone will never be able to hold down a continent alone. Therefore if there is say a friday night agreement that all Outfits from one empire attack a certain continent. You will see a concerted attack on that continent by the whole empire. Saturday morning they could have it locked down.

So seeing how the empire is going to be coordinated they will likely be talking to other empires. So wouldnt it be effective if they both attacked the enemy on two differant fronts at the same time?

DuK2gO · 2003-03-30, 01:39 PM

i think your talking about the Terran Republic... not the UN

Zatrais · 2003-03-30, 01:48 PM

Why would i want to let the enemy empire know of a hugely planned invation of enemy forces?

Chances are i'd have to wrestle that from the other enemy empire that attacked from the other front.

I do not want to co-operate in anny way whit the enemy empire. I want to annahilate them.

Why would my outfit need a PS UN when theres already alliances in the making and AGO?

Flameseeker · 2003-03-30, 01:52 PM

I'm sure tons of people are going to want to cooperate with the enemy as you so eloquently put it. Yeah I'll set up an attack with, you....*Stab*

Seriously, it's a war game. I'm not gonna pay 15 bucks a month to make peace with people wearing purple spandex. This idea is flawed, and I don't see what you're trying to accomplish.

TheGreatCarbini · 2003-03-30, 02:49 PM

I'm sure cross teaming will happen, but to be arranged this well? Maaaaybey not. Most people will just use IRC for cross teaming talk.

Euroclydon · 2003-03-30, 02:56 PM

Shouldn't it be called the United Empires?

And no, I don't think something like this should be in the game, nor do I think it would last if it ever got off the ground. There's nothing in this game that encourages peace between the empires. You can hardly talk to other empires unless they're right by you! Plus, what's the fun of owning a base that you don't have to fight for?

qsconjo · 2003-04-01, 07:15 PM

plss no UN , u better well stay the hell outa the central server or im gonna be killing you/tk'ing you , un in ps is the worst idea i've heard sinse impossible creatues (great game , sounds good , but i dont like the idea of it)