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What would make you come back to planetside?
Tigersmith
Member UncommonPosts: 23
Just need some infomation about what would draw you into planetside?
- No Subscription is a big one the devs are talking about..and no i am not lieing.
http://psforums.station.sony.com/ps/board/message?board.id=psdiscussion&message.id=740610
Well anyways what would draw you back..Thanks 
P.S for everyone that does not know what planetside is it is a MMOFPS(Massive Multiplayer First Person Shooter)
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Never left. I'm just a very 'occasional' player of it. It's not a game that can keep me playing for hours at a time. I typically just hop on when I'm in the mood for some mass chaos and bloodshed.
Currently Playing: Dungeons and Dragons Online.
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Still in: A couple Betas
PS was a fun game, but it got old quick. I play for about 3 weeks then quit for a couple of months.
What would keep me playing? Something different than every other fps can offer and I don't have to pay-to-play those.
I wouldn't mind an unlimited time trial that limited me to br6, but they would probably never recieve any money for me unless some content to make the game more interesting is added.
This is Easy..
1. FV's-gone, removed. Not modified-do not pass go. (leave the GV's, great for dropping on-fantastic hatetells)
2. Force anyone who needs to cert rexo to compete to have to use a clown skin. Prefer baggy pants style.
3. Ban every person on the forums with over 10,000 posts. No real reason, these types of people just tend to piss me off.
4. Get rid of the ads or at least have the respect for the community to do as AO does and only force "free" accounts to see them. No witty remark here- this really is lame.
5. Raise cert cost back and ditch uni-max. I can't horde enough decis up my ass to deal with the current indoor battles.
6. I want a public apology from SOE to the RATS for having the nerve to claim Planetside was the first mmofps, always bugged me. email me the carbon copy.
7. Merge the servers. It's over, Markovs dead.
8. Change pop-lock numbers back to the old days. Constant 3-ways that dont involve long haired asian women just suck.
9. What else?
10. Ban anyone who dares complain about the MCG, easily the most fun HA weapon in the game.
11. Give me free smokes since I waste nearly 3 packs a play session dealing with all the maxes.
12. Fed-ex any cr5 a new hip disease who ruins a good 2-way fight just to go defend a home continent that has 4 guys ghost-hacking it.
13. Lower the monetly cost-I should'nt have to pay modern day prices for a game with less people online at primetime than World War 2 online probably has.
14. Force anyone with the BFR Plat merit to pay my electric bill, which is currently late. (that ones for you Tiger)
If not i'll try it
scientology
Well I think that one thing that would make this game much more popular would be of course to take away the monthly fee. I have no problem with paying for the game once but once only its a good game but not so amazing i would pay a monthly.
It also could do with a but of a change like with the damage the weapons do like I am not saying that they should make it like Counter Strike and DOD where everything is almost one hit. But they should think about givin the weapons more power.
I also had some issues with lagg but no real big problem. Other than that I thought the game was great and the whole time I played it I really wanted to get into one of those BFR
but i couldn't they wouldnt let me....
Well thats enough from me anyways...
Get rid of the monthly and I will be there
Get rid of Orbital Strike and take away all BFR's jump/flight abilitys.
That would convince me to take another look.
Yup BFR's need nerfing big time, the jumping is ridiculous! Actually get rid of them completely.
Orbital strikes are a big problem now as so many peeps are CR4/5, they need to increase the re-use timer.
Reduce the sub or make it free to play.
thanks alot for all the comments
Didnt they add pain modules to all spawn rooms? I am not sure, but just heard something like that. It used to be such fun to stealth to base and all the way to spawn room and use adv hacking on console and get suit for yourself and totally interrupt enemy spawning for short period of time (until you got ganked there) or just keep stealthing there and start stabbing spawning players with knife. Not to mention how much stabbing while stealthing was fun anyways or stealthing engineering
I would definately give it another try if it wasnt p2p
NO monthly fee, id be on that like a fat kid on a cupcake.
I loved that game.. only problem was not enough people played.
it was just too much fun when you had a good clan.
after 6 or so years, I had to change it a little...
Ive never played the game but I would try it out if it was free.
Free is always good. I'd give it a whirl for free. In game ads? I could deal with that.
But considering everything else that is going on I'd have a hard time paying for it. I can
rock one or two MMOs but after that it just seems like it would not be worth the money.
/stop ramble
So yes. Free is good.
Some reasons to fight. Battles are pointless. You will fight over same location day after day. If you did capture base last night, then it is very likely that you will fight in same location also tonight. It shouldn't be endless fight - there should be victory or defeat. There should be more strategic elements.
More different type of bases and environments. It is really boring to fight pointless battle around bases that are allways looking same with same tactics. Each base should at least have unique layout. There should be also have urban battlegrounds. Planet is not living - it is just empty and pointless battleground.
"I know I said this was my last post, but you my friend are a idiotic moron." -Shadow4482
I would have no problem paying 15 bucks a month for planet side if they could get more people to play or force everyone onto one server.I was lucky enough to get in the closed beta back in the day and when you saw 100s of people gearing up for all out war it was realy awe inspiring.In my opinion what killed planet side was first core cobat spreading out the thin population then the addition of bfrs witch completley imbalanced the game.
Wish i had a magic wand that could make core combat,bfrs,and orbital strike go bye bye but thats not gonna happen.i have alot of great memories from the beta.like the one time i whent into a enemy tower with my max that had like 80 ppl a min spawning from took out all the equipemant terminals and all you saw was 50 ppl running at you with basic gear lol.Its sad to see something worth while go down in flames from bad driection.
If they unbanned me, I said a swear in continental and got banned. Said they wouldnt unban me because other people have been unbanned and got banned again.
Im not complaining saves me money.
I might be prepared to redownload it but didn't go much on it apart from its cool retro look.
Make it free. More people = biggest problem fixed
also get rid of the flight variants, and re-work cooldown timers on everything. That means not so much vehicle zerging, reavers and mozzies arnt everywhere mowing down anything that moves on the ground, and of course less orbital strikes.
Oh and make the assault buggys more useful.
not literally tho 
...but then I never left, it still rules the MMO market.
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You see, every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with their surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You spread to an area, and you multiply, and you multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. Do you know what it is? A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet.-Mr.Smith
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Most likely it would take hell freezing over. Never really found PS to be half as fun as UT or CS.
In War - Victory.
In Peace - Vigilance.
In Death - Sacrifice.
You can be sure that if PS is free per month,and can keep their servers with good stability,alot of players will want to buy a copy.
I played PS for 2+ years. I really, really loved the game. However, SOE kept taking it in a direction I didn't like. The game became to centered on mecha and armor. I remember awesome battles between tons of infantry troops trying to take a base. That doesn't occur any more. Infantry battles have been driven indoors. I said it before on the official boards. If SOE pushes infantry indoors I would leave. They forced us indoors. To many BFR's, to much armor, and aircraft. In their latest move they introduced that new bomber the Vulture...more aircraft! Yea...great. What did they do for the ground troops? They gave us a POS shoulder mount flak gun that is pretty much useless. In all the time I played PS we saw way more armor and aircraft added then was ever added to the infantry part of the game.
Want me back? Start by removing FV BFR's. Give infantry some really good anti-armor weapons. Increase the damage output of base turrets by half-again as much as they currently do. Nerf the star-fire so that it is only as good as the other two empires aa maxes and then buff all three equally. Fix all max units. They are crap. Above all else...give the game back to the infantry where it belongs.
If SOE can't do that...I'll stay with BF2, because at least in BF2 we people that like playing the role of infantry have a place in the game.