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Posted January 19, 2009
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Firek: Back to the topic (which Crysis shouldn't be :P), I suppose you make a valid point about reaching too high... SOE does, however, have a bad reputation for killing their own MMOs... ;)
The net code looked like it was written to cope with high-density action on 56k modems, which was probably a good idea at the time, but the resulting "warping" issues were never fixed, which is the game's biggest problem (as they made the game quite unfair). I think they could make some changes and allow PlanetSide to use up more resources (connection-wise), since nowadays practically everybody (and their grandparents) has some sort of relatively high-speed Internet connection. ;)
This month looks like it's gonna be a handful, but I think I'll resubscribe in two weeks to see how the game is doing... :)

My parents still run on a 28.8 connection.. granted, you're right: I and my grandparents have high-speed. My parents just live in the boonies.
Posted January 20, 2009
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bpops: My parents still run on a 28.8 connection.. granted, you're right: I and my grandparents have high-speed. My parents just live in the boonies.

Which is why I was prudent enough to add "practically everyone". ;)
Post edited January 20, 2009 by Firek
Posted July 29, 2009
I thought I would resurrect this thread, considering SOE has started sending out "play free for a month" e-mails about merging the two surviving servers into one (I hope they would provide a solution to keep the pings bearable for us Euro gamers, but I doubt it...).
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I'm so totally looking forward to trying the game out again, lag permitting, but it seems that SOE wants this game dead, and badly... The website was broken for 2-4 years or so now (on IE and FF, at least on all my PCs to date, surprisingly it works on Safari), the Station Launcher fails to launch after I installed it... Plus, you have to be aware that you need the Launcher to actually get the game in the first place (it's not hinted on Planetside's site, at least at first glance, plus it worked differently when the site was created)... Not to mention PlanetSide needing to be set to Windows 95 compatibility mode to work on Vista and the installer doesn't even turn this on by default...
Edit: Oh, and the Launcher doesn't work unless you Google out one site with a working solution... :O
I'm absolutely infuriated to see such an awesome gem's potential obliterated by neglect. I think that if SOE had giver PlanetSide any attention, instead of breaking SWG and giving all its love to EQ2, there would be more true MMOFPS games. Instead, there are none, aswhen a publisher/developer sees how PlanetSide failed, they decide that no one would buy the game...
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Post edited July 29, 2009 by Firek
Posted July 29, 2009
I played the game a bit way back but only with a 3 month free trial I got in a magazine. I gave it another go with the escapist magazines event but didn't really play it much. There is something about the guns in planetside that just feels off. I know for the time they couldn't have the proper ability to aim and hit things with it being an old mmo and lag but they just never felt right. I'm kind of holding out for huxley and hoping that succeeds so we see more FPS MMOs.
I will say that playing around in the tanks was quite cool though.
Posted July 29, 2009
Well I've played it for some times but never reach highest rank - I am just poor old 16 BR :), also TR, Werner :) Use to be in Outcasters (drafted in by Firek :P )
Also I logged in today since I get vet invite from SOE - its still awesome but a little bit empty on Werner. Have only W95 problem mention by Firek. Gladly I did not have Launcher problem :D
Posted July 29, 2009
Shame there's probably no way to make a user-run server for it, it sounds like it could be interesting as far as MMO games go
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