Would you approve of a relaunch?

Yes, please do a relaunch. But only if you close the official forums forever, or at least restrict access based upon a certain IQ threshold.

The No 1 thing hurting the game atm is the endless flow of biased, uninformed ******** and whining on forumside.

Yeah dick. Don't bring your MMOFPS with RPG elements (COUGH THATS WHAT PLANETSIDE 1 WAS COUGH COUGH YOU OBVIOUSLY ONLY PLAY THIS BECAUSE ITS LIKE BF3 COUGH COUGH) into our mindless zerg shooter.

This is why Planetside 2 is mediocre. Because people didnt want it to be anything but mediocre.

Plays on miller (one of 3 populated servers)
Insults people who don't play on Miller.

Yep.

I'm not insulting anyone. Underpopulated servers and imbalanced factions are legit complaints, but there are few threads about them.

All I ever read is 'OMG OP HAX PLZ NERF; DEVS SUXX!!11'

I've been playing since beta, but my playtime is limited so I usually try to read up class/weapon experience reports on the forums. But once I got around to fiddle with the stuff I read about I noticed 80% of the 'omg weak/omg OP' claims were simply not true.


So yeah, I get that you're frustrated by your server of choice, and I feel for you. No need to take it out on the rest of the playerbase.

And just for the record, I also play on a low population server (Lithcorp).

The game needs patches (lots of them), not a relaunch.

Scoreboards, Kills/Deaths, Captures/Defends/ All of that

Because 90% of it, even if accidentally was done through you or your team exploiting a broken system. Bases you can't defend, etc. etc. So when the game gets fixed, and a new player joins, capping bases every now and again after epic battles, he is going to be saying WTF how does this other guy have 900000000000000 base caps in 2months???

Keep all certs gained, exp, and levels...Some people will still have advantages, but they really can't play the game if it was balance anyways so it will equal out.

Just don't let them have a 40,000 kill head start if this is going to be an epic "e-sport" or whatever type scenario.

IF you keep it fair and what not, people will be more willing to spend money on their avatar so to speak, to look cool customized etc. And try to prove they are the best/coolest

People who already built their BR on farming the crop of newblets at launch will have a permanent advantage over those who didn't. Where are you going to find those crowds again? What are you going to farm? Obviously, taking it away is going to be painful to someone's hard work, but it's worth noting that a BR100 and a BR1 have the "same access" to weapons if the BR100 chooses to use a starter weapon without upgrades or a starter aircraft without new weapons or weapons upgrades. A BR1 could buy weapons, but couldn't buy IR/NV, now could they?

Obviously, when you do this, you would do a x2 SC sale, and a 2x exp event.(Players can get basic weapon upgrades in no time)

The BR100 player would still be better if he was lvl 1 anyways, from sheer experience, and I would be all for a full wipe and SC refund. But I know this is to much for a lot of people. They are so close to beating the game, and would just quit early.

So I just recommend a stat reset. The lvl 100s are lib farmers, and they can have whatever scopes they want, if air is balanced and they ever get shot down and have to play on foot 5 minutes, they are going to be completely lost. The problem mainly will be what you said, population is never going to be as large as it was, at least not all at once, it may gradually increase back up, I think enough people have interest in the game still but it needs saved fast. Its still going to take time to recover, and its basically going to be players convincing other players to come back...In this time, no one will be getting massive kills, base caps, etc. But earning basic things like scopes etc. will be easy, and weapons are buy-able so I think thats ok. BR is pretty meaning less in reality. So I do not think it would bother anyone, but a new player would know they are getting killed by an experienced one, and perhaps choose a better fight.

Perhaps refund all certs gained in form of SC???

Personally I dislike paying for an advantage in a game, just not a fan of it.
Your example of WoW is idiotic at best, if you have 10 million players your going to have some turds floating to the top, and as with most media (forums are no different) sensationalist trolling is often rewarded with responses. Also implying that just because it's P2P makes it a jerk-off community is a naive over generalization, there are so many variables involved into forming a community.

Making it Pay to play in itself wouldn't make the game better, but it would allow SOE to go the old fashion class system which almost everyone enjoyed more than this POS class system. It promoted teamwork, specialization, and less vehicle spam.

The reason they don't make it the old system? it caps profits, because it's free to play. If it was pay too play it wouldn't have that problem. Or if they only sold camo that would be equally effective.

I'm not saying all F2P's are bad, in fact I enjoyed quite a few of them (even some P2W games) but for planetside 2 F2P is not an optimal business model. In PS1 there was a finite number of certs you could acquire, people hit that max and kept playing, but since it was a subscription based game it didn't hurt SOE. In ps2 however if someone hit the max they would never buy anything anymore, and if people starting maxing on mass SOE would be severely limited on funds and have to shut down PS2.

You brought a level 10 Mage to a gun fight? Good luck...

Ofc NO to relaunch for anyone who spend lot of time in this and money....... you want me to lose everything? You crazy

actually interesting idea several games have done this... DAoC did it quiet successfully with their new frontiers system, SWG, Shadowbane, and now FF. I don't actually think this is a great idea for a total wipe because the successful ones DAoC and Shadowbane didn't wipe the chars they just re-did the maps and released it as basically an expansion. Actually WoW did also with Cataclysm so it has happened in the past.

For PS2 i think they just need to go through a heavy series of Updates that are advertised as expansions and when they alter weapons etc. refund the SC. THEN they need to heavily advertise is because any game gets an influx of players when expansions are released.

this game needs more gameplay mechanics to say the least. at this point soe should be hanging their heads at how this game has turned out. the game needed to be in beta for at least another year or so before it should have been released. if they don't let us take the reigns on this 6 month plan now then the game is nearly lost. honestly, copying and pasting bf3 into a futuristic setting was an idea based on greed. they wanted the casual players for their money and promised the vets and non casuals that they would improve the game down the line. i understand that you need to make money off of a f2p, that's fine, but this is insane. none of the official twitter accounts have mentioned the 6 month plan in a while which leads me to believe it was a buzzword to get people to keep playing.

Game needs more depth, it is way to simple and bare bones. Yes i would like a relaunch, i spent 120 bucks on this game so far, keep my money, use it to make the game packed with more content like planetside 1 was, and i would even pay more money to rebuy the game with it choc full of more mechanics.