Planetside Saturdays - On Hiatus

[CaffeinePowered]

Due to declining turnout, Ive decided to shelve this for a month before we attempt to continue with it. I apologize to anyone that went ahead and downloaded it last Saturday for next week. Just stash the files somewhere if you have the space and bring them back when we decided to roll again.

A lot of the older vets that had subscribed with us for a while have subsequently dropped off as well as several of the people here making commitments to come out and then not delivering. I understand Saturday can be a busy day for people and most won't be able to come out every week. I do not intend to abandon this entirely, but I think a break is needed for everyone to recharge their batteries before making another attempt. This is one of those games where you *have* to have a substantial number of people playing to have any kind of fun. Running around with just six people is no fun, need at least 10+ to really get fun stuff going.

I'd encourage anyone who has come out to any of these to keep your files handy, and if you have a favorite story from your time playing, please share it, the best way to promote an event is to let others know what they are missing out on.  :'(


My favorite time from all of us playing was messing with a TR/NC fight on Amerish, we had 10 people running in two phantasms. When you drop 8 heavily armed infantry on anything, it dies. The best part of that however, was getting someone on the other team to come onto our ventrilo and spot for us. After we botched a drop the guy kills the BFR we nearly finished off and offers to spot for us.

We take Dopey up on his offer and he proceeds to tell us the location of all of their BFRs, big robots that if you kill them, the pilot has to wait FIFTEEN minutes from death to get a new one. Over the course of roughly 2 hours we killed one pilot over 4 times, earning some colorful hate tells, especially after we all mass sent him tells before we dropped on him, dude was so paranoid after the second death.

Overall it was a good night of asshattery, griefing, and fucking with a fight that you in no way should be involved in directly.  ;D

I wholly expect Rummy to post some better accounts of fun, or possibly Kal, Wedge should respond simple with MAX in big bright red letters, followed by a  picture of the Aflac duck.

[Versus]

penis map screenshots.

also dopey was amazing.

[Kalarifik]

MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAX

It didn't take long for me to get back into the habit of things after resubbing...

[Dave]

i get drunk

[at0m]

D:

[CaffeinePowered]

D:

The least you and Dave could do is post a story :|

[Dave]

i remebergetting drunk and swearing at everyone?
if im hinest most saturdays are a bit cloudy.

[CaffeinePowered]

[Versus]

YESSSSSSSS

[Ianki]

i'm going to play this saturday regardless

[If-I-Die-Its-Lag]

Hey, this could make way for Guild Wars Saturday .

*prepares a flame shield*

[zaneyard]

Hey, this could make way for Guild Wars Saturday .

*prepares a flame shield*

NO
I always work saturday nights

[If-I-Die-Its-Lag]

[quote author=If-I-Die-Its-Lag link=topic=2712.msg77465#msg77465 date=1240029624]
Hey, this could make way for Guild Wars Saturday .

*prepares a flame shield*

NO
I always work saturday nights
[/quote]
Sunday?

[zaneyard]

[quote author=zaneyard link=topic=2712.msg77468#msg77468 date=1240030722]
[quote author=If-I-Die-Its-Lag link=topic=2712.msg77465#msg77465 date=1240029624]
Hey, this could make way for Guild Wars Saturday .

*prepares a flame shield*

NO
I always work saturday nights
[/quote]
Sunday?
[/quote]
lol, usually
i often have off work sometime from monday to thursday nights
otherwise i have off all day during the week.

[rumsfald]

A Brief BRBside Retrospective.

"BRB, recalling to sanc."

Here's some of my fonder memories from my recent tour of duty for the Barnies. For those who have not played (yet!) anyone with a Yellow or Purple name over their head is one of ours BRBu friendlies, you should recognize these folks.

"Where do we go from here?"

While there are no critters on Oshur or Cyssor, there is still hunting to be had. That is, if you wish to hunt the most dangerous of game. Man.

"Be careful. He could pounce at any second."

"Target Acquired."

"Oswald was a fag."

Funeral Procession.

The British prefer to make love, not war.

"I just washed the dang bus too!"

"Move out! Kal can't hump both of our buses at once."

Smack talk is an essential battle skill on the continents, and no retrospective would be complete without some chatlogs. Some background on this one. We were doing phantasm drops, and invisible ship where you can fly over someone all sneaky like and drop 4 well-armed soldiers (or 5, if your pilot has balls) out of thin air on top of someone's head. Now, we weren't always pretty at this, many of us newcomers often missed drops and jumped out too early or too late, and while the experts would be firing on the way down I was often trying to unholster my gun. Nevertheless, while we were sometimes sloppy (and often sloppy drunk), we usually would take out the target. In this case, we took out Fazey a couple of times and he decided to grade us on style points. Also note, there is good shit going on at all levels of chat in these 8 lines.

Probably the single most hilarious moment was the night we flipped over the biggest ship in the game. By design, it's supposed to be near impossible to flip over vehicles, so it's always pretty funny when it happens. In this case, it was some bad piloting on our end (I forget who was the pilot), and the sight of it gave CaffeinePowered the longest episode of Girl-laughing I've ever heard. Seriously, his voice went up 2 registers and everyone on Vent could hear the tears streaming out his eyes. Here's the photoessay.

Bonus TKspam.

Most of all, I'll miss our long walks in the grass, our picnics in the hills, our leaves of grass.

"What a lovely day."

"MELT THAT FUCKER."

[Ianki]

Last time we played, i tried to fly for the first time, and ended up flipping a galaxy.

It wasn't my finest hour.

[Wedge]

Last time we played, i tried to fly for the first time, and ended up flipping a galaxy.

It was my finest hour.

[CaffeinePowered]

Melt that fucker indeed, good screencaps rummy

While lancers are epic, I also wonder what a similar number of phoenixes would do...

[Eschatos]

Melt that fucker indeed, good screencaps rummy

While lancers are epic, I also wonder what a similar number of phoenixes would do...

NC night?

[Surf314]

Err, I actually have the money to sub now  :'(