Be Right Back, Uninstalling

-=BANGBUS=-

This week hopefully we can add to the ducklings some mixed vehicles if we have enough people, probably a bus and/or light vehicles for dealing with infantry. We might also try mini-max crashes or, battle permitting, a picnic.

If you pass over this post and have not come out to play PS with us, or did so in the past and no longer do, please consider coming out

Its a simple 2gig download and its free to play, if you've ever been a fan of the battlefield or tribes games you'll fit right in. See the link below to get the installer to the game, if you have any problems run the launchpad.exe and planetside.exe in compatability mode for windows 95 and it should work just fine.


My contest for a group of 20 is STILL on, so make sure you come out at 7pm CST sharp
- If I am not there and we hit 20 a screenshot will be required as proof

Day: FRIDAY
Time: 7pm cst (or earlier)

Ventrilo is mandatory
IP: il2.leetvent.com
Port: 3812
Pass: tightpants


If you make a character please post their in game name here

Fun in this game increases exponentially with the more people that join up so I hope to see more of the people that stated they were interested in the initial thread to come out, the game is FREE, but you are restricted to 14 days after which you will have to start all over again. If you get "suspended" or banned since the trial accounts are loopholes just make another one. Conversely you can spend $20 to pick up the game at direct2drive, which comes with a free month, this allows you to keep your character instead of having to re-level someone every 2 weeks.

TRIAL INSTALLER

Remember, the trials sometimes will RANDOMLY suspended you, just a heads up.


If you have issues running the game, make sure launchpad.exe and planetside.exe are both bring run in Win95 Compatibility mode

Pre-PS Friday warmup is tonight again, so if you want to try it first come out tonight and someone (probably me) will show you the ropes.

Also we found out if you do the trial thing you can save $5 and just buy a month SOE card.  I found that out the hard way as it wouldn't let me add my D2D code to my trial account, so I had to make a new one.

I might be late, going to some graduation parties.

Playing now.

I've got a 15-20 person Rockband Happy Hour to host on Friday from 5 to 7ish, so depending on whether or not that devolves into an orgy or a snuff film will affect my ability to be planetside.

(06-03-2009, 02:36 PM)Caffeine link Wrote: [ -> ]If you pass over this post and have not come out to play PS with us, or did so in the past and no longer do, you are required to post an explanation of your lack of support of this excellent teamwork game. We have been taking attendance, and will start naming names.

Fixed, and remember, I have a track record for making good on such threats.

I got CR3 tonight, map drawing is back, expect many dicks

might be my last for a while, but i'll be there

I don't have anything else to do

I had a wicked awesome mosquito kill and no one saw it  :'(

Guy was being oblivious hovering over his base looking for invaders and got hit twice with the rape cannon out of no where!

I should be there.

(06-05-2009, 06:21 AM)Surf314 link Wrote: [ -> ]I had a wicked awesome mosquito kill and no one saw it  :'(

Guy was being oblivious hovering over his base looking for invaders and got hit twice with the rape cannon out of no where!

Surf On Vent: I got him...I GOT HIM

Me: Great kid don't get cocky

:-*




When you start reliably pegging every aircraft that comes into range then you can get cocky

If you managed to plug any incoming aircraft at least once the AA max missiles are almost guaranteed to finish it off

(06-05-2009, 07:48 AM)Caffeine link Wrote: [ -> ][quote author=Surf314 link=topic=3013.msg88476#msg88476 date=1244200913]
I had a wicked awesome mosquito kill and no one saw it  :'(

Guy was being oblivious hovering over his base looking for invaders and got hit twice with the rape cannon out of no where!

Surf On Vent: I got him...I GOT HIM

Me: Great kid don't get cocky

:-*




When you start reliably pegging every aircraft that comes into range then you can get cocky

If you managed to plug any incoming aircraft at least once the AA max missiles are almost guaranteed to finish it off
[/quote]I seriously wish I'd had FRAPS that day you went LD on me at that bridgehead.

(06-05-2009, 07:59 AM)at0m link Wrote: [ -> ]I seriously wish I'd had FRAPS that day you went LD on me at that bridgehead.

btw, Galatic and North are back, we tried running down their mag twice and got it once, I think ianki or surf made a comment about them simply not dying, and the response from Rummy was 'Those guys will go through like maybe 3 - 5 mags top in a night of playing, its like Caff's mag, it just doesn't die.

I should bug them more until they come to play NC with us :\

(06-05-2009, 08:06 AM)Caffeine link Wrote: [ -> ]btw, Galatic and North are back, we tried running down their mag twice and got it once, I think ianki or surf made a comment about them simply not dying, and the response from Rummy AT0M was 'Those guys will go through like maybe 3 - 5 mags top in a night of playing, its like Caff's mag, it just doesn't die.

I should bug them more until they come to play NC with us :\

This was my first encounter with them. Next time they buzz around like that in a mag, I suggest we get in the iviso boat and hunt down, dropping when they repair. Repeatedly.

(06-05-2009, 08:20 AM)rumsfald link Wrote: [ -> ][quote author=Caffeine link=topic=3013.msg88486#msg88486 date=1244207179]
btw, Galatic and North are back, we tried running down their mag twice and got it once, I think ianki or surf made a comment about them simply not dying, and the response from Rummy AT0M was 'Those guys will go through like maybe 3 - 5 mags top in a night of playing, its like Caff's mag, it just doesn't die.

I should bug them more until they come to play NC with us :\

This was my first encounter with them. Next time they buzz around like that in a mag, I suggest we get in the iviso boat and hunt down, dropping when they repair. Repeatedly.
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Actually I have a better idea, tonight we run a phantasm with the BFR+Maxes, the phantasm is loaded with 4 AV grunts+jammers, anything that gets away the phantasm chases down and hits it while they are repairing. This would also work very well because usually any BFR that we make fuck off usually has no shields

Well, I was thinking of hunting down Galactic and North specifically in the context of the small group of 5 or so we had last night of just one BFR and a few ducks. If they have that much of a reputation, I think we should make it a sport to look for their killspam and hunt them down bounty hunter style. That probably works best if we have a small group of 5 or so. More fun that playing the real objectives of PS.

However, for a bigger group, this could possibly work with as little as 8 people, and just get exponentially better after that

    1-BFR driver
    1-BFR gunner with glue
    2-AAmax to duckling (or 1 AV depending on circumstances)

^ this has been the usual "small group" turnout, provided we have one of our 2 BFR drivers. Now add to that:

   1 phant driver with glue
   3 phant grunts with AV and jammers (bonus for glue)

Each person after #8 could then join in the phant grunting, or as an additional AV or AA duckling. At 12 or so you could add second BFR or some of the extra grunts/maxes could pull a thunderer.

It's the reverse of the harrasser bait, where the harrasser pulls in targets to the BFR. In this case, the BFR is the bait, and once folks bug off to repair, then the hitsquad drops on them.

Sounds good similar to what I stated, but you just want to chase down specific people, which I'm sure would happen anyway in addition to what I stated

Its definitely fun to hunt people down (IronPiggy, 10000Days, etc), especially when you single them out and Allah Akbar, like how we dropped 10 guys on piggy repeatedly knowing we would all die, but we would take him with us.

(06-05-2009, 09:07 AM)rumsfald link Wrote: [ -> ]It's the reverse of the harrasser bait, where the harrasser pulls in targets to the BFR. In this case, the BFR is the bait, and once folks bug off to repair, then the hitsquad drops on them.

IMO skyguard works better as bait, but only when there are aircraft in the area. The empire-specific ones output too much damage against vehicles but aren't 'big kills'/worth chasing so most people don't.

When we go back to VS, I want to do a thresher night, where we hunt BFRs with them. FIREHOSE OF DOOM

It sounds similar because it is what you stated. I was just trying to flesh it out and break it down so people can pick up on the plan. So if someone joins late and already sees 8+ people they should just be able to grab a max or grunt gear and drop in without needing to ask what to bring.

This coming from the guy that always asks what to bring every time I log in.

Yea I always ask what to bring too.  Doubt I'll be there tonight but if I do make it what character should I bring?