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1: NC

2: NC and TR

3: NC, TR and Vanu

[Blizzlord]

Changed the poll to a "what is your group role" poll. Go ahead and vote while Europe descends beyond twilight.

[sluissa]

Bay12.  First battalion to accidentally capture a friendly structure.

... To death.

Who says it has to be accidental?

[Teneb]

Hopefuly the last option will be the most voted.

Bay12.  First battalion to accidentally capture a friendly structure.

... To death.

Who says it has to be accidental?

"There were no enemies nearby, so we accidentally the base"

[forsaken1111]

We accidentally the continent.

[jocan2003]

Somebody should send a mail to SoE with a link to this thread just for the lols. Nobody in beta yet, but im sure we already broke something.

[hemmingjay]

I have a contact at SOE, let me see what I can do!

[Teneb]

Blizzlord, you may want to change the thread tile, since the F2P discussion seems to have ended.

[Sensei]

Count me interested. I'd love to play PS2, especially with a Bay12 outfit. Free to Play means I've got nothing to lose in trying it out. I already have one or more SOE accounts I've made for their other MMOs (not that I've been dreadfully impressed with them, even the first Planetside, which was in its twilight days when I played a free trial).

[Microcline]

NC probably fits the least fluff-wise.  They're rugged individualists with a focus on personal rights and capitalism.  Dwarves (at least of the DF variety) always struck me as a kind of malevolent communist hive-mind.  They're probably the best fit crunch-wise though.

TR fits a bit better, but their goals seem too rational for the average dwarven community.

VS is a group using bizarre mechanisms they don't understand while commanded by an unseen, disembodied alien presence ordering them to wipe out all other civilization for unknown and incomprehensible reasons.  The only other group I've seen that's as analogous to DF dwarves is the Space Pirates (replace phazon with magma, phazite with adamantium, tubes with aqueducts, mother brain with the player, metroids with an appropriately deadly creature that you'd be better off not taming but try to tame anyway, and science with !!SCIENCE!! and compare the tenancies to build nigh-impregnable fortresses that are undone by cool but unnecessary architecture and always having a self-destruct lever somewhere).

As for class, I figure I'll have to play a bit before I find what I'm good at.  I've found that with class systems while I  develop a few favorites I tend to at least learn most of the essential roles and pick whatever the team's lacking.

[Xanatos Jr.]

I'd say TR fits the least, they just seem too "disciplined" and "sane", where as VS is a bunch of mad scientists and NC is manly men with large explosives.

[Girlinhat]

I'd say your poll is a bit slanted though.  Engineer and Pilot/Driver are two different things.

[jocan2003]

Thats right, maybe separated driver/engineer thing.

[Sensei]

You know, once you start playing, do you really think we'll see any of the game's lore cropping up? I thought that in the first planetside it was nonexistent outside of the tutorial zone.

[jocan2003]

I learned there was lore after about 3 week of playing when it was brought in the chat eh... ( in PS1 tho )

[Microcline]

I'm assuming that the main purpose of the lore is to add a bit of flavor to the trash talk.