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Gameplay => Newbie Help (Start Here) => Topic started by: Tango on June 02, 2003, 10:12:30 pm

Title: What is PS better than the rest?
Post by: Tango on June 02, 2003, 10:12:30 pm: Can you give me 10 reasons why i should dl PS? Why is it better than other similar games?

Tango
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Post by: sashok on June 02, 2003, 10:36:22 pm: don\'t dl it now, it\'s not better than anything.
it will be good or better in a year or so.
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Post by: Tango on June 02, 2003, 11:40:14 pm: Ok, thanks. I\'ll reword the question then, why *will* PS be better than the rest?

Tango
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Post by: AendarCallenlasse on June 03, 2003, 01:55:39 am: First of all PS has a good structure. It\'s roleplay oriented, \"skill based and no leveling up.\" It\'s original, original races, places, that sort of thing.

Second it\'s completely free and always will be.
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Post by: Dwin on June 03, 2003, 04:29:46 am: Heh...good that it is free.
Most free games arent that good (NOT implying that PS sucks), but PS looks like one of the good ones. I havnt played it yet though.
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Post by: hook on June 03, 2003, 05:03:23 pm: thigs that i can think of why PS is great:
- it\'s free
- it\'s opensourced and GPL\'d (a real benefit for other developers and users of \"alternative\" OSs)
- it\'s very comunity-based
- it\'s still evolving and probably will be evolving on and on and on ad infinitum
- it has great, nice, helpful, really into RP-ing players (let\'s hope it stays that way)
- the idea itself is unique (living in an enourmeus stalactite, the azure sun, not (only) the cliche races, depends on skills rather then on levels, ...)
- it looks awesome! ...come to think that it\'s still pre-alpha
- there are more reasons, but ATM i have to little time to think about them

i don\'t know, some spoiled players minght not like it, but i enjoy playing it already as it is :]
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Post by: Tango on June 03, 2003, 07:44:32 pm: I\'ve been looking around, and it looks like, as long as people stick with it long enough it will become really great. :-)

Are there any places i can download it in smaller chuncks? The 20Meg bits are on the limit of what i can trust my ISP not to throw my off half way through. (i did try to dl it, and got chucked off twice, i gave up)

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Post by: BlueScreenJunky on June 03, 2003, 08:36:34 pm: Why don\'t you use a download manager like Stardownloader (http://www.stardownloader.com/) so you can resume your download if it is interrupted.
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Post by: Tango on June 04, 2003, 11:00:14 am: I was planning to get something like that, it would just involve effort, and i try to avoid that as much as possible. I\'m currently planning to persuade a friend who\'s already downloaded it to burn it to CD for me... much easier.

Thanks for the link thought! :-)

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Post by: Madmartigan on June 07, 2003, 01:43:10 pm: Well, I only created 1 char and connected once. But already, I can see some good points.
Its free AND in 3d ! And the graphics aint too bad. I tried one or the other free RPGs around, and it always ended up like a Zelda from the old 8bit NES, looking crappy with ugly colors. I dont have a GF4 to play like im using a gameboy.
So, I\'d say, if PS stays free, and grows, it will be cool. The question I ask myself : how can they keep it free ? How soon before we see a coke ad in the local tavern ? ;) (placed ads wouldnt bother me too much, tho...its better than pop ups or having to pay monthly).

Also, how can we help growing PS ? Can we send like scenarios for quests ? Or help in any way (I\'m no comp geek, dont ask me to code an engine or to use a level editor only a guy with a doctorate in engineering can comprehend, but i\'d like to help) ?
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Post by: Caldazar on June 08, 2003, 06:06:39 pm: On the official page, there is a list on what they need.
Also, spread the word about PS, on CS, forums, friends, school, whatever. Just let people know its out there. Advertise your ass of ;).
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Post by: Zickefoose on June 08, 2003, 08:53:37 pm: I would be playing it but it wont let me even play it so i\'ll just play A-Tractor
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Post by: Solaire on June 08, 2003, 10:15:12 pm: Quote
Advertise your ass of

That is what i call agressive marketing strategy. You have a lot of talent for this kinda stuff Caldazar. Lol, no seriously, that\'s exactly what I\'m always doing with my friends. I post screens of PS on our homework forum (handy little thingie BTW, you should try that one yourself, saves more than half of your time), and now they all start asking when the game is going to be released, wether it\'s REALLY free, and all the wrong questions. But at least, we got their attention...
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Post by: hook on June 09, 2003, 10:17:12 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Madmartigan
So, I\'d say, if PS stays free, and grows, it will be cool. The question I ask myself : how can they keep it free ? How soon before we see a coke ad in the local tavern ? ;) (placed ads wouldnt bother me too much, tho...its better than pop ups or having to pay monthly).

well, since making PS is more of a hobby to the devs then a job (PS is NOT their job) i think there won\'t be need to actually do anything to prevent it from having ads in it or it becoming commercial (there are also other reasons that i won\'t post, becuase they were discussed over and over)
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Post by: Caldazar on June 10, 2003, 06:38:07 pm: OFF-TOPIC

Perhaps the crew should open a paypal account. It doesnt take that much effort. And if everybody donated, perhaps 5 $, we could a faster server or whatever thats needed.
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Post by: hook on June 11, 2003, 08:03:19 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Caldazar
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Perhaps the crew should open a paypal account. It doesnt take that much effort. And if everybody donated, perhaps 5 $, we could a faster server or whatever thats needed.

i suggested that already at a separate topic, but the devs don\'t know what to spend that money for and they claim that the server\'s pretty good, and could carry quite some times more users than are usually on it ...i\'m starting to believe that :]
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Post by: Caldazar on June 11, 2003, 08:08:16 pm: Quote
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Originally posted by Caldazar
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Perhaps the crew should open a paypal account. It doesnt take that much effort. And if everybody donated, perhaps 5 $, we could a faster server or whatever thats needed.

i suggested that already at a separate topic, but the devs don\'t know what to spend that money for and they claim that the server\'s pretty good, and could carry quite some times more users than are usually on it ...i\'m starting to believe that :]

ahh, ok. Stupid me, shouldve used the search-function :rolleyes:
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Post by: Tomaseth on June 11, 2003, 11:29:11 pm: Yeah, actually Talad or acraig at one point or another had a thread on this. Whether people would pay a small one time fee. Many felt that they didn\'t want to, so they decided not to do it.
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Post by: Kakdon on June 11, 2003, 11:31:00 pm: So is this game goin to be the next EverQuest?
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Post by: hook on June 13, 2003, 04:54:06 am: Quote
Originally posted by Kakdon
So is this game goin to be the next EverQuest?

no! it\'ll be waaaaaay better then eq :D :]

and don\'t buy the \"paying\" bit ...PS was is and will be free, the \"paying\" we\'re talking about are just optional donations
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Post by: Xenostelth on June 16, 2003, 04:38:03 pm: im just fiddling with it until Dark and Light comes out in december because (even though it is a pay to play) its graphics, play value, speed, support, and build is better than all the others.

You should check it out.

Im a beta tester and it\'s awsome.

You dont get better graphics on PS2, Game Cube, or XBox and if you have a cable modem and atleast 1.5 GHz you don\'t go any slower than those systems either.

But for a game that is not pay to play it isn\'t all that bad.
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Post by: Slipha on July 01, 2003, 02:34:50 am: 4 words nightvision and cat people. seriously all those skills and abilitys and things like being able to have infrasion and anyone can train in anything. so people will be able to see what works and find counters for it even be able to use it with their own chr. So those few things would make this game great later