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demiGOD · 26 Jan 2005, 05:39

you guys playing it? its planetarion based, does that mean we're having the same alliances? races? ships + a variety of more? anymore helpful inputs than the announcement? thanks!

mist · 26 Jan 2005, 06:00

exactly how is it planetarion based? i don't see anything about mining roids or covert operations and i've no idea how a 4000km square playing area can relate to the multitude of galaxies in which planetarion resides.

does planetarion based mean hosted by jolt, rather than anything to do with planetarion?

Zeus · 26 Jan 2005, 09:25

Means hosted by Jolt and looks like they wish to absorb some of the Planetarion Community

Tietäjä · 26 Jan 2005, 13:34

Maybe they have Vsharrack fighters there?

demiGOD · 26 Jan 2005, 13:35

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Originally Posted by mist

i've no idea how a 4000km square playing area can relate to the multitude of galaxies in which planetarion resides.

its like everybody in time square with guns and cannons and tanks, and everyone's about 3 feet away from each other, might last 2 days for everybody to kill everybody else

I am Idler · 26 Jan 2005, 13:43

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Originally Posted by demiGOD

you guys playing it? its planetarion based, does that mean we're having the same alliances? races? ships + a variety of more? anymore helpful inputs than the announcement? thanks!

this is a ****ing GD thread

demiGOD · 26 Jan 2005, 13:57

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Originally Posted by I am Idler

this is a ****ing GD thread

planetarion based though, so i dont know..

arbondigo · 26 Jan 2005, 13:59

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Originally Posted by demiGOD

planetarion based though, so i dont know..

No it's not

demiGOD · 26 Jan 2005, 14:01

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Originally Posted by arbondigo

No it's not

ok

JC · 26 Jan 2005, 14:02

Seeing as Jolt want to advertise it on PA forums and are onviously aiming to attract PA players i'll leave this thread here despite it not being a PA thread.

By the sounds of it the thread will die pretty soon whether or not its here or on GD tbh.

demiGOD · 26 Jan 2005, 14:32

i think honestly, its advertised poorly =/ just need more info on it on a forum based discussion and not just looking at an ad i.e. on Pa announcements is all - hopefully this thread will help on more and maybe get the community to even think about participating

biffy · 26 Jan 2005, 14:40

It's not hosted by us nor is it using Planetarion ship names as far as I know. When it says Planetarion-based it means that there has been a special client coded for Planetarion players and there is a round with prizes being run that is open to Planetarion players only.

noah02 · 26 Jan 2005, 16:54

I looked at it and giggled then hit the cross button and did'nt look back tbh

Hope Jolt advertise PA around like they do this Time of Defiance.

mist · 26 Jan 2005, 17:22

so zeus was right. it has nothing to do with planetarion and jolt are... bending the truth to their needs again.

Waku · 26 Jan 2005, 17:31

I played it for 1.5 hours and I must say... its like Homeworld but then alot worse.... I wish I could say I liked it... but I didnt

and yes I hope noah is right with supporting PA like supporting Time of Defiance

Nadar · 26 Jan 2005, 17:36

Played the game for an hour or so... I've had a computer since 1998 and have also played tons of games since that.. but this is the first time I actually wanna kill myself after playing a game because it sucked so god damn much

Question: How could you make this game? Is it some crazy idea you put together while sitting on the loo or what? :| and the graphics.. looks like the game is from the 1990's fs

Zo0f · 26 Jan 2005, 17:59

Its a very old game, which explains the graphics.

It does infact have many similarities with Planetarion. It is massively multiplayer, runs non-stop and you mine asteroids(islands in the game). It is like Planetarion in an Real Time Strategy game.

While I played it many many moons ago it, like Planetarion, requires teamwork and the community to make the game fun.

Over all, with playing with friends, it would probably be a great game. Sadly I dont have the time or the friends anymore

demiGOD · 26 Jan 2005, 19:47

is it worth downloading then? sounds like its not.. and yea, i agree with noah also, we should get more advertising and support for planetarion

Zeus · 26 Jan 2005, 20:10

Personally I've played it for two days....you have to give these types of games a chance dont you?

I rememeber it from ages ago, think back in beta. Had protencial back then, but after two days of play, Im not so sure. I'll not go on what my likes and dis-likes are, so I'll just say if you got few hours to spare, why not give it a go.

I'd also put a callout to the creators of this game, who have kindly created a game for Planertarion community, to make yourself know on the forums. You obviously value our custom, so perhaps you may value our opinions on the game?

cisco · 26 Jan 2005, 22:15

Gotta say guyz it is a damn good game, i have been playing most of this week and have got right into it, wot do you guyz think, cos i noticed while i was playing there were only about 16 other people online on the server that i was playing on. Unfortunately got to a stage now where i seem not to be able to mine anywhere near enough resources that i need but i am slowly overcomming this situation!!!
WELL DONE JOLT!!!

O btw what are the plans on charging for the game when proper 'rounds' start?

biffy · 26 Jan 2005, 23:03

It's not a rival to Planetarion, it's an interactive game you play in a client like X2 or something.

mist · 26 Jan 2005, 23:10

planetarion and time of defiance both compete for internet gamers. from their overview, i'd say that it's vaguley like eve, and therefore likely to draw people away from planetarion as they're busy with something else.

in this respect it's a bigger rival than plannetia, spac eminers etc as they're relativly simple to play alongside planeration.

furthermore, the 'rivals', who's names you even ban from your boards don't require that users pay, whereas this game is directly competing for pa's cash income.

overall, you're talking bollocks.

Zeus · 26 Jan 2005, 23:13

Oh! and concidering, Jolt where kind enough to the makers off Time Of Defiance, by advertising free to the thousands of Planetarion Community. Will they be as kind to Planetarion, by advertising Planetarion to the whole Time of Defiance community for free?

Only right ya know

noah02 · 27 Jan 2005, 10:28

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Originally Posted by Zeus

Oh! and concidering, Jolt where kind enough to the makers off Time Of Defiance, by advertising free to the thousands of Planetarion Community. Will they be as kind to Planetarion, by advertising Planetarion to the whole Time of Defiance community for free?

Only right ya know

Tiz what I said specially since there was just a free speed round that would have been a perfect time to advertise planetarion for everyone to have a quick weekend fix but i bet they advertised it on planetarion boards and forum only

Kal · 27 Jan 2005, 15:59

I tried Time of Defiance back when jolt spoke to us about the possibility of this event, i'll be honest here and say I couln;t work out what the hell I was meant to do in it... but I would like to try again... so if someone wants to tell me...

cisco · 27 Jan 2005, 16:14

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Originally Posted by demiGOD

you guys playing it? its planetarion based, does that mean we're having the same alliances? races? ships + a variety of more? anymore helpful inputs than the announcement? thanks!

I am playing it, and as far as i can see there is absolutely no similarity to pa at all, but it is a damn good and very addictive game and there is always something to do on it. There is a game that i used to play on the old sega megadrive which is strikingly similar although i cannot think of the name of it!
My suggestion is to download the file and play it yourself to see what you think, but i would certainly give it a go! :P

Kal · 27 Jan 2005, 16:21

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Originally Posted by cisco

I am playing it, and as far as i can see there is absolutely no similarity to pa at all, but it is a damn good and very addictive game and there is always something to do on it. There is a game that i used to play on the old sega megadrive which is strikingly similar although i cannot think of the name of it!
My suggestion is to download the file and play it yourself to see what you think, but i would certainly give it a go! :P

tell me what to do in it please!

Waku · 27 Jan 2005, 17:11

im playing it also a bit though but now I found another guy ingame and I cant even attack him

but kal first you build a shitload of mining transporters and some silo's and they just mine the resources from your "astroid" wich means you can build more and more

there is also a way to improve your technology with that gate and some kind of resource you can mine with a special ship

noah02 · 27 Jan 2005, 17:57

Ah resources

There lies the similarity

LukeyLove · 29 Jan 2005, 01:07

lol funny stuff;o i downloaded it 2 give it ago... but it runs off 1 of the evil ports that my uni blocked

bastards! well thankfully from the sounds of things doesnt look like im missing alot

cisco · 31 Jan 2005, 07:14

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Originally Posted by Waku

im playing it also a bit though but now I found another guy ingame and I cant even attack him

but kal first you build a shitload of mining transporters and some silo's and they just mine the resources from your "astroid" wich means you can build more and more

there is also a way to improve your technology with that gate and some kind of resource you can mine with a special ship

Well i must admit that i found it difficult to attack people effectively to start with, when an island is defended by defence turrets etc it is pointless sending ships to attack them because you tend to get mullered before you even manage to get a shot off, but yesterday i bought a libm system (from the eighth house) which is basically a mobile icbm system which you can move from island to island, it uses shitloads of metal resource but 2 of these missiles fired at an enemy island pretty much wiped it out so that i could send my ships in!!!

Must say though i dont think i will be playing it now because it is damn expensive imo, £5 per month, cant afford that i am afraid, not for a game!

demiGOD · 31 Jan 2005, 19:59

hmm i think im sticking with Pa.. sorry jolt

exblade · 1 Feb 2005, 02:29

another i must agree ToD seems to be a bit too much for me - too lazy to Dl it..and i cant afford another game

Thrud · 2 Feb 2005, 12:23

I've been playing it for the last week, I think it has some potential, but considering that it is a real time strategy game, play is very slow, it takes a long time to travel around. Resources are slow to accumulate and seem to be very limited. I mined out my home planet in a day. This forces travel to other islands which all takes time and getting there you may find its not worth mining (about 60% of the time for me), you can also be stuck tring to build something and run out of a resource and not realise that nothing is happening (this side gets better as you get used to the controls). Ships run out of fuel very quickly, this leaves the universe littered with stranded ships.

It is a little like PA in that it involves ships, mining and hours of nothing happening. As someone said already the graphics engine is very similar to Homeworld.

I'll play it for a little longer but can't really see me being a regular player and certainly wont be paying to play it. Game play is just to slow.

cisco · 3 Feb 2005, 14:49

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Originally Posted by Thrud

I'll play it for a little longer but can't really see me being a regular player and certainly wont be paying to play it. Game play is just to slow.

I agree that it is slow, however there are several game servers all running different types of game, some of these games have faster mining times than others so if this bothers you you can try a different game.
The good thing about it is that if you dont have time to play a 2 month campaign you dont have to you can just play a shorter game, and there are always games running.
They also have different divisions so you can join servers with less experienced or with more experienced players in!

I like it, it wont be as good as pa, but is still worth looking into as a time filler when pa is down