AGN Broadcasts... on tv! (THE POLL)

[Hyncharas]

This is in reference to the idea stated on the PlanetSide Idea Lab Forums:

http://s3.************.com/Planetside_Idealab/index.php?showtopic=136

...and the general-information thread here on the PlanetSide-universe.com Forums:

http://www.planetside-universe.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26260


Please read all of the info on the first link stated here carefully, before making your decision. For those who don't wish to read all the replies, here is a brief outline of what the project will entail:


A new section of the PlanetSide-universe.com Network would be created called the Department of PSPV (PlanetSide Project Visualisation). Its focus would be on ideas posted by fans of the game on the PlanetSide Idea Lab Forums, for those who want to see certain things that are currently missing out of PlanetSide, or ideas they believe would improve the overall diversity and gameplay between the three Empires of choice.
A test of what the proposed engine could do (the Half-Life 2 engine, or SOURCE as it is known) would be a video-remake of the fictional AGN-broadcast, "The Day The AGN Went Silent" (http://www.planetside-universe.com/...in/agn/agn1.mp3). After its release (and if the comments for the video are favourable), fan-based ideas would then be created in the engine as the next stage, as 'prototypes' for display on the PSU website. This is so both the fans and the game’s development team could download them for review, and post any comments on ideas in the new PSPV section of the PSU Forums.
Should the ideas be well thought out, SOE (Sony Online Entertainment) would provide credit to whoever posted the idea first on the PSIL Forums. Bear in mind that this credence would probably be free, unless there are special circumstances involved (such as a special event being done with the PSU Staff in co-operation with SOE).

Competitions may be a possibility, as well as a Single-Player Mod Campaign (on the understanding that SOE give us permission to do so). For competitions, prizes would most likely be PlanetSide-related, or at least provided by SOE from their back-catalogue or upcoming range of products.

An email is being sent to the PlanetSide Development Team on this matter, and a reply is expected within the next week or so as to whether we will be allowed to pursue this long-term project.

[Sentrosi]

A very ambitious project that is long overdue in this community. I am very interested in seeing how this plays out. I think that there will be an inherent problem in using the HL2 engine for Planetside; SOE might not like having its game being shown on a different gaming engine than the one Planetside provides. Hopefully SOE can look past this and into what Planetside 2 could look like in the future.

:thumbsup: Buddy Christ award.

[Hyncharas]

...I think that there will be an inherent problem in using the HL2 engine for Planetside; SOE might not like having its game being shown on a different gaming engine than the one Planetside provides...
One of the major issues here is that this is an MMO game instead of an FPS; so naturally there is the small problem with the fact that without an external engine, SOE are hardly going to let us put stuff on their game anyway without seeing some design principles first.

That is what the primary goal this project will revolve around. Hopefully we will be given permission, which will improve relations in general between players and the developers.

[Hyncharas]

My post to the Devs has now gone out on the Official PS Forums:

http://psforums.station.sony.com/ps/board/message?board.id=psdiscussion&message.id=334079

[Hyncharas]

It seems now the votes are in, but to check, those in the CDL/PSU staff who have voted twice will have their second vote excluded from the final results. Now, may have seen of the PS Idea Lab that a poll has been running since August, for what the community would like, now the inclusion of the BFRs and Battle Islands completed:

http://www.planetside-idealab.com/index.shtml (http://www.planetside-idealab.com/index.shtml)

Although one of these has been requested since the Beta for PS finished, the other four are community-based ideas from PSIL. At the moment these results are very tight in which idea people want, but understand this: while the highest-ranking idea will be done proceeding the AGN-1 remake... ALL OF THESE IDEAS WILL BE ATTEMPTED, in order of their rank.

This is to make sure that everybody gets their ideas seen to, so as to not feel left out. Because confirmation of the project to proceed hasn't arrived yet, we will wait for SOE's decision on the matter (as PlanetSide is their IP), but these are the plans for the project as they stand right now.

[Hyncharas]

In the end it was decided that 50 votes were overkill, so that limit was decreased to 30. After going over the information in the two threads and merging their score, 5 of these votes have been deducted from the PSU-Forum's poll, due to certain readers voting on both polls.

As a result the score stands as this...

Number of final votes collected: - 26
Normal - As a standard .MP3: - 5 votes (19.9 %)
CG - Rebuilt in the HL2 Engine, with audio overlay: - 21 votes (80.1 %)

My thanks to everyone who voted. As I said before, even though the first AGN Broadcast will be done as a test-video of the HL2 engine's capabilities, the first most-requested idea on the PSIL-website's poll will be done after that. Now all that remains is a confirmation from SOE to proceed!