BF2S Forums What kind of people play BF2 ?

BladeRunner wrote:

32 Year old IT Manager from England. GSOH. Seeks simillar minded for teaming up and PWNage. Smoker, joker, midnight toker.

Jam on with the Steve Miller Band, dude. ;P


27, SWM, Gulf Coast of Alabama (Some might call it "The Redneck Riviera"), former Computer Science student, had one credit to go (don't ask), currently drive a truck, delivering seafood long distances (1500 miles a week).

Took a leave of absence from being CEO of a player corporation in Eve to spend time playing BF2. Eve Online is a space-based MMORPG, by a company in Iceland...  it's what a lot of players discovered and went to after EA's Earth and Beyond folded, which I never played because I was ticked that they started and shut down development on Privateer 3, then started and revamped development of "Privateer Online" into a different universe, E&B...  should've kept it on the winning "Wing Commander" franchise).  Hrm... I told them 44 days (time enough to train Gallente Battleship V)... I may be extending it, lol.  Not sure what the subscription count for Eve is, but they've got only one "shard", and I think its record so far is above 12,000 players at once.  My corporation owns a couple stations in the UTQ-BO constellation of the Deklein region, which is controlled by IRON (The Imperial Repubic of the North).  Eve is pretty slanted towards PK'ing... High security in the central populated regions prevents PKing unless you declare war, then in sort of mid-security you can get away with killing someone if you're not near a sentry turret (they surround jump gates and stations) or CONCORD (the police), and in 0.0 security areas (on a scale of 0.0 to 1.0) is free-for-all...  kill, camp gates, etc... though usually NPC stations have a couple turrets.  "Empire Space" is safe... there's no money there unless you build stuff...  for the pirate-hunting and mining bucks... 0.0 is where it's at (to give an example, a ship could mine Kernite in 0.7 space several hours a day for a week for a million "ISK", or the same ship could mine Crokite in 0.0 for maybe 15 minutes for that million...  just that a whole lot of people are too scared to go out there... we call them "Carebears"...  no real dislike for them, they bust their humps to buy the minerals and high-end pirate loot we produce in 0.0).

Lazarus Tag'lim wrote:

Took a leave of absence from being CEO of a player corporation in Eve to spend time playing BF2. Eve Online is a space-based MMORPG, by a company in Iceland...  it's what a lot of players discovered and went to after EA's Earth and Beyond folded, which I never played because I was ticked that they started and shut down development on Privateer 3, then started and revamped development of "Privateer Online" into a different universe, E&B...  should've kept it on the winning "Wing Commander" franchise).  Hrm... I told them 44 days (time enough to train Gallente Battleship V)... I may be extending it, lol.  Not sure what the subscription count for Eve is, but they've got only one "shard", and I think its record so far is above 12,000 players at once.  My corporation owns a couple stations in the UTQ-BO constellation of the Deklein region, which is controlled by IRON (The Imperial Repubic of the North).  Eve is pretty slanted towards PK'ing... High security in the central populated regions prevents PKing unless you declare war, then in sort of mid-security you can get away with killing someone if you're not near a sentry turret (they surround jump gates and stations) or CONCORD (the police), and in 0.0 security areas (on a scale of 0.0 to 1.0) is free-for-all...  kill, camp gates, etc... though usually NPC stations have a couple turrets.  "Empire Space" is safe... there's no money there unless you build stuff...  for the pirate-hunting and mining bucks... 0.0 is where it's at (to give an example, a ship could mine Kernite in 0.7 space several hours a day for a week for a million "ISK", or the same ship could mine Crokite in 0.0 for maybe 15 minutes for that million...  just that a whole lot of people are too scared to go out there... we call them "Carebears"...  no real dislike for them, they bust their humps to buy the minerals and high-end pirate loot we produce in 0.0).

Hear a lot of good things about Eve. A few of my friends play it. Very interesting, cool graphics and neat premise. It doesn't take too much time to play either. Though you have a unique view of the game being part of a established Player corporation in 0.0 security space. I haven't seen anything under 0.4 yet that my friends have gone to. But they are all freelancers and don't have large corps. to back them up. But yea BF2 is definitely a break from the usually slow paced Eve.

Stay safe driving. Cheers.