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Looks interesting.
I have not played a game like this ever since I quit Imperium Nova a few years back.

I've started up the Elysian Estate, located at 03459W:23633N
Character is Cyroth Ferel.

Not much metal in my area, but there are sources of 4* quality river, plains and ancient spruces and firs in my territory.
And there is some 3* marbe and a large 4* meadow nearby that I'll grab as soon as I can expand.

Guess I'll go with an industry that thrives on selling beer, leather and lutes. With some other artsy stuff thrown in for the lulz.
Basically Bards"R"Us or something.

From my experience with this, there are a LOT of things that make a difference, cert vs uncerted. Medic revive grenades, Heavy AA launchers vs the standard, AV mana turret vs AP. Many of these things are thought of as basic items, but they can take quite a long time to get the certs for, especially just starting out. I mean, just upgrading your sidearm from the, generally, relatively poor starter pistol to the heavy one or a commisioner costs quite a few certs, and initially its almost worthless compared to your main gun. Yes, I know thats not competely true, all the secondaries have uses. But the starter ones feel like popguns compartively.

I've never really used any other sidearm then the basic ones and the crossbow (for Stalker), so I'm not really sure how much better they are. I do have the commie but I found it inferior to the basic pistols for finishing of wounded enemies and not quite as good as the xbow as a Stalker primary weapon.

Agree with the revive nades, forgot about them somehow.

Don't quite agree with the AA launchers since nobody who isn't completely incompetent dies to them anyways (or at least it used to be that way, no idea how the current air/ground balance is), I've always found it more rewarding to take potshots at ESF with the basic dumbfire launchers.
AV turret the same thing. I found the basic AI turret much more useful in general, though sniping at a tank zerg from outside render range is pretty effective.
I don't consider either to be an "essential" item.

There is also Maven whom I'd really like to stab, but Skyrim thinks she is important and won't let me.
Curse you Beth, you and your Essentials.

If I can sneak into somebodies room while they sleep I should also be allowed to stab them 

That pic made me laugh.
Then I realized that out of the 5 characters I've finished the game with 4 ended up being stealth archers one way or the other (even though none started out that way)...

...now I'm laughing even harder.

The world map is covered in a strange washed out purple which I think means the native xenos have overtaken it.
It's honestly kinda disturbing, like the apocalypse hit and I woke out of a deep-sleep chamber.  I wandered into the nearest zone and I actually got slaughtered by unexpected native life forms.

I probably could have reclaimed the zone, if I was careful and patient, but... maybe not.

Replying to an oldpost, but whatevs.
Those Xenos are actually the reason the servers are empty. IIRC a while ago (2 years or so) a patch was added that made the Organics that take over some empty areas every few hours quite a lot stronger, so strong in fact that you need a group of people to take the areas back (instead of just some random guy with slightly-better-then-staring units).
Since at that point there were maybe 10 people still playing on each faction there were not enough players left to keep the Xenos down and good PvP battles up at the same time, so everyone basically said bollocks to that and quit.
At least that is what a friend told me who was still playing it up to that point.

I really loved that game when it came out and I have some great memories of it.
I started playing on the EU server (mostly german, actually), which was named Tactical Commanders for some reason, pretty much on release day and I've been on it for 2 or 3 years.
Had a high education/mechanics build and fed all my uranium to a single condor (named Elysion), which had so much overpowered equipment it was able to out perform whole squads of other players.
Someone once told me the veterans on his faction actually consider it to be some kind of boss fight. 

The remake is playable and still being improved, AFAIK.
I've seen some videos of it and it looks good.

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Errm, yeah... Planetside.
I quit shortly before the developer change, after SoE made the base design once again even worse (which was always my main gripe with the game).
Checked it out again shortly after the construction patch, but base design (and map design in general) was still completely horrible. Way to many narrow funnels, chokepoints and lack of objectives to spread players out a bit.

Did they improve on that by now?
I'd really love to play again, but I'd hate to download the whole thing again only to find out that it is still 200 players crowded into some tiny area that would have been on the small side for a 4 player Unreal Tournament (yes, the 1999 version) map.

apparently North Korea was the main supplier of statues dictators and they have just been banned from it. lol

So best Korea was making millions by exporting ☼Bronze Statue☼ to dictators around the globe...
That is actually kinda awesome, in a weird kind of way.

I still have a halftrained toon rotting in a NPC corp on my account.
Would throw him into the dwarfcorp for shits, giggles and glorious explosions.

I have some little experience with pretty much everything, but not actually much with anything.