HOME will become the new venue for online GG

[blackwiggle]

I've been beta trialing Sony's "HOME" and it is just like "Second Life".
Brilliant for GG's.
I could see Avalon having a "Club House" real soon...there is a max amount of people that can be members of one "Club House" atm.
Same amount the amount of bits as the Nintedo --,hope that gets sorted.
Can't give much away.
But if it works as it is designed to do ,well SONY is on a very BIG WINNER.

Sure makes the new XBOX's new updated look truly Toyish and more suited for 5 to 10 year old's.
HOME is FAR slicker than that.

One problem is the resolution is defaulted to 720p so some switching will occur if you are using higher video resolutions,just thought I'd mention it.
Also have 6gb free space on your HD at least otherwise forget it.

It will become an open Beta trial within the next few days.

[kanar]

oh yeah can't wait to try that -damn more virtuality lol- . Klax75 mentioned here http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/showpost.php?p=104489&postcount=1 he founded some kind of zoner outpost, but as he said it would be great to have an "official" wipeoutzone club house in the near future (when everyone could be involved).

I'll probably take a long rest after that week-end, but yeah, why not an avalon club house too one day lol

[Axel]

Meh give me a friends list and the option to invite peeps to a game and then I'm happy. All these added extras just don't do it for me.

The club house seems cool, but isn't that the same as these forums? Well I will try it, but I'm not holding my breath TBH.

[klax75]

I like the fact that unlike the forums, you see the person you invite as there Avatar, you can talk, then it will launch the game from within Home itself. So you can all hang out in your club house (a Instance) and then talk WipeOut and invite people and go directly to the games from there. Once you are done it takes you back to Home.

So far I've set up WarHawk games using Home and launched it. Wasn't even the PSN version, was the disc one.

As far as I know you can be in more then one club, so WipeOutZone could be one, Avalon could be another.

On my WipeOut Fans club, I've got about 20-22 people joining. I've had people invite requests every day when I log on.

[Darkdrium777]

Ill be waiting for the fee for the club house before I get excited about it. If it is too much or monthly well... :/ But I've already said that on the other thread.
One thing's for sure though, I will gladly meet up with you guys for some WipEout games once it is available. :D

[blackwiggle]

Well somebody has already taken the AVALON name,I joined that as I thought that was the one Klax75 had started ]I'll find out more about this group and report back] and I joined another group just called Wipeout that has a club house.
I'll have to ask Klax75 if he managed to launch WOHD from within HOME,some games will launch others not.
You don't need a club house,you can have a party and launch a game anywhere.
Already abusive morons there,I don't think they realize that everything they say and do is being monitored,and I can see it getting very crowded when the public beta goes out.

[SuperNova]

It will become an open Beta trial within the next few days.
Oh really? Thats Fantastic!...but 6GB..that whould take 2 weeks of straight downloading from my place:cold

[crawdad62]

I've been using the beta for about a week or so. It's cool but it must be a young guy thing. Actually because of a glitch with my account I can't log into it since it says I'm too young but my 10 year old kid can and he loves it. To me it seems like more work than anything.

I remember a few years ago I got The Sims free through some promotion and I loaded it on my Mac and that was about it. A couple of weeks later my whole family was totally addicted to it. Finally they got me to get on it and set up a person. Way too much trouble. I told them that there's no reason to play the Sims since I live the Sims everyday. My life is a big Sims. I have to worry about all the crap that the game has but it's for real.

Anyway I digress... I suppose it would be great for a meeting place but I don't really see the advantage. It's just as easy to go to the game and see a game/tournament and join.

[blackwiggle]

I know what you mean,but I'm not a young pup myself anymore and I still found the whole thing intriguing.
But it's early days with HOME,who knows where or which direction the whole thing heads.
Anybody that has just got the beta code is basically only testing the internet loading, I'm under the impression that the long term beta testers have already got most of the known bugs/glitches listed.

Klax75 I searched for your group and whichever way I spell it it doesn't come up,I'll try again later.

I'm just wondering if they will wipe the slate clean with all the beta test input and re launch it afresh, or if they will leave what people have made and just add another more definitive patch for final release.

[klax75]

My club is called WipeOut Fans with the tag Wip3Out. Not sure which you have to search for. Since WipeOutZone isn't my website I didn't feel comfortable using that name. I do have a posting on the on the message boards in the club telling people to visit WipeOutZone.com

So far I have gotten WarHawk to work with Home with out any trouble. As it goes right now I can't see WOHD yet, but I am assuming since it is beta it will be added. I will try the original Resistance with Home

Hopefully soon you will be able to customize your club more. So I can put Cold Storage playing in the club, and have the Behind the Scene WipeOut Video going on the video screen would be cool. And have all the team artwork on the walls.


Oh really? Thats Fantastic!...but 6GB..that whould take 2 weeks of straight downloading from my place:cold

If the release works like the beta. I only had to download a small program then I had to allocate 3 gigs to Home. But it only downloads things I go to. The Central Plaza it will ask me if I want to download. Same with the Movie Theater, Bowling Alley, Mall. So you can choose not to download them, and the downloads can also be done in the background.

[SuperNova]

Oh thank GOD...now to play the waiting game...

[blackwiggle]

Well it's a bit more than 3 gig for the initial download [3077mb] I wrote down how big the files were as they dowloaded.
It partitions your PS3 hard drive by the way, so it remains uncorrupted by other media.
The plaza,shopping mall,HT and bowling ally are all 42.6mb each.
Joining and visiting a Club House is roughly the same.

I tried WipeOut Fans and got zilch,tried Wip3Out and got the same result,I've only tried twice.....is it a O as in the letter OH or 0 as in number zero?
That might be where I've got it wrong.

[klax75]

Just sent you a invite BlackWiggle. :)

[blackwiggle]

Great cheers.
How do we post messages on the club board by the way,I've only seen messages posted by the starter of a club and haven't found a way of pinning a reply on the board?

By the way,if you play the arcade machines and get to a certain level it unlocks extra clothes you can wear in HOME.
Here is a link to what level and what reward you get.

http://community.eu.playstation.com/playstationeu/board/message?board.id=b_EN_PS3_Home&thread.id=38313

[klax75]

I'll promote you to sub-leader once you join, then you might/should be able to use the post board.

[blackwiggle]

When you downloaded HOME,which SCEE board did it direct you to to post comments?
I know it is being assembled in Ireland and I've been directed to the UK site,just wondering if it's different for US based people.

[klax75]

Not sure, when I downloaded it I don't remember it giving me a specific address for the forum. Which at the time I thought was weird since it made reference to forum feedback but never gave me a address to go to.

[blackwiggle]

If you close HOME and restart it you will get the internet address to report to at the opening page.

[klax75]

Hmm I don't all I get is a message of the day screen about the Thanksgiving Pool party, that was on Thursday. No address on it.

[blackwiggle]

Strange.
Here's the site to report to anyway if you so choose to.

http://community.eu.playstation.com/playstationeu/board?board.id=b_EN_PS3_Home

[blackwiggle]

Here are some more details about HOME and what is happening with currency and trophies ,also some other interesting news.

OPEN BETA TRIAL has been confirmed to be on either Dec 15th or 30th.

http://www.ps3trophies.co.uk/showthread.php?t=11855

[Sugar_from_OTW]

Is WipeOut Fans clubrooms still going? I tried to search for it, but to no avail :(

[Connavar]

I found several wipeout clubrooms

[blackwiggle]

I had problems finding Klax75 wipeout fans club,I don't know why,he ended up messaging me and I got in that way,but it has the max amount of members now [22].

I wouldn't worry,all clubs made under beta trial conditions will be dissolved after the trial finishes,so new ones will have to be made.

Just type some variation of wipeout in clubs on your HOME interface,it should come up on that,then just message to join.

I've also found that at present there is a 50 item limit to the amount of things you can put in your apartment or summer house.

Only thing there isn't a limit on in HOME is the amount of morons,endless supply of them it would seem.

[SuperNova]

Open beta comes out tomorrow :D

[rushin]

i wonder if we are going to get a wip3out area, as they have for uncharted, warhawk, etc. Sony game so not impossible, but we would have heard some rumour by now maybe.

From the garbled comments on offical forum it seems game launching is sketchy or unavailable for most games. Somewhat concerning as i would have thought it was a top tier feature of home? would be brilliant to meet up with ppl and launch straight into races...

[klax75]

I can't do anything with my Home Club House for WipeOut until my PS3 gets fixed. So if anyone asked for a invite sorry about that. I know it only lets 32 players in the club, that including the host. Which I find is to extremely low for anything.

Blackwiggle I made a co-host but not sure if he can do any of the admin stuff to check members, invite or kick out people.

Right now I wish there was away with the clubs to be able to check alteast how many Trophies people have for a game. I know in my club a lot of people joined with 0% completion on anything for WipeOut.

[Axel]

Can someone please make a WipeOut Zone club house please before someone takes it.

[b4p]

once we get a clubhouse we should go on a panty raid!

[Darkdrium777]

Hmm, Home should be released.
Must.Plug.PS3.

:P

[Axel]

Can anybody log into Home for starters?

[micky1984]

i was in earlier but i cant logon anymore, guess there is 2 many people clogging up the servers

[Darkdrium777]

Well I had the parental control glitch, now that's fixed, but I get the C-991... :s

[Nadia Elenova]

same error here, I'll try as soon as I got home again.

[KIGO1987]

Got on for the first time today. Its a pretty cool system HOME. Same here, getting alot of dropouts. Be cool talking to all you WZ guys and chicks on HOME soon:g.

[rushin]

it's like every other MMO i've played at launch, released too early, buggy, and terrible connection problems.

Strange thing is though on other games its normally the login server that gets hammered into submission but if you make it into game connection is ok. Not so with home, get kicked randomly every 5-30 mins.

Oh and the character design is horrible. after a long time there i a) cant make me, which presumably is the idea with such 'realistic' skins, and b) everyone i did make looks freaky, undead, and mentally incapacitated oO They should as others have suggested gone for a more stylised approach and include non human characters.

Still, i imagine it will improve rapidly. I am amused about the beta status, what it probably means is yes we know its not finished but we'll get lynched if we delay anymore. You cant have a beta with micro payments (and some not so micro) already active, its a release. monkeys ;)

[Darkdrium777]

I didn't get a drop out, at all. I must've stayed for hours in Home without a problem. The difficulty for me was getting in, but once I was there, I stayed for as long as I wanted.

We should do a pool tournament someday, it is really fun :)

[yawnstretch]

Tried it last night. Seems pretty cool, especially if you have voice enabled. Met some people from my home town which was interesting. Cant wait for wipEout clubs!

[Darkdrium777]

Well who's gonna pay 5$ for the club? :)

[KIGO1987]

Maybe, thats if i can get a connection.

[Axel]

You have to pay to set up a club? WTF?

[Darkdrium777]

Oi it's done, check it out here (http://www.wipeoutzone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5576) and if you wish to join post in the thread.

[OBH]

home finally worked for me today. not just once but every time ive tried it.

dont hold your breath - but anyone who couldnt get it working before; might be worth trying it again :)

Also, what happened to the idea of a virtual psp??? that looked far cooler than the pda theyre now using.

[Darkdrium777]

About the PSP: God knows why they cut it out.