Like any MMO, it is more fun when you are playing with friends and battling for objectives.

I played alot when it first came out but the couple of times I have retried it it is too different. It was fun though.

At least you can hit instant battle and be dropped right in. Try playing that WW2 online game and trying to get into battle!

I played for a couple of months. You've gotta be in a decent outfit to have any fun. If you are in a good outfit, there's a lot of satisfaction to be found coordinating an assault. Teamwork is rewarded here more than any other game I've played - a group of ten or twenty organized players in a convoy can easily cut through two or three times their numbers, and massive airdrops on contested are a blast as well.

If I had three or four hours a night, I might be tempted to re-subscribe.

I played it for about 3 hours and came away with the exact same impressions as lobster. Spent most of that time in a big platoon attacking, capturing, and then eventually defending a tower.

Absolutely boring, just a mindless zerg fest with no strategy involved at all. I absolutely cannot fathom how someone could pay a montly fee for this with games like BF2 around which trump it in every possible way.

Its difficult to answer after reading all the bashing comments, but I like Planetside.
I agree that you cant just hop in and have fun, especially solo. You need to learn how the game works, when to use wich vehicle or equipment and when not. I actually like this in a game.

Aircrafts: You can spawn the small planes in every base, the bigger ones only in dropship centers. You also said you were setting up turrets, so i suppose you are Advanced Engineer. My advice: get rid of the pilot cert and combine the engineer with Infiltrator. Setting up turrets while invisible is more fun.
Or, if you prefer it more straight shooterlike, get Reinforced Armor+Medium Assault+Heavy Assault that will give you a good chance in tower or basefights and more staying power.

But i fear this game is burnt for you, its difficult to like a game after the first impressions were bad.

I'm about to start playing again on Markov on the NC side. I'll be with the TOG outfit so watch out Fstart!

I think the main thing it has over bf2 is scale, and a somewhat persistant world. It is a bit dated however. I would love to see a current gen mmofps.

I had not heard of that one. Looks interesting but it seems to have a ways to go.

Endless Ages 2, I beg for your existence.

I'm now playing again for a few days and i have a lot of fun.
While BF2 is better than Planetside in many many aspects,
PS has still a few things where it holds its ground.

I like the larger scale and the more persistant world
(and the strategic implications coming with that) .
I like that i can outsmart people, because i'm not a
good fps-player when it comes to reaction and coordination
in split seconds. And i like that you have a chance to
play goal-oriented, instead of just kill-oriented.

Example: Yesterday we had an assault on a base where we
had to cross a heavily defended bridge. Our assault was
stopped there because no vehicles could cross because of
heavy fire and mines.
I took an AMS (mobile Spawnpoint) and decided it could be
worth to drive all around that huge lake into the back of our
enemy. Took me a 10 minutes drive but just before i came
close to the bridge a Mosquito (scout-flier) spotted me and
attacked me with his (luckily only anti-infantry) MG.

I drove to a small wood and deployed the AMS, once deployed
a cloak-bubble forms around it so its virtually invisble. But
that guy knew where it was and still fired at my vehicle and had
it already at half health. I exited the vehicle and fired at back at
him, with that sh*tty starter gun, because i have no anti-vehicle
weapons certed.
What was going on was a cat and mouse with me semi-invisible
hiding in the cloak-bubble behind my vehicle and under trees and
he trying to kill me and my AMS.
He couldnt catch me and decided to go for the AMS alone wich
was almost destroyed at that time, he was probably thinking he
can kill me easily once the cloak bubble is gone.
He was stupid, because he just had to dive into the bubble to
see me, but he didnt and so i managed to empty clip after clip
into him (ignoring me was the second big fault), finally killing him
just a few seconds before he would have destroyed my AMS.
I drove a few hundreds yards away just in case he was coming
back and repaired then sat up the AMS close to the bridge.
And that behind-the-lines spawn was a big help in our assault.
Such a luck and accomplishment is scarce, perhaps you get that
once an evening, but when it happens it feels good.

I agree that most fights are a constant Zerg, but unlike other
games, the Zerg has no chance in this game. For me the Zerg
is mostly ambiente, it gives me that "a war is raging around me
feeling" and well... sometimes im part of it because
mindless assaults can be fun.
But you can zerg for hours and unless you have a huge
population advantage, you wont win. You need the right tools,
like a MAX-Crush or more common a Galaxy drop or for the defenders
a concentrated vehicle assault against the siege.

But you need someone who organises such a thing and thats
why you need an outfit, its like in any other MMO, pickup groups
depend on luck, you may get a good one, but most are bad.

Grim's story is exactly why I enjoyed PS, you just feel like you're part of something bigger.

Skeeter dogfights are a friggin blast too.

I played some with Kegboy on werner with his Vanu Sovereignty guild.

Good times.

Me and Emabulator from evil avatar used to play regularly with a terran outfit.

I played for an extended period for the 1st time last night. Stayed in a disputed area so it was a constant battle the whole time. It was fun. I so want to get myself one of those BFR bots.

I might have to pull out my BF15 guy and reup my account.