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Oh come on, that's just mean.

Hah, my combo was finished anyway.

As I understand it, it is CCPs goal to have the planets of New Eden to be completely randomly generated (i.e. the planetary surfaces/landscapes would all be randomly computer generated - in the same manner the the New Eden galaxy was created - and once generated they would be saved and added to the game). So far this does not at all seem to be the way Dust functions. It would be interesting to hear from a Dev about how this task is coming along.-á

A member of the mapping team discussed during a presentation at FanFest that that is actually impossible.

The only way that could be implemented, even if we go past all the collision errors and stuck spots that result from procedural generation of maps that take time to fix, is if all the maps were stored server-side, and you had to download a map every time you played a match.

I can actually say this from experience: MechWarrior Living Legends had almost 3-4x the playerbase it did before we halted development before we did our community map project. When faced with being removed from your server after every match to download a new map, no matter how many days you had been playing (since new maps were being added to the rotation sometimes multiple times in one day), most players left to play other games with less maps but that let them spend less time staring at download progress bars.

Unless they can come up with the Holy Grail of map compression, and can fit a 5x5 km space into a 100KB XML or something, I don't see different terrain for every single planet in New Eden being possible.


Again, that's without factoring in how much work goes into correcting all the errors that come with a procedurally generated map that have to be manually corrected, which tends to be a rather long and painstaking process.

Sorry, I did read your post but my response was not very clear as I was in a bit of a rush. That is my fault, sorry.

As much as possible we would like to keep the extraction of resources an active experience. Not something you click go on, come back to later, and $$$$. We would like to see the things you get from SI be things that encourage fighting and that sort of thing.

DUST is very much about being an FPS as well, not manufacturing things. EVE players who want the resources should maybe pay DUST players to fight to get them, but I just don't see DUST players being the ones to collect resources that EVE players already have access to. That does not mean no never, just... well there is so much other things to do first. I would however like to see clones used in EVE.

Dust maps are not planned to be randomly generated for gameplay reasons (and likely tech limits). They are merely combinations of hand-made components like height maps, environment textures, skyboxes, small medium and large (outposts, nor "cities) surface infrastructure pieces. Don't expect truly randomly generated maps, ever.

I once posted a thread asking for the ability for corps to build facilities on districts to extract resources to then sell to EVE players, and I got this dev post. This may apply to your ideas.

I'm assuming you're a virgin?

Actually I have a five year old daughter.