So my question is does CCP plan on making the maps use multiple sockets?

If so how many could you iterate at once as a rough guess?

Could you use the entire map?

Can the sockets interact with eachother ie. a sky bridge or a simple pipe running from one SI to the next?

Is it posible to move sockets around?

And finally Can you increase the socket sizes without causeing any problems?

Thank you any answers would be nice.

CCP LogicLoop, you forgot Ashland. AFAIK, it has 0 sockets. ;)

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1. i actually ment multiple large SI ie. a orbital artillery large socket and a communication large socket.
2. i ment how many large or medium sockets (don't care much about small) SI could be on a map at once without causeing problems.
4. aww thats disappointing
5. i wanted to know if sockets were in different locations on the same map (depending on the planets ) or same locations on different maps. it seems like we always play on the same corner of the map everytime just with different SI. thought it would add variety if sockets would change location around the map so we can use the mountains and plains that we always see in the background.
6. ok thanks
7.

So by being unable to use more than 1 large socket on your terrains, this would mean that the vision CCP had regarding have a MCC travel from one region of the terrain to the other impossible no? Unless you put everyone in the MCC and load the next part of the map (which would effectively be loading a new battle)

Interesting. Does that apply for Large sockets as well?

OH I'm hearing good stuff... by the way is this a recant discovery or did yal already know this but were figuring out the best way to implement it in game.

So it's a RAM shortage problem then?

If it's already an issue now, does that bode poorly for adding 2x Dropships, 2xLAVs, 2x HAVs, 3x Heavies, and 2x scouts just to finish out the current set? To say nothing of speeders, etc...

I'm sure this already part of some five year future goal but I have to ask:

What would the complications be with seamlessly loading 'zones' by proximity like some Console MMO's (Everquest Online Adventures for the PS2 being a good example) in terms of the different maps in Dust 514? They're mostly on the same map as is, just needs the sockets to load up - so would that potentially be a better alternative to having everything take place on one large map?

http://i.imgur.com/cuOuN8q.jpg

So I'm assuming the terrain takes up the memory too ? Since the game loads up the the whole map does the terrain take up a lot of memory ?

So assuming that's the case is it possible to make a 15 km map ? But it would kinda be made from scratch ,right?

I really hope some day you choose to run dust on ps4, only for the 8gb of ram, yuo could keep going with unreal 3, no need for the fancy features of unreal 4 in a game like dust.

But with the scale we want this game to have, staying with unreal 3 and going on ps4 just for the ram seems like it would really benifit the game../

plus the ps4 patches much more neatly

Ok I see

Alright I was thinking if it was possible to do a "traditional" map where everything in the map is completely( or more or less) unique . But it is smaller than the current ones , since the terrain takes up memory as well , I thought the map being 25km it would take up a lot of it. Making a (slightly) smaller custom(more or less) made one means that you guys can do more stuff with it or so I thought.