Godin Thekiller
Hellstorm Inc
League of Infamy
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Posted - 2013.09.22 05:39:00 -
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Picture this:
You fly in a shuttle, flown by a Cap (or maybe even a Valkyrie pilot, whatever the **** they are called) down onto a barren planet, in which the surface resembles the Wild West (only it is in New Eden standards, so holographic billboards and ****). You land in a station, and walk casually to a building labeled "Local (the Town you're in) Agent Office". You walk in, and ask the local agent of your choice for a mission, and she gives you a assignment, which is to clear out a small Serpentis camp. You walk out, and go to the weapons construction area. You request for a Abron Scout LAV, as well as a Scout suit, with the modules, and a Sniper Rifle, and a extra Assault suit with a Plasma Rifle and a Ion Pistol, as well as A Small Autocannon. All of it is constructed for you, you hop in, and drive off.
You arrive on a hillside close to the camp. You set up the Autocannon between some rocks, and get into the Scout suit and Sniper Rifle. You screw on a Suppressor, and snipe out all of the guards. Then, you go back and get into a Assault suit, grab your weapons, and get on the Autocannon. Then, you light up the base, destroying the homes, killing the pirates panicking and running around, and when it's out of ammo, you grab you Plasma Rifle, and go to work.
After the mission is done, you go back to town and collect your payment. Then, a alert go on at the planet. The Serpentis are attacking the planet! Now, many Mercs are coming in to assist. a friendly Warbarge sends in a Suyra for you to use. TIme to get to work. Again. |
Godin Thekiller
Hellstorm Inc
League of Infamy
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Posted - 2013.09.22 06:38:00 -
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Avallo Kantor wrote:The problem is that there are multiple planets in New Eden, not just one, and there are FAR more than could ever be feasibly fleshed out.
Think on this: Most EVE players have NOT been to every system, and likely many have not even been to even half of all the systems in game. So already just the number of systems is beyond what most MMOs even have in scope, and then take into consideration -every- system has -multiple- planets.
The only way an open world would be feasible if they vastly reduced the scope of what mercs can explore, either making each planet only have a tiny, tiny fraction of it's surface be "open world", or only open a small planet (Even a dwarf planet is massive in this case) for players to interact in. Even then, things would have to be crunched together, or only have one demi-continent to hold player interest.
Not to mention the issues already inherent in the game such as simultaneous player count in an area, or the issue of the massive number of art assets that would be needed in the game.
Ultimately I think DUST would be better served by deployment to specific locations in the Universe (such as current battles) except there would be the option to deploy to much larger warfronts (perhaps the entire 5k x 5k map) that host multiple installations, large player count etc.
Well, we operate on destricts, in which are on a 5x5 Km plane. they could use that random generator that they were making,and gradually on each system, on and on, they could have just similar, but random environments on them. |