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CCP BaoZi
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Posted - 2014.05.23 02:26:00 -
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Glad to see that the Starmap interests some of you. As CCP MC Peanut said, we are working on a brand new Starmap. Some of the code of the previous 3D Starmap(s) is still there, and I look at it time to time, but I preferred to re-start it from scratch. In Dust 514, the focus was put on the functional aspect, as explained in the Dev Blogs here. And I bet it was quite challenging to make it right with PS3 controllers. So I want to salute again the hard work made by the team that was in charge of that.
For Project Legion, as we are going PC, navigating in 3D with the mouse is way more intuitive and fluid. We also have less technical constraints and can afford way more awesome effects. CCP MC Peanut is experimenting a lot of really cool stuff. ItGÇÖs all very promising. We are actually very early in the development and there is lot of room for improving our current plans.
IGÇÖm reading carefully all of your posts. You already gave me a lot of ideas. As CCP MC Peanut said, we were heading to a battle searching during which we disable the controls. But when steadyhand amarr said: Quote:I just have nice mental pic of be browsing planets while waiting for godin to get the squad together before heading out ... I told myself GÇ£of course we need to let players free to visit EVE Universe while waiting", so exit the disabled controls. Then Lady MDK was saying: Quote:the squad leader can rotate the map and zoom in but everyone sees what he sees ... and I immediately added this idea of sharing views with other players to my ToDo list. So thanks a lot, and keep brainstorming, this inspires and motivates us even more.
Now letGÇÖs try to reply to some of your interrogations (keeping in mind that all of that may change in the future)...
- Yes the idea is to scan the Starmap for available battles
- YouGÇÖll be able to filter the results somehow to find what youGÇÖre looking for (but we are not there yet, so letGÇÖs talk about that a few days/weeks later)
- If you just want to jump into a battle without having to navigate the Starmap, you will also be able to do that
- You wonGÇÖt be able to deploy to the planets that donGÇÖt figure in the results of the scanGǪ first because of technical reasons (we canGÇÖt open an infinity of servers), but it also makes sense from a fictional point of view, because these planets have nothing interesting (no loot, no other players). I understand that you may want to just visit it, but sorry for now, you wonGÇÖt be able to
- Security status and other info will be displayed on the Starmap for sure. We are not sure how yet, and we donGÇÖt know exactly what kind of info we will display (and it will actually be up to you guys ;))
- You will see info about the battles that are relevant to gameplay directly in the Starmap (along with a Deploy button I suppose)
Unfortunately I canGÇÖt reply to the questions that not related to the Starmap (because these are not up to me). But even if now we are working on the Starmap, we hopefully will be given wider areas to jump in later. For example IGÇÖll probably touch all the transitions to and from Battle. So itGÇÖs also very interesting to see what you guys have in mind.
IGÇÖd like to end my first post with a wink to Adam and Steve, who was expressing something really important in this post :
Quote:I feel that being able to view and manipulate the 3-dimensional Star Map did more to connect me to the universe and entice me to play than any other social function of DUST. EVE Universe is amazing, itGÇÖs time for Mercs to really feel part of it. |
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CCP BaoZi
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Posted - 2014.05.27 05:31:00 -
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Aeon Amadi wrote:What is the likeliness of allowing a player to go to the planet but having it be semi or entirely client-based by disallowing other players to join in? You're right it could be done, but technically it's probably not as easy as it sounds. That is not something we are looking at.
Lady MDK wrote:It's not just a battlefinder it will scan and allow you a choice of battles to join and other pve/sandbox areas to hang in. Yes that's the spirit 
@Natu Nobilis, I'm not gonna go into details (because it's not my area), but as CCP Rouge was saying at FanFest, there will be room to "betray" and "mess with others".
Kain Spero wrote:Would it be possible to keep the current 2d star map as a view mode? We are putting all our efforts on having a 3D Starmap that is functional, clear and easy to use. Now if we can't get satisfying 3D results for some functionalities, we may work on a flatten version. But in a first time, what would help us A LOT is that you guys explain us what you want to be able to do / see in the Starmap (if you explained that earlier somewhere, please send the links).
Kevall Longstride wrote:Was chatting to CCP Preatorian. He is having such a nerdgasam about this Starmap at the moment. Hehe really?? 
 So yeah again, what do you guys want from your Starmap? |
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CCP BaoZi
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Posted - 2014.05.27 09:50:00 -
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The-Errorist wrote:CCP BaoZi wrote:... So yeah again, what do you guys want from your Starmap? I want to be able to search the star map and filter it to see what battles my friends are in to join them; who has control over what star systems, planets, districts; a time-lapse history view of ownership of areas; what the security statuses of regions are; quickly where battles are, and get info about the battle. Noted. Most of them were already on my list. The "time-lapse history view of ownership" is a really cool idea |
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CCP BaoZi
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Posted - 2014.05.28 02:29:00 -
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Natu Nobilis wrote:Thanks for the Reply CCP BaoZi, will the person in harge of this area give any feedback Soon(tm) ? No idea. We're here on a voluntary basis 
steadyhand amarr wrote:Oh useful for later on a history of planets visted Yes this one also has supporters within the dev team 
EmmaNation Lanados wrote:Not just "friends", but also filters for corp mates, alliance mates, people with positive standings, people with negative standings. Sounds all good!
Hansei Kaizen wrote:Wow guys, I am blinded by the many feedback everywhere in this thread! Thank you very much for that. But dont overdo it or we get spoiled and start making demands  We dont want you to get forum-fatigue too soon :) Haha ok ok that will be my last post... it was a pleasure meeting you guys!  |
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