Hey guys!

Sorry about the late response

I really dig player created content like this. I had a look at a little bit of the video you posted. We've got some things in the pipeline for player created events, tournaments, etc, ...

As part of that, the custom map creation is something I know nothing about personally and it would really be down to the Designers to create as it involves a bunch of functionality that we don't currently have!

Custom map creation or randomized world generation would be a -tremendous- aspect of immersion. Static maps, even with randomized socket types, make the game look like it was all built by the same construction company. It's a very high level idea but it certainly would go a long way to adding a deeper sense of being in New Eden.

This isn't just the kind of thing that should just be done for events like tournaments... we aren't supposed to be that kind of game. Tournament content is side-content. This is supposed to be a game about territory. Anyone who owns anything on a planet should be able to customize their district and do incredibly cool things with it, but it should be in the spirit of owning cool stuff.

So of course you run the risk of allowing players to wall-in objectives or create something unpenetrable. That might actually be a good idea, provided you can properly make all placeable objects destroyable. Someone has created a giant wall with a dozen large turret installations mounted on top? Drop an orbital to wipe out all the defenses and move up some rail/artillery tanks to knock that wall down.


Cool, game changing stuff can be done. But anything placeable must also be destroyable. If it's going to be a TRUE sandbox game that is an absolute requirement... and I'm not against it.

fully customisable suit colours and logos for corps and alliances too

Please change the thread title it hurts everytime i see it :-(

As much as I love this thread and LOVE the idea of user created maps, I just want to say its quite a lot of work to transfer what ever tools the devs use into functional fairly straight forward tools the players can use in game.

On the other hand, if the devs could just create the tools to set objectives / restrictions in a match... that could be really awesome.
Ok we wouldn't be able to design levels but we could have LAV races setting waypoints to create tracks, dropship races, capture the flag, melee / nova knifes only matches etc.. They could even be found in the special contracts part! Bam!
I think that would be a lot more reasonable of a request!

User created content is a deliciously tasty thing that exists in most modern PC games to at least some degree; perhaps the best example of a good, all-powerful explodelicious kit I can cite is the good old Hammer Editor] (of the Valve SDK)

Another thingy that any players of the Fallout series may have seen is the G.E.C.K. (Garden of Eden Creation Kit), and associated kits for Bethshida's other games.