Cool video. No Man's Sky looks awesome and it would be awesome to see this kind of thing in Legion. By the way, when you wrote "with" in your third-to-last sentence, did you actually mean "without"?

The large maps we have already been told that there's to much going on with them for it to work well.

Was this mentioned for Project Legion or for Dust? Because of the platform, Dust had memory issues that unabled the developers to add further complexity into the overall enviorment, but is that still a problem in the pc architecture land?

I think it was mentioned from an exploitable standpoint in both games. Areas being to flat for sniper nests or to compact to escape from heavy's. PC would be a nightmare on the right planets!

But I don't find this to much of a problem in the example of a dead-space complex, It's much more of a manufactured setting anyway (long metal corridors) and would by default be a much more even playing field.

Interesting questions raised.

- Perhaps not all planets should be accessible at launch, since a couple of them actually contain settlements, cities, whatever you wanna call them (from a Lore perspective), while others aren't just colonized. I'm thinking these ones are "the easiest's" to create thanks to Procedurally generated content.

- As far as, how far CCP should go into the MMO territory, quite franquily I think Dust should stay away from the generic typical mmo's out there (theme parks) and should focus more in what EVE is all about (and much more!): creating a living breathing universe where you are given the tools and not TODO lists (+50 points for a kill! as an example ). The great thing about EVE is not only can you define your goals and things that you wanna do, but also the freedom of choice.

- Procedural generated content is also good in terms of where npc's would spawn and how certain locations dynamically can change. This is important for PVE, and also exploration and other aspects aswell.

- As for Open world PVP, defintely, but unfortunatly it's not an easy thing to do, as Syeven mentioned, it can be used as an exploit (being free to play).

Obviously, this is just my opinion

From my understanding, procedural generation was a goal with DUST, and they likely wasted a lot of development times on it to not reach a marketable product.

From my understanding, procedural generation was a goal with DUST, and they likely wasted a lot of development times on it to not reach a marketable product.

True, last i heard they were taking another look at it, but that was a long time ago and according to Rouge the past is dead and the history books were all thrown in the bonfire.

It is what CCP originally promised for DUST. It is a tough technical problem, though.

If we keep in mind that this is a company that couldn't execute on core fps mechanics, procedural map generation is prolly a technical bridge too far for them. It does suck the realism and romance out of what DUST/Legion could be.

On a side note, New Eden itself really needs some kind of procedural background in place to bring the universe to life. Currently in EVE the actions of the players are taking place against an essentially static and meaningless painted backdrop that is called 'New Eden'. Without players in it it's a dead, static object and not inspiring or interesting at all.

It's not an idea i've ever seen get any traction at all in Reykjavik, maybe the time is ripe to push for this again, if No Man's Sky is a success.