So to beat CmdrWang to the punch, what ideas do you want to see turned into maps?

Would definitely like to see various maps corresponding to EVE planetary industrial facilities.. For each planetary type. Command centers with their launch pads or space elevator, extraction facilities, storage, manufacturing, etc. Seeing maps like that would really reinforce the message that EVE and Dust are tied together.. Not to mention the delicious tears from PI industrialists when they see the writing on the wall..

Would also love to see Dust expanded to include POS and station attack/defense missions.. Would love to see fights inside these structures.

- Full Day/Night Cycle Maps: I'm a MAG veteran myself, and I always wanted to be able to fight on, say, Raven Sabotage at night - move through the jungle under the cover of darkness, avoiding floodlights set up by the defenders... being able to attack from the east as the sun rises behind you, blinding snipers, being able to ghost through the woods as night falls - these are the things I want to do.

- Boarding Actions: Currently, in the Eve setting, groups can set up outposts in their sovereign nullsec space. How fitting would it be for troops to be inserted onto these platforms, fighting in room-to-room boarding combat to try and take over or destroy the platform? An Outpost is on par with a Titan in scope of construction, and how wicked would it be to see these massive, indestructible structures become prey for tactical insertion?

As for natural environments - I'll agree, with a caveat. Natural environments can be hard to do well; it's hard to create a rolling beautiful landscape that fosters a good shooter game, and it's hard to create anything else that looks really fantastic. I'd love to play in a well-rendered Jungle, were the underbrush actually conceals you, and the defensive points were strange, alien redwoods stretching a kilometer high...

I'd love to play in some multiple terrain type maps, too - a swamp would be great, with frogmen soldiers sliding through brackish water, bullets tearing rotting wood apart, thunder and ominous clouds in the distance... god, would that be fun. I trust CCP to do the mechanics well, but I haven't seen any FPS manage the kinds of environments I like.

Barren
Simple enough. Get a windswept Gobi Desert kind of feel - the Radiant Barrens Escalation map in MAG is a good example. Most of the terrain is dunes, or salt-flat-style broken ground, with mazes made by the natural formations and only the occasional structure.

Gas
Cloud City. Have a low-atmosphere mining platform, suspended by various means in the soup of viscous clouds. Attack and defense routes are easily controlled, with troop transports dropping soldiers into undefended segments of the structure. Heavily industrial setting, with battles taking place all through the inner workings of the stations.

Ice
A frozen plane, with ravines a mile deep where massive glaciers pull apart from one another. The structures are prefabs dropped in from orbit, and drilled into the ice; I imagine a battle taking place on a vertical orientation, with a "city" clinging to the side of a massive glacial cliff, with walkways and ladders leading up and down.

Lava
Crematoria from Chronicles of Riddick. A dangerously unstable planet, with plumes of sulfurous ash obscuring vision to no more than a few meters. Underground structures on the most tectonically stable segments provide the main objectives - volcanic landscape, either choppy and rugged or obsidian-smooth, surrounds them.

Oceanic
Massive marine leviathans can be seen breaching in the distance, as your troop transport skims over the waves to the installation. Either a small archipelago or a floating/anchored station awaits you, something akin to an oil derrick. The dropsuit is many things, but one thing it is not is bouyant - so while you can venture into the shallows for a surprise amphibious attack, make sure not to lose your footing, for who knows what's waiting for you down there?

Alternatively, if we want to get industrious - underwater combat. Ocean floor drilling stations, with dropsuited soldiers dropping down to the benthic layer to duke it out among the detritus of the sea, as dark shapes slide by against the distant surface.

Plasma
A fight in an active plasma storm, the static in the atmosphere frying radar and limiting communications, making this very much an engagement of small groups hunting each other. Rifles flare against the flashing sky.

Shattered
Sure, there are no objectives here - but imagine in a Corp v. Corp battle, with massive shards of the world rising up or sinking around you?

Storm
The wind pulls at you, whipping dirt and dust past your visor as you try to discern shapes in the murk - you slide by the guard post unnoticed, and ghost your way through the sentries, using the cloak of the storm.

For storm planets, I imagine structures built to withstand/divert the force of the storm - massive lightning rod towers which harvest the energy of the tempest, buildings erected to create natural hollows in the chaos where the wind can't reach, screens and tarps and all sorts of thrown-up defenses to keep the storm out.

Visibility would be much lower - imagine sandstorms moving through that cut your non-electronic sight down to ten meters, with lightning crackling through the statically charged particulates.

"Storm" can cover a lot of environments. An arboreal world, the forests evolved to bend into the wind to mitigate losses, tree trunks ripped up and splinters the size of a man whipping out through the night, silent projectiles; a desert planet that never sees the sky for all the sand being blown through the air; a shifting island archipelago where the land is never quite certain, dragged out from under your feet to rebuild another island by the fierce tide, all under a lightning-split sky.

Id love to see a proper large jungle map and snow map tbh
havent seen a well done jungle map in a while, u know 1 that actually makes u feel like you're in a jungle

@ kush's assassin contracts, good idea let me share my thoughts on possible game mode. How about a smaller scale no respawn mode to go along with it? u infiltrate an enemy HQ or whatever and u and your small grp are charged with dispatching the VIP.

Each person has 1 life in this mode and its on more CQC maps like perhaps inside a ship or building complex.

I'd love to see a wide open plain with nothing but swarm launchers........

But tbh I'd really like to see a mix between everything, but i always prefer CQC. Jungles, small towns,possibly space shopping malls. Even cooler if there was a mix of different types between uplinks. Like a hilly or jungle entrance to a CQC building at the next uplink.

Defending a planetary/station evacuation.

Attacker's objectives:
Infitrate the command center and hack the defense weapons to target friendly shuttles
or
Hack their way straight into the civilian bunkers and open up on them.

Defender's objectives:
Keep the turrets offline,
Give the shuttles orders to take off when they think the sky will be safe for the 1-2m it takes for the shuttle to get out of range.

Fighting on the deck of a leviathan, making your way to the pod chamber to assassinate the pilot.

The battle for Caldari Prime. Storyline missions. (Factional Warfare)

Liberating Minmatar slaves from the surface of Amarr slave worlds.

War-torn planets that have seen years of fighting like Pike's Landing. Something akin to trench warfare maybe?

Water planets that take place on something akin to an oil rig. (shamelessly stolen from a reddit thread awhile back)

Blackhawk Down style entering and extracting VIPs from a hostile urban warzone.

POS warfare, fighting within a SMA or CSAA seeing a titan being built before your eyes.

Battling through some cyberpunk urban environments (this is my #1)

Flipping a station in nullsec involves taking it from within after breaching it in space.

A storm planet that takes place inside of a stucture. The storm outside could interfere with base electronics and cause lights to dim. Maps could be organic and give you the option to open hangar doos to the storm causing EMP to interfere with the map, for example.

More to come...

Fighting on the deck of a leviathan, making your way to the pod chamber to assassinate the pilot.

The battle for Caldari Prime. Storyline missions. (Factional Warfare)

Liberating Minmatar slaves from the surface of Amarr slave worlds.

War-torn planets that have seen years of fighting like Pike's Landing. Something akin to trench warfare maybe?

Water planets that take place on something akin to an oil rig. (shamelessly stolen from a reddit thread awhile back)

Blackhawk Down style entering and extracting VIPs from a hostile urban warzone.

POS warfare, fighting within a SMA or CSAA seeing a titan being built before your eyes.

Battling through some cyberpunk urban environments (this is my #1)

Flipping a station in nullsec involves taking it from within after breaching it in space.

A storm planet that takes place inside of a stucture. The storm outside could interfere with base electronics and cause lights to dim. Maps could be organic and give you the option to open hangar doos to the storm causing EMP to interfere with the map, for example.

More to come...

Defending a planetary/station evacuation.

Urban combat would be wonderful. Tight alley ways, only certain directions vehicles can go. Templar One mentioned industrial complexes that had living quarters/apartments on base. You could effectively make a great little bazaar, shopping area, homes, along with an industrial district (size limiting).

Big expansive terrain maps are great, throw in a little urban combat would round things out really nicely. I'm talking choke points, flanking routes, big straightaways that beg for gunfights to happen in them from behind the best cover you can muster. Multiple story apartment buildings you can get good vantage points from. I'm imagining a dropship putting troops down in the middle of a small city to storm an objective.

Cloaked recons hiding behind trash waiting for the assaults to pass through. Dropships giving support fire, air vehicles have a hard time picking targets. Entire buildings being vaporized from orbit!!!!

Hell, you could even make vertical maps that progressed up the the 10 story structures that are the skyfire batteries (in E3 video) and biorecylicing towers in the current maps.

Would definitely like to see various maps corresponding to EVE planetary industrial facilities.. For each planetary type.

Command centers with their

• launch pads
space elevator
extraction facilities
storage
manufacturing
etc.

Seeing maps like that would really reinforce the message that EVE and Dust are tied together.. Not to mention the delicious tears from PI industrialists when they see the writing on the wall..

Would also love to see Dust expanded to include POS and station attack/defense missions.. Would love to see fights inside these structures.

I love what little time I can afford to spend in IRC and chat with some of you. I always get great ideas and feedbacks and today was no different. So, in this thread I would like to ask anyone who is interested to submit your ideas on a map theme that you would like to see and play in DUST 514. The sky's the limit, so let your imagination run wild.

CCP_CmdrWang
DUST 514 Community Manager

air to air map, Two MCCs are approaching an objective and can launch fighters and missiles to attack one another and try to slow down or destroy the enemy MCC. players could launch from inside the MCC or if technical issues prevent that spawn at a high altitude inside their fighter.

For the Minmatar, make it a ruined urban map, house to house in the bitterest sort of fighting. The kind of map where no quarter is given or asked. Stalingrad, Berlin or the Battle of Manila x 10 to the nth degree. Lots of rubbled out areas with mouse holes to snipe through.

Also, while this game seems to be set up as a strafer, I'd like to see more tactical driven play, reinforced by the maps. It galls me as a former soldier to see people dancing, running in circles and jumping to avoid fire. I know I'm being silly, asking for realism, when EVE spaceships act more like flying submarines than spaceships but still. . .the existing maps look like a MOUT training site and I'd like to see it a little less game like and a little more real

New Modules in Eve:
The Clone Insertion Vehicle ( CIV )
- Launched from an SB bomb bay
- Can penetrate non-reinforced pos shields when they drop below 25%

The Tactical Reinforcement Hub ( TRH )
- Anchorable starbase module

dont know if youre still checking this Cmdr_Wang...
to the recent "remove jump from the game" forum post.

. . .

P.S oh....and rage away but a little nerf here and there will go a long way in disproving that Dust514 was a mistake on consoles and only make the game richer as a result :)"

Gas Planets
Check this out, this is a video from a level in Halo 2, where the player's character starts out at a huge floating "sky anchor" in the upper atmosphere of a gas giant, working down a few levels to an elevator to descend to a tethered laboratory section hanging several kilometers below. In my head, this is how I imagine PI structures to look in EVE for gas planets, not like Cloud City in Star Wars. I would love for these particular planets play host to aerial vehicle combat, such as dropships and whatever personal combat craft you implement in a future patch (If any).

Plasma Planets
One dude already hit on it before - Since it's an extremely inhospitable planet, these maps would be largely indoors, possibly a huge dome (Think about COD: Black Ops' **** Zombie lunar map's big central dome). Due to the high EM interference from the storms outside, being able to trigger parts of the map opening up to the outside to screw with TacNets and whatnot would be a sweet mechanic. Also getting hit by lightning would be awesome, I know as an EVE player that seeing this live in a future arena video would make me laugh my soggy ass off while in orbit.

Temperate Planets
And hell, the space elevators could count as their own districts entirely on account of sheer size.

Donno if something like this was already mentioned but mabye a coop mode which tasks you and a squad with disabling a cloning facility that has gone wrong creating waves and waves of (yeah you guessed it) zombie style of brain dead clones,

I would love to see a trench warfare type map, one where poking your head up would really be deadly.

I'd also like to see some swamp warfare. Wadding through swamp water and stuff like that.

I have a few ideas for map themes.

Temperate planets:

In general : I don't know that this was said or not but maybe a forest or a jungle for guerilla warfare based tactics or a coastal areas for amphibious warfare(bonus points if you guys design amphibious vehicles and weaponry) and add some plant-life( I see green on most of the temperate planets, I know not just rock formations) and last maybe day-time/night-time if that is possible.

Hi-sec worlds- maybe urban areas (more close quarters combat focused) or city outskirts
Low-sec worlds: military bases for the faction warfare people or pirate hubs.
Null-sec worlds: Same thing what we have now which are outposts.

Barren planets:
Just like the templates we have now maybe a darker skies.

Gas giants and (storm if possible) : Aerial platforms, no ground vehicles but Aerial/orbital vehicles like drop-ships or Fighters/bombers air superiority if you guys are planing to design them ( I would really like that idea).

Ice planets:
Abandoned outposts with harsh weather like blizzards or snow storms making harder to see targets/enemies.

Lava /plasma worlds:
Factories with pools of lava or plasma for a dangerous environments of course outside

I can guarantee that people would both a) riot & b) put a hit contract on every non-null bloc supercap pilot if DUST players were allowed to kill supercaps.

The Caldari factory where Tibus Heth made a stand.
Or the final show down where Dust soldiers first took to the field.

let my imagination run wild huh..ok

1.snow planet where different depth of snow determins how fast your character can move through it maybe even freeze up the hud abit due to the cold

2.lava planet ..if you touch the lava you die... maybe even mist up the hud a bit from the heat

3.storms on a planet ..electric storms that stike lightning down at random locations and kill you or shuts down your shields if your hit. maybe even electric interferance on the hud.

4. water planets...man made structures on man made islands could open up boats etc to dust.. maybe add water effects on hud.

5. unstable planet wich has tremmors etc... maybe every now and again the ground shakes..making the hud shake..

6. light planets..meaning it has more than 1 sun.. that maybe gives off glare on the hud.

7. Asteroid planet... random asteroids hit the planet.

8.green jungle maps

9, change the gravity on planet's


well you told me to let my imagination run wild :D

Building / outpost ideas:
Spaceports with Eve ship models dotted about (like a big Airfield)
Seaports
Manufactories
Cloning facilities
Wind farms (with blades that are an air hazzard)
Solar Farms
Ancient Jovian ruins
Ancient Human ruins
Amarr cathedrals
Lo tec shanty towns
Mining outposts
Drone hives
Sansha population 'conversion' facilities
Prisons
Armed forces bases
Atmosphere processing plants (a la Aliens)
Chemical/Booster processors
Metal smelting plants

As an immortal billionaire pilot in space, I don't care enough about those puny mortal civilians slaving away at below mininum wage to increase my wallet size, I just care about the expensive installation. In short, blackhawk down is not important to me, evacuation is not important to me, just defend the computers in my command station while I move into position to bombard those other guys into oblivion from orbit, and preferably don't cost me much in the process.

Originally a modified cargo transport, the marine frigate has evolved into a fast, highly armoured delivery vehicle used to insert Hiigaran marines into hostile ships. The marines are highly trained in raiding, disabling and gaining control of the enemy vessels.
Given enough time they've been known to gain control of mothership class assets, giving their enemy's a very nasty surprise.

Caves

Not the entire map, but more like caves that simply go in and out for like fifty yards or so. A network of them.

(if you wanna get crazy, have the lake refreeze after a period of time)

Posting here, since the OP is OP :P




+1 for a titan themed map, that's it the fight goes inside the titan, maybe some cool airlock opened effects when u blow a wall/window.

It could be a "sinking ship scenario" a ship has been disabled as is coming down from orbit, the attacking team try to destroy the anti gravity drives, while the defending team needs to keep it in order,

at low earth orbit height the gravity goes at 80% unless the ship is in constant freefall (orbit)

I like the idea of a mining planet. You could have a large mining facility surrounded by some urban small town elements like miners living quarters and market areas and still leave the terrain open enough for some decent vehicle warfare. If you don't feel like being shelled by a tank you could hit the network of mining tunnels running under the surface that would pop up in various areas allowing access to the structures there... or a prison moon would be cool too.

aww that would be awesome, imagine seeing a guy running across the frozen lake, you, armed with your sniper rifle, fire at his feet, breaking the ice from under him. he slides on his heels but he's running too fast. he plunges into the abyss, and can do nothing but watch the ice over him re-freeze. you run to him and look down at him as he slowly drowns and/or freezez to death... and begin to tea-bag him. then get obliterated from a mile a way by a rail gun.
totally worth it.

'Normandy-esque' is almost mandatory. One thing that bothers me about Skirmish as it stands is that the attackers somehow magically start off with equipment on the ground... for a planet with ground, okay, I can accept that. But for attacking an Ocean facility or a gas planet facility, I think having a kind of landing-craft that takes a minute to get to the battle-zone could provide interesting opportunities. First, those with the skills for flying ships could head out and make the first attack - dropships would then be the ONLY spawn point on the main map to engage the defenders (if only for the first seconds).

I dig the vertical map ideas already suggested --- add combat in a canyon (with close walls, so one side can see/shoot to the other). Room for dropships to fly through. Ladders/platforms/docks/elevators/towers/catwalks... etc

Maps should have a lot of diversity in required skills --- some maps should be very open and designed for vehicles. Others should be almost exclusively indoor where foot-soldiers are the only way (shotgun would be more effective on this map --- sniper rifle much less so). In short, intentionally design the maps so that specializing on one weapon type will make you a sitting duck on certain maps.

Then there was this thread: https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=20813&find=unread
That brings up a really cool idea of corporations being able to customize bases that could come under assault from rival corps (and have consequences of some sort if destroyed). Not precisely a map idea, and something that would take a lot of development - so no anticipation of implementation in DUST at launch; but food for thought for something later...

I love what little time I can afford to spend in IRC and chat with some of you. I always get great ideas and feedbacks and today was no different. So, in this thread I would like to ask anyone who is interested to submit your ideas on a map theme that you would like to see and play in DUST 514. The sky's the limit, so let your imagination run wild.

CCP_CmdrWang
DUST 514 Community Manager

on lava planets ACTIVE Volcanoes would be awesome. Have them erupt with varying frequency. Perhaps if there is an Orbital Bombardment on a volcano have it erupt and then the lava flow across the map creating a limited timespace for the battle to be won be the entire map is covered in lava. AND/OR could have it so units and structures on the ground take damage standing in the lava. This would force everyone to call in dropships to finish out the battle.

TL;DR Active Volcano

http://wiki.eveonline.com/en/wiki/The_Desert_Fathers_(Chronicle)

This?

I love what little time I can afford to spend in IRC and chat with some of you. I always get great ideas and feedbacks and today was no different. So, in this thread I would like to ask anyone who is interested to submit your ideas on a map theme that you would like to see and play in DUST 514. The sky's the limit, so let your imagination run wild.

CCP_CmdrWang
DUST 514 Community Manager

Are there any planets in EVE with a volcanic enviorment?

Like I have learned in the history class, the spanish came and killed all the majans,....

Would definitely like to see various maps corresponding to EVE planetary industrial facilities.. For each planetary type. Command centers with their launch pads or space elevator, extraction facilities, storage, manufacturing, etc. Seeing maps like that would really reinforce the message that EVE and Dust are tied together.. Not to mention the delicious tears from PI industrialists when they see the writing on the wall..

Would also love to see Dust expanded to include POS and station attack/defense missions.. Would love to see fights inside these structures.

wow.
A) It's Mayans
B) The Mayans were an extinct civilization long before the Spanish arrived. It was the Aztecs whom the Spanish crushed.
C) Punch your teacher(s) in the face and demand a refund.

Wormhole temperate planet PI maps.

I'd like to see some maps with some sort of crystal formations. They could either be just decorative obstacles/cover, or maybe some type of resource. (trade good to eve players maybe?)

Maps of older civilizations that were on that planet previously...Ruined cities or temples.

I too would like to see some non-merc life on at least some of the maps. Plants, animals, non-combatant civilians (that you can still kill anyway)

I also like the ship/station infiltration angle.

What about maps that changed over time, due to planetary seismic activity and/or eruptions/weather. Like the landscape would start out one way, but as the battle progressed, the planet would shift, changing the landscape of the battlefield, sometimes dramatically. Chasms could open up, needing dropships or a drop uplink on the other side to circumvent. Mountain ranges could push up from the ground, as the tectonic plates rolled against each other.
(Screw my other ideas, do this one, it sounds really cool.)

Whatever the battle is set, I would like to see the maps with more bottlenecks and less freedom of roaming.

That would value more strategical and tactical gameplay and less running-and-gunning type of gameplay.

I want to feel some feel of realism out of matches, not so much kiddie level of realism regularly found in shooters.

Shooting is fun but a dragged standoff can be as fun since one wrong movement could mean defeat.

In fact, I dont like much the die-respawn-die-respawn game mechanic, but thats another subject and probalby a dead horse already since the game is like that already.

URBAN WAR FAIR

Your fighting in a Nuked city, it would be a snipers paradise

Plus I want the other guys destracted by some mermaid while i sneak up behind and unload a clip .

Forgot about something
On night maps, if the sky is clear, we need to be able to see the nebula marking the current New Eden region. This would help cement the idea that we are in the EVE universe.
I'm not suprised that it seems to have been overlooked, after all Sol (Earth's system) doesn't sit inside anything other than an epic cloud of asteroids.

Great Idea !