Veigar Mordekaiser
Royal Uhlans
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2012.08.08 05:14:00 -
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Concerns I have seen in this thread are as follows:
1. Militia jets ramming proto squad dropships.
2. Map sizes currently to small for jets.
Solutions for these issues are as follows:
1. Militia vehicles are here for a few purposes:
A) Stress testing vehicle counts on the servers. Spam all the vehicles we want, see if it causes lag, crashes, etc.
B) Figure out exploits, graphical errors, and severe bugs related to vehicles.
C) Determine balance between the highest level vehicles, and the lowest level vehicles.
D) This is the most obvious reason that no one ever seems to think of - this build was made to show off Dust 514 at E3 2012. It would have been absolutely idiotic of CCP not to include a free vehicle button.
Now, due to the above statements, it is relatively easy to infer that militia vehicles will not be in future builds, or at least they wont be free.
Another point to make on this issue, as that you should not use, what you cannot afford to lose. If you are afraid of your shiny proto dropship and the squad held inside being killed by a kamikaze - who knows, someone might get paid to do exactly that in a corp battle - then don't fly your squad around in that dropship. Prices are going to go up on everything in the game, and prices will probably change quite a bit when we begin to see actual integration with the EVE economy.
2. We are in a very small area right now, as the player count is currently restricted to 12 vs 12. Red zones will be pushed out, and we will begin to see maps as large as 25km-¦. That being said, player counts will probably go up past the 24 vs 24 that has been announced, as we already know CCP is testing 64 vs 64 in house, as confirmed at FanFest 2012.
In the case that we do see the 64 vs 64 matches some day, I would hope to see some 20 or 40 man dog fights going on above a particularly hot district, and above that, 100 man fleet battles, raining hell on us with Orbital Bombardment, mercenaries firing back with the Skyfire Battery.
We are going to want more air warfare than just dropships, as they truly are not meant for air superiority, I for one think jets would be an excellent addition to the game. |