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Laheon
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Posted - 2012.07.19 15:57:00 -
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Um, they don't particularly need to test the maps. They randomly generate the terrain and add in buildings into slots. If they wanted you to test every map, you'd have to test... um... what was that number? 3k x 12 = 36k maps. Good luck with that.
Seeing as they've released three maps, and all seem to work well, I'd say that CCP's map generator is doing well. |
Laheon
Osmon Surveillance
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Posted - 2012.07.19 16:17:00 -
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KingBlade82 wrote:
yeah im not sure how that works :P i heard that on the fanfest videos thats alot of maps idk if that is the right # though
Well, what they do is they generate a map based on the terrain. This means they have a basic map, with no textures, or buildings, or anything. Imagine a transparent desert. They then texture the terrain with respect to the planet type.
This means they can have the same basic terrain for a temperate, ice, desert, etc planet. They then add in the buildings to certain building slots, meaning the map can look and play radically different each time.
This will mean that though there are 3,000 planets at launch (no source for that - approx number of temperate planets in EVE), they plan to have something like 10-20 sectors on each planet, each being 5km x 5km, so there's a huge area to cover on each planet.
That would roughly equate to, on the low side, about 750,000 square kilometers to cover. Now, if all the terrain is the same (or at least similar), you can cut it down to one sector on one planet, which means just 25 square km. The maps aren't that big yet, but it's coming soon.
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Laheon
Osmon Surveillance
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Posted - 2012.07.19 20:06:00 -
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Deskalkulos Ildigan wrote:But on the other hand i'd like to test a "pure" infantry map, after this months map was quite vehicle-focused i'd like to see some heavy indoor/infantry testing going on. maybe with the sliding mechanic on top :3
All maps, at release, will be (I believe) 5km x 5km in size. Have fun walking that 5km without dropships, tanks, LAV's etc.
In short, CCP wants to make this as large a scale as possible, so vehicles are absolutely necessary. You're fighting over a PLANET! |
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