All of this talk about MAG had me curious as to how many folks stil play that game, so I popped in my copy and ... well, wow, talk about some good memories with my clan and MAG.

MAG's current playerbase is *nothing* compared to its heyday, but, from what I can tell, there' usually 600 to 800 players on during North American "primetime" play hours during the work week, and perhaps a few more on weekends.

I sure hope Dust 514 lives up to and surpasses what MAG accomplished.

when that happens BHD will find SONY and put the servers back on MAG

as to the OP (not Over powered, the 2nd term, Original Post) I`ve been talking ALOT about this in game and evryone has allready said stuff I woulod say so I would sound like a broken record to repeat so I`ll make it short and sweet and as little repititive as possible.

As a pilot I can`t wait (I`ll be an ALL AROUND pilot in full game), it will also be more usefull to use Drop Uplinks, as you should always do, spam them in some distances apart.

would look cool to make a convoy of vehicles aswell like we saw in the video.

the map in the fanfest keynote video is pretty big : http://dust514.com/media/videos/dust-514-keynote-2012/ (skip to 14:45)

i think a large objective based map would work. it keeps the action concentrated at the objectives. it can be made where once one team has taken and held stuff at the first objective, the "active" objective moves further along the map. that way, the action can move across the whole map over the course of the game.

There have been rumors (and I seem to recall a Dev mentioning this as well) that the eventual goal is 256v256, so the scale of the map is not nearly so bad as you think, if this is true.

The maps definitely need to be much bigger, as the line between heavies, logis, assaults and snipers is far too thin ATM. The bigger the maps, the more each class will have a very specific role rather than an all-in-one package.

Also as somebody else brought up, if the maps were larger then a dropship would make sense and be useful for transporting people over great distances quickly.

Not to mention the fighter-jet thing we are going to get eventually (there was a video from a long time ago where CCP was demonstrating it). Something like that would be pretty lame on the tiny maps we currently play on.

What I think would be neat was if say 3 or 4 of the maps we play on now were actually all on a large map, in which any player can move between them to grab/hold objective points either by means of dropships or LAVs. And redlining a team would mean that each area had been fully taken over.

hopefully when we get to that number we will have the commander game mode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED-YF-v7WCw

*I like the gallente LAV*

All I know is that they were experimenting with 128 man battles some months ago and have said that the game was designed from the get-go to be scalable so CCP can expand the game as they want/need. Should be interesting to see how big it all gets.:D

Big maps are coming I would think. This game needs both big maps and big player counts to be anywhere near unique.