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.

When will the map be flat without mountains 360 degrees all around?
This is my question.

If you ever zoomed out all the way you would see a very large area of place you cant go. All these maps we play on can support hundreds of players at least and there are even roads that stretch across and connect every corner of the map. what we play on is a fraction of what is really there.

what do you all speculate?

Hopefully never.

All I have heard about player count per map is 48(24v24) the map would become too large to be any fun. Only a little better than BF3 on ps3.

Only would want this if we could have 96+ players per map.

Like I said...I believe it was designed from the start to be a testing ground for something much larger.

And yes, you are correct, we did get all 256 players in the same area at the same time and no one ended up with a blown PS3 because of it. No doubt the PS4 will be able to handle an unlimited amount of players on the battlefield. The last report (or rumor) I heard is that the test model was shipped to developers with 12GB of memory....plenty enough to handle anything thrown at it in the foreseeable future.

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*

My goal, when fighters come out, is to crush someone with a fighter- just like I did with a dropship.

Just a question how come MAG can handle 256 players but most other games don't even come close to that number. I've been wondering that for a while.

speaking of vehicles and fighter jets did anyone pick up what was said in the video.
Ye know, about the 10 vehicle platforms and that 8 will be out around launch.

I just need a little help on exactly what a vehicle platform is.
is it like each type of vehicle like LAV, HAV Drorpships
or
is it like the sub categories like black ops HAV, marauder HAV, the logistics LAV, logistics HAV

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.