Each temperate planet has between 5 and 24 districts. These serve as both the industrial backbone for your corporation, and the battlefields where you destroy anyone who interferes with your business.

Temperate can be jungle, desert, ocean, whatever you want. And "laziness" (this is how you spell it) is probably due to the number of devs that they have compared to EVE team and not actually being lazy. Maps are not being made like in BF3 and COD but instead generated, so I am sure there is more complexity than just "throwing new plasma map out there"...

Well yesterday the new dev blog got released with here and there some fancy informations. But i can read between the lines.
We wont be aible to fight on Lava, Aqua, Burren desert, Gas or Ice Planets. Why? Well because of this:



We will fight only on temperate planets which is in my opinion kinda sad. I woulda had loved to fight on different planets. I simply blame the devs lazyness for this to create different looking battlefields. I will tell you how this is going to end up on EVE:
Every eve player will find out which planets are temperate, reinforce them to the max so that they cant be taken and thats it. Usually each system in eve has 1-2 temperate planets and thats it. A system will fall with those few planets without counting in the others. Im dissapointed cause we probably could fight on the other hostile planets due to our dropsuit which allows us to survive in life threating enviroment.

Why would we fight on a rock that is worth nothing, its all about the ISK and mining or proccessing lava, sea, sand is worth zilch and ice is taken care of in space by miners also some of the lesser moons are already mined by another sub type of eve system. Not to mention how hard it would be to work on them.

So yeah why would they add in planets that don't fit with the game universe?

Also: i aint firing my superheated plasma assault rifle on a Gas planet....just saying...

they have said that they had done some in house testing of cloud cities (guessing gas planets, which I'm curious how we aren't instantly crushed under their gravity), but it was far from anything they would consider having yet. Just get the basic temp planets out there and see what bugs pop up, then add more types as time goes on.

Well yesterday the new dev blog got released with here and there some fancy informations. But i can read between the lines.
We wont be aible to fight on Lava, Aqua, Burren desert, Gas or Ice Planets. Why? Well because of this:



We will fight only on temperate planets which is in my opinion kinda sad. I woulda had loved to fight on different planets. I simply blame the devs lazyness for this to create different looking battlefields. I will tell you how this is going to end up on EVE:
Every eve player will find out which planets are temperate, reinforce them to the max so that they cant be taken and thats it. Usually each system in eve has 1-2 temperate planets and thats it. A system will fall with those few planets without counting in the others. Im dissapointed cause we probably could fight on the other hostile planets due to our dropsuit which allows us to survive in life threating enviroment.

Your comment is very disappointing.
1) You're making excuses to limit the game's potential.

2) CCP already confirmed different exotic planet types are coming.

3) Just because a planet is covered in water or ice or molten lava does nor mean there is nothing valuable. I'm really curious how you came up with this conclusion, because it has zero basis in reality, or anything. An oceanic planet could have insanely rare and valuable minerals under its oceans, or a lava planet may be covered in volcanoes that constantly spew out precious minerals that formed in the mantle back up into the surface.

I'm really glad you're not a developer.

Well yesterday the new dev blog got released with here and there some fancy informations. But i can read between the lines.
We wont be aible to fight on Lava, Aqua, Burren desert, Gas or Ice Planets. Why? Well because of this:



We will fight only on temperate planets which is in my opinion kinda sad. I woulda had loved to fight on different planets. I simply blame the devs lazyness for this to create different looking battlefields. I will tell you how this is going to end up on EVE:
Every eve player will find out which planets are temperate, reinforce them to the max so that they cant be taken and thats it. Usually each system in eve has 1-2 temperate planets and thats it. A system will fall with those few planets without counting in the others. Im dissapointed cause we probably could fight on the other hostile planets due to our dropsuit which allows us to survive in life threating enviroment.

CCP needs to stop on house testing. Why the hell would they not let beta testers test the game?

1. The signal-to-noise ratio in effective testing done by beta testers is not always optimal
2. The signal-to-noise ratio in feedback from beta testers is not always optimal

Basically, and taking this current open beta for example, I'll bet most players are more focused on testing out the game mechanics by playing the game as intended, rather thanGÇöfor instanceGÇödoing things like walking/jumping against every wall to see if they fall through or not.

Even if they did, far more might complain about one of the million colors used in the map's palette rather than catching and concisely/helpfully reporting the technical bugs encountered.

Well yesterday the new dev blog got released with here and there some fancy informations. But i can read between the lines.
We wont be aible to fight on Lava, Aqua, Burren desert, Gas or Ice Planets. Why? Well because of this:



We will fight only on temperate planets which is in my opinion kinda sad. I woulda had loved to fight on different planets. I simply blame the devs lazyness for this to create different looking battlefields. I will tell you how this is going to end up on EVE:
Every eve player will find out which planets are temperate, reinforce them to the max so that they cant be taken and thats it. Usually each system in eve has 1-2 temperate planets and thats it. A system will fall with those few planets without counting in the others. Im dissapointed cause we probably could fight on the other hostile planets due to our dropsuit which allows us to survive in life threating enviroment.

it costs $500,000 just to add a new char as DLC to a side scrolling 2d fighting game "

it is estimated that each marvel vs capcom hero cost $1 million US

I respectfully say: That's utter nonsense.

Either you've been horribly mis-informed. Or your making that up.

Majority of the issues surrounding games devlopment is the price of manifacturing disks. If a company is telling you its more expensive to make DLC they are lying for one reason or another.

DLC is popular with companies because its cheaper than the phyisical production of disks and distribution.

How do you think the indie development scene came about on PSN and Xbox live? Because it costs $500,000 per download? I don't think so.

If the maps actually would be "generated" then why are im still playing the same maps over and over the whole time?

You realize they're not making maps right? they're making a complete terrain generator that will systematically create and store different environments for different, planets/districts/battlefields! AND then have them change depending on how we update our own districts...

About map generation:
The "maps" we have at the moment are test beds... nothing more

correction it cost the devs $150,000 to make the char

http://segmentnext.com/2013/02/26/skull-girls-needs-150000-from-kickstarter-for-dlc-character/
but i do specifically remember a journalist saying that it was estimated to cost 0.5mill - 1mill per char in marvel vs capcom


While $150,000 does seem like a lot of money for a single character to be added to the game, Lab Zero Games has broken down exactly where the finances go.

$48,000: Staff Salaries GÇô 8 people for 10 weeks
$30,000: Animation and Clean-up Contracting
$4,000: Voice recording
$2,000: Hit-box Contracting
$5,000: Audio Implementation Contracting
$20,000: QA Testing
$10,000: 1st Party Certification
$10,500: IndieGoGo and Payment Processing Fees
$20,500: Manufacturing and Shipping Physical Rewards


here are the numbers
i will update my main post

I will tell you how this is going to end up on EVE:
Every eve player will find out which planets are temperate, reinforce them to the max so that they cant be taken and thats it. .

The reason we don't have additional planetary maps for open testing is they aren't playable currently. We're working on the framework we currently have and will be making sure that's quality before we expand into other planet types.

Well yesterday the new dev blog got released with here and there some fancy informations. But i can read between the lines.
We wont be aible to fight on Lava, Aqua, Burren desert, Gas or Ice Planets. Why? Well because of this:

We will fight only on temperate planets which is in my opinion kinda sad. I woulda had loved to fight on different planets. I simply blame the devs lazyness for this to create different looking battlefields.

I will tell you how this is going to end up on EVE:
Every eve player will find out which planets are temperate, reinforce them to the max so that they cant be taken and thats it. Usually each system in eve has 1-2 temperate planets and thats it.

A system will fall with those few planets without counting in the others. Im dissapointed cause we probably could fight on the other hostile planets due to our dropsuit which allows us to survive in life threating enviroment.

Can i just point out

it costs $500,000 just to add a new char as DLC to a side scrolling 2d fighting game "

it is estimated that each marvel vs capcom hero cost $1 million US

so then you have to stop and think
this is a 3d game
the game is FTP -with the option to pay for more stuff but not every one will do that

they have to pay for the games servers
they have to pay people working on other projects
they have to pay the creators of dust

im sorry mum did not supply ccp with the millions needed to have a massive team of people working on the game just so it can meet YOUR release day and be on time and up to YOUR expectation's which have possible been set by the standards of other triple A games that already have millions in funding before they even consider making a game

even after all that you want then rushing to make new maps when they already have issues with the maps now ?
like oh hey im walking up a hill

STRAIGHT THROUGH MY SHIELDS AND HALF MY ARMOUR
that's fine
let's just focus on maps these are issues that don't need to be focused on we clearly need to add more stuff and hope it does not make a bigger mess

(that is what i think every time i think ccp should add something to dust)
and if you want water GO FOR A SWIM IN ONE OF THEM POOLS AND STAY DOWN THERE
(yes there is water in dust and yes it does kill you)

*edit*
The Skull girl char cost only $150,00 as i had my numbers wrong
but i quote
"it was estimated that each marvel vs capcom hero cost about 1 million to make"

(here are the details of the pricing for making the skull girl dlc hero)
While $150,000 does seem like a lot of money for a single character to be added to the game, Lab Zero Games has broken down exactly where the finances go.

$48,000: Staff Salaries GÇô 8 people for 10 weeks
$30,000: Animation and Clean-up Contracting
$4,000: Voice recording
$2,000: Hit-box Contracting
$5,000: Audio Implementation Contracting
$20,000: QA Testing
$10,000: 1st Party Certification
$10,500: IndieGoGo and Payment Processing Fees
$20,500: Manufacturing and Shipping Physical Rewards

i dont understand why the instalations are always in the same place on these massive maps we have. letting them rotate would give allot more variety, or does this already happen and ive just not noticed?

CCP can't throw everything out at once. It's not like they have a magic dev team that can do everything on a whim. There needs to be planning, testing, evaluation and then deployment. Everyone needs to calm down and let them do what they do. I too would like to fight in exotic environments, but it just wont happen right off the bat. It is coming though.

CCP is throwing out nothing at all.
Now restart your excuses.

they have said that they had done some in house testing of cloud cities (guessing gas planets, which I'm curious how we aren't instantly crushed under their gravity), but it was far from anything they would consider having yet. Just get the basic temp planets out there and see what bugs pop up, then add more types as time goes on.