CCP Android you have now expanded my list of things to look forward too in the future of Dust and I thank you.

Cheers,
Cross

At least the planets are now matching in the war barge.

That is something we want to do and have made prototypes of but we are focused on making the terrestrial planets perfect now, so its unlikely that you'll see terrestrial environment with a dramatic geological feature in the distance.

When we do a volcano, it'll be a proper volcano probably on a lava planet.

That is something we want to do and have made prototypes of but we are focused on making the terrestrial planets perfect now, so its unlikely that you'll see terrestrial environment with a dramatic geological feature in the distance.

When we do a volcano, it'll be a proper volcano probably on a lava planet.

That being said, we want to get to a point where a player feels like home in a district that he has fought on before (for example if you are defending your home district). So even if its maybe not going to be a full blown volcano we still want to put effort into making them look memorable.



I agree that they do look very cool.

That area is not really made for game-play so you wouldn't have much fun playing there . We can do environments like these pretty easily, the problems with them is that they are a little bit boring in terms of what they are. Its just an urban area and although they look good they don't have much of a purpose in planetary conquest. So I don't think we'll be seeing a full blown urban city like area in the near future, but I'm that you'll see many of the SI's have more of an urban support network in the future.

You should travel more - there are, like, whole nations on this here temperate planet called earth, that are basically a large volcano...

..I hear there is one place in the North Atlantic Ocean, that is particularly nice..

Hey where's the water :/ BF3 has water ....

And I can see a lot of water from outer space on the planet I'm about to fight on...

And there was water in dust 5 years ago

water

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edit*or is that why it's called dust? :P Are mercs unable to go near water? do our suits melt into cheese?

i would like to fight on a jungle planet . maybe one where we have to fright the other clones but there is also live animals on the planet that are hunting use . or a ice planet where it is snowing all the time and it is hard to see .

It's in that youtube link in this thread to the Fan Fest presentation. They aren't sure what they want to happen when say vehicles enter the water, nor do they have any swimming animations or anything in place. Lots of stuff you need to add if you put in water and their focuses are elsewhere right now.

This is something that I am very interested in doing and we've talked about this internally. I haven't actually made a prototype of this yet, but it should work ... in theory All the information is there, we just have to find a way to make it work together

I've also been toying with the idea of finding events that happen in EVE that could somehow have an effect on the environment. For example, if a Titan would explode in orbit around the planet, it make the atmosphere thinner and show more of a nebula, Similar to what happened on Caldari Prime where the Titan went down. Even making it rain ash and fire after a large battle for a few hours. Even some sort of an energy pollution

This would make planets that have more activity look more dramatic with a view into space and a more dynamic environment

These are just ideas in my head though

edit*or is that why it's called dust? :P Are mercs unable to go near water? do our suits melt into cheese?

i would like to fight on a jungle planet . maybe one where we have to fright the other clones but there is also live animals on the planet that are hunting use . or a ice planet where it is snowing all the time and it is hard to see .

i was thinking the same but not for pvp this could be something they add in to pve when they add it and i whould like to know when ccp are thinking of adding pve i know it will be a long time but

I am a huge proponent of PVE. I love New Eden and I joined Dust to explore more of it. Everything the map designers do is a breath of fresh air from an aesthetics standpoint, and I will hope they go this route soon. I don't think animals should be a priority but that would be cool.

Two words:

Gas planets.

Just try thinking about that level of art design put into platforms hovering thousands of feet up in the atmosphere of a ******* gas giant.

Like this?

Bump because I'm taking astronomy this semester.