The way CCP is doing "maps" is simply having different terrain then using sockets to insert the same collection of various surface infrastructures. Problem is we only have 5 different terrain sets and only a handful of surface infrastructures (and no racial variants for surface infrastructure we have currently).

So yeah it doesn't appear like we have much now, but once they start adding even just a few things it will add a lot of different "map" variations.

EDIT: What ever happened to that procedural generated terrain tool CCP talked about a long time ago so they can make all the thousands of districts unique while using their socket approach to ensure good gameplay flow?

CCP isn't trying to make a handful of maps though like in every other game, they are trying to make literally thousands of maps to cover all of New Eden. I mean, I believe New Eden has some 67,000 planets and that's not even including the multiple districts on each (granted they're not all temperate, but we're going to move on from temperate eventually). How aggravating does that sound? There's no way they can sit there and actually DESIGN all those maps, as such they are not taking the typical approach to building maps.

The one thing I'm concerned of is that CCP may have been having trouble with the procedural terrain generator creating good enough landscapes for battles and perhaps scrapped it. I only say this because we are not fighting on one planet now, we are fighting on several. They all just have the same exact terrain.

Hardware limitations people, it's as simple as that.
This wont happen until Dust moves on to mid range hardware like the PS4.

Killzone 2 maps were just as big as Dust with more complex and higher quality environments years ago ... all on the PS3. The PS3 might be a dog to program for, but its still powerful.

I disagree, though I am not sure you are completely aware what I am talking about (though you very well may, and if so my apologies). All CCP was planning on doing is proceduraly generating geographical attributes. All the surface infrastructures would actually be carefully hand-designed and then placed into the various generated terrains at socket points. The flow within these surface infrastructures is pretty good currently in my opinion. All that would change are the roads and rocks in between and on the edges of the bases.

I believe it could work well. Simply adding some weather or time difference and calling it a completely different district on a different planet is not good enough for immersion.

More are on the way, much more.

Things start becoming more and more obvious are more options are added to all sorts of things from the sky box, weather/mood, to the ground, to the small medium and large sockets and battlefield outlines + game types.

There are about currently 12k combinations overall which is very hard to notice because the options are few between each of them but as they keep adding more and more of each option it become more and more obvious.

For uprising they had to redo just about everything current because none of the old tech was up to par or the future needs of the game. We're getting a new research lab outpost or possibly two according to the blog in the next code deployment and with it is bound to be other things that have been completed since then.

Things start to get mind boggling more complex when CCP Logic Loop started talking about sockets having sockets in IRC yesterday.

*monotony

And they haven't even added all the suits, modules, weapons or even fixed the basic mechanics of the game yet. Get all that other stuff sorted first, then worry about new maps.

Anybody ever notice that if you look off the southwest side of the Manus Peak map, Skim Junction is right there? This means that the sniper hill on Skim Junction and the sniper hill on Manus Peak are the exact same hill.

EDIT: Didn't see the following until after I'd posted:

I am not a GM.