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?

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?

Actually we have one terrain set, the maps are just different sections of the same terrain.

Technically we have one map.

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.

Well that gm said something about the old system not being up to par with uprising so they had to stary over

Well that gm said something about the old system not being up to par with uprising so they had to stary over

So what doss that meen you handle the forums like a moderator