You mean thousands of temperate planets, right?

-Districts are hexagons on the planet and they are about 10 - 20 on a planet (pretty much 10-20 maps per planet, also remember there are over 7.000+ planets in EVE Universe to play on at launch and more later that will probably reach famous 60.000 number eventually)

-There are various ways to "generate map" that vary from a position of a district and general geographical aspect but you will have bunch of different maps that you've never seen before

-Terrains go over 5x5km so you will have a lot of terrain to fight on, and you will never feel you are enclosed anywhere

-There are various structures - Large, medium, and small structures. Large being entire outposts obviously

-There are various weather environments: grassy, snowy etc. as well as actual weather: night, day, electrical storms, rain, etc

-Surface infrastructure is making maps so they never can repeat themselves pretty much - outposts will always be in different spots as well as terrain itself with all the small medium and large structures and all tactical things you wish for in a match

You know we're basically playing on sections of one large map to begin with, right?

Yup. The terrains are something like 5km by 5km or more, and CCP has opened only very small areas of those to play on. Which begs the question, "Why?"

lack of foresight springs to mind that and the lower than expected player base

You know we're basically playing on sections of one large map to begin with, right?

On that ABC map on the side that A is closest to i jumped out of the MCC and tried to drive to that city out on the plain.

Nearly made it.

Next time i will try with a drop ship =)

Yup. The terrains are something like 5km by 5km or more, and CCP has opened only very small areas of those to play on. Which begs the question, "Why?"

promised 40000+ maps.

You believed that?

I was skeptical, but with a well built random map generator, it's completely possible, which is what they were promising. Procedurally generated battlefields sounded awesome at the time. But from what we've seen so far, even if they randomize the structures on each map, it's still basically the same map over and over since only 5% of the battlefield is buildings, the rest is boring open space.

No, he means thousands of maps. When I bought a merc pack during the closed beta, the fine print promised 40000+ maps.

What they're doing is counting every time they change one structure on the maps, even the tiny small ones in the red zone that no one sees or uses for anything, as a whole new map. So they're not really lying, just vastly under delivering on their promise.

This is why they need to work on an x86 version and get this game to PS4 as soon as possible. With 8 gigs of RAM they can easily add weather effects, terrain features and misc cover such as trees and other foliage.

Well the thing is if they port it to PS4 they will have a gap between players on PS4 and PS3.

if the PS4 could handle CARBON and all the things CCP could do to Dust then that would leave PS3 users at a huge disadvantage.

CCP Shanghai is making Dust and im pretty sure their nowhere as big as CCP headquarters in Rekeyavik so production would be even slower or nonexistent on PS3 completely

Because of the major difference in hardware PS3 owners would get the short end of the stick. Unlike now with EVE the PC players are playing a completely different game, how will this be if PS4 and PS3 owners play the same game. If PS4 get bigger better less gliched maps and modes and features the PS3 cant handle this would be like PS4 players playing in this luxurious sandbox and PS3 owners are stuck in a crappy playpin, eventhough there the same game.

Regardless of how good the PS4 is the the number of PS4 owners wont surpass PS3 owners owners at launch. Many PS3 owners, nay console owners both PC, Xbox, PS, or wii WILL NOT abandoned the working hardware they spent money on just to buy the next big thing. I didnt get a PS3 til my PS2 broke.

Last why would CCP Abandon the current playerbase they have to chase some speculation about PS4 ownership at launch.

All in all they might begin work on a PS4 version but it wont e launched til they are sure that the PS4 base is large enough and many of the PS3 base has switched.

From how I understand it, the maps have 1) The general map mesh with the hills and general terrain and a number of sockets on it.

2) The sockets are filled from what assets relate to each socket size (large in large sockets etc)
3) Small other permutations are added (some boxes strewn about etc)

Right now we have a very small number of 1) and 2) Which severely limits the number of maps that feel different as 3) doesn't contribute as much to making a map "seem" different. The advantage though is that even adding just a few into either 1) or 2) will create many more map combinations, and this will only grow larger and larger as more varieties are added. Hopefully though we can get maps with a few more large sockets, or at least ones that seem to switch out the sockets more frequently.

Yup. The terrains are something like 5km by 5km or more, and CCP has opened only very small areas of those to play on. Which begs the question, "Why?"