Out of Pod Experience

...this video from Frontier Developments' designers RE: their process for developing rich, geologically accurate worlds on a HUGE scale.

It's amazing what these guys are doing. The only thing I could imagine better than this would be these planets within New Eden!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Et5Ivi_yIg

OP, seeing as its their job and industry, most of the time they will have seen other companies developments long before you or I. It is a competitive market after all and knowing what your competitors are doing will help you in the long run. Announcing it here on the forums is kind of dumb imo.

Its like screaming!! LOOK!! I CAN DO YOUR JOB BETTER THAN YOU!!

I would love to see more interaction with planets, maybe even make a system in which detailed planets can be used by both our ships and Dust characters. How awesome would it be for our ships to be physically in a battlefield and deliver decisive warbarge strikes!

Sadly, doing this would probably cost us a raid tier...

Crap, wrong game! Quick, somebody play me off!

Do you realise that many Ships in Eve are bigger than the actual battlefields in Dust? A single Ibis could serve as the central structure in a Dust map.

Of course, the maps and number of participants could be scaled up, even to a point where they seamlessly integrate into the gameworld. But then it will get really difficult in regards of objectives and victory conditions, or to create meaningful game content at all. Running/flying around in huge, pretty, seamless, open gameworlds is really cool and all, but it gets old quickly if there's nothing to do. And that's something the "newcomers" such as Elite:Dangerous, Star Citizen and No Man's Sky have yet to come up with. E:D - albeit "finished" is not as much a game, as it is a shiny space picture show. After a while, there's just nothing to do except flying around looking at pretty things.

Imagine CCP went and tinkered for a year or so on procedurally generated, seamlessly integrated planets, you can land on, always promising really cool game content for them to come some time in the far future. Do you remember what happened when they tried that on a much smaller scale with WiS?

CCP is already slacking off on the side of meaningful content. Eye candy is nice, but not necessary at this point.

It's also instanced, you can't have more than a few handful of ppl per instance and there is nothing player produced. It's a Single player PVE game where you can, at times, get interrupted by other players if you allowed it to happen.

They're not even SLIGHTLY the same kind of game.

When Elite Dangerous shows me a video of 2000 people in one fight.. then I will be impressed.. Until then this is an apples/oranges discussion. The games have nothing alike simulation wise.

If Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that things in slow motion are a lot cooler than things in regular motion.

Yet the Orbital ammo we make uses Trit as a component. Huh, go figure.

Choppy, my idea for EVE was better.

Show me other games that will still allow you to do that. Like 2000 dudes in one grid/map duking it out while the server calculates everything.