[Metagame Design Meeting Idea] Psychophonic

[psychophonic]

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@Hamma: you might wanna fix the layout for me on this forum?

Thread in -=Ruffnex=- Forum with better layout ('http://forum.ruffnex-online.de/wbb3/allgemein/news/p34165-metagame-design-meeting-idea-psychophonic/#post34165')





Intro

Planetside got nice graphics especially within the day/night circle.
http://i.imgur.com/dHXD7bZ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Hf8JC14.jpg

Detail - on some places on Amerish you will even see butterflys
http://i.imgur.com/w5Hv1Pf.jpg

Also there a modern FPS mechanics implemented

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CHN9CdBqSYM


What the game needs is tactics!

Person A and Person B having a conversation!

A What is actually missing inside the game?

B Tactics!

A I don´t understand aren´t there different tactics to capture a specific type of base for example?

B Sure but those tactics were created based on the current metagame.
B What we need is a change of the tactics within the metagame!



This a 4 step plan to improve the metagame

These are some ideas that I have already posted in my other thread that We need to add/change in game ('http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/we-need-to-add-change-in-game.68851/#post-859649')

The main goal is to make the game more tactical - changes that are necessary cover:


Step 1: Basic Game Mechanics

Vehicles
HUD
Performance - Features
REK check
Grief
Bases

Step 2: A Combination of the current Hex Adjacency system with the lattice system

Lattice
Neutralizing Territory
Neutral Zones
Neutral Zones offering new options!
Denying enemy lattice benefit
Outcome
Lets take a look on Esamir
Special case
Lattice-System and Resources

Step 3: The change to the Metagame by implementing Searhus

When Searhus is added into the game
Sanctuaries
Lattice-System and Resources in global strategie
Adjusting Resources and making them worldwide
The downwards spiral
Lattice interstellar and later worldwide
Complexity needs a lattice

Step 4: Sandbox game

Reimplement the 4th Resource Auraxium
Sandbox Items
Outro


Step 1: Basic Game Mechanics

Vehicles

Implenenting the driver/gunner system:

Making the MBT´s at least 2 man tanks would reduce the vehicle spam by 50%
Actually it would be less then 50% because teamplay would be needed then.
Instead of grabbing a tank solo you have to get your buddy on your big gun!

In that context:

Experience: needs to be shared equal to numbers of persons inside a vehicle
with the exception of the Galaxy and the Sunderer

Making the liberator a subject to the availability of the tech benefit:

Liberators are heavy machines as we know so they have to be
only available if tech benefit is available!

Assault buggies:

I know they are announced but make sure the SG is working proper
compared to the sidegrade of the lightning (SG-cannon).

Galaxy Cargo:

Allow galaxies can transport small vehicles

Loadstar:

These are not only handy to transport vehicles but also an oppurtunity to
fix the imbalance between the advantage of the magrider
taking the high ground with the afterburner function
compared to the vanguard and the prowler.

ANT:

Bases are powered by generators which are fuelled by Nanites will have a specific NTU-Level (Nanites)
which is to some extent slef-sustaining but depletes when the base is damaged, ie turrets, generators
and to a lesser extent vehicle terminals.

If a base goes down to 0% Energy it becomes neutral and hackable for every empire.
To refill the bases you have to get an ANT and fill it inside your warpgate
and then take it to its destination to refill the base or supply neutral bases.


HUD

Copy and paste:

Inside the chat make tab for the killspam there should be copy and paste available.

Since the most cheaters are using names with small L´s and big i´s combined
they have names like lllIIIllIIIIllIIIIooLLLiiiLLLUUUUuIIIIllll.

Since it is only possible to report people by typing the correct name
this function would be very helpfull.

Tactical overlay need the following options:

- show all empires
- show mixed empires
- show specific empire

The minimap needs:

- a zoom factor function
- stretching image function
- moving it around on the HUD
- an option to make it brighter


(So much reading I need a break - filmed and edited by Bullenbeiser (-=Ruffnex=- TR Miller))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FnBjgoT3WGI

[psychophonic]

Performance - Features

Rendering:

Every unit needs the same render distance. Unimportant things are not getting rendered at all!
For example randoms that are somewhere behind a wall or far away.

Q-spotting:

Remove it from game totally! This goes hand in hand with rendering.
Platoonmembers are spotting people by rendering them - they become visible on the Radar.
Every other Information about enemy in coming from TS, ingame voip or chat.
Big enemy concentration can be seen on the tactical overlay

Techplant base design before was causing rendering issues if only the important positions would be shown for you
on your HUD your system would have handle less information about troop movement (friendly and enemy).

What is important to see?

- All of your platoonmembers
- Everything that is spoted (rendered by a PM) and is in range of your minimap (radar)
- Those spoted enemy appearing as little red dots on your radar

What is unimportant and pretty much useless?

- Randoms (only show dots on minimap if they are in range)
- Remove all the annoying blue and red triangle they are not usefull
- This includes that you will not be able to "wallhack" anymore (use the radar instead)

Im pretty sure that removing spotting and changing rendering system will be a performance boost for the game!

Squad experience sharing:

Fighting side by side with your squadmates rewards you with leaching 5% from the pool
of experience points that someone else earns for getting a kill.

In a Full squad with every member inside the same zone you will share 55% to your teammates
and collect 45% for yourself.

Kill Assists:

There are 3 ways to get kill assits:

1. Geting a assist from the kill where somebody else made the most damage and you made 2nd most damage (already ingame)

2. Getting assistent kills for every kill your gunner inside the vehicle does (already mentioned before - vehicle XP sharing)

3. Getting a kill assist where you have revived somebody or repaired his/her vehicle or healed him/her
or the person has spawned at your AMS or resupplied ammunition from you and then that person goes on to make a kill.

Clearly heals and or repairs from friendly fire or damge should not generate an assist and as a preventation against exploiting
gaining XP from a resupply should only grant XP if the receiver has previously gained a kill.

Following on from that you will receive SEP (support experience - what has the same value then normal XP)
for each kill the person you have supported does untill he dies at which point the link between you and him/her is broken.


Give us more and less airpads: (based on thoughts by Germanius (-=Ruffnex=- TR Miller)

Add some extra airpads inside the warpgate to prevent crashes, as an emergency fix just copy and paste
the mainbuildung complex 3 times :D

On the other hand remove some airpads on the battlefield to create longer resupply route for aircrafts.
That goes hand in hand with bringing back the loadstar as a support vehicle for the aircrafts.

Furthermore aircrafts will not get ammunition at the Airpads of the Ampstation and the Biodome.
Aircrafts can be pulled there and land but won´t get ammuniton!

Aircrafts can only get ammuntion at:

- Techplant
- Airtower
- Loadstar
- Warpgate

In the context of aircraft supply implement different types of twr´s with different design:

1. Airtowers - Airpads
2. Guntowers - Extra defense turrets
3. Watchtowers - Extra tall


REK check

Implement new certifications for the cloaker make hacking more spezialized
Also the cloaker has to choose if he is getting claymores or a REK

REK certifications - hacking...:

- Terminals
- Turrets
- Vehicles
- Infecting Base System


Grief

I already opened a thread about this topic in the past Grief ('http://forums.station.sony.com/ps2/index.php?threads/remove-grief-points-for-platoon-and-outfit.80557/')


Bases

Main Generator of a base:

Controls everything inside the base - the spawns, vterms and airterms!
Also if the main-gen is offline this breaks the link and interrupts the benefits
which would otherwise be provided via the lattice.

This makes it possible to instantly cut the technology (or bio/amp) benefits from an empire.
(im talking about lattice and cutting benefits later in step 2)

That way the attacker has to bring all vehicles (with the exception quads) from somewhere else.
The high pressure on bases can actually be cleared by the defenders by making a massive
push on the enemy AMS - without them instantly being able to spawning a new one locally!

Initiating a hack (ghost hacking protection)

'There is a specific amount of people necessary to initiate a hack after the hack is on the
people can go away from the CC but this will slow down the hack time.
Hack times will still be influenced by the surrounding hexagons.

How many people are necessary to initiate a hack?

Outposts: 3
Towers: 5
Bases: 7
Satellites: 5

Base-Satellites:

- Can be hacked anytime
- Not depending on Hex Adjacency or Lattice
- Got a vterm that only spawns flashes
- Provides 0% influence
- Providing a "safe" spawn point in comparison to an AMS

Satellite CC´s are special since they are not depending on Hex Adjacency or Lattice the take over is going
very fast to take control of a satellite you need to have 5 trooper next to the CC for 30sec!
If you got less then 5 trooper at the CC because one died the hack stops!

(Hex Adjacency or Lattice what is that??? Keep on reading or you read to much already then listen to the music)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uybn6gJZAKo

[psychophonic]

Step 2: A Combination of the current Hex Adjacency system with the lattice system

The Lattice will not force linear fight as you would actually think when we are talking about lattice.
Its limitating the enemy to 1-3 options for his next step but also provides backhacking!

The lattice system works alongside the normal adjacency system which is already implemented inside the game.
But to hack an actual base you need to have a link from another base (lattice) and influence from an surrounding hex.

Warpgates provide the initial links to the bases - from there bases are linked with each other.


What does the lattice do?

The lattice is limitating the choices where an empire could attack. This is creating frontlines!
On the other hand it will be possible to drain bases and with that backhacking.

So lattice gives you a better overview of what could happen next.
Within the current system everything could happen!
There is no strategie or something you could read out of the map.

Without lattice the VS can just push straight to north from hvar. All the way up to sauvra and then take it.
With lattice they would have to take Dahaka first or they would start a drain at sauvra.


Indar lattice

http://i.imgur.com/AZFkcf0.jpg

Red lines = TR basic link
Pink lines = VS basic link
Blue lines = NC basic link
Green lines = Home base links
Yellow lines = Addtional bases link
Orange lines = Extra link provided by techplant

Home Bases (2) would be for:

TR: Sauvra and Mao
VS: Peris and Hvar
NC: Rashnu and Tawrich

Addtional Bases:

TR: Dahaka
VS: Allatum
NC: Peris

In each case 1 home base is linked to one of the additional bases while the other is linked to a techplant
and linked to 1 of the additional bases of the enemy empire. The additional bases are linked with each other.


Esamir lattice

http://i.imgur.com/u11FKIc.jpg

2 home bases - the amp provides the link to techplant
amp and bios are connected in a circle



Amerish lattice

http://i.imgur.com/4E9VLLo.jpg

2 home bases both connected with the techplant
The techplant are connected with each other
There are 3 sidepasses (orange)



Neutralizing Territory

Neutralizing territory is a hard job and not rewarded except from the fact that the zone you are in will go neutral
and that way hackable for your and every other empire also you have to think about getting an ant
or even better you actualy took one with you inside the cargo of the galaxy you came with.

Furthermore there needs to be a system to initiate a drain the szenario of becoming a decent drain.
To start a drain you need the minimum amount of 12 people to get it started.

Example of how a system could work:

In my example i am talking about 12 spots at the main-generator which can be close to each other important is that
trained engineers can use a tool to cause a bypass or short-circuit in the electricity of the facility (outpost/twr)
this will increase amount of energy which is getting cosumed in a specific time.

To reastablish the electronical network of a facility in with that the ability to use terminals again it is necessary to
get 6 engineers to the generator to solve the problem.

Whatever system you design - make sure it cannot be used by single person - a group of people is necessary!


Slow draining:

Bases have a auto-repair function - if terminals, turrets or generators are destroyed the base would consume
energy (Nanites) to slowly repair itself to means that destroying things in bases will speed up the drain.

Damaged bases would drain slowly of it's own accord, but not as fast as a base in which the electricity is sabotaged!

Also it effects the ability to use terminal from any kind by disabling its disfunction.
I could also imagine that spawned vehicles would also using a small amount of energy for their production. (suggestion)

Showing NTU levels on the map:

The map needs to show the exact NTU-Level of a specific zone - for example: Mao Techplant - NTU 56,37%
When the NTU level of a zone goes down to zero the zone goes neutral.


Neutral Zones

Neutral Zones are a tool to make backhacking possible and also denying ressorces (talk about that later)
Important to know is that only the zones which are inside a cluster can be neutralized.

Cluster:

Cluster are the surrounding hexagons of an facility, bases providing benefits to the cluster!

http://i.imgur.com/U8W4EXI.jpg

[psychophonic]

Neutral Zones offering new options!

Option A (the normal way):

NC got a link from Dahaka to Allatum also they control one of the surrounding hexes.
http://i.imgur.com/tyNTslt.jpg

Option B (drain outpost):

Outpost would have a smaller amount of NTU then bases so they drain faster.
Once a hex has become neutral it is hackable by every empire.
Since there is no surrounding hex the influence is at 0% while the hack.

Once it is captured and if your empire has a link from the lattice you will then be able
to hack the base with the small amount of influence you gain from the single hex.
Also you can start to capture surrounding hexs.

VS can use the neutral zone to get the ability to hack Dahaka
http://i.imgur.com/8g1mkFB.jpg

Option C (drain a base):

Draining the base only and hack it afterwards will be possible but you will have 0% influence which brings Option B back in the game.


Option D (in a normal fight)

Also it is possible to drain a base which is heavily defending by the enemy by clearing the CY and taking control of the silo.
To make such defense possible bases need to be designed more like the biodome - that is with protection from vehicles.

I'm very pleased about the tunnel system that is to come and I'm very pleased for every little space you build that
seperates vehicles from Infantry (exception the fury); I hope that these spaces are huge and i would love to see
some big halls and the main-generator moved into the basement.



Denying enemy lattice benefit

There a 3 ways to disturb the enemy lattice:

- hacking the base
- taking down the maingen
- neutralizing the base

[psychophonic]

Outcome

The following picture shows a situation on a battlefield:
(Don´t get confused by the picture keep on reading this picture is coming later again)
http://i.imgur.com/ZJhLLO5.jpg

What is to see?

TR is controlling 5 bases.
Dahaka main generator is offline.
The Dahaka and the Allatum cluster is without technology benefit!

In the next example Hvar main-gen is online - Allatum is providing tech benefits to its cluster.
The golden marked hex is not in the influence of a main facility - technology is unavailble!
http://i.imgur.com/7v3yZic.jpg

Bases are providing technology benefit for twr´s over 2 hexes.
http://i.imgur.com/I04ReRa.jpg

Special places like "The Crown" can achieve technology up to 3 zones
Therefor you have to also contol a supply line of hexes to provide technology

NC is controlling the Crown in this example - they already got tech from zurvan
but just image this from the view of the TR.
TR would own mao and hex 1,2 and 3. Hex 2 Palisade would be caputred by the NC.

Hex Adjacency would cut the techlink providing Mao to the Crown
http://i.imgur.com/7fgMmVK.jpg

Or in this example is VS in control of Heyoka and the hexes untill the Ascent.
If NC would take hex 1 or 2 between The Ascent and Heyoka "Hex Adjacency" would be involved
http://i.imgur.com/zYLdlqg.jpg

Normally the NC could spawn MBT at the blue circle satellite since satellites
can only spawn flashes and because of the lattice - hexcluster system
the have to spawn their MBT at the red star.

The VS could spawn MBT at Peris itself or at different locations to flank the NC
http://i.imgur.com/KkIrtJU.jpg

If a spec ops team of the VS would kill the main-gen of Tawrich
the NC would have to spawn their MBT inside the Warpgate
or around Zurvan because of the Mao tech

NC will have no tech benefit at the frontline untill they reastablished the power of the facility!
http://i.imgur.com/e8d3rhY.jpg


Lets take a look on Esamir

Esamir is special because it got only 1 techplant thats why Eisa is the only special place on Esamir
In this picture is used a link that doesnt actually exist in my suggestion i changed the lattice on Esamir
Ampstations will provide the "technology links" and not the biodomes (i tried different lattice before)

First i created the Lattice with the braun lines and later choosed the one with the yellow lines
http://i.imgur.com/TGSUnbm.jpg

Which bring us to Esamir Lattice
http://i.imgur.com/u11FKIc.jpg

So if the NC would control the hatched zone
They could get tech outside Eisa at the red star but not further SE
http://i.imgur.com/vzy0Ukd.jpg

If Eisa Generator goes down the only place to pull armor will be the warpgate
http://i.imgur.com/FdwLomw.jpg

In this example TR got tech available at every yellow caro
http://i.imgur.com/ymXMZ1J.jpg



Special case

Facility A and B are linked to each other
Empire 1 wants to hack facility B but empire 2 has hacked facility A already
=> the link is currently cut empire 1 has to resecure the CC of facility A first!

Empire can hack out tech-vehicles from enemy techplant as long as the main-gen is up.
It also possible to hack out tech vehicles at enemy bases which are linked to enemy tech lattice.[/b]



Lattice-System and Resources:

The lattice system is also responsible for the resource flow.
If the supply line is cut the total ammount of incoming resource will get lower.

Resources have to be real time or very short tickers - every 5s/10s/30s

By taking down specific generators you will deny the enemy resources by not letting him produce in this Base Cluster.

After all that reading you might now understand this picture better then before you started reading
http://i.imgur.com/ZJhLLO5.jpg

Dahaka generator is offline => TR resource income from Dahaka- and Allatum Cluster is disturbed and not functioning

[psychophonic]

Step 3: The change to the Metagame by implementing Searhus


When Searhus is added into the game

In my examples Auraxis is a solar system continents are planets
Activate the warpgates so people can move their vehicles to other planets.
Open the seazones which are currently all out of bounds to let spec ops gals happen.

Sanctuaries

Empty the warpgates of buildings and create sanctuarys instead - a place where you can organize RAIDS!

The following video will explain what a RAID is. These are no fake gals nearly all of them are full!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k-7kYs6PX0

Sanctuaries should also contain a shooting and a vehicle training/testing area.
Sanctuaries provide links to the 3 homeconts and they in turn provide the link for the benefit continent (in the middle)

Im using planets instead of continents in my example (easier to draw)
http://i.imgur.com/WumnCip.jpg

I would like to see some cool benefits in the future ;)

Taking over a enemy homecont gives you access to all their technology!
Later when we got more continents (i hope it will be many) implement a 2nd homecont for each empire.
And then we also can go back to the Planet Auraxis with continents connected with seazones...

Lattice-System and Resources in global strategie:

The lattice system is also responsible for the resource flow.
If the supply line is cut the total ammount of incoming resource will get lower.

So if the NC would have sabotaged the VS homecont so that there is no link to the bases they own on Searhus (in the middle - green)
They would loose all the benefits and all Cluster from the involved bases would stop producing ressources.
http://i.imgur.com/uchtEGE.jpg


Adjusting Resources and making them worldwide

In a normal situation an empire controls its homeconts + around 1/3 of Seahrus - that is about 1/3 of the world.

Adjust the income of resources to:

- lower when you control less then 1/3 of the world
- normal when you control 1/3 of the world
- higher when you control more then 1/3 of the world

What shall that mean?

Image you would be on Indar and control 1/3 of the territory your income is "normal".
With changing the system you will control more - you will have like i said 1/3 of the world.
The adjustment makes those 2 pools equal by reducing the income for single hex.
So in total need to control 1/3 of the world to get out the same resource you would get
for 1/3 of Indar in the current System!


The downwards spiral

It will happens often that 1 Team will be double teamed That will cause a downward spiral from resource income for this team.

To prevent from a too hard downward spiral i suggest to increase the pool for resources from 750 up to 1500.
And later when there is worldmap with tons of continents to increase it even further!

Reason for this is that if one empire is starting to be in the downwards spiral it will have a buffer to make some pushes and
a change on the battlefield to prevent from being stuck into it!

The worst scenario is that your empire is push back and becomes ZERO base. In that case you would have no incoming at all.
Therefore there has to be a basic incoming all of the time not much but a few Ressources getting always produced in the Sanctuaries.



Lattice interstellar and later worldwide

A Lattice is not something that only exist within a continent, it is the main element of a global strategie!

Broadcast functionality:

A broadcast is available when the are no gaps in your latice - BC makes it possible to warp directly from the sanctuary
to planet 2 for example. This brings the factor location inside the game and shows another side of the lattice system.

1 solar system - 10 planets - 2 homeconts for each empire - 4 benefit continents
http://i.imgur.com/gPaBIRD.jpg

Image Indar would be a homecont for the VS
http://i.imgur.com/rL8f4uq.jpg

In this example for a solar system with 2 homeconts for each fraction and 4 benefits continents
the TR and NC have full control of their lattice system while the VS they have trouble in their lattice links
because some smart, brave TR Soldier made all the way to Indar and destroyed the maingenenators
of Peris and Hvar and with that disabled the warpgate functionallity for the fishheads.

In correlation with the instellar view TR would have to sabotage both homeconts to cut the lattice fully!
So they would at least take down 4 main gens in total to cut the lattice of the VS
however the distance to travel is far and would take some time and organisation.

The planet marked with 1 is partially controlled by vs and would provide broadcast functionality for planet 2
but the lattice system is disturbed by TR - VS have to fix at least 1 generator on their homecont
(Indar is a homecont in this example) to get broadcast functionality back!


Also it is possible to break the enemy's lattice by taking down main-generators at specific points
or even taking over ownership of specific bases. This leads us to...

Worldmap from Planetside 1 lattice in beta 2002 (10 continents)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rEigkcSOoOE/Tv3PHmWqSzI/AAAAAAAAAr4/Az49Ax78pZ8/s1600/Planetside_map2.jpg


Complexity needs a lattice

At the point a system becomes complex it has to be connected via a lattice!

Image when this game has grown and then finally we will have back the planet Auraxis with 10 continents on it!
The blast would be adding more planets to get a solar system or even more awesome an entire universum :D

[psychophonic]

Step 4: Sandbox game


Reimplement the 4th Resource Auraxium

Auraxium was in the beta just use a similar system for it and combine it with the Lattice
It will be used to place Sandbox Items!

Sandbox items are in the need of a specific engineering certification
And depending on the size of item you will need more or less resources and manpower


Sandbox Items

Ideas based on the thoughts of Groany from Outcasters (Miller TR):

Regarding the size of the base it would have a number Build Points put on stratiegic locations,
along walls, on top of buildings, spawn rooms, air pads, etc. A series of smaller structures,
machines and such would be pickable from a list that appears when interacting with a point to build there.

The list would contain stuff like:

- Extra turrets
- Infantry ammo dispensers
- Small (2-3 man) bunkers
- Small (2-3 man) towers
- Personal shield regenerators
- Reinforced wall sections

Outside of bases it will be possible to create different type of items:

- Bunker
- Tower
- Gates (with shield gen)
- Walls
- AA-Flak
- Minefield


Outro

In the end Metagame is what you make out off it!
(of whom is he talking about? Don´t know maybe both?)

http://images.fpsguru.com/news/201109/planetside2-team.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y89gJpKRQn0


This post was mainly created and edited by Psychophonic (-=Ruffnex=- TR Miller)

Big thanks to all that helped creating it!

http://files.ruffnex-online.de/chambermade/Signaturen/SigAllg1.gif

[BlaxicanX]

The huge text makes me want to not read it, tbh, which is probably the opposite of what you intended. You might want to change that a little, because your message is probably a good one.

[psychophonic]

The huge text makes me want to not read it, tbh, which is probably the opposite of what you intended. You might want to change that a little, because your message is probably a good one.

My layout got totally destroyed while copy and paste it ill will provide a link
to ruffnex forum soon there the layout will be good

[psychophonic]

Thread in -=Ruffnex=- Forum with better layout ('http://forum.ruffnex-online.de/wbb3/allgemein/news/p34165-metagame-design-meeting-idea-psychophonic/#post34165')

[PredatorFour]

Higgers needs to be less stubborn about his hex 'baby' and introduce the lattice system like whats shown here.

His argument against the lattice was that it made it so there was never fighting going off all over the cont. That's fair enough and it's cool he wants fighting everywhere to make the most of the map.

But implementing a lattice system AND the Hex could be really great, so to take allatum you need to cap the surrounding hexes aswell to make the cap go faster. Thus you have a lattice system AND you fight all over the map as the hex system was designed for = win ;)

[Mox]

This is a solid design suggestion. As i say since beta we really need a lattice.
The hex system offers way too much possibilities to capure territory. At every point of time there shouldnt be more then 3 possibilities where the next capture attempt can happen.

@Higgles: STOP BEING STUBBORN! YOUR HEX SYSTEM SUCKS! WE REALLY NEED THE LATTICE! IF YOUR SERVERS CANT HANDLE A REAL FIGHT WITH SOME HUNDERED PEOPLE AT THE SAME PLACE IT MAY BE TIME TO ADMIT THAT YOU HAVE PROMISED TO MUCH BY TALKING ABOUT 2000 PLAYERS PER CONT: THEREFORE REDUCE THE NUMBERS OF PLAYERS PER CONT TO THAT POINT THAT YOU CAN OFFER A LATTICE WITHOUT CRASHING THE SERVERS. IT WAS POSSIBLE IN PS1 SO IT MUST BE ALSO POSSIBLE IN PS2!
WE ARE SICK OF WACK THE MOLE!
WE ARE SICK OF CAPTURING EMPTY FACILITIES!

IT IS REALLY TIME FOR CHANGE! LETS DO IT!

[psychophonic]

Best 5 threads will have a conversation with higby
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[Mietz]

Higgers needs to be less stubborn about his hex 'baby' and introduce the lattice system like whats shown here.

His argument against the lattice was that it made it so there was never fighting going off all over the cont. That's fair enough and it's cool he wants fighting everywhere to make the most of the map.

But implementing a lattice system AND the Hex could be really great, so to take allatum you need to cap the surrounding hexes aswell to make the cap go faster. Thus you have a lattice system AND you fight all over the map as the hex system was designed for = win ;)

The Hex system -is- a Lattice, except that the lattice sucks.

http://www.ps2.riptidegaming.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/bare-bones-hex-system-ps2-beta.jpg

From: http://www.ps2.riptidegaming.com/?p=37

The lattice system in itself isn't whats going to improve the game, its the strategy and link-design behind that system that needs a look at.
The HEX system is fine as an abstraction or graphical layer, but there needs to be thought put into the links to make battles flow.

[psychophonic]

I couldn´t change the titel so opened a new thread on Reddit

http://redd.it/171p4u

[Hamma]

That makes almost no sense at all.. but ok.

[Baneblade]

If Higby had been around when PS1 got its lattice system, he would know that it was put in for a reason. Hexes don't quite cut it.

[igster]

+1 to the red menace phychophonic
You got my vote

[Hamma]

That makes almost no sense at all.. but ok.

I was referring to how he renamed the thread, or whatever btw.

[Tachyr]

I agree with most of what you posted. PS1 had the meta game figured out and we just need to mesh it with the hex system and some based modifications.

One thing I want as well is underground fighting inside the bases.
There is almost no close quarter fights like in PS1. Even when you are indoors it's so much space you might as well be outdoors among some rocks.

Anyway, +1