Originally Posted by Boone
RTS elements in my opinion would be amazing.
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No, no it most certainly would NOT.
End of Nations is a MMORTS
Planetside 2 is a MMOFPS
The entire draw of PS2 is that all the active combat units, all THOUSANDS of them, are all PLAYERS.
Some outfit base building, and some worker type AI's to perform menial tasks that players wouldn't be particularly interested in performing (structure building, mining, supply convoys delivering materials/resources) are all potential "RTS" elements that could fit into the Planetside formula, while not taking away the single biggest aspect of Planetside (all player battles)
These NPC worker units would even be vulnerable to enemy attacks giving players more to fight over for smaller scale skirmishes than base assaults.
And yes, I know these are just ideas and not definitive plans... ^THESE are
my ideas on how to work with the ideas provided.
Oh, and for whoever asked... Planetside WILL have some streaming & spectator functions built into the system. I hope they don't go crazy with instanced outfit battles as again, 1 of the primary features of Planetside is also it's PERSISTENCE which these instanced fights would have nothing to do with.
2012-08-15, 05:35 PM
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