Force Domes Dead

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http://www.planetside-universe.com/index.php?newsid=747

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Originally Posted by SmokeJumper

Thanks, folks, for all the amazing feedback on this concept over the past week.

We heard you all. We've considered all the thoughts and ideas, worked on incorporating them into the design. We've even completely redone the design (even a couple times that you didn't see) based on your thoughts and feedback.

The end result? We all agreed that this was "A Feature Too Far".

We may want to add Defensive Force Domes to non-Capitol Buildings sometime in the future, but during the meantime, we're going to implement all the other items discussed in our "Foundation Gameflow" proposal. As designers, we're going to concentrate on making OBO the replacement for Force Domes. OBO bases will have many defensive upgrades that can make a base far more powerful. These OBO bases are likely to be the "hardpoints" in your Empire's continental lattice (along with Capitol Buildings) and those are probably more than enough to aid in defense. More importantly, the OBO upgrades are different from base-to-base (assuming that not all Outfits buy all upgrades). That makes for a more interesting and varied challenge for both attackers AND defenders, as each base can be a bit different than the others in the area.

More on that soon. (It'll get posted here in "In Concept".)

Suffice it to say that we got a lot of great ideas from this discussion, and much of what we discussed will end up in the game in one way or another (like some method of Defensive BEP/CEP), but the "cons" for this feature were pretty even with the "pros"...and we don't like that to be true with new features. So we're tabling this (for now) and moving on.

Defensive Force Domes may show up one day...but not right away.

Thanks again for all your thoughtful feedback.

FYI I deleted like 3 dupe posts that were up after mine