Gameplay: Adding Wildlife

[Akadios]

I would like to see wildlife put into the game. Obviously on these continents with vast vegetation there would be all sorts of wildlife from herbivores that resemble deer to something that resembles a mountain lion and will try to eat you.

Now I am not saying that Planetside 2 should have PVE. However I would like to see things like herds of buffalo, predators that come out at night, etc. First off it is totally realistic but secondly I think it would just add some fun to the game.

The simple way to make sure that it doesn't become a "PVE" game is just to never add any reward, badge, tracked stat, etc for any killing or dying from the wilderness. This would eliminate players deciding to ignore the battle to go mountain lion hunting or whatever.

You could expand on the idea by also giving them an AI so if you had a herd of something like a buffalo and you couldn't break this dug in infantry line maybe you could scare the herd to stampede towards the enemy or something. Just interactive wildlife like we have here on earth. When I was in Iraq I had to watch out for certain wildlife, why should it be different on Auraxis?