Destructable Environment

[Malorn]

Originally Posted by PsychoXR-20

10 minutes after the game launched the world would be in ruins, there would be no more tree, no more walls, no more buildings.

How would you handle re-spawning of world objects? Do tree grow back slowly? Do they just pop back up at the stroke of midnight. When do walls, and bases re-spawn? Is it left up to the engineers to rebuild the world? Do bases magically re-build themselves the instant they are captured by a different empire?

A destructible environment just would not work in a persistent, endless game. It works in battlefield because the game is based around rounds. Every round resets everything. PlanetSide doesn't have that luxury.

Generally this is the big problem with MMO + Destructive environment yes. There are ways they could regenerate the terrain, such as when no players were around it, but its still problematic.

Its a shame though because after playing BFBC2 and with BF3 having even more, destructible environment totally changes the game in a positive way.

But it would be very hard to work in a persistent world. There are ways but none that would work well if the territory was actively in use and the more players there are the worse it gets.