Water battles

FuLLxCLiP · 2003-01-29, 11:45 PM

why arent there any boats or battleships it would add so much more if u could fight on water

mistled · 2003-01-29, 11:48 PM

maybe in an expansion

Toimu · 2003-01-29, 11:54 PM

To reduce lag, all 13 continents are separated. When you use a warpgate, you load the new continent. Same thing with a drop pod. This is why you cannot fly to different continents right now.

They could make ships, and just give them limts on how far they can go out like air craft. But inter-continent travel via ship will never happen IMO. Not with todays technology.

I also don't want battleships in a FPS. Transport ships with some guns like our currect air craft would be nice though.

mistled · 2003-01-30, 12:18 AM

I agree that inter-continental travel won't happen. If for no other reason that it forces a continent to guard it's entire border from attack at all times.

Dyganth · 2003-01-30, 01:37 AM

I think it would be neat to have some sea areas with things like oil rigs, would make a great expansion.

Hamma · 2003-01-30, 08:16 AM

Adding navy's would be tricky imo, maybe we will see it in the future however.

Da King · 2003-01-30, 09:18 AM

Naval Battles could be done from a logical point of view. I mean ships would be built at sacuarys and the game could take you to just random water to battle. I don't know what the point will be but it would be cool.

Tobias · 2003-01-30, 10:13 AM

Originally posted by Toimu
To reduce lag, all 13 continents are separated. When you use a warpgate, you load the new continent. Same thing with a drop pod. This is why you cannot fly to different continents right now.

They could make ships, and just give them limts on how far they can go out like air craft. But inter-continent travel via ship will never happen IMO. Not with todays technology.

I also don't want battleships in a FPS. Transport ships with some guns like our currect air craft would be nice though.

right info but only 10 continents, 13 would be unlucky.

Incompetent · 2003-01-30, 10:24 AM

10 fightable + 3 sanctuaries makes 13

Tobias · 2003-01-30, 10:30 AM

Oh....damn.

chaos1428 · 2003-01-30, 10:48 AM

I think it will also depend what the fog distance is. BF1942's navy battles i think are kinda stupid(Midway) because there is SOO much water, but you can only see like, 200 feet in front of you. You could wander around the whole round, and see maybe, one ship. Lets hope, that if PS does end up with ships, that the fog wil be pushed back to a reasonable spot.

balab · 2003-01-30, 03:33 PM

not to mention it will likely take a large ship an hour or two at least to get across the open water.

Alucard · 2003-01-30, 03:39 PM

Thats way too long to have to wait...

ZeroMasters · 2003-01-30, 03:57 PM

well they could have mini warp gates on the ships so that men can be transported to the ship from their own continents.

that way the 2 hour ride wouldnt take long, and at the rate our technology is growing,(20 years ago, we didnt have computers, and now look at what we got) within 5 years im expecting full supported worlds like PS, go anywhere in anything anytime, no loads, and no lag.

Doobz · 2003-01-30, 04:12 PM

ok, heres what im thinking for water expansion.

they extend the travelable areas out away from the continents somewhat. now in select in areas they can add small islands with facilites on them as well as floating facilities. the devs position these so that some areas of water get alot of traffic resulting in lotsa battles.

i personally would love to go on an island hopping campaign, where a bunch of small islands with facilities on them are clustered in the same general map location.
this type of gameplay could suit small frigate like things, bigger than any other vehicle, but not mammoth. say 2 or 3 times the size of a galaxy for example. well, u could slap some 150mm guns on these things as well as chain guns and maybe some rocket launchers. transport ships would be cool too.