One Planetside

Sledgecrushr · 2012-06-15, 01:27 PM

Ive had this idea brewing for a while and I would like some feedback on it.
We had a great conversation about being able to change servers at will and I had a thought that this might lead to some great gameplay. On release every server could be its own planet. And yeah its kind of lame that every planet would be the same except for the people on it, my idea though is that in your safehold maybe once every fifteen minutes would be a flight off of your server to whichever server you would like to go to.

So in the future If the devs want to add space travel through player spaceships then the basic network is already there. So many possibilities and I think this kind of basic network would be the foundation of a real Planetside Universe.

neonlazer · 2012-06-15, 01:31 PM

Sounds complicated lol

Zenben · 2012-06-15, 01:34 PM

Soooo, what happens to your outfit when you jump to another server? How are duplicate names handled? How would you deal with population imbalances created when people start jumping ship because their empire is losing? Too many variables, I'll pass thanks.

Zekeen · 2012-06-15, 01:36 PM

Regardless of the specifics, or the problems as above has stated, I'm just going to be the first to say, it's a good idea and concept even if it can't work. Who knows, maybe a dev will use for an expansion.

Sledgecrushr · 2012-06-15, 01:46 PM

Originally Posted by Zenben

Soooo, what happens to your outfit when you jump to another server? How are duplicate names handled? How would you deal with population imbalances created when people start jumping ship because their empire is losing? Too many variables, I'll pass thanks.

We would have to have unique names.
People can leave and people can show up so long as we dont go over the server limit on people.
If an entire iutfit would like to go rraiding and you log in and the outfit is offplanet you just run over to your foothold and catch a flight to the planet your outfit is on.

Sledgecrushr · 2012-06-15, 03:41 PM

The way to travel between worlds would be very simple. Inside your empires foothold there would be a kiosk. When you access the kios there would be a list of all the servers and there current population. If you want to go to a busy server you might have to join a que for a while. Once you have selected the server you want you go to a waiting area and in a couple of minutes a graphic pops up with a pic of you traveling to whichever server you wanted stronghold.

Sometime later for an expansion maybe you could board an ingame ship and fly there kind of like taking the boat between the continents in WoW.

captainkapautz · 2012-06-15, 03:48 PM

Originally Posted by Zekeen

Regardless of the specifics, or the problems as above has stated, I'm just going to be the first to say, it's a good idea and concept even if it can't work. Who knows, maybe a dev will use for an expansion.

This.

CuddlyChud · 2012-06-15, 03:51 PM

Smedley originally said that they were looking into a one shard concept back in fan faire I think.

berzerkerking · 2012-06-15, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by captainkapautz

This.

what he said

Envenom · 2012-06-15, 04:01 PM

Cool idea, but you're not thinking about the technical shitstorm of having 20,000+ players migrating servers every 15 minutes.

Sledgecrushr · 2012-06-15, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by Envenom

Cool idea, but you're not thinking about the technical shitstorm of having 20,000+ players migrating servers every 15 minutes.

I hate to say this but this happens every couple of minutes in bf3. Im not saying one server, im saying many servers comnected for One Planetside Universe.

Crator · 2012-06-15, 04:29 PM

I guess the first question you must ask yourself is, "Will it be necessary to change servers at all?"

PhoenixDog · 2012-06-15, 04:33 PM

Definitely an amazing and unique idea. A lot of technical hurdles to jump through but it would certainly unite the community as a whole even more than it is now.

Sledgecrushr · 2012-06-15, 04:37 PM

I dont think normally a person would HAVE to change servers. But if nyour looking for a new challenge, assisting your empire on another world or just out raiding this should be fairly easy to implement considering where games are at today and this would add some depth to gameplay just allowing the ultimate in mobility.

Sledgecrushr · 2012-06-15, 07:19 PM

Imagine your empire is getting destroyed. Being driven back to your own stronghold on every continent. You need help. When the word gets out that your empire on that unnamed server is being crushed, outfits from other worlds would come to help. Outfits you had never seen before. This is how I see interplanetary war happening on planetside2.