Questions for Higby / Any Dev

[ringring]

Apologies about this but I'm not sure how to ask these without having to register on game sites when he's doing a live stream (and it wasn't accepting my twitter credentials).

I know you have 3 additional continents planned for the coming year and perhaps one of those under active construction at the moment, do you envisage releasing those as and when or will you save them up for a big release later in the year, perhaps to coincide with SOE Live?

I know you will be bringing in a inter-continental meta game along with the new continents. Do you think that can happen or work with a single additional continent or two or does it need all three in your view.

When we get the inter-continental meta game will we also get additional communication tools for command and control purposes (and I'm hoping for something equivalent to cr5 command and mapping tools).

Lastly, are you satisfied yet with the pace of the flow of the battle. To me it seems that too often it's a case of roll up with our platoon (often accompanies by randoms), squish any defence, wait 2 minutes to collect our points and move on the the next. The times when you have to stop and fight for any length of time are a minority of the encounters.

[Mox]

If we have to wait till the next soe life for the new conts and real intercontinental warfare this game will be death.

[Ritual]

It takes them roughly 3-4 months for them to build a new continent. They have been working on the next continent for a month already I believe. The continent will be patched onto the servers when it is ready.

The warpgates at that point should hopefully become functional and be capturable. Hopefully we won't need to goto a terminal anymore to switch continent's, we can just drive/walk/fly through the center of the warpgate.

We will also get true continental locking in that you will be able to completely forbid enemy players from going to a continent if you control the warpgate's and the immediate territory where the warpgate leads to.

What any of the new continental bonus's will be is anyone's guess.

I think we are supposed to get Interlink facilities added to the continents but I am not sure if that is coming soon, or relatively soon.

Either way I expect in 6-7 months hopefully we will have a new base type, and a couple of new continents. And tons of other goodies like the annoying bugs fixed and maybe a new vehicle or new weapon classes (Thumper, Rocklet, Maelstrom, Artillery, Whatever).


The battle flow sucks I will agree with you. It's because of the base designs we have. They are horrible. I kind of suspect they "get that" now and are going to revamp alot of them, or at least make medium changes to them. I mean it's release now, they can't just explain it away as "its beta and we havent seen enough fights or people fighting on continents to really know how battles are unfolding". THEY CAN NO LONGER DENY! They seem pretty laid back about it which is frustrating, but let's just hope they put on their thinking caps and do what need's to be done to make the battles even more fun.

[ringring]

Well one bit of good news I heard last night in Higby's stream was that the lattice is coming back between continents (not within a cont), so that when new conts are added we won't be able to attack unless we have a link.

I guess this implies home conts will have two Footholds and one warpgate.

[Rivenshield]

Originally Posted by ringring

the lattice is coming back between continents (not within a cont), so that when new conts are added we won't be able to attack unless we have a link.

I guess this implies home conts will have two Footholds and one warpgate.

That's progress of a sort, I guess.

I still insist we need sancs and rotating WG's so we aren't fighting the same people in the same direction over the same turf every bloody ding-dong day.

[Soothsayer]

From my understanding you could address this question to Malorn, he was hired to work out metagame stuff.

[Timealude]

Originally Posted by ringring

Well one bit of good news I heard last night in Higby's stream was that the lattice is coming back between continents (not within a cont), so that when new conts are added we won't be able to attack unless we have a link.

I guess this implies home conts will have two Footholds and one warpgate.

Wait 2 footholds of the same empire or 2 different ones? because I dont think that would be a home continent...

[ringring]

Originally Posted by Timealude

Wait 2 footholds of the same empire or 2 different ones? because I dont think that would be a home continent...

I'd imagine it would depend on the number of continents available but if it's only one then say 2 footholds, 1 per empire.

But, I don't know, I'm just speculating.