Planetside 2: SOE details its 3-year plan, wants to run until 2025 if possible

[Crator]

http://www.vg247.com/2012/11/30/plan...5-if-possible/

Smedley then listed the team’s ideas:

• Player Owned bases – we plan on releasing continents that are empty or partially empty where players can build their own bases. These are open world bases so others will be able to attack them. We’re also planning on having these continents heavily resource based with new resource types that will be very rare..and lots of cool new stuff that can be built out of these new resources.
  
• Harvestable resources – imagine SC II style resource harvesting with physical vehicles doing the mining or the harvesting.
  
• Water between continents – seamlessly – this is really hard tech, but our goal is to make the whole planet seamless and allow water based vehicles.
  
• Lots more vehicles and weapons – just what it sounds like. Many of these will take very rare resources to make.
  
• NPC enemies – I don’t want to call this PVE. That’s not exactly what we have in mind. More like a global invasion that goes after everybody. This isn’t a bunch of quest givers saying “go kill 10 rats” – this is bad ass aliens that want to gut you.
  
• NPC armies – imagine as the commander of a base sending an NPC army towards another base MOBA style except it’s in the middle of the Planetside 2. This isn’t another game mode. It’s all part of the same game.
  
• Esports support – we plan on doing this pretty soon after launch. We plan on making this a big big thing and putting a lot of our resources behind it.
  
• Weather
  
• Mac version (soon after launch)

Community reaction threads to news of PvE:

• PvE. Just say "No!"...
• NPC Alien Race within a few years

[ringring]

I don't know, I find this unexciting.

I'd rather I could see a fully finished and rounded Planetside 2 first before we embarked on a world of fantasy.

[Bags]

"I don't want to call what essentially is PVE, PVE. Because it's not PVE. It's PVE"

Glad to see SOE hasn't lost the ability to drive games into the ground.

[Ghoest9]

I see no problem with their PVE idea.
Events are good.

[bjorntju1]

I want space battles.

SPACE BATTLES

[DeceptiveAlarm]

This is from August. Still a neat read though.

[Figment]

Think this is old news an partially literally obsolete. Peops reacted heavily against the pve.

At most they could consider doing a farcry style single player. For those that can't get into the pvp.

[Zulthus]

Ok, the NPC invasion idea sounds bad. But the idea of being able to send NPC armies is.... frankly, the worst idea I've ever heard. I thought BFRs were bad, but I'd rather have those a thousand times over. This is a PVP GAME. I don't log in to kill NPCs, I log in to kill players. If you want to send NPCs to attack other bases, go play Starcraft or something. Ridiculous.

Other than they, hey, nice plan. Looking forward to that stuff.

[Crator]

Yes, this is old news to the PS1 community and those that were following PS2 news before beta. This is a new article posted today about it which makes it a more finalized list.

[Hamma]

Yea we have heard most of this before.

[AThreatToYou]

Originally Posted by bjorntju1

I want space battles.

SPACE BATTLES

PlanetSide.... IN SPACE!

That sounds so contradictory, I want it.

[cooonips]

the alien invasions could work as events can spice things up every now and then. but players controlling npc armies.... just no.

[Artimus]

Starshiptroopers at the strong hold

[Sturmhardt]

Oh man... Smed talking out of his ass again :/

Before they think about strange stuff like that they should get the performance right, the balance right, the resource system right and the capture system right. Did I miss anything? Oh yes, cross continental warfare.

[Mox]

Oh god, Smed is still talking about PvE. Seems he isnt listening to the community at at all.