an expansion pack. - Page 2

Ignore Me · 2002-12-23, 02:03 AM

Hey now.... EQ Dev's are cool... they just dont have enough people =/

I worked with the Dev team on the Planes of Power expansion, and many dev's were pulling 80 hour work weeks....

They are just working with a HUGE game, THOUSANDS of lines of code, some of which the person modifying didnt write, so sometimes yes they make mistakes.. By comparison EQ is much much larger then PS, but split up into many more zones(EQ has ~150+ zones where as PS will only have 13 large ones)...

EQ also has 10,000 more items then Planetside, a few thousand spells, It's just exponentially larger then PlanetSide...

I agree the frequencies of patches are annoying, but dont go banging my friends on the EQ dev team! They are more dedicated to making a great game then most developers =p it's just too much code for a small team to do... but too many people would make em trip over eachother trying to get thigns done =/

Sputty · 2002-12-23, 02:05 AM

You should give a larger number than thousands of lines of code. My crappy Might & Magic-like game I made for grade a 11 Comp science project has about 10,000 lines of code.

quiet · 2002-12-23, 02:41 AM

More options and features for power armor.

Cool weather effects (if they don't make it into the release).

Superheavy vehicles, really big and powerful but on very long timers, multiple people would have to spawn them.

Ways to expand beyond rank 20. I personally think character devolopment adds a lot to a game and PS seems really limited in that area. Adding ability bonuses or interesting talent certs would be cool IMO.

More story about the Vanu and what really hapend to them . . .

Zatrais · 2002-12-23, 03:36 AM

In an expantion?

Well the obious ofcourse BIGGER guns and toys =D

An artillery piece that needs spotters, Bombers, Boats Underwater combat, Spacecombat, Ability for the highest level players to call down various precition bombardment once every 4 hourish, Empire specific planes, A robots cert that lets you bring along mechanised assault dogs or somehting, Ability to destroy walls.... *shrug* not to hard to find more

and ofcourse more land!

�io · 2002-12-23, 08:10 AM

Originally posted by Ex70
Plus another empire with different weapons would always be interesting to see.

I concur.

Navaron · 2002-12-23, 08:14 AM

"They might add some more units or naval..but that might be done in the updates so it's hard to say. Mot of the time, if any MMO does well, they'll make a couple expansions. Look at Galaxies, they had an expansion ready before the game was released and that's SOE."

........and that game is in BETA hell, and has been pushed back almost 5 months......

(thank God for edit)

Jinxmasta · 2002-12-23, 10:56 AM

I wonder when SWG will be released... it took them forever to get it into beta, and now it seems they will be stuck in beta for a loooong time.

Anyways, I think a PS expansion would be sweet. Right when I read this post the answer became very obvious. More weapons, more vehicles, more armor, more continents, more empires, more character customization, more types of bases, more ammo types, and more weather effects. Now that's a whole lot more!

CDaws · 2002-12-23, 10:03 PM

If they do add a new force I think it would be cool if the VANU race came back to there old stomping ground against the othere three sides. Having a hatered for the invaders of there world and genoside for the Vanua Sovereignty for stealing there technology.

Sputty · 2002-12-23, 10:46 PM

I don't think any game would support genocide

xuur · 2002-12-23, 11:40 PM

oh man, there are tons of ways you could expand these.

low gravity planets/moons
close urban warfare.
all water (along with the completely new set of watercraft and bases, maybe even a specialized wet armor for moving quickly thru water)

smokescreens and the like.

the real vanu come back and kick the crap out of the guys who stole their technology?

yeah, all sorts of room for expansion.

Zatrais · 2002-12-24, 04:45 AM

I was under the impression that the Vanu (the race) evolved into a higher form of life whit their technology and left this existance as we know it.. Remember reading that somewhere

Jinxmasta · 2002-12-24, 08:03 AM

Ahh but God kicked em out becuase they thought they were gods and so God got really mad and threw em back to Auraxis.

Sputty · 2002-12-24, 08:15 AM

Flashingfish · 2002-12-24, 04:36 PM

I think more than 3 empires would be a bad thing.

If you have 2, it's just one vs. the other.

If you have more than 3, there could be 3 empires against one or more than that, which isn't really a good thing.

With 3 empires, you know that it will be pretty balanced most of the time.

BLuE_ZeRO · 2002-12-24, 04:38 PM

so have 5 of them.

is just as balanced as 3 just thinned out a bit more =p