Re: [Once-content] Feld - maybe we need to rethink the map?

[Thomas C. R. <th...@th...>]

Agreed... must... sleep....

On Monday March 7 2005 12:54 pm, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote:
> as I didn't play that games and we don't have a common measure, it's
> difficult to give an idea, but I'd say that we can have 5 big cities, if
> they were put in the 4 cardinal points of the map and in the middle, not
> less than 6 minutes to reach the nearest cities (in fact could be
> obstacles -mountains, lakes, ...-) running (some games limit the time
> running, in our case could be to low the stamina or so), more than the
> distance between two towns in Morrowind (Cirilo said); and you have
> plenty of space to put a lot of content. and the more important, you can
> add zillions of buildings in the city and stuff to do, so it would be
> also the "depth dimension" :)
>
> I'd like to get rid of this problem because it's keeping me stuck, in
> fact I don't think that the size of Feld it's a problem at all, it's big
> enough for all the towns designed at this moment. and if we exhaust Feld
> with content no problem, we just begin to make it another continent, as
> Jon says; and this would allow us to have something to play with in not
> so distant future (I also think that "expansion pack" it's not a good
> concept, probably Once will be continuously changing).
>
> and if somebody it's not convinced it's better to delay the discussion
> until the next minor release, so people can run around and see if it's
> big enough.
>
> Dom, 2005-03-06 =E0s 09:45 -0800, Jon 'ResQuad' Davis escreveu:
> > Its odd. I can just hit "reply" on dev list mails and it goes back to
> > the dev list, but not so with Content list.  Odd. What ever.
> >
> > Yea.  We are really planning on having a HUGE amount of content in this
> > game.  For example FFXI has 4 main cities, and 3 small aditional cities
> > (in the "common" areas, one you get into the more advanced and expantion
> > pack thats a different story).  Thats about the same thing we are
> > looking at, we're also looking to have T'brulcar be very very big (in
> > terms of amount of stuff) - Which gets compared to the cities in EQ2
> > (which had 13 zones each), in which there were only 2 cities.
> >
> > So what do you think Thomi?  With a few tweaks to your basic designs -
> > And a few additions to the story line - I think we could do this.  As I
> > type this I guess using the term "Expansion Pack" isnt the best way of
> > putting it, but it will have to do.  We basically just need a system
> > that will allow us to concentrate on Feld - And "Finish" it to
> > perfections.  Once that is done and released, we can move on to the next
> > continent on the list.  The users will be happy because they have
> > something to play, and we'll be happy because we're not releasing a beta
> > (like SOE loves to do, and yes, we'll be releasing beta's - but I ment
> > the final product wont be a beta and changing continusly).
> >
> > -Jon

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