Making player built cities feel alive

cnutemp

Hey all this game looks amazing.  However I have one concern.  How do the devs plan to have player build cities feel alive?  I apologise if this question has been asked before.  What I fear is that we may have several large player build cities that people rarely visit.  Do the devs have a plan to keep people around their cities / make them feel alive when people are not in them?

Also a part 2 question, anyone know how big a base we can make?  I am hoping for some really huge cool looking buildings.

Bardus

Only nations (guilds) can build cities and they are going to require quite a bit of upkeep since cities are attackable from enemy factions and nations. Pretty good bet it's going to take large strong nations to maintain cities so they should stay alive and busy. Probably most people will want their own houses in the world so joining or allying with large nations since there is strength in numbers will not be an issue.

I haven't seen it mentioned if it is even decided yet if all we have to be is allied with a nation to join their city or if we have to be a member of that nation.

Also I believe there are going to be SWG style player shops in the cities so that in itself will keep things moving and give everyone reasons to visit the cities frequently.

cnutemp

Originally posted by Bardus

Only nations (guilds) can build cities and they are going to require quite a bit of upkeep since cities are attackable from enemy factions and nations. Pretty good bet it's going to take large strong nations to maintain cities so they should stay alive and busy. Probably most people will want their own houses in the world so joining or allying with large nations since there is strength in numbers will not be an issue.

I haven't seen it mentioned if it is even decided yet if all we have to be is allied with a nation to join their city or if we have to be a member of that nation.

Also I believe there are going to be SWG style player shops in the cities so that in itself will keep things moving and give everyone reasons to visit the cities frequently.

Good to hear! Hear anything on the size of buildings we can create?  I would love to create really tall / big buildings

Bardus

I'm chicken to tell you what I've seen so far since I'm a tester and under the NDA, but if you go to the official forum and ask, the devs are very active and not shy at all. In some of the vids you get a few glimpses of some really basic buildings.

http://www.therepopulation.com/forum/

Chrisbox

Looking forward to pillaging some nation cities.