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Housing and Vehicles?
Enkmar
Member Posts: 46
in Tabula Rasa
Sorry if this has been asked and answered but i couldn't find it. Will there be housing, or player-run cities/bases? And will there be vehicles?
I guess maybe I'm shallow and narrow minded, but I'm hoping this game is like old SWG but done right. By that I mean I liked the new sci-fi world as opposed to the standard fantasy. I loved how SWG was pretty close to a sandbox game originally. You just created a character and roleplayed out their life every day, becoming whatever profession, establishing yourself however you want whether it be a cantina-fly or a mayor of a city, etc.
I'm having trouble finding hard info on this game though.
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You're having trouble finding info because they are keeping pretty low-key on it.. they're not releasing as much info as say... the Age of Conan developers or Warhammer online. Pretty much they've zipped their mouths and have sworn to silence about it unless you're in beta..
As for your initial question.. I don't believe anything has been stated on Vehicles and Housing.
The odds?
Housing, no.. the way the world is built, unless it was instanced housing areas.. it'd be hard to fit these in. Besides.. on the worlds.. its all about combat and taking ground from the enemy.. there really isnt anywhere you can drop a house and have it be safe. The bane would just swoop in and blow it away.
Vehicles, that i know of.. nothing has been said of this... but then again theres a small voice in the back of my head that says somewhere i read "no."
Hope that helps.
Everquest - 2000 - '02
Anarchy Online - '01-'02
Earth and Beyond - '02-'04
Star Wars Galaxies - '03-'06('07)
World of Warcraft - '04-'07
Age of Conan - '08 - shelved.
-Waiting on-
Star Trek Online
SW: The Old Republic
Housing was talked about way back when in the original T.R but it doesnt fit with the war torn survivor thing so personal housing wont be in.
Hopefully we will get some sort of clan bunker.
Vehicles - wont be in at release. They have said in interviews they do wont to do something with vehicles post release. There are pictures and video of mech robot things on battlefields but no other AFS vehicles have been shown.
Play run cities - they have talked about the possibility of clan outposts for some sort of end-game pvp struggle as different factions fight over the best way to fight the Bane.
Bunkers I can imagine in the TR world... a normal house/shack on the surface?
*Player A places house on ground*
*Bane dropship puts out Thrax soldiers and calls in Predators*
*House go BOOM*
"There's one MMO developer that doesn't want the money put in front of them - SOE"
Housing could be underground..if they really wanted to do it at release....but I sense they don't think it's a priority.My guess is they felt they did not have to spend the money on vehicles at launch...so spent it in other places.
As potential subscribers you should tell the company what are the key game elements for you.
Or maybe having scrapped two years of development and started again they would like to get the game out sometime this year, and not in 2008/2009.
At some point you need to release a game (not in Vanguards state) and not keep adding features. Especially when its been in development as long as T.R
The mechs are.. or at least were a player class trait planned for one of the classes. Once you got far enough you could strap it on and deal heavy damage through one of those things at the expensive of movement and speed. At least thats what i had read a long while back... its quite possible thats been removed, delayed, or changed to possibly a pet or something since then.
Everquest - 2000 - '02
Anarchy Online - '01-'02
Earth and Beyond - '02-'04
Star Wars Galaxies - '03-'06('07)
World of Warcraft - '04-'07
Age of Conan - '08 - shelved.
-Waiting on-
Star Trek Online
SW: The Old Republic
I guess we are both narrow minded, my like minded friend...
Way back at launch I was the first Master Architect on Kettemoor (by a couple of days lol)
I made millions enterprising "Starstrider Industries". I was known throughout the Galaxy. I spent hours building things and mining. Roaming the plains of naboo and other planets looking for places to place harvesters.. Setting up my homes and shop. Stockpiling mats. It was pure glory.
I had another character I used for combat play. He was one of the first Bounty Hunters (which was nuts to grind out in the beginning)
I doubt there will ever be a game with such a variety again. WoW has pretty much killed the idea of a more complicated broad spectrum MMORPG. WoW attracts players from all age groups and has made so much money doing so. (I'm not knocking it.. I play it too hehe)
I hope and pray for another SWG but I have come to the realization that this will never happen... I look through my old screen shots often