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Player City Style Options?

EchelonsEchelons Member Posts: 80
in Age of Conan: Unchained

As I begin to plan out the framework for my guild for Age of Conan a few questions that I can't find an answer to in the otherwise very well put together AOC FAQ. 

In the critically berated but otherwise very innovative MMORPG Shadowbane, player's could construct cities as well a plan seiges against them.  While I understand there will not be any player sieges versus actual cities (instead only Battlekeeps can come under player sieges), there are several things that Shadowbane did that I'm interested to know if Age of Conan will be implemented.

My main question is whether or not there will be a static style to player built cities or will there be architecture style selections upon the buying of the plot of land?  For instance in Shadowbane there were several charters that you essentially use to assign a guild to the controlled plot of land (I believe it was 12-14 total).  Each one gave the buildings built on that controlled plot of land a distinct style.  For instance a Barbarian Charter made the buildings very makeshift looking, made of large logs and straw roofs, where as the Church of the All-Father charter made it look much more modern (for the fantasy period) made of cut stones, windows covered in stained glass designs, Amazon Charter gave the city a distinct Hispanic Indian feel to it.

My guess is answering this question would break an NDA, but I am not necessarily looking for a direct answer from a tester, but more so a consilidation of any rumors on the matter that anyone might have heard, or hints in screen shots they've seen...things of that sort.

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  • ShanniaShannia Member Posts: 2,096

    Great question!

    There are player city nodes around the land scape.  Choose your neighbor very wisely because you and your neighbors (of which you will have two) will all need to work together to beat down the NPC city that springs up near your town.

    From what Funcom has said, the player cities are very static as only certain buildings can go in certain places, etc.  I'm glad to see another sandbox player form Shadowbane.  No, we won't be able to find a piece of land and build a city for all to seige or build as we see fit.  The player cities are all instanced.

    I'm afraid the open world cities like Lineage2 and Shadowbane are a thing of the past my friend, depending of course how WAR turns out.

     

    Fear not fanbois, we are not trolls, let's take off your tin foil hat and learn what VAPORWARE is:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware

    "Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product."

  • EchelonsEchelons Member Posts: 80

    Well I had read that the cities will be instanced and such, I left that idea behind me a long while ago - people saw the death of Shadowbane in its terrible bandwidth when you get 500 players in one city for a siege.  I don't think that will be happening again anytime soon.  I was hoping style changes could be a possibility though.  Such as a tree top sanctuary for ranger guilds, a shabby town with lots of dark alleys and such for the thieves, buildings made of logs and such for the nomadic types, etc.

    I hadn't read that there will be plots for certain buildings though, that sort of bums me out, if I can't choose a style of architecture I had at least hoped to design the layout of my town to my own accord.

  • ShanniaShannia Member Posts: 2,096

    Originally posted by Echelons


    Well I had read that the cities will be instanced and such, I left that idea behind me a long while ago - people saw the death of Shadowbane in its terrible bandwidth when you get 500 players in one city for a siege.  I don't think that will be happening again anytime soon.  I was hoping style changes could be a possibility though.  Such as a tree top sanctuary for ranger guilds, a shabby town with lots of dark alleys and such for the thieves, buildings made of logs and such for the nomadic types, etc.
    I hadn't read that there will be plots for certain buildings though, that sort of bums me out, if I can't choose a style of architecture I had at least hoped to design the layout of my town to my own accord.

    I believe Funcom has said there will be different styles to choose from.  I don't know if just a tree top option is available or not.  But the layout of the town as you see fit is a definate no go as they said building types and locations are pre-set.  Hopefully, in some future expansion they'll loosen up on that stuff, but I wouldn't bank on it.

    Fear not fanbois, we are not trolls, let's take off your tin foil hat and learn what VAPORWARE is:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaporware

    "Vaporware is a term used to describe a software or hardware product that is announced by a developer well in advance of release, but which then fails to emerge after having well exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product."

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