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Question On Destructible World
dvd30
Member Posts: 20
Say there is a fascinating castle. Someone comes along, first to find it, and destroys it. Does it come back? I can't believe they would not, since after a short time everything everywhere would be destructed.
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They mentioned that buildings will usually be destroyed for good but terrain will tend to heal. I think the game will also build things as well so over time all buildings won't just be gone.
Some areas and locations are non destructible, or carry a varied level of destructibility (such as only being able to affect 6 inches of ground before hitting indestructible material). The devs said at SOE LIve that they could control the level of influence that players can have on areas and objects.
So I guess it would depend if that castle was something that the devs wanted to be messed with.
Survivor of the great MMORPG Famine of 2011
There will be several levels of destruction.
1...noob zone and surrouding area will not be able to be destroyed.
2...locations needed to somehow advance the story will be set specifically for that goal which may mean destruction to a certain point or none at all.
3...there will be landscape and areas that heal over time.
4....basically you will be responsible for building things and those things can be destroyed if you do not defend them.
5....there will supposedly be things that are supposed to permanently be destroyed that continue the story.
6...they have not fully explained crafting to us, so it's hard to estimate if we will be able to plant various plants and trees or not.
7...I did read you will be able to burn down certain things assuming trees and other wood is easy to burn.
They have stated on quite a few occasions that the land heals itself over time. So no, the destructibility induced by players in the way that we're talking about is NOT permanent.
That being said, there will be changes occurring in the land that ARE permanent. One of the ways this will happen is through Rallying Calls (public quests that visibly alter the world). They have also hinted that the land can change on its own by giving the example that a cavern that used to present in certain spot may no longer be found by digging in the same location.
The land does. Structures do not. The land has a default state, structures are placed on the default state and can be destroyed. I'm sure some structures won't be destroyable but some random thing you find out in the world most likely will be.
Where is your source?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr3yhrXo9cg#t=1091 time 17:51
"So, the world heals itself already. We currently set the time limit at 5 minutes. But, we have a pretty clear path for how the world will regenerate itself after people go through it. [...]the world won't end up looking like Swiss cheese in the long-term."