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Albion Online: You Asked, We Answered Takes On Player Questions

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
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The Albion Online team has published a brand new You Asked, We Answered article that tackles several questions posed to the team by the community. The questions were taken from the pool of alpha testers after their experiences in the game last month.

Hello I was wondering how you guys will address world population and available resources. Will it just be one big server or different servers with a player cap? If it’s one server will resources re-spawn quicker depending on how many players are online at a given time? I can see this game being played by the thousands at any given time so I am curious on your game plan to absorb that.

-Skytea, Alpha Forum

We will aim for one large world, similar to Eve. Whether we will succeed with that is to been seen Having different servers would be a fall back solution. What would definitely be the case is that we would have different starting zones, such that not everybody starts in the same place. We will find a good balance.

Also, keep in mind that the better the resources are, the more dangerous the zone will become.

Current plans are:

Safe Zones have at most T4.

Zones with strong crime debuff have at most T5.

Zones with weak crime debuff have at most T6.

Fully open zones have up to T7.

Also, it goes without saying that the strongest boss mobs etc will also be in the more dangerous zones.

Read the full post on the Albion Online site.






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Comments

  • MisterTeaBHMisterTeaBH Member Posts: 22
    got really really excited for Albion, then a friend told me pvp would be limited to around 5v5 since it's not just a pc game but is also intended for mobiles etc :( hopefully it works out though
  • DubZioDubZio Member Posts: 7

    I'm very excited for this game, as I can hopefully stealthly play it, while 'watching tv' with my partner.

    Its looks very promising, I hope it will run smoothly on tablets.

  • vonryan123vonryan123 Member UncommonPosts: 516
    Originally posted by Neubauer21
    got really really excited for Albion, then a friend told me pvp would be limited to around 5v5 since it's not just a pc game but is also intended for mobiles etc :( hopefully it works out though

    I can not deny nor confirm anything ......on second thought I will.....your friend is wrong there is open world pvp and keep style combat. The "5v5" is a quick clan/group pvp que not the whole game.

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  • GhabboGhabbo Member UncommonPosts: 263
    This could be an absolute gem, so far I loved everything I saw. I really hope I can get into the next alpha testing phase image
  • BercilakBercilak Albion OnlineMember Posts: 108
    Originally posted by Neubauer21
    got really really excited for Albion, then a friend told me pvp would be limited to around 5v5 since it's not just a pc game but is also intended for mobiles etc :( hopefully it works out though

    As vonryan123 wrote already this is just a small part of the game itself you have normal castle sieges as well. We want to have small skirmishes like this as well as huge battles for large keeps. 

     

    But most importantly we are constantly adding new features to Albion Online, what you see right now is just the work of 18 months coding. We have a very large vision of a very strong and lively fantasy sandbox and we hope that we get the chance to implement all our ideas.

     

    Kind regards,

    Stefan

    A medieval sandbox MMO
    http://www.facebook.com/albiononline/

  • GhostsanGhostsan Member UncommonPosts: 12
    I was able to play during an alpha  test and the Albion Online is far from promising. I think the game is becoming awesome!  What can i say? It has all the ingredients i wish on a sandbox game. I can see me playing it for a long time when it comes out. 
  • OzmodanOzmodan Member EpicPosts: 9,726
    Originally posted by vonryan123
    Originally posted by Neubauer21
    got really really excited for Albion, then a friend told me pvp would be limited to around 5v5 since it's not just a pc game but is also intended for mobiles etc :( hopefully it works out though

    I can not deny nor confirm anything ......on second thought I will.....your friend is wrong there is open world pvp and keep style combat. The "5v5" is a quick clan/group pvp que not the whole game.

    Once you make a game like this and also make it available to the mobile crowd, you immediately limit it greatly.  Mobiles and tablets just don't have the horsepower and storage to run a decent MMO at this time.   When a indie developer tries to reach out to multiple platforms it does not speak well for the game.  This will be a niche game without great gameplay.

  • TybostTybost Member UncommonPosts: 629

    It looks similar to a couple of mobile games iv played on my tablet.

    Good or Bad - unsure.

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