Stars Reach Playtest Asked What Happens When You Give 100 Players Terraforming (and Other) Tools | M

System · September 20

Stars Reach Playtest Asked What Happens When You Give 100 Players Terraforming (and Other) Tools | MMORPG.com

Stars Reach playtesting is happening, and the Playable Worlds team is letting us into the experience of the latest round of play testing, and what happened when they let players into their simulation and have access to a number of flexible tools.

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sabrefoxx · September 20

My first thought was "OKAY, how many dcks did the players draw in the ground? Also, how many swastikas?"

Psycked · September 20

Any MMO that lets you terraform and build with no limits never ends well.....

mklinic · September 20

sabrefoxx said:

My first thought was "OKAY, how many dcks did the players draw in the ground? Also, how many swastikas?"

Wonder what the T.T.P. was on that?

Lithuanian · September 21

I won't be SO sceptical about penises and hate symbols. Let me explain.
As a Bloxd player I saw what kids (local population: 5-12 years olds. 14-16 years are really really dinosaurs) are capable of. There are swastikas. There are users named after herrn Schiklguber. Yes, swastikas are almost always protected. But there are more...kiddish...things. Like hige Pikachu, McDonalds, skyscrapers or even airports. As much as I looked at local servers - I saw not so many swastikas. Penises - yes, they are, not too much.
So, my few statements:
1. Current 100 testers werre probably an adequate, sane, adults. So there were probably no penises/hate symbols;
2. When SR starts, there would probably be lots of penises. Just because many bad players would join and they would surely grief, build swastikas/penises/penis-swastikas...
3. After some time bad players could notice nobody pays attention to their uglies. One player is building Egyptian civilization, one like me - new Barad Dur, yet another constructs 1:1 model of Super Star Destroyer on his planet's orbit, third player builds kind of medieval civilization. Nobody pays real attention to uglies.
4. Mods could just delete uglies. Or have some AI tools to identify (especially hate symbols) and auto-delete.

Scot · September 21

If you like digging it could be for you, just not the sort of gameplay that infuses me with interest.

Raph · September 23

These same features unlock things like:

* Building crafting supply chains through types of stone and metal that can only be obtained by chemical transformation processes.

* Subgames like farming and creature-related stuff having depth around stuff like regional climate, soil type, and the like.

* Combat hazards and tactics (collapse a cliff onto enemies, creatures that can cause fires or lava pools, freezing an enemy out of the sky and watching them plummet).

* Cooler housing and basebuilding, of course.

FWIW, we didn't really get any TTP issues in this test; the terraformer is a bit of a blunt instrument and not meant for real sculpting. I am sure we will run into this more as we go though!

Slapshot1188 · September 23

Raph said:

FWIW, we didn't really get any TTP issues in this test; the terraformer is a bit of a blunt instrument and not meant for real sculpting. I am sure we will run into this more as we go though!

You just don't have the right testers!

Real testers make no excuses and just get the P built ASAP.

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