Missions and Quests on other planets - more gameplay & interaction?

I know from other forums, that players in EU for years have been asking for a better storyline / more interaction and quests in our Universe.

We got the missions on PlanetCalypso - and that's always a start, as it seems popular as well.

Peter and I are playing other games than EU - all containing quests based on a unique storyline - and very thought throug into the smallest details in game and so much, that you really feel a part of it. Of course it is easier to make a story line in a mmo like LOTRO (Lord of The Rings Online), where the whole history and it's caracters are served to you on a golden plate - but it really also does something important to the gameplay and experience, that you feel you're a part of a history.

Personally I always imagined, that when creating a game, you first 'invent' the basic history. Like a novel - what's the background, the story, the people, the future etc.. Some might like the 'unknown' and mysterious, and to some the story is being built up as the game goes - but the very basics should be there - and everything should be connected to it (perhaps not known for the actual player, but at least for the company making the game).

I really really miss this in EU. We have had a little inbetween with the professor and his finger - or the Atrox Queen and egg. We even have a wonderful area for the Thorifoids - with a temple and a door which could never open ... but it was there. And even though it wasn't much, it added some more meat to the bone of Entropia and made everything just a tiny little bit more interesting.

As said, now we have missions. But these missions are not like quests as I know or wish them to be. Scout the area, kill xxx, xxxx, xxxxxx mobs ... and all of them are somehow built of the same.

Now new planets are being added - and I can't tell how much I look forward to experience new areas of the game - to see how much else are 'out there' - to see the possibility and have the feeling it can continue to grow and evolve.

But I wonder now what is going to happen with the very thin storyline of EU. Especially since the new planets histories and storylines (which I HOPE they will have) seem to be so much different from what they started on Calypso.

How do I get the feeling, that I'm in the same Universe, thos on different planets - but that I am an important part of it all and not just jumping like a skitzofrenia from one world to another?

What is done to ensure, that I still feel at home - no matter what planet I'm travelling to?

My wish here is, that the planets somehow can cooperate about the over all storyline to keep the thread. But also that the PlanetPartners will think about expanding the experiences of *missions* and make them Quests - preferably in a way that makes it possible to interact in game (for example being able to open hidden doors, find things, open books and read them - or 'read the history on the walls' so to speak).

There are SO much potential - and so much which would be more interesting than killing 1 thousands mobs ...

Am I rambling, dreaming - or did you think of this already??

 

Thanks for the replies and thoughts.

First of all, I know things take time - and that FPC(the EU platform) now implemented a nice mission system. And that hopefully it will be even more advanced, that it is now.

But what I would love to see is something which doesn't contain "kill 1K mobs", to take an example - or 10K mobs - or scout 6 different areas ... I have never played a game where this happened. And I personally find it to be a boring way to set up quests. But I also know, that since this game is dynamic and can't be compared to a game like World of Warcraft (where you can loot special items which you hand back into the quest-master as a part of the storyline) the 'ways' to create the quests might be limited.

Perhaps it would be possible to create something more exiciting by adding a better and more deep storyline to it all though? Why are the thorifoids there - what's their background - why do they have a temple, what are they hiding? What's the crystals for - and where can you get them? Imagine it was a part of the quest to gather the crystals. When you did, you had to place them in the stones at the Temple. The door opens - a big ass thorifoid leader comes up - you have to kill him - and THEN you recieve an extra health point or strenght or whatever. After you killed him, you can enter the cave underneath where you find ancient scripts on the wall, telling a story through some drawn pictures - and you find out why the big leader was locked down in the secret depth ... When you leave the cave, the door closes again and it's not possible for you to enter anymore (or if the game could follow the individuals in game, like they do in a lot of other mmo's - the cave is now open to you and other's who did this quest, but not to those who didn't).

Above is only a small example of the possibilities of awesome little story lines - which only requires some ablity to create and imagine.

The same could be done on a LOT Of areas on Calypso (OHHH I could invent stories for all of it lol) - but also for ROCKtropia - story lines about Lemmy to take an example - zombies, wolfes - you name it. The planet SHOUTS for stories.

And when the other planets go life, I'm sure they open up for a lot of other kind of stories, you can built up cases, quests, missions and events on.

The trick is to connect them - and I get what some say, that the purpose for each planet is to have their 'own' story - nevertheless - all planets are connected (now through teleporters - later perhaps even through spaceships) - which means, that it would never make sense if they are not connected somehow in the storyline.

Just saying, I hope MA thought about that - and that FCP is already planning this (looks like it, with some of the new people they gotten in the crew) - but that they also thought about it regarding the new planets.

It should not be a 'game' where the only thing which matters is to bring in more planets, to create more traffic and get more money. That will shine through and make it cheasy - the universe needs substance and some flesh! And I'm not shooting the planets down either - I LOVE the idea with different planets and possibilities (and storylines :D) - I just hope there is a thread in it all, which will make me feel im a part of something 'bigger' and not just there to poor more money into the lootpool (and even it might be so, adding to the history of the game, giving me something back I can relate to and feel a part of, makes it worth it and not that obious).

Just my opinion ;)