Just a daft idea, but I thought what might be fun would be some sort of pvp zone in space where its a bit like the pvp we have for LG's ie 10% of the cost. The area would be enclosed though, or semi enclosed so there are places to hide and so forth. It would be cool to have this in space because of the unique 3D way that we can move around there where we have full control to tilt and move in all directions, it would make navigating some really tight tunnels and so forth possible but challenging. Some sort of "racetrack" might also be possible. Essentially this could be in a sort of large cavernous asteroid. If anyone has ever played Descent - this is the sort of thing I am thinking of. I like the idea of trying to navigate a flat wide tunnel with a twist in so you have to use rotate etc and all of that to get through. We definitely need more stuff in space... a reason to go to other parts of it, some sort of mining would be cool. Zero G mining in a space suit would be fun :D
why stop there? Why not put in a full asteroid belt that you have to navigate through and something like the ability to mine all of the space caves on each asteroid. Something like the old deer mall basement used to be before the redesign but much, much bigger and complex.
I like the idea of a racetrack in an asteroid in space but you'd have to make sure you don't drive off the edge in your Valkyrie unless it was equipped with a space thruster :)
I actually meant a race track for space vehicles ;) ie one where you have to navigate in 3 dimensions not 2 ;) I was playing descent 3 with my housemate a little while ago it was good fun! (it "just about" worked) on windows7. I sooooooooooo miss the dear mall, I wanted to buy one of those funny little shops down there. SOOO glad I didn't. I would have been utterly pissed off when I lost it! Game still needs more caves... but at least there are some on NI and RT Wistrel
incidentally there is a race track/arena on the CND asteroid... not very exciting though... a valk just doesn't go fast enough for such a track to be a challenge or for it to feel exciting... They should have made one that went "outside" instead and used the stadium as a bandstand.. maybe if someone made obstacles it would be ok? I've been trying to "land" a valk on the surface of the asteroid as the surface looks really fun to drive on. Not quite managed it yet or even determined if its possible... doesn't help I've fall damaged to my death a few times - thats even before I asphyxiated ;) Wistrel
He, he ;) I had a race on that track with someone years ago and the main problem was that it was almost impossible to overtake as the width of the track is about two valks wide if that. I've never thought of trying to land on the asteroid, and don't know if game parameters would let you - maybe you could land with a vtol if at all and then try and spawn a valk...
You can land a quad certainly and then spawn a valk but getting "into" the valk is "problematic". I also managed to drive a valk onto the surface but was immediately tossed out and died in the "kill zone". You can do something "interesting" stuff on the edge of the landscape too. Its a bit odd, at a certain point you vehicle disappears and you move around as normal, can even end up swimming, there is a point though where if you move too far away everything goes pitch black. Additionally even though the vehicle vanishes you are still "in it" - when you "get out" the game crashes!
While I'm on this, does it bug anyone else that there are "you cannot enter deep space" zones around calypso? It really troubles me that we can't even get near the asteroids.... there's another moon too that looks interesting (the sort of flamey looking one... I personally detest invisible walls. They are the embodification of everything that sucks about game design imo
