SGT FUNYOUN
Elysian Space Navy - 1st Fleet
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Posted - 2017.05.20 00:55:20 -
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The only way I can see an expansion... is if CCP added more star systems... of course there is one way that might be interesting...
... Procedural Generation.
You saw No Man's Sky, some of the TellTale Games' moves, and many other games that have used it successfully?
Not procedurally generating an entirely new world... but generating Wormholes that never come up again... completely randomized new star systems that pop up out of thin air, never to be seen again after they pop. New planets and moons that simply... disappear when the system disappears... or even... new worlds that generate themselves now and again... because PLAYERS explore into the deep regions of unknown space... and this unknown space... is found by probing new wormholes...
... wormholes that when accessed for the first time ever... GENERATE NEW STAR SYSTEMS... that suddenly become permanent parts of the Eve Universe!
Maybe this only happens once every 3-6 months or so... an event that happens on a random day, at a random time, that is generated by a random date generator.
Then maybe CCP, instead of BUILDING this new star system... sets up a set of parameters the computer can choose between... and BAM!... a new wormhole opens up one day in a random system... and that Wormhole pops out of that system and shows up in a totally different star system every 24 hours until it is discovered... then it will only pop up from that day forward on a regular schedule in whatever star systems is popped up in prior to it being accessed for the first time.
Maybe it will pop and change systems very 12 or every 6 hours even!
It will just keep changing systems until it is discovered and accessed the first time... and until it is accessed the first time, it could either have no world behind it, or it could have a set up world already behind it that is already generated before the wormhole even appears.
These new "Procedural Wormholes" could be used for generating temporary wormholes into WHSpace, NullSec, or LowSec generating wormholes that generate new temporary systems that disappear after being accessed a few times, or even for adding totally new systems to the Eve Online universe!
This way CCP could introduce new Star Systems whenever they chose or felt they needed to... and instead of having to program every single tiny thing... they could let the server generate the majority of the Star System, and then they sit back and tweak it to fit EVE as a whole. |