Infinity - My word!!

Strange to think the the last time this was attempted was 1995 in Elite 3: Frontier First Encounters... Which was essentially the same as the work laid down 2 years earlier in Frontier. If Davis Braben could create a whole galaxy and fit it onto a floppy disc, imagine what can be done with today's storage and processing technology.

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This really could work. So what if there is 200 billion stars. You'll get hubs appear, and every now and then a big discovery and new hub. This is what happened in EVE, when there was only upto 2,000 players. Masses of the environment went unexplored for ages, until the population grew and the need to expand took over.

This is what will happen in real life, when/if we start exploring space more.

With something as big as Infinity, it would be a LONG time before what spoiled EVE happens.. and thats not enough space for the players!

edit: Imagine the newspapers, if you think WoW got it bad wrt players wasting their lives, this will blow them out of the water. :)

All of course, assuming the hardware is capable. EVE could be much, much more successful if they actually had decent latency and software.
 
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The problem with procedural generation is that however big the created universe is, you never find anything genuinely interesting. Once you'd zipped around a planet in Frontier, you never did it again, because you knew you'd just find randomly shaped landscape.

Unless the system allows for player customisation of the world they inhabit it'll be just big and boring. If we were allowed to build colonies and cities, even terraform, it would be amazing, but then you'd start to need massive storage for the no-longer procedurally generated universe.
 
Sleepery said:
If we were allowed to build colonies and cities, even terraform, it would be amazing, but then you'd start to need massive storage for the no-longer procedurally generated universe.
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This. +1

When i saw the OP video, the first thing i thought of was building my base of operations in that crater by the mountain. If i can't do that then what the point?
 
I'm not sure how this could/would work, but could the generated terrain data once created by a client be uploaded to the server, assuming that it is an
MMO be stored as a generated planet and therefore the algorithem is generated and stored for someone else to access, therefore enabling that new planet to exist.

All the client/server has to do at the beginning is understand how many planets/star systems there are in the game environment. If the desinger knows the size of a generated planet seed then surely they can set the universe size based upon available storage?
 
drunkenmaster said:
Think about what you said though, you build a warp gate after a years working gathering parts, but you've chosen a part of the galaxy no one else has ever visited and never will.

There is just too big, if you want a fight and have to travel for 5 hours before you see one person to go fight, then you die?
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Who'd build a gate to nowhere? I didn't mean that.
Having autonomous/semi auto mining facilities to bring back minerals to make your corporation stronger, for example could make use of these, making said resources a rare find, even rarer for the most high tech resources you can use.

Gives people reason to fight over things if someone has already done the work, it would be an awesome experiment if they could do such a thing.

Also, if it did take a while to fight someone then that's the concequences of your actions, instead of most mmos getting away with things and respawning a few seconds away, I'd like to see something with non permanent concequence.

With in game trading/stock markets/insurance, it could become a thinking persons game and that's what eve had started. Someone can take another step.
 
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