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All of the current maps we see now could be used anywhere within the InnerSphere.
- What I propose are specific items within each map that can be automatically altered/changed to represent each of the House Factions unique styles from Lore and Canon history.
These changeable items could be as simple as placing items in the maps that have culturally different designs or shapes that reference each Faction.
- This would require the Artists to create certain objects that are designed in different cultural examples but could all be interchanged, depending on who currently owns this Planet, location.
- An example would be the differences between House Kurita's Japanese styles and House Steiner's more heavily Industrialized structures.
- These would not be or need not be large changes of the maps but subtle reminders of who owns each world, small items that get replaced to identify each House or Faction.
( one example would be to have different designs for the 4 statues at the front of the central citadel on the 'River City' map, or replacing a few small roof structures with pagoda style designs.)
- House specific hanging banners located around the Maps could also offer a similar visual representation, as was seen in the initial MWO intro video.
This proposal allows each of the current maps to offer slightly different looks that represent one or more of the culturally different Factions in the next introduction of Faction based warfare.
The Dev.'s have made reference to a library of materials and objects that has been building from the Artists and would be used to assist in rapidly constructing new maps. Reducing the considerable time we have been seeing now between the introduction of each map. If PGI could code in items that are matched to the Factions and are automatically changed, as required, we could see some form of location specific maps.
- Some maps will have difficulty implementing this proposal as there is little that could be done to show these changes. (Caustic Valley, Terra Therma?)
- There are some changes that could be done with large structures, but again, this would require considerable work from the artists and game designers to allow for interchangeable items on each map. Single buildings that get replaced as the owning Faction or suggested location changes. Each would need to fit with the same space area and have the same perimeters but look different. (I'm sure that the design teams had different looks for many of the objects we have now but settled on one for that specific map. This proposal allows some of that previous art work to be used.)
What do you think? Should we have Faction specific identifiers that could be used to change the same map for multiple locations?
9erRed
Edited by 9erRed, 01 July 2014 - 08:50 AM.
