DEV Zoom wrote:

Ville: that's why we're not doing this for all beta outposts, so everyone can have their own preferred way of living on beta.

But just to throw in a completely different idea that you can all fight over (and I'm doing myself a disservice here): we could also put in a public main terminal on beta2s.

If you can add Beta Terminals to B2 Islands, why not just auto generate some NEW islands, Make them ALL NPC Terminals and Roaming Mobs stick some inner island TPs around it and some entrance points and GG?

"Auto generate" an island means only the terrain, which most of the time needs a lot of manual terraforming to make all of its areas accessible and useful.

Since you would want to do missions there too, that means doing the same process that we do now with all the islands, just with more effort because compared to existing islands, there would be zero infrastructure or pathways which would need to be created too.

Putting a new station onto an existing island is way less effort. I'm talking about a few days versus 1-2 months here.

DEV Zoom wrote:

"Auto generate" an island means only the terrain, which most of the time needs a lot of manual terraforming to make all of its areas accessible and useful.

Since you would want to do missions there too, that means doing the same process that we do now with all the islands, just with more effort because compared to existing islands, there would be zero infrastructure or pathways which would need to be created too.

Putting a new station onto an existing island is way less effort. I'm talking about a few days versus 1-2 months here.

I have a real question, Could you auto generate an island(gamma) on the Test server, give us back terraforming mechanics that aren't terrible  and allow the community to work on building an island?  For Beta, like we do all the heavy lifting on the side.  And make the terraforming plans tradable to non corp members, and create a sub forums for players to discussion the plans and direction of it in a highly moderated environment??  Is that possible?  So all you would have to do is come in plop teleports and do some simple adjustments bearing in mind it is ALL roaming NPCs, and you do the fine touch ups, and release the islands one at a time?

Ville wrote:

I have a real question, Could you auto generate an island(gamma) on the Test server, give us back terraforming mechanics that aren't terrible  and allow the community to work on building an island?  For Beta, like we do all the heavy lifting on the side.  And make the terraforming plans tradable to non corp members, and create a sub forums for players to discussion the plans and direction of it in a highly moderated environment??  Is that possible?  So all you would have to do is come in plop teleports and do some simple adjustments bearing in mind it is ALL roaming NPCs, and you do the fine touch ups, and release the islands one at a time?

It's not impossible, and I generally like the idea of "crowdsourcing" the creation of islands. No terraforming plan screwing around though, we'd have to put in the developer terraforming tools into the test client, which I'd have to ask whether it's possible cause I don't know. (Because giving out developer clients is something we're quite hesitant about, even though everything is controlled by account access levels.)

DEV Zoom wrote:

No, but it's obviously finite. But I don't think that's an issue currently, and even if, we can always deactivate some unused zones on the test server.

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