View Full Version : Instanced Zones
Tizz986
10-28-2009, 09:19 AM
I know its been assumed that since CO has instanced zones (with a pretty low cap from what I hear) that STO will have them.
Has there been any official confirmation of this?
I did a search, but all I could find were players talking about how it probably is just like CO, no dev input so far. Did I miss it somewhere?
odd are it will they have told us that most PvE quest will be set to 5 man zones so as I can tell it will be this way.
Tizz986
10-28-2009, 09:29 AM
odd are it will they have told us that most PvE quest will be set to 5 man zones so as I can tell it will be this way.
I am not talking about away missions. I mean hubs/space stations etc.
Jesteruk1972
10-28-2009, 09:41 AM
After talking to the guy from Cryptic at the Leeds Eurogamer expo today I can safely say that hubs will be a place that many people will meet, yes there maybe many instances of the same hub but only when one instance if full will there be another and from what he was saying there will be at around 100 people in each hub instance. You will also be able to change instances to be with you friends or get away from someone that is annoying you.
I am not talking about away missions. I mean hubs/space stations etc.
odd are it will be just like CO.
Nastee
10-28-2009, 09:45 AM
After talking to the guy from Cryptic at the Leeds Eurogamer expo today I can safely say that hubs will be a place that many people will meet, yes there maybe many instances of the same hub but only when one instance if full will there be another and from what he was saying there will be at around 100 people in each hub instance. You will also be able to change instances to be with you friends or get away from someone that is annoying you.
nice to hear cheers mate for sharin the info with us all :-)
Huutini
10-28-2009, 10:02 AM
After what I understood from the various interviews, the missions are pretty much instanced fro the player or his group alone.
You will only see other players in the sector space, where you're warptraveling from system to system and in the social hubs.
I am pretty sure that social hubs will be instanced, although I don't know, but I doubt they let 40.000 people run around in a single station.
So, the question left is: is the sector space instanced? And if so, how many people will be in there? And - I don't know.
LockeTrinmin
12-03-2009, 02:30 PM
I'll be happy as long as I can see fellow players pass me by once in a while. And If I can come to the rescue of a fellow player, then that will make me feel immersed. The community/social aspect of a mmo is important, so hopefully this game will have a great one.
Delazure
12-03-2009, 02:37 PM
After what I understood from the various interviews, the missions are pretty much instanced fro the player or his group alone.
Which is a good idea IMHO : in CO, it is not rare to go somewhere to rescue some NPC and to see this very NPC on his way with another hero escorting him. You have to wait a little while to see your NPC respawn and actually escort him. The wait is hardly long but immersion is definitively killed.
JacobFlowers
12-03-2009, 05:48 PM
I know its been assumed that since CO has instanced zones (with a pretty low cap from what I hear) that STO will have them.
Has there been any official confirmation of this?
I did a search, but all I could find were players talking about how it probably is just like CO, no dev input so far. Did I miss it somewhere?
STO is using the same server structure as CO, therefore the game will be heavily instanced. Be prepared to make good friends with loading screens.
JacobFlowers
12-03-2009, 05:49 PM
Which is a good idea IMHO : in CO, it is not rare to go somewhere to rescue some NPC and to see this very NPC on his way with another hero escorting him. You have to wait a little while to see your NPC respawn and actually escort him. The wait is hardly long but immersion is definitively killed.
This is only assuming that Cryptic makes the game universe small. If they were aiming for epic like EVE (which has around 2000 star systems), then you wouldn't have to worry so much about running into other players when you normally shouldn't. Therefore I do not think this is a good idea, because it only means that we're getting a cheap version of the STO universe that is small, thus needing everything to be instanced.