What if everything was destructible?

Splattr

It has been stated that although the whole world will be made of voxels that can be destroyed, there will be parts of the world that are marked invincible to players. What do you think would happen if there was a server at launch that allowed EVERYTHING to be destructible? Would you want to play on that server?

Some people would speculate that within a day or two just about everything in the world would be destroyed. Really? Take a starting city for example. We would have to make a couple of assumptions:

1. Vandalizing anything within a set radius of a city would be considered bad, and after doing enough bad an individual would be labeled as a criminal.

2. Cities will have guards. And along with the guards that we normally see there is a larger militia to deal with the more hardcore criminals.

3. In the reveal video, the characters were able to quickly do some fairly substantial damage. We can assume that not only were they more powerful than your regular starting character, but also that important structures would be "harder" to destroy than generic landscape.

4. Over time, the citizens of a city would be working behind the scenes to rebuild any damage created by the players.

5. Players would be able to spend resources in game to prepare to attack/defend locations.

 

So what do you think would really happen if SOE was brave enough to let this transpire? I personally think you would have the greatest MMO ever created. Or maybe I am wrong?

Cragfire

Originally posted by splattr

It has been stated that although the whole world will be made of voxels that can be destroyed, there will be parts So what do you think would really happen if SOE was brave enough to let this transpire? I personally think you would have the greatest MMO ever created. Or maybe I am wrong?

I could be interesting. Realistically, SoE would receive a zillion CSR Tickets and it would become a PR nightmare. heh.

 

Now think of it this way - two different guilds are a war, and they have destrutability on each others, player built, cities. That could be just as interesting, it's consensual since they declared war on one another, and no one else is effected.

DragonMyth88

it has a regeneration system where the world heals slowly over time. 8min mark.