Alright, I was at Cyrene for about 2 days, but I was able to get a good snapshot of Cyrene and see the beautiful stuff in Cyrene. I know that this is a new planet/venture and I don't want to sound harsh (or ignorant) but I do have some concerns with the planet's design; not so much the emptiness but the terrain, textures, setting etc..
Here is my first problem with Cyrene. I feel like a lot of attention has been put in some locations and other locations seem to be lacking buildings and structures. For example, lets look at the City of Janus. It is too big and has too much structures. Now to be fair, every planet seems to have one of these giant somewhat empty cities likeHadeshiem Port Atlantis for Calypso, Tangerine/New Harlem for Rocktropia, Celeste for Cyrene. While I am ideally opposed to giant cities in open world games in general( because of the lag and the server load they put, thus decreasing game play quality in those locations), as a pragmatist, I think that filling empty cities with apartments might be a better way to use space. This wouldn't apply for Cyrene however because even though Janus is a beautiful city, none of the buildings have any use, with some of the buildings unreachable(the buildings on the hill). I am sure the developers are planning something in those buildings.I do commend the developer team for building such beautiful piece of art, but I feel like with current technologies, it is not possible for people to fully gain the potential of such a place. I can only imagine City of Janus, filled with people along the roads with cars going on the roads, but that won't happen.
This brings me to another point: Gathering areas. All the other planets have a semi-official area where people tend to gather in mass numbers to trade, chat, etc. Even though such areas may not be made official by Planet partners, they are at least designed in such a way to allow people to meet. So far, i have yet to find areas that are designed for people to meet. Most gathering areas tend to have limited amount of buildings around them and open gathering areas, usually covered in asphalt like terrain and tend to be spread out or in some cases marked. I tend to expect a typical planet to have this Duality: A city to showcase and represent the planet in some way, shape or form and a gathering area, where people actually gather to conduct trade and socialize. There seem to be empty areas like ARC bases where people can gather since most of the bases have mission brokers. My personal favorite place for a hangout spot would be the Crystal ball gardens.
Another point on ARC bases: I do understand the point on why they are scattered all over the planets to give a perception that they are rebels scattered all over trying to beat the Imperium wherever possible, but i feel like a need for missions linking them is needed. I feel like in addition to fixing these, that the devs bring new missions to weave these bases into story line.
Last Point: To be honest, I don't get the theme or the overlying idea behind Cyrene. I do understand the whole thing about the Imperium and how the ARC is trying to fight them and I think I will understand better when they fully launch the planet. But even after that, Cyrene just seems like a cool sci fi planet.. like Calypso. I feel like Cyrene needs more of a theme, like a Mech planet etc. In simple, i feel like Cyrene needs something to define it.
I am bringing up these points not because i hate the planet. I love Cyrene and I hope it gets all the chance it needs to succeed. However, these problems should be a priority to fix because these complaints refer to the flaws in the backbone of the planet. I feel like these problem should be fixed sooner or later to improve the perception of Cyrene. Its about the Optics and if the planet doesn't look right, it tends to create a bad reputation for the planet.
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Here is my first problem with Cyrene. I feel like a lot of attention has been put in some locations and other locations seem to be lacking buildings and structures. For example, lets look at the City of Janus. It is too big and has too much structures. Now to be fair, every planet seems to have one of these giant somewhat empty cities like
This brings me to another point: Gathering areas. All the other planets have a semi-official area where people tend to gather in mass numbers to trade, chat, etc. Even though such areas may not be made official by Planet partners, they are at least designed in such a way to allow people to meet. So far, i have yet to find areas that are designed for people to meet. Most gathering areas tend to have limited amount of buildings around them and open gathering areas, usually covered in asphalt like terrain and tend to be spread out or in some cases marked. I tend to expect a typical planet to have this Duality: A city to showcase and represent the planet in some way, shape or form and a gathering area, where people actually gather to conduct trade and socialize. There seem to be empty areas like ARC bases where people can gather since most of the bases have mission brokers. My personal favorite place for a hangout spot would be the Crystal ball gardens.
Another point on ARC bases: I do understand the point on why they are scattered all over the planets to give a perception that they are rebels scattered all over trying to beat the Imperium wherever possible, but i feel like a need for missions linking them is needed. I feel like in addition to fixing these, that the devs bring new missions to weave these bases into story line.
Last Point: To be honest, I don't get the theme or the overlying idea behind Cyrene. I do understand the whole thing about the Imperium and how the ARC is trying to fight them and I think I will understand better when they fully launch the planet. But even after that, Cyrene just seems like a cool sci fi planet.. like Calypso. I feel like Cyrene needs more of a theme, like a Mech planet etc. In simple, i feel like Cyrene needs something to define it.
I am bringing up these points not because i hate the planet. I love Cyrene and I hope it gets all the chance it needs to succeed. However, these problems should be a priority to fix because these complaints refer to the flaws in the backbone of the planet. I feel like these problem should be fixed sooner or later to improve the perception of Cyrene. Its about the Optics and if the planet doesn't look right, it tends to create a bad reputation for the planet.
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Good to see you here.
Either way, I think it will be an update to watch! 
Not sure about you, but I really don't want to watch, but play. 
But all this shows that we need to lay off the PP and just let them develop best they can since again I'm guessing it's not their fault they seem to be creating laggy environments. I say this since I was on Cryene the first day it was released and it was a great lag free very detailed world that I just couldn't believe it could be true for me to then turn on all other developers.
Either way, I like the way they are heading!! 