Wish List Pitch Black!

[Fifth]

Cyrene has this unique atmosphere - somber, dark and mysterious. The pitch black night was the best time to experience it fully.... but it's hard to hunt in the middle of the night.

Best solution would be a bigger planet so we would have an option to "follow the sun".

(had a few more ideas & figured it's better to keep 'em in a separate topic)

So, suppose one day we indeed could "follow the sun". What will change? What can we do with this?

Hardcore skiller will start looking for similar spawn on the "dayside" so he can keep doing the mission. If he won't find any he gets all grumpy and says i go to other planets where things are easy.
If he there is another similar spawn somewhere on the other hemisphere things will improve for him and he's happy. New rhythm (day and night), change of scenery, the long and boring missions will become less monotonous.

Adventurer might find completely new features on the "nightside". The place will be almost empty at night, anyone who's still there is prolly there for a different reason than mindless grinding.

Pitch Black, anyone? The swarm of flesh-eating alien bat-like flying things that come out only when the planet is engulfed in darkness.
I'm imagining they keep rotating around you (similar to shark AI), don't have much HP and don't do much damage per hit, but there's a lot of them and they are pitch black.
U will need a team... or maybe something with area damage. Imagine group of ppl shooting in the air with flamethrowers... or the explosions of the grenade launcher in the darkness.

There's lot of things that can be hidden in darkness. Most of them dangerous, some rewarding, i.e: a crystal that can only be found by it's faint glow.

New items. Flaslight attachment for the gun. Nightvision goggles. Torch that illuminates the whole area around you.

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Ok, folks, pick it up from here. Unless u think it's a stupid idea alltogether.

 

[Master Chief]

New items. Flaslight attachment for the gun.

Flashlight for gun already exist called the enkidd dismalites. Reason not many of these exist is because of the material list. I do like the pitch black when Cyrene first came out, that's when i was selling firewall armor sets like crazy!

 

[Thanatos]

i like those ideas, especially the night only respawns etc

 

[Kris | Cyrene]

This is a really fun idea!

Good for the wish list, who knows what the future will hold?

Cheers,
Kris

 

[Fifth]

The Red Circle​

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There was a sci-fi book where astronauts after landing on some distant planet found a dying crew member of a previously landed spacecraft. The guy kept rambling something on russian (that nobody could understand). Before he died he uttered "Avoid the Red Circle!" on english.​

Finally they found out there was a certain amoeba on that planet that had a red glow. Those amoebas (billions of them) were attracted to the epicenter of the rising radioactive/seismic activity, thus forming a slowly shrinking red circle on the ground (only visible in darkness). Shortly after in the epicenter there was a powerful explosion.​

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So that's where i took the idea for a new format/type of an ingame event. Partly wave spawn (mobs keep spawning and immediately start moving towards the center), but no boss mob - a different reward in the end.
Idea is to aggregate hunting event with mining/treasure hunting - the reward is underground, some kind of mining claim in the center of the event/spawn area. Not accessible before event and if not claimed will disappear again after. Could be a special ore/treasure, could be a token (beacon or key).

Current game mechanics already provide most of components, except precisely positioned claim with a timer.
Works anywhere but darkness would allow some pretty nice visual effects.

Again, just an idea. Maybe, someday...