Trains and Transport Meets Zerglings...

[Rerg]

........ Yeah, but it could also form some sort of a safe haven.

Maybe like if you've been in combat you have like 30mins to come in the clear.

[Grind]

I'm probably just confused as to what you guys are talking about. But didn't they already say that each faction will have it's own main city and there will be no fighting in those cities?

As to the load times, I'm not sure how they do it, but with the streaming technology or whatever I think everyone will ride the train for the same amount of time, all kind of leaving and arriving at the same time. If it works like WoW (you can walk through an entire continent without going through a loading screen) then there has to be some sort of system they can use to make the trains work so everyone arrives at the same time.

There are for sure people in WoW that lag a lot and they don't load or anything either, they just teleport around because they are lagging so much lol. They do kind of lose some time though because everytime they lag they aren't moving, so one second they'll be right next to you, and the next they'll teleport and be 5 steps behind you.

So then again I really don't know how it will work lol. I just figured everyone would ride the train at the same time. (kind of like the trams in WoW).

By the way, I'm really happy that once this game comes out, I won't have to hear about WoW so much and its little feries and magical gnomes that shoot glitter beams out of their bottoms.

[Rerg]

I think there could be some way to figure that stuff out.
Like only typing on a train not much physical movement. :X

[Grind]

I'm sure they have something worked out. and I'm sure it will serve us just fine :D.

Anyone know if you can buy your own vehicle and travel around to different places that way?

[Lucran]

Ya you can own your own vechile. In another post people are even talking about customizing them.(We havent heard anything about it though just speculating)

[Grind]

Good to hear, I'm excited to see how they will actually put them into the game, as in using them in battle or if they're just for transport to different battles. And customizations would be sweet.

[impulsive]

i think you would move around on the train and go up to a group of players standing in a circle and wave n say hello i wonder tho when your in a train with 100 players so much text would come up, would be better if text came above there heads so you know who is saying it

and i be like come on you Sapiens do you want to live forever!!!! and there like wooyaa!!

and there be like somguy doing movie quotes

Keep the sand out of your weapons, keep those actions clear. I'll see you on the beach!

Clear the ramp! Thirty seconds. God be with ya!

We're not here to do the decent thing! We're here to follow *Censored Word**Censored Word**Censored Word**Censored Word*ing orders!

The only good ALTERNATIVE is a dead ALTERNATIVE!!!!

....ok i m bored now

[Grind]

hahaha I don't know if above the head text is a good idea. anyone ever play swg? People advertisign for their store or whatever would have HUGE towers of text above their head lmao. In a little train we would probably see our screen fill up with text boxes .

The only thing I could think of is limiting how many messages you can send when your in the train. Like you have to wait 5-10 seconds or something everytime you type something.

100 people on a train all at once would be really awesome though. Everyone heading to the same fight, getting all ready, going over strats and stuff. Man I'm pumped for this game :D

[impulsive]

it sounds pretty cool i allways loved ww2 fps games
like a beach map were you and your team all spawn in the landing crafts and you run up and there is bullets wizing past you and you see team mates to the left and right of you die its a pretty cool feeling

just think of the movie enemy at the gates or saving pvt ryan at the start of the movies

what if this train ride to a battle ground once the doors open you all charge out there bullets wizing past you

orrr your on the train facing the commander and he does like a braveheart speech and everyone chears


edit ok the commander might say ----v

Sapien Commander:And if this is your army, why does it go?
Sapiens Soldier: We didn't come here to fight for them.
Sapiens Soldier: The Alternix are too many!!!
Sapiens Commander: Sons of Sapien city! I am the Sapien Leader.
Second Soldier: Sapien commander is seven feet tall!
Sapien commander:Yes, I've heard. Kills men by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he'd consume the Alternix with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse
Sapien commander:I AM Sapien commander ! And I see a whole army of my Sapiens, here, in defiance of our way of life and citys. You've come to fight as free men, we are the superior species!!. What will you do with that freedom? Will you fight?
Soldier: Against that? No, we'll run, and we'll live.
Sapien Commander: Aye, fight and you may die, run, and you'll live... at least for a while. And dying in your Citys, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell the Alternix that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rerg]

Guys, they can send train by train every 30 seconds.
No way it will get croweded. :D

[Flasher702]

"Trains" damn well better be instantaneous. Flight path time in WoW was so annoying. If they wanted to give players a quick easy way to get somewhere they should just let them do it instantaneously anytime they want. If they don't want to give you a quick easy way there they should make you walk through zergling-infested swamps (or maybe drive or something, anything to make at least a little challenging and not-boring). I don't wanna be having to keep track of a stupid train schedule in a *game* and sit around for 5 minutes while there is basically nothing for me to do except re-arrange my inventory. If I'm supposed to meet my quad for some epic battle I don't want to have to tell them I missed a virtual train and that I'll be late xD

If the game developers are going to set up locations where they expect lots of people to go frequently they should just let them do it instantaneously. There is no point in making it slow and tedious for no reason. If there is someplace they want to be off-the-beaten-track they should make it *hard* to get there. Waiting around for raids to assemble in WoW was god-awful because people would just go AFK out of boredom and make it take forever. I don't want that. Games should not be boring.

[impulsive]

i think its cool you wont be the only one waiting for a train you can talk to others waiting to pass the time or bunny hop around the place

[Ghos7]

What I really hope you can do is be able to get in a plane, and than parashoot onto the battlefield, or get up in orbit, and do an orbital drop onto the battlefield.

[Specops54]

Originally Posted by Ghos7

:O

I can't believe some people have not played KOTOR. That has like the biggest twist I've ever seen in a game ever. That game also sent me into a spiraling state of trying to become the dark lord of the forums I have joined(It has also made me try to take over the world, but I don't seem to have enough education to rule a world). Well, anyway, you meetbags can keep wasting your lives away and not play KOTOR. Whatever. Back to topic.

I think that the trains and transports are the things that should be attacked if your not on your way to a safe city. They should be the cheap types of transportation, that only the poorest characters use. Then there are the better types of transportation, where you spend some money and and take a safe flight on a plane/dropship/transport(whatever it's called).

What About the probability of said transport being blown out of the sky by those big dudes with guns for arms??

[RobotFace]

;o That would be teh sweetnezzz. >;o
I should attack people on trains.
Just to make sure they are paying attention. x]

[Pyjack]

I'd rather have a helo loaded out with a few chain guns and some missles, pop that bitch into a hover and unload in a 360 degree pattern of death, deploy flares and GTFO, then theres getting shot down in the middle of the enemies trying to make it out alive which normally doesn't work out too well. Helicopters are much better for transporting than a train would be, you bet your ass i'll have my pilot license especially if there are Helo's (hoping there is).

[Centaurus87]

Zerglings? Wut? I thought the Starcraft MMO was an april fools joke!

:P