Development Cycle Archive

The purpose of the Friday Feature is to bring a weekly interest piece to the site. This may be in the form of a behind the scenes article, a designer game play guide, screenshots/info on an upcoming features, how to host a successful event guide, etc. Some weeks will be tailored to certain types of players (warning this Friday’s one will be enjoyed by socializers but probably disregarded by achievers). Some weeks will have cool new info like the mounts feature (though we have to limit doing this too much or the marketing folks will get upset at us scooping all their good press – for example don’t expect to hear much about vehicles right away). Some weeks we may even do a “behind the character” look at some players. In other words, we try to vary the content for the different tastes in the community and not every week will be for everyone.

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However, since I want you all to be as happy as you can be, what are your ideas for future Friday Features you would like to see?

Grab a digital camera, and go berzerk around the office taking pictures, then post the good ones. You don't have to post their names.

Hmmmm Socializers...Features not about Guild Chat...why would they do a piece on that broken piece of crap.

haha that would be funny

You can do some new POI's, but i like the feature-a-player.

B.C

Friday Feature?

Sounds familiar.

Keep it like it was in pre-launch!!!

In other words, what you just said!

Get a real life commando to come in and post his interview and if he thinks a 2.5x melee multiplier should occur on heavy weapons

Tell us more about mounts please!!!

Something showing the thought process behind some of the changes/additions to the game. Say showing us how something, player cities for example, evolved from someone saying "Hey, wouldn't it be cool if..." to the testing of it and eventual unveiling of it onto live servers.

I also wouldn't mind seeing something showing the design process of mobs, terrain, buildings, etc. Seeing how the in game environment is made would be interesting also.

Something new and interesting. Players have already made guides. Dont really find them interesting, and it seems like most of them ignore bugs that are in place that prevents things from working that way(the houses one had severa lof them incorrectly named and the PA one mentioned that guildremove worked on targeted player). The structure viewer tool was cool. Mount vid was cool. Player city ones were cool. More stuff like that. Im sure most would agree with me that the guides arent that great and/or interesting.

I'd like to see one Friday Feature to be pure stats. Like a run down per server showing how many people have joined the GCW, how many on each side, how many people have vendors, how many structures are on the ground and what type, count down from most to least popular class, how many Swoopers were killed that week, ect. If you can track it, post it. I'm pretty sure there's someone in your office that loves this stuff and it wouldn't be to hard to get a report together.

So for one FF just give us some kind of raw report for us to drool over. But make it big so it'll take us the weekend to digest.

What the heck is going on with the Space Expansion?

How about bits of news about expansion..such as progress and even hints.....