Size of the Game?

[bourland]

How many servers will there be? From the gameplay area it looks like it will be swamped on the first day...and we know it might crash...if you've played other games before.
Any consideration of an offline mode?

[Vylqun]

no consideration for an offline mode. Its an mmo, why do ppl keep asking for an offline or single player mode? Wait for a dedicated Dune RPG to be developed for that...

[Mick Savage]

The server setup is like CE, so they'll have to spin up as many servers as needed, but many of them will merge once the hype is over.

The only MMO part of this game is the one PvE zone that connects all the servers, it's where the market is and where all players will buy and sell stuff they find in the desert.

The only issue doing it this way is some servers will be full while others are empty, at least until the player base gets settled and servers get merged. That might take a few months.

[bourland]

{The only MMO part of this game is the one PvE zone that connects all the servers}
I'm going there to shoot you all and then crash because I'm too much for you all.
Playing offline is like leveling on your own and then re-entering the game as a new and improved, or like when the internet is down and you play so you don't freak in the game chair. I wish EVE Online let you play like that...imagine all the noobs entering the zone and Twitch showing all the Carnage.

[®♪AN7♪®]

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Online mode and Offline mode
seting game main menu

[Vylqun]

i really can't grasp why people have such a hard time understanding what the term "MMO" implies O_o

[bourland]

MMO needs content, when has an MMO at the highest level won subs when it does not add content. New Areas, Underground Battles, Planet Conquests, Large Arenas, etc.
To be Honest, this game does not look like the devs have added a programmer to make these ideas yet.

[Mick Savage]

Originally posted by bourland:

MMO needs content, when has an MMO at the highest level won subs when it does not add content. New Areas, Underground Battles, Planet Conquests, Large Arenas, etc.
To be Honest, this game does not look like the devs have added a programmer to make these ideas yet.

I've tried they don't understand.

MMO's are huge with tons of stuff for players to do, this game has exactly one thing to do and that's find stuff in the desert to upgrade your gear or sell it.

That is it lol

[Duke Nukem]

There will be multiple shards of servers. Think New World. So not like Conan at all, and by the looks of it no private servers. Hagga Basin is the size of CE (Conan Exciles) being 50 some odd KM squared. Where the Deep Desert is 500KM squared. Servers like Hagga Basin are supposed to be minimum 40 players, where Deep Desert is 100s.
Source > https://youtu.be/5KYT2SssNPQ?si=omrmdu2p47TG7Rs5

[bourland]

I need some vids on entering the game and saving the spot I exit at. Maybe that would help some.

[Baphomeat]

Originally posted by Vylqun:

i really can't grasp why people have such a hard time understanding what the term "MMO" implies O_o

Because MMORPGs like WoW have rotted their brains to not understand the term.

Especially with stuff like halo having BTB (Big Team battle) having almost as many players as some MMO style games.

There are 2 issues with calling a game an MMO.

1. People automatically assume it's an MMORPG in the same sense of a large scale WoW or something along those lines. Despite older MMORPGs being glorified social sims like Guild Wars 1 was... the 'MMO' part was MOSTLY the city hubs, and all of the area between them were small instanced mission zones.... but GW2 was still an MMO.

Dauntless is an MMO.
Warframe is an MMO.
First Descendant is an MMO.

MMO is a strange term where something like League of Legends isn't one... despite that the actual GAME of League has more players than a typical mission in Warframe. (5v5 Summoners vs 4 Tenno)

2. They automatically assume it's an RPG... they also have misconceptions about what RPGs are.

Borderlands is an RPG.
Lies of P is an RPG.
WoW is an RPG.

Role Playing Game > a game where you play a role. WoW and Skyrim you are your own character who gets injected into the story beats of the game. Lies of P and Borderlands you take up the mantle of an existing character and play their role in the world. RPGs much like MMOs are a wide category of games that people misunderstand...

Especially when those two terms are combined.

[Mick Savage]

Originally posted by Baphomeat:

Originally posted by Vylqun:

i really can't grasp why people have such a hard time understanding what the term "MMO" implies O_o

Because MMORPGs like WoW have rotted their brains to not understand the term.

Especially with stuff like halo having BTB (Big Team battle) having almost as many players as some MMO style games.

There are 2 issues with calling a game an MMO.

1. People automatically assume it's an MMORPG in the same sense of a large scale WoW or something along those lines. Despite older MMORPGs being glorified social sims like Guild Wars 1 was... the 'MMO' part was MOSTLY the city hubs, and all of the area between them were small instanced mission zones.... but GW2 was still an MMO.

Dauntless is an MMO.
Warframe is an MMO.
First Descendant is an MMO.

MMO is a strange term where something like League of Legends isn't one... despite that the actual GAME of League has more players than a typical mission in Warframe. (5v5 Summoners vs 4 Tenno)

2. They automatically assume it's an RPG... they also have misconceptions about what RPGs are.

Borderlands is an RPG.
Lies of P is an RPG.
WoW is an RPG.

Role Playing Game > a game where you play a role. WoW and Skyrim you are your own character who gets injected into the story beats of the game. Lies of P and Borderlands you take up the mantle of an existing character and play their role in the world. RPGs much like MMOs are a wide category of games that people misunderstand...

Especially when those two terms are combined.

You managed to get it completely wrong lol

Nobody said anything about RPG, you pulled that out of thin air. An MMO is a game on a single server with thousands of players doing various things. This game is not even close to any of that.

Because this game has ONE single goal and it does NOT host thousands of players on a single server. So it is NOT an MMO no matter how many Dune Devs say it does lol

[Baphomeat]

Originally posted by Mick Salvage:

Originally posted by Baphomeat:

Because MMORPGs like WoW have rotted their brains to not understand the term.

Especially with stuff like halo having BTB (Big Team battle) having almost as many players as some MMO style games.

There are 2 issues with calling a game an MMO.

1. People automatically assume it's an MMORPG in the same sense of a large scale WoW or something along those lines. Despite older MMORPGs being glorified social sims like Guild Wars 1 was... the 'MMO' part was MOSTLY the city hubs, and all of the area between them were small instanced mission zones.... but GW2 was still an MMO.

Dauntless is an MMO.
Warframe is an MMO.
First Descendant is an MMO.

MMO is a strange term where something like League of Legends isn't one... despite that the actual GAME of League has more players than a typical mission in Warframe. (5v5 Summoners vs 4 Tenno)

2. They automatically assume it's an RPG... they also have misconceptions about what RPGs are.

Borderlands is an RPG.
Lies of P is an RPG.
WoW is an RPG.

Role Playing Game > a game where you play a role. WoW and Skyrim you are your own character who gets injected into the story beats of the game. Lies of P and Borderlands you take up the mantle of an existing character and play their role in the world. RPGs much like MMOs are a wide category of games that people misunderstand...

Especially when those two terms are combined.

You managed to get it completely wrong lol

Nobody said anything about RPG, you pulled that out of thin air. An MMO is a game on a single server with thousands of players doing various things. This game is not even close to any of that.

Because this game has ONE single goal and it does NOT host thousands of players on a single server. So it is NOT an MMO no matter how many Dune Devs say it does lol

Ahh i'm dealing with an illiterate.

Reread these statements I used in the above post you clearly didn't actually read:

1. **Because MMORPGs like WoW have rotted their brains to not understand the term.** > I was stating MMORPGs because this is a true statement whenever an MMO comes out people (jump to the next point)...

2. **People automatically assume it's an MMORPG** > this is 100% true look at any other parts of the discussions and this is true. I'm sorry that I have recollection abilities to remember things that are said outside of a single discussion board.

The MMO explaination was to break down your initial question (and i'm not wrong despite you pretending I am.... how about if i'm wrong you prove it and don't just say 'ha you're wrong' and expect me to believe a word you spit out of your mouth).

I explained RPG because this game is ALSO an RPG... you are meant to take on the role of someone on Arrakkis. I explained MMO to counter your point specifically but because you can't talk about MMORPG without covering both facets I had to explain RPG.

[Mick Savage]

Originally posted by Baphomeat:

Originally posted by Mick Salvage:

You managed to get it completely wrong lol

Nobody said anything about RPG, you pulled that out of thin air. An MMO is a game on a single server with thousands of players doing various things. This game is not even close to any of that.

Because this game has ONE single goal and it does NOT host thousands of players on a single server. So it is NOT an MMO no matter how many Dune Devs say it does lol

Ahh i'm dealing with an illiterate.

Reread these statements I used in the above post you clearly didn't actually read:

1. **Because MMORPGs like WoW have rotted their brains to not understand the term.** > I was stating MMORPGs because this is a true statement whenever an MMO comes out people (jump to the next point)...

2. **People automatically assume it's an MMORPG** > this is 100% true look at any other parts of the discussions and this is true. I'm sorry that I have recollection abilities to remember things that are said outside of a single discussion board.

The MMO explaination was to break down your initial question (and i'm not wrong despite you pretending I am.... how about if i'm wrong you prove it and don't just say 'ha you're wrong' and expect me to believe a word you spit out of your mouth).

I explained RPG because this game is ALSO an RPG... you are meant to take on the role of someone on Arrakkis. I explained MMO to counter your point specifically but because you can't talk about MMORPG without covering both facets I had to explain RPG.

Again you prove how ignorant you are lol

Nobody said MMORPG, that's all you because you can't read. They said MMO but its not an MMO because it has separate servers and only one goal, find spice.

Not an MMO, you can cry all day long but it will never be an MMO lol

[Vylqun]

Originally posted by Mick Salvage:

Again you prove how ignorant you are lol
[...]
Not an MMO, you can cry all day long but it will never be an MMO lol

You must be trolling, because i realyl fail to understand how you would think that a game with a gigantic zone where 1k+ players can play in doesnt meet the (very broad) term 'MMO'
Does your braincapacity only allow you to memorize the "40+ player pve zones" and has no space to remember the "1k+ players deep desert"?^^

[Bloodartist]

Originally posted by bourland:

How many servers will there be?

As far as I know, they are going to abstract the servers so that there is in effect just one big world. Like Eve online does it. Some areas are "safe" and some are pvp zones. You use the ornithopter to move between areas. Joel Bylos explains it in one of the dev directs.