Curse

Flame · Apr 21, 2005, 01:03 PM // 13:03

I love this game. I spent hours this BWE just exploring. But if there's one thing this game needs, it's some plains. I'm tired of walking through rocky terrain and mountain passes and places with one definite path. I wish there were just some nice, open places to go through.

That is to say, not completely devoid of life and hills, but just without so many restrictive walls. If there is a group of Tengu coming towards me, I want to be able to go around them without running into another group. Between Lion's Arch and the Ascalon Colony is a good example of this, but is very heavily populated, to the point that straying off the path is just asking to get mobbed by enemies.

Horogan Sivoris · Apr 21, 2005, 01:24 PM // 13:24

Yeah, a medow or something would be nice, especially because in the long grass you could use the /sit command to hide from enemies or something.

PawnBoy · Apr 21, 2005, 02:20 PM // 14:20

In presearing they have some of that kind of terrain. And shortly after yaks bend, there are some snowy plains. They're not as large as other MMO's, and they're far more complex, but that does mean that ArenaNet's put more work into designing it's terrain. I feel like tons of plain feels like a cheap way of adding lots more explorable area.

But then again, nice sunny plains, with lots of grass blowing in the wind....ahhh. Sounds like a nice place for a large rural town, where everyone could lie down in the grass and talk.

Pevil Lihatuh · Apr 21, 2005, 02:50 PM // 14:50

ooh the rural town idea sounds great! Yeah I love what they've done with the scenary etc so far but I would love a wide open expanse to just run across, perhaps a good place for tamers? Lots of things to tame etc, herds of Moa Birds and stuff.

You know what else would be cool? Moors. They can be hilly OR flat OR both, with tons of low-growing plants (mainly heather of course lol) and it would look great.

Flame · Apr 21, 2005, 09:02 PM // 21:02

I'm not asking for all of Kryta to become plains, it's just there's really not much breathing room in some of the areas now. Just because plains don't have the same kinds of walls, doesn't mean they have to be simple either. Depressions could make prime hiding spots for Charr (or even special NPCs that don't appear on the map!), hills could have watchtowers with functional stairs to the top, stuff like that.