[Idea] More Warpgate Immersion

YES! YES YES!

Have the warpgate have 3 sections (for each one of the shield generation spires) for Infantry, Ground vehicles, and air vehicles.

With "social" areas in between for the hapless women and children that belong to each empire, with cosmetic stores and workers besides the infantry, garages and "blueprint" design centers for the ground vehicles, and landing pads and the like for air vehicles, with the "warp pad" in the center being the location for continent warp, with small teleports for infantry, little vehicle doors for tanks and such, and big portals for air vehicles, with the spare space in between being various meetings ares for the "command" or outfits of each faction!

And of course have propaganda through the warpgates shield showing Auraxis and PS2 lore with inspirational "objectives" and "or purpose" messages of varying lengths and meaning and formats throughout, with enemy messages appearing when and alert is won or the faction is about to be warpgated!

BOO YAH!

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Not sure if someone posted this already, I didn't take time to read the entire thread (because I'm lazy).

Perhaps with the TV in the warpgate idea, it could play the Friday Night Op's when it's going live. Maybe it could play the recaps over the week too. There could also be a terminal that players can access allowing them to change channels and mute/unmute the TV in the warpgate.

*facepalm

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So many wonderful ideas. If any get implemented it will make the initial impression of logging in have depth, give it a stronger feeling of belonging, realm pride and such.

I like the idea of a wall sized leaderboard, current battles underway and the squads or areas asking for help - something like entering the war room, screens on all walls real time feeds of game information and stats. Heck make a strategy room and let leaders enter to manage the war (meta game).

Like others have suggested, NPCs doing drills or prepping equipment around the grounds would increase immersion.

Play wise love the game, feel wise (immersion) anything that could create an atmosphere, that "alive" feeling would be wonderful.

I agree, it feels there is no objective and definitely no feel of belonging and pride. For a mmo, a feel of community is necessary, all of these ideas imo should have been in this game first of all.

This is like a sweet pot of... pot. It's all awesome and such.

I WHOLLY APPROVE! Kindly add this stuff NOW, SOE!

Perhaps add something like Skyrim's radiant AI? ie make NPCs at the base have needs/wants/duties.

Needs would be things like having to eat 3 meals a day, so there'd be a little mess hall with nanite fabricators that dump out food, and all the NPCs are standing in line or sitting chatting with each other on their off hours. Hell, make it so that you can even get some food yourself, because why not? The NPCs would carry around water sacks and take a sip when they're thirsty. They would also have tiny rooms with beds that they could go to sleep in. Or do other things.

Wants is stuff like having NPCs playing games like basketball/chess/etc when they're not taking care of some engineering problem or mopping up the warpgate or something. Perhaps have factions specific games, and maybe even minigames that you can partake in.

Duties would be the aforementioned mopping. Some NPCs could be engineers making sure the shields stay up, others could be janitors doing the mopping (there could even be a mopping minigame!!!!), there could be drill sergeants and new recruits to your faction, generals looking all tacticool in their war rooms, personal chefs since generals don't lower themselves to eating replicated slop, etc.

I can only say, I . friggin . Love. This. Idea.

All these are wonderful and I could imagine when the faction is close to loosing the continent and the message of the enemy commander is being shown on the screens of ours, then at the warpgate a sirenis turned on - evrywhere red lights and our commander would say something like:
,,ALERT!ALERT! Enemy Forces before our Gates, all units - move out!''
The Npc-Soldiers would naturally also try to mobilize (naturally this wont happen) but this would be an epic feeling. Some kind of like:
,,Oh crap! We are on the verge of defeat, move -move -move!''
We definetly need more Immersion at the warpgate.

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It should broadcast propaganda messages in multiple languages like in Serenity with their ads!

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I could also think of the warpgate having instead of a simple huge shield dome two gates - one for the air and ground vehicles and some kind of a assault floor where the Infanterists jump into the fight.
There could also be arranged like a small command room, cards with the current situation of amerish,indar and esamir are stacked on the screens and we would be finally able to see our commanding officer (that dude/girl that speaks everytime we are near to cap/loose a base) or some kind of mighty general who never lost a battle , what do I know? xD And then from him/her you could take several tasks like ,,Shoot 10 Terrans today''
I think that would be much much cooler.
Also what I would like to see is a changing in the spawning of vehicles. They just appear out of nothing, but how about they are built fastly from Metal that is spawned. Or laser glow up and then seem to let nanites build up the vehicle.

So much ideas...the warpgate has still to grow a looooot more

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Except there are no civilians....

Not "civilians" per se, but people too important to be out on the battlefield.

the bumps are strong with this one,