FFXI's world environment

[Aeni]

Re: FFXI's world environment

well, for what it is worth, there was a hint in the latest TAU developer interview that besieged cities (albiet in TAU zones) may be a possibility.

Are you kidding? The last time we had one of those events was back in early retail and beta. Just trying not to get disconnected while 300+ players are beating up on some kind of monster that never shows up on the screen is frustrating, to say the least.

[Kafeen]

Re: FFXI's world environment

PS2 probably couldn't do it you're right. And even if stuff like this were added to the game on the PC and Xbox360 versions, it's moot. The FFXI engine is already stretched to its limits, and no amount of faster hardware will change that. However, for any follow ups to FFXI that Square does (and it's inevitable) stuff like this would probably happen. Though I doubt they would make it so every leaf on a tree could fall, that would be wasting system and development resources on a very small detail But there are many ways the developers can make it so that the leaves on a tree seem alive without actually going through the trouble of rendering all of them as individual objects. Kind of like how pixel shaders and all that jazz give the illusion of many more polygons on a model than there actually is.

There's no reason the PS2 couldn't do it. As you correctly said, it isn't going to be any more intencive on VRAM, the only noticable increase would the hard drive space used.

[Manatra]

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There's no reason the PS2 couldn't do it. As you correctly said, it isn't going to be any more intencive on VRAM, the only noticable increase would the hard drive space used.

I was referring to the trees in the second part of my post :p

[TheGrandMom]

Re: FFXI's world environment

It's unfortunate that the thread was derailed by the "techies". It was just a fun thread throwing out ideas about things we would like to see in the game but know that SE would never listen to us and put them in. Your technical specifications were off topic, just try to have some fun.