Map Suggestion The properties in v6 suck

[Råbe Peter]

Suggestion Title: The properties in v6 suck
Suggestion Description: The properties in v6 are not ideal. I know they are beautiful and look great, but the suburbs are almost always empty. The only places people are basing is Tidals, Regals and Slums. That is it. And when you are raiding, it is awful everywhere you raid because it is so open. I look to my right and see a large cornfield, and to my left, a petrol station. I miss when you could not be sniped from a road on the other side of the map when you are raiding the office.

I might just be a complaining idiot. And to all the developers, I am not trying to undermine your hard work. I think the map looks amazing.

But please remove suburbs. And industrial 3

Why should this be added?:
- it’s not really a suggestion but it’s just something I’ve been thinking about lately.

What negatives could this have?:
- the developers are gone kill me when I join the server

What problem would this suggestion solve?: I hate suburbs

 

[money]

Suburbs is one of the most raided properties and people base at it often. Maybe you play at times where it's not peak player count so your sample is low.

You will very rarely die from the side of the road when raiding office. Old Office was also much harder to raid, now you got multiple entrances into the properties and also vents and a backdoor. You can even buy a checkpoint property of your own.

I assume you're refering to farm with the cornfield comment since its not even in render distance as suburbs, farm has the same amount of angles where you are exposed as before, but here, you can eliminate 2 by positioning at the big doors over how it was before (3 angles).

 

[peeps]

This isn't a suggestion but I will address it anyway.
Suburbs has been one of the biggest successes of V6, some properties were not well used on launch and have received updates in 6.1 and 6.2 (Slums, Comms Outpost, Wood Cabins, Hicktown). Suburbs has never been one of those, as both the small and large houses are well used. And from my frequent discussions in OOC I have every morning before I start working, Suburbs and the Forest seem to be considered the strongest parts of the map (both by us and the players).

Paralake V7 is now in development, and will bring many changes and improvements. Though as it stands, and in order to keep development time reasonable, Suburbs is likely not going to be seeing any major overhaul for the release of V7 (at least with current plans). It is well liked, and well used. If it ain't broke, so to speak.

And to address the "sniper issue". V5 was just as sniper-able, just in different places. Both maps are open spaces with player freedom to move anywhere. A lot of time was spent testing angles for combat, but you can't cover every single one without compromising how the city feels to play in.