If you could ask a defiance dev one question.....explained inside

[Jenbuu]

there is a chance that i will be speaking to the devs some time this week and i wanted to know, what you the community would ask if you could ask them one question.

I will select a few to ask them.

Jenbuu

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[ShadowStrider 7]

What came first? The show or the game?
Also, how did Trion and SyFy decide on teaming up like they are?

[Archangel]

there is a chance that i will be speaking to the devs some time this week and i wanted to know, what you the community would ask if you could ask them one question.

I will select a few to ask them.

Jenbuu

p.s also found on reddit

Any questions i have i PM Sledge. He does a great job getting to them.

Umm, my question would be, could i also have a chance to speak directly to the devs and thank them for such a sweet game!

[Xiiego94]

What do you (Syfy and Trion) think about having the show set in San Francisco and the game in St. Louis? At a later time of course.

[Chuck Zitto]

What came first? The show or the game?
Also, how did Trion and SyFy decide on teaming up like they are?

The show and game were decided on at the same time about 4 years ago. I have heard this several times. My question would be what is the future plans for pvp. Man I would really like to see something like clan wars faction wars or fortresses clans can cap and hold similar to planetside.

[EdgeTW]

What do you (Syfy and Trion) think about having the show set in San Francisco and the game in St. Louis? At a later time of course.

This has been answered a few times at Defiance convention panels (available for viewing on youtube). It was done on purpose to prevent players from complaining about not being able to directly intervene in the plot, attack major characters, etc. And it seemed to come about as part of a request from the writers on the show side.

[russell733]

A detailed explanation of how the whole shard thing works

[EdgeTW]

A detailed explanation of how the whole shard thing works

What are you confused about, exactly? Everyone plays in the same world (you can think of it as a mega-server setup) provided they use the same gaming platform and are in the same region (NA, EU, etc).

From there, each map is divided into instances (copies of the same map) to keep the population of each map manageable. Likely there is a cap on each map which then triggers the creation of a new instance.

[Paladin2369]

What I would like to know is why have 4 backgrounds when there appears to be no differentiation between them when it comes to game play?

[Archangel]

What I would like to know is why have 4 backgrounds when there appears to be no differentiation between them when it comes to game play?

Shards are for clutter. To many people in one shard would cause lag. So to keep the player population evenly spread out they created shards.

This wont stop you from being able to play with friends on your friends list or clan mates since you can just teleport to them which automatically joins the shard they are in.