Increase of Assets on maps

[Ath192]

The devil is indeed in the details and adding so much further contributes to lag and killing any kind of immersion and playability for a lot of people.

I've heard they would actually like to have the cities be one whole zone at some point, but something like this would be a step backwards from that goal.

Hmmm I would disagree with this direction. Zone loading isn't that big of an issue imo and rather than get one giant static zone I'd rather have 3 dynamic ones. Further more technology moves forward so as the ps4 becomes deprecated and the shortages abate there is all the more reason to make the game move forward along with the world's technology.

Optimization can go a long way as well to ease the lag issues, which is why a game can look better and perform better than other jankier games with worse graphics.

If both were possible then all the better but:

Rich dynamic zones > eliminating 5 second loading times