I can just imagine myself mining ore or even hunting for boars in the middle of a firefight, lol

No ..no I don't think so.

Originally posted by Khondor
Any chance this game will add crafting and maybe an economy?

Its a shooter game, not a real mmo or should i say mmorpg for the ones that cant tell the difference.

It's a pure PVP game, everything is about pvp.
You gain ressources by PVPing NOT PVE grinding materials.
Your gear > from PVP.
Your (temporary) vehicles, grenades everything is obtained by PVP (even if other players captured the ressource territory).

Everything that is temporary consumable to a permanent upgrade is obtained through PVP.
Anything tried to fit into this game coming from "MMO Crafting" would completly break it.

The last thing the PS2 pvpers want to see are concepts like flower picking, clicking on buttons in your base and then spam healing potions from these.

Engineers are tiny crafters allready,but much more is needed,and more uses for them

Vehicles should have some kind of damage system,slows them down ,makes targeting harder,something that makes them need engineers more.

And more player built structures is needed,maybe something like,if theres 5 engineers around or maybe 10,they could  build something more effective together than that 1 tiny miniturret.

Or something like that engineers ,if they are skilled enough or if theres more of them around,could upgrade tanks ,turrets or something like that.

So its not ok when mmorpg's get homogenised by the influence of other genres but it is ok to do this to the fps genre?

Well if you want to step out of a few hundred person pitched battle to hit some rocks - more power to you. I'll be playing the fps like a fps and enjoying the easy kills offered by the pick swinging genre confused.

Yap, Crafting will come, sooner or later. Check out Smed's Blog here and you can see whats on the List for PS2 in the next years.

http://john-smedley.livejournal.com/2412.html

Looks not that bad.

Going by various remarks made by Smed, they do have some future plan for tying resources to outfit-owned bases and such. Nobody knows how that will work, or even if it will ever make it into the game. It's on the long term wishlist...

However, I doubt that it will be "crafting as we know it" in standard MMO's.

Besides, players in PS2 don't have any inventory space. The team expressly designed it that way, even with the loud and constant objections from PS1 vets.