Derelicts with loot, alien critter attacks, infested wrecks, hidden wormholes that port across the same system to bypass checkpoints, off-grid criminal enterprises to put down, Covalex Gundo type investigation missions, searching for advance vanduul parties, solving audio log mysteries, etc. Like you could basically take the NMS approach to stuff that spawns on planets/in-system, except with way, way more fidelity. There's no way there's enough systems for procedural loops to work in that way, but I can think of plenty of procedural anomalies to investigate to make things interesting. Then turn around and sell the coordinates to a salvager once you've had first dibs! I'm guessing a lot of exploration will also be about treasure hunting stuff like derelicts - look for a signal, find an abandoned wreck, explore it for valuables/information, etc.
Maybe discovery/ Exploration becomes as much Diplomacy, and UEE politesse and Corporate intrigue as it is finding a new asteroid region or jump point. Our imagination may outstrip the content that can be provided unlike Piracy where the Players themselves supply the content quantity or mining where the ships harvest very little of the resource, even the Orion.ĭiscovery can be define a huge swath of game content- that has to be shrunk down to match the content that can be produced- CI can do it. Whatever ships you take out of port the ground rules will determine what you do more than the effectiveness of probes or scanners. There doesn't seem to be enough systems to allow players not to bump into each other- unless systems are huge and numerous.
Star citizen endeavor free#
How expansive, how broad is the Exploration gameplay, how important is the Exploration gameplay, how far reaching and all encompassing is Exploration in the 'Verse.Ĭan you claim territory with pioneer/ base building ships without an Exploration crew charting and registering the claim, maybe defending it prior to work beginning.Īre Exploration ships carrying a UE charter to claim territories, are they empowered to claim and enforce claims.Ĭan you begin a mining operation where ever or are there free and claimed regions, planetary, asteroid, undersea etc.Īre there gold rush staking races to map territories after a resource mother load is discovered, do you have to set down a mining ship/ hab, remain in stationary orbit until the UE dudes show up.
That is, it's not what the Odyssey or Endeavour or Carrack can do, each with their own specialty. The scale might be much smaller and just an adjunct/ off shoot of mining / mineral resource mapping, claiming, jump point mapping, claiming- which could be awesome but still below the expansive Dreams of the backers. The jury is out as to whether exploration can satisfy the Explorer type of player without a "Stellar Forge" procedural galaxy of planetary systems. So, don't fret too much about which of the Great big Ships to buy when the realism, gameplay satisfaction of these complicated and undefined game loops is still up in the air.
Star citizen endeavor series#
The gameplay implementation of exploration/ research could be amazing or could be a series of Coloured Ray gun tools. Will Star Citizen do better? Think so but it won't be dependent on the Ships. Will it be fun to endless chart jump worm holes? Love Exploration in Elite Dangerous even though it's so repetitive, lacking in detail, variety, fidelity. Excited bout me Carrack but then it's fun to ferry around with Cargo and a runabout.
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