yes and noThomas2052 wrote:A lot of maybe and probably then. In regards to the issue about subscription, wouldn't this have a positive effect as many more people will buy the game and previous titles?
remember if you have a persistant universe this requires a continues or periodic input of money in order to pay for its upkeep (power, internet peoples wages etc.)
if you charge a subscription it will cover these and the cost of the game can cover development costs
but
if there is no subscription then you have to have enough new people buying the game to cover these costs as well as people leaving the game
note people must leave at the same rate as new join other wise the mantanance cost will increase while your income stays the same which would be a problem.
secondly if you have a potentiol of say 100000 people and you estimate a 10% market share i.e 10000 people when you have sold the game to that many people you have a problem as there is no one else to buy the game
which means you have no income but you still have maintanace costs which meas you are continuosly losing money and will go out of buisness
hmm i think if you have a transporter you could probably somthinng very similar. if you don`t you will probably have to either both dock somewhere or eject your cargo into space for the other person to collect40) Will you be able to trade ship to ship in the simple Freelancer style?
Sorry, I should have explained it for those who have never played freelancer. In freelancer, to trade with another person in a ship, you just had to go within a certain distance and press 'u' which would send them a message that, if agreed to, would open up a window where you simply display the goods/cash and they display what they're willing to pay trade for it. What I am asking here is whether you will need an upgrade to trade ship to ship otherwise you would have to land and go through the whole transfer routine.not sure what you mean
Thanks for the (rather vague) replies anyhow!!!
you might be able to dock your ships together and do a cargo transfer that way but i don`t know about that.
i can`t realy be anything other than vague as very little infomation in available
fly into planets and crash almost certainlyVoidlessVoid wrote:I have a question. Just how much of the enviroment is going to be interactive. Can you fly into planits and crash or maybe distroy the gateways.
destroy gates i doubt it.
a the gates are supposed to be in general very tough (the gate destroyed earth gate is a special case) and
b. the ancients wouldn`t take kindly to having there gates destroyed, you could wake up on a planet without a ship, it would probably be a nice planet but you would still be stuck there that or they would just rebuild it again, which they would probably do anyway.