Star Citizen: Reverse the Verse LIVE - Prototyping Gameplay

I'll write stuff out. I have the notebook that this came out of. It's just a bunch of random sketching of the idea that's illegible, completely incomprehensible. But I basically tried it out a couple of times.

So one of the ideas was to have, on top of being able to do this system of select four sequence types to figure out what the outcome is, that an additional level of complexity for higher tier puzzles would be that your four actually duplicate. So running a sequence of those four and then running the first two of the sequence, the last two of the sequence, and then those four, and I end up with eight numbers. So that's all very confusing until you start actually playing with it. And it makes it basically now you're playing three games of Mastermind. So if this ever ended up being too easy, fear not. It can get way crazier.

So the idea is generally that I don't like when niche gameplay is constrained to being niche gameplay, if that makes any sense. I don't like it when the thing that you're doing has no consequence outside of the thing that you're doing. Trade and mining is really great because it alters the economy. It alters where value is for pirates and people who are protecting things and protecting you from pirates and also for the price of things in various areas. The way that those things build on each other makes it compelling to me. So having this able to link into having artifacts, or samples that could exist in distant regions of space, that leads to exploration gameplay. The fact that those things could decay based on if they take damage or maybe they are on a time limit, maybe they need to be cold or something and they just decay naturally.