How widely spread are these contested zones and asteroid bases around the Pyro system?
TL;DRAbout five contested zones are currently planned, fairly evenly spread across Pyro, with some locked behind progression or keys, and the longer-term branches require ingredients found in other places.
So currently we are planning for about five contested zones and these are in a select few stations all pretty evenly spread along the Pyro system. Some of them being in very specific places that are only be able to be accessed once you progress to a specific stage or once you have actually gained a couple items you can get to that location and unlock the interior basically. So multiple contested zones might not be immediately accessible to the player. There's some that will require you to complete others to to then find the keys to others basically or to specific branches within these contested zones. So it's a mix and match a bit.
Is there any sort of is there anything intended or planned that would start you in one contested zone and make you go to another contested zone to finish or complete? Or are they just contained experiences within each one?
John can explain this a bit better after me, but the intention is that we have contested zones or we give certain categorization to to certain branches or sections of a contested zone. So we have a short term kind of branch. For example, we have a midterm and a long term one and in the long term it is a requirement to find specific ingredients in other places to be able to access that long term branch right and whilst short term or midterm ones are there to complete the dungeon itself or basically go in there and do some farm runs or loot runs.
Yeah, gotcha. So there's not going to be too much advantage to just holding up in one. You're not going to be able to complete the the ultimate objectives of these contested zones by just staying put in one place and holding it forever.
You will have to go to multiple of them and progress.
Yeah, you might do it to take away somebody else's enjoyment, but you won't gain anything as far as the progression for your character and stuff by doing so.
K:Yeah.