How will instancing and factories work? Will it be the same factory for all the sector instances, or will there be an equivalent factory for every instance?asked by Rohar the Plunderer

No, so the economy and factories are not instanced at all. That's all persistent. All those nodes are persistent. The planet's persistent. Any shops that are on a planet, that's all persistent. The only instancing is a temporary thing, which is what we're handling in space to basically handle the fact that you could have more players in one area of space than we could handle, both on the client side with the amount of ships you have to draw and also on the server side. But all the economy and resources is persistent. It's not instanced at all. So I guess the answer would be no.