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Do you ever find yourself being challenged with a 'dream big' mentality vs a 'be realistic' mentality? How does that play out for you in your role?asked by Belzoth

TL;DRThe speaker says the dream-big versus be-realistic tension comes up all the time, so the team is focusing first on fundamentals like the first system and persistence, with larger plans later.

[Special Episode with answers from Erin Roberts]All the time. So, we have obviously a huge list of what we want Star Citizen to be and what we try and do is really work on the different stages of getting us to the stars as it were. So, we spend a lot of time and if you guys saw the size of our design of what we have and all the different levels we have which are just well beyond stuff we even do this year and so forth, and a lot of stretch goals.We've got massive places we're going to take it and right now we're really focusing on the fundamentals of getting, especially the Persistent Universe, getting the Stanton system in place, getting the core sort of features such as persistence so you basically can earn money, you can trade, you can do mining and so forth. Those are the first things we're focusing on, also some of the smaller things around that, like what's it mean if you do a cargo run, how do you have abilities apparent to intercept cargo, how does that work.If you're cargo running and you get dropped out of quantum drive, how can you call for help in the middle of nowhere and so forth. So all these things are the sort of things we answer as we go along, stuff we have designs for but they're things we're focusing on now to drop in there so players can really get into this system which the Stanton system is going to be a bigger play environment with more going on then pretty much any game there already. Then we're going to be dropping in the other systems along with that as well. Yes, it's always a big task to work out, this is what we want to do and focus it down to what are the next steps. That's actually what I've been spending a lot of time this week in meetings, just working out what are our next steps for the latter half of this year on the Persistent Universe.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 80·
Published on this date.28 Mar 2016