Will players be able to participate in the UEE or any other faction's elections? Can a player run for office in the UEE?asked by Apportioner

I guess we have that because we're in the process, in America anyway of nominating the various candidates for the next presidency of the United States and hopefully our UEE elections will be less dramatic than the ones happening here in the U.S. But this is early days for us on this. We definitely felt that being a citizen would give you some rights, and one of the rights would be able to, vote or have some effect on general things in the same way, I guess you do in the real world. Which is pretty not that much!So that is a longer term goal to have some participation in that. Probably will be Game Mastered by us, because we're planning to besides just having the simulation of the universe we also hand push it and guide it towards, 'cause we have an overall story and timeline we have in our minds for Star CItizen. So we'll create events and elections and seismic change events in the universe that will potentially affect players and AI.One of those could be elections. I don't think we'll in the short term anyway, have a player run for the office in the United Empire of Earth but again long term you never know. We're pretty big on player agency and participation. A lot of the fun that I see happening in the SC Alpha 2.1 and 2.2 is players doing stuff and creating content for other players and we're pretty big on that. That's our whole sort of mission. Our world system is built up to react to what players and AI is doing and based on that it generates other missions, so it's sort of a feedback loop. So getting players involved in other things is good.So longer term potentially, you never know I think they have a version of players involved in EvE in terms of running things as well. So I think as we said something we're planning long term but we are going to give you benefits for being a citizen to allow you to participate or get certain things that you wouldn't if you weren't a citizen. And of potentially would be voting for this person or that person and then depending on which one you voted for, as an AI character it could have an impact on how the world unfolds in Star Citizen.So that's kind of the fun element we're thinking that we really again player's themselves doing things, changing, affecting the world and the game or us as Game Masters reacting to that, keeping it fluid and dynamic should be fun!