Hi Dave, are you planning to write any fiction to mirror the development process. Such as being locked to Crusader, flying around Stanton and then finally when we get to jump to other systems. It would be interesting to hear that the system has been in lockdown due to pirate/Vanduul/spacial disturbances or that maintenance repairs /software updates to the jump gates have finally been completed.asked by Dazc

That was something we'd talked about, I remember in the early days with Area 18, the idea that you could go in stores but you couldn't buy anything. We were like "do we want to create some reasoning behind it so the credit card machine are down or the CCB's offline or something." And then we kind of stopped talking about it. I think part of it was, particularly with the PTU that's coming out, that we're working on, large world, it was supposed to be mostly a test bed so we wanted to be able to try stuff and get it in the game and figure out what would become the PU would work ultimately. I think basically if we started adding fiction to it then we would have to come up with fiction as to why things changed and it just felt like it would probably be easier to just free ourselves from that and be able to iterate rapidly as new systems come online we can start incorporating them and stuff like that.

Even from the design side, as great as those things would be, not having that overhead constraint really lets us make sure that the design and the gameplay can come through. But once we get the whole thing up and running and we've got the real PU all built out do you think think that's something we can probably explore then/later?

I feel like it probably will just because Chris likes packaging stuff in the fiction because it gives you a context that let's you know the parameters of what you're playing with. So I think it is definitely possible down the line. It seems like once we've solidified the foundation more, and the core mechanics, it will probably be more likely.

Cool, cool.