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How will inventories work? Will we have to buy warehouses throughout the verse to store our fuel, weapons and goods or will there be a console where you can access your inventory anywhere and pull items out of it? Also will there be a cap on inventory?asked by DarkMyth

TL;DRInventories will be physical and nested, such as player, ship cargo hold and hangar, limited by item size and weight, with no global inventory, so items left far away must be rebuilt or carried.

Inventories are going to work like proper, physical inventories. You're not going to have some kind of global-hold-all inventory that you can store everything in and take stuff out of from wherever. Everything works like a real inventory would, so your ship has a cargo hold, that's an inventory, that you can only store so many things in. You as a player will have your own inventory, which is an amalgamation of the clothes you're wearing, so if you're just wearing jeans and a jacket, you might have 4 small pockets worth of storage. You could get a backpack, which would add to your inventory space, or a suit of armour might have attachment points for weapons/grenades etc, which is an inventory allowance again. Hangars are inventories as well, and you can store other inventories within them. We're going to have a deep-dive into the cargo system where we explain our container system and all the aspects of it. Items go inside containers, they can go into your ship's cargo hold, which is inside your hangar. An inventory inside an inventory inside an inventory. It'll all be physically constrained to the dimensions of the item as well as the weight. So if you're half way across the galaxy and you want to use stuff you have all the way back at your home-hangar, you'll have to buy new stuff, or have taken that stuff with you say in your ship's hold or whatever.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 52 (2015.02.02)·
Published on this date.2 Feb 2015