As a fellow explorer type. Will we be able to capture and document fauna and flora for the galactopedia? If so, could we take this to the next level and potentially sell various species on black market or UEE research groups?asked by PurgatorialFlame
TL;DRChris Roberts likes the idea of explorers documenting fauna and flora and will add it to the list of things they potentially would do, with no commitment to selling species.
That's actually a pretty good suggestion for something that explorers could do. I mean we were definitely thinking that you will go down... besides sort of mapping out jump points, and where the asteroid fields are in the unexplored areas of star systems... that we would have some level of landing on some non-populated planets, and you could maybe do some looking if there was an ancient ruin there, or you could do some sort of scouting, or you know, like check it our for minerals or something. And probably [fauna and flora] could be kind of an additional part of that, so that's a pretty interesting suggestion - so we'll add that to the list of things that we potentially would do for the explorer, 'cause I think that's kinda interesting. I mean we definitely want to have you visiting different planets and different areas of the galaxy, and having mementos to sort of, instead of having some achievement in the generic awards system like you do on console games, we wanted to like, go to your hangar and see these mementos from these different places that you've gone and visited.
Plus you've gotta get new fish somewhere!Chris: You've gotta get new fish somewhere, yeah! Maybe you've gotta go fishing for it! ... Umm, so, anyway, that's a good suggestion!