How widespread will corruption be in the SC universe (If it will even exist there). For example will there be police members that may take bribes, or Governors of backwater planets that may add extra taxes or place bounties on people they just "don't like"? How strong is the UEE?asked by Machinae
TL;DRSome level of corruption is planned in places, such as bribing your way out of prison, but probably less so near core UEE areas, and it's unclear how widespread it will be.
Well I don't know, I mean, I think we're trying to simulate a fairly realistic world, so that probably means there is a level of corruption in some places. We're certainly- ... we were thinking about some mechanics, you know, if you're a pirate and you get captured, and you get put into jail, basically the fiction for you going back out into the game versus literally being incarcerated and not being able to play the game - which wouldn't be that much fun - is that you essentially have to sort of bribe your way out of prison, or do something like that. So we're definitely gonna fictionally have some corruption that's happening, so I think that will just add an extra wrinkle. And I think there will be less of that the closer you are to the stronger, or the core UEE areas. So I guess I'm not sure whether it's going to be totally widespread, but there will definitely be a feature in some areas that there will be some level of corruption.