Can we fight anyone at any moment like in a bar or in a shop or is there a safe zone on a planet that we cannot attack anyone? On a planet we can doing a sort of large-scale battle for conquer an enemy outpost or a city?asked by Hubert J. Farnsworth
TL;DRFighting won't be allowed everywhere: some planetside areas allow combat, others have laws against it, some zones are safe from other players, and large-scale planetary conquest is definitely not planned for v1.0.
Okay, so you should not be able to fight anyone at any moment on any location. There will definitely be areas planet-side that will allow you to get into some level of combat - sometimes against NPCs, sometimes against other players. We are going to have sort of a brawling melee mode, so potentially we may have areas where you're not allowed to whip out your gun, and if you do, you're in trouble and you'll get put in jail or kill by the local police. But you may be able to involve yourself in fisticuffs in a bar and that may not be so bad. It'll sort of all depend on the rules and laws of the different environments and locations. But generally we kinda want to make certain areas of the planets safe, so that was I think in an earlier part of the game - pardon, not the game! part of the questions! FatSoDa asked about like "well how's the single player area gonna be?" and when you're down on the environment there will definitely be areas that will be sort of designated just for you, where there will be NPCs and stuff but you wont run into other players, and there will be other areas that will be player areas. So you'll definitely always have some safe areas and safe zones normally when you're down on a planet. Maybe in the case of like a really risky, dangerous pirate outlaw place, you know... I wouldn't call anything "safe", but it would be safe from other players, but maybe there'll be a thief trying to jump out on you and hold you up at gunpoint to mug you or something.And then on planet-side, having a large-scale battle for conquering an outpost or a city... not, err, definitely not for v1.0. Longer-term it definitely would be something there could be a discussion about. But there certainly will be battles for persistent items or elements, actually out in space, so like an asteroid base, or a space station, or... definitely areas that players will be able to fight over themselves, in terms of trying to control their own and stuff. So that's it, and at some point we may shift some of that down to down on the planet and see how we go from there. But again, it's all going to be depended on the amount of players we have and so and so.