Concerning exploration gameplay, what gameplay elements / mechanics can players expect from an explorers lifestyle? Besides scanning for jump points, asteroid fields, anomalies and derelicts, what other activities can an explorer do?asked by Uchuu

Well, we know that exploring is a big deal for people, so jump points obviously, asteroid fields, anomalies, derelicts - they're all sort of things that you would try and find. I mean, we're certainly going to let you... even a known star system has most of the space uncharted, so as an explorer you could fly around to try and find, you know - whether it's the asteroid field, or the anomaly, or the derelicts - and then chart it. And once you've charted areas you can either share it with your organization / friends, or you could sell it back to the game to create some charted maps for that area that people can pre-buy. We are going to definitely have things like alien artifacts or some ruins on planets, so you can go down and discover it. So we'll have, definitely kind of scavenger hunt style stuff, and something where you maybe have a very short... kind of like "okay, I find an artifact - I've gotta get two other pieces of this artifact, and that will give me a key that will open up this other thing, that will allow me to get this rare item that would be really valuable." So there's a fair amount of that sort of stuff. On exploration we're sort of thinking of having some areas where you can land on a planet and sort of explore around to look for stuff, go down in some ruins or whatever... but have something that feels like it has a lot more substance than, for instance the Mass Effect when you had the little rover going on the outside of the planet. Of course that would be sort of limited to areas that we'd let you land in, and some of that would be pseudo-procedurally generated - not everything will be fully hand crafted in those cases.But yeah, basically those are kind of the exploration stuff. So you, going and charting open space for the different areas of interest, going through jump points and then charting out that system and maybe landing on some planets that people haven't spent much time on, going down to somewhere with an archaeological dig, whether it's down on a planet or on an asteroid field. Those are all sort of things that we're thinking would be really fun for people that like to explore. So hopefully you will too!