Will we be able to buy REC/UEC items and configure our ships to us in the 2.0 mini PU sometime in the future?asked by Blix
TL;DRChris Roberts says buying ship weapons, components and personal items in the 2.0 mini PU is very high priority, tied to persistence arriving early next year, after which website buying will probably go away.
Absolutely, that's very high priority for us. It's one of the things that's going to be up early next year. So we really want to have the ability to go to shops and buy things: you can buy weapons for your ship; components; personal items like clothes and stuff like that.That comes with persistence, full proper persistence is going to debut early next year. Along with that the ability to buy stuff for you ship and personal self and really it's going to be really focused, ultimately the 2.0 "mini PU" as it grows, that's where it's going to go.We want to move away from you being on Voyager Direct on the website and only buying in our universe. So as soon as we have it robust in universe, Voyager Direct on the website will probably go away and you'll just have to go to the various stores, the shops, to buy stuff in the game.