Many of the mechanics with specialized ships (e.g. repair, mining, salvage) also seem to have equivalent space stations in the 'Verse based on lore or designs (Shubin mining station, for example). Will there be opportunity for players to work the same jobs on planet or station-based locations?asked by Ostron
TL;DRRoberts doesn't expect players to work jobs like station security at big NPC mining stations soon, but says players could take contracts or missions from large NPC organizations, with career paths a long-term idea.
That's a good question, I don't know whether we will be doing that off the bat. So we're definitely going to have NPC locations that go about doing like mining on a big scale like Shubin would be a good example, but on the early side of implementation I don't think we're going to sort of allow a player to become a worker on the big Shubin mining station. Now I do think what could happen is a player in a small mining ship, not even a big one like the orion because we've also been talking about doing smaller mining stuff, could get a contract from Shubin to start mining in an asteroid field and bring it back and they'll pay a certain amount for those minerals. You will get employed by NPC's corps well as player corps in the game, but whether you could be the security guard on a Shubin station.I don't think that's going to be something we're going to be implementing anytime soon. Although we do have conversations about sort of career paths like "Hey, what happens if you want to be an advocacy agent or what happens when you want to be in the military." So that's a long term thing that we want to sort of address because we think it would be kind of cool, but on a short term thing what we would do on a player's side of it is we would allow you to do jobs or missions for those kind of bigger NPC organizations.