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Is it possible to raid a supply shipment, not for piracy, but to destroy it to possibly damage a rival orgs cargo thus it's revenue and operations?asked by lianglonglong

TL;DRYes, destroying supply shipments to hurt a rival org is meant to be possible, as the game is built around logistics like fuel and ammunition, so attacking supply lines becomes emergent gameplay.

Yes absolutely. That is going to be possible to do it, not only in the world like the NPCs' supplies or goods or equipment or resources that are going between resource nodes or stations or planets, but you could definitely do it for orgs as well I would think, player controlled ones, depending on what they were moving around for their own stuff.But were really going to try to have a game that's based around being able to deal with logistics. So you're going to need, we've mentioned it before, but you'll need things like fuel; certain kinds of ammunition are obviously consumable, so ballistics are consumable, there'll be other sorts of consumables that'll happen. So if you're out on the frontier or you're waging a war there'll definitely be the need to rearm, restock, refuel and you'll have to get those arms and weapons: maybe someone can sell them to you; maybe your org has someone coming in with a supply ship to do that. We have a variation of the Crucible that would be a restock and supply version that you could use in the background to backdrop an offensive to bring it in.We definitely want to make that part of gameplay for the bigger organisations team play because we think one of the most interesting things is not just the frontline combat but how people work together as a team to achieve things and obviously the logistics are pretty good with that. And therefore one of the techniques to degrade your opponent is to go for its supply line. So yes that will definitely come out as emergent gameplay in the system we are setting up.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 72·
Published on this date.14 Dec 2015