Will there be any incentives to keep your original ships hull? (i.e. Ship's name displayed as a decal after 'X' amount of flight time, or simply a different paint job becomes available, etc)asked by HeroicFrog
TL;DRChris Roberts says they want players to be able to name their ships, which is not necessarily in 2.0, and that tuning a ship's setup, such as component overclocking, may give a reason to keep it; no other specific incentives are confirmed.
I'm planning and wanting to have the ability to sort of name your ship and put details and name it. That's not necessarily going to be obviously in 2.0 but that is definitely something we want part of the PU and a persistence thing. You have your own kind of identity right? You want your Millennium Falcon but you've done all these things with and has a history.I think that you know we'll let you name it and do some other stuff and I don't know what necessarily they'll be other incentives to keep the hull but I think potentially longer term we can have aspects where you sort of wear it in and get to know sort of the boundaries or edges of your equipment and we're definitely going to do that on the components where you'll know which ones you can overclock or not overclock and stuff like that.You set it up a certain specific way and so turning and getting a new ship setup will take a little bit of time and investment so a lot of times when you got a ship you got it setup you want to keep it that way and won't necessarily want to lose it because you'll have to set a new one up the same way and it'll just take a bit of time to dial it in so to speak, so there you go on that one!