Who generally starts the idea process for a ship, a planet, etc? Are there writers the ones who start with the lore first, or do they just fill in the details if an artist comes up with a really specific good ship idea from scratch? Do you all follow a specific guidance from CR, or are you all allowed to submit ideas through a creative development process that vets different game features?asked by Zeshio
TL;DRThere is no single starting point: planets and starmap content often began with the lore team, while ships and other things can start with lore or with artists asking for lore to support their ideas.
There's definitely when it comes to planets and a lot of the starmap stuff definitely did originate with the lore team. When it comes to ships other elements like that there are definitely ideas that we have that we have vetted through Chris that are going to be implemented in the game and maybe we do take a lore first perspective on it, that then trickles down to the other departments but there have been plenty of other moments that you guys have come into our office to and said "Hey we're working on this really cool thing how can you help us build the world around it or how can we justify the lore to a certain degree it definitely works both ways dependent on what it is and what's needed to get done.
I've seen a lot too even from the art side you do get that enhanced back and forth you may have the straight script that you guys have written but it doesn't work right artistically and these guys come in and imply "would this work within that world?" and it's this cool back forth I think the point of this question is there is no one starting point there's many different avenues that we follow and I think it's really cool and exciting.