Will there be trade lanes similar to the game Freelancer or will Star Citizen have open space travel only?asked by BloodProof

So we're not going to have trade lanes in terms of any mechanical trade lanes, there will be by default areas that are the trade paths because they'll be nav buoyed out and they'll be the main trading routes that various sized ships will take. But you'll also have open space travel so you'll be able to fly anywhere in any direction. We're actually adding additional flight modes which I've talked about before, but in the multi-crew release there's going to be Precision which is the low speed flying for landing, taking off, maneuvering, close quarter ships or structures; then there's SCM, space combat maneuvering, which is what everyone knows from AC which is low speed space combat velocity range and you can do pretty drastic maneuvers and not have you pulling too many G's; then we have Cruise which is between SCM and Quantum and Cruise is going a lot faster but then you can't turn very fast and if you did you would be sliding quite a bit but that's really for getting to place quickly when you don't want to jump drive or maybe you don't have a nav point for that; and the beyond that there would be Quantum drive.