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Fresh content is critical to engage players in the PU and you have hinted at the possibility of having players generate content. What sort of content would be considered?asked by Echo Seven

TL;DRLong term, they'd like user-generated content such as player-designed ships against UEE specs with a revenue split, clothing and mission editor tools, but fitting it in is a matter of time.

Well, I've talked about this quite a few times. We did the next great starship to sort of develop a few ships that were user-generated. I mean, we've got the Redeemer already, and we actually would like to bring a few of the other ships from NGS into the game when we have time. We've got such a huge backlog of ships that it takes some time to get everything in. But it does help that we have quite a few people that work on the drake Brutus and the Redeemer in house, so they can help finish off their stuff properly in the game. But long-term, yeah, we'd like to try and have user-generated content. I think I've mentioned that we were thinking about we could potentially sort of have the equivalent of a spec that was put out by the UEE saying we need a new kind of this ship, and these are the specs of it,and then solicit designs and models from people and as it comes past a certain amount, then if it passed the quality bar, it could potentially be deployed into the game and sold online and perhaps there'd be some kind of revenue split that would go between the creator and the game itself, just like you have, Valve does this pretty well. So that would be maybe a path, maybe the same for clothing on characters, and we're also toying around with doing some kind of mission editor stuff. That's kind of longer term, but again, those would all be tools that would be very useful for all the modding stuff that we need to do anyway, and maybe deploy some of that early to allow some people into sort of say our test bed, to come up with like, some encounters or something and then submit them in and we'd pick the best encounter and roll that out to everyone else with one of the patches, or stuff like that. I think all that sort of stuff is stuff we're looking at because it's hard, even with the amount of people we have, to generate enough content to keep up with the whole of your guys consumption, and having more people in the community contribute to that, and there's a whole bunch of people in the community who're super talented, that would be great. So, we're definitely thinking about that, it's definitely part of our plans, and it's really just sort of fitting it in with all the other myriad things we've got to do. But it will happen.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 67·
Published on this date.21 Sep 2015