Will we be able to roam one of the big floating structures in the Murray Cup Map at some point for spectator purposes?asked by Citizen 2900
TL;DRYes, he wants players to be able to visit and spectate such locations, with the large world map serving as a sandbox test for the persistent universe.
Absolutely. That's a big goal of mine is to have all of these different locations that you go an visit and there's as much sightseeing as anything else. That's one of the exciting things about the multicrew module is that we're just basically building a really large world map sort of as a sandbox to sort of be our test kitchen for the PU. So, the large world map won't really be a real location in the Persistent Universe because we're sort of going to pack a lot of different things in this one system or area but it will be great for us to sort of test everything out and then once we've got a lot it going – and in the background we'll be working on these other systems... we'll just sort of switch over to the system and... the first stage of the PU will come online. I kind of refer to multicrew as sort of baby PU because we're going to make the large world map be more of a sandbox so it's not so much Arena Commander – get in, have points to win, beat the other people. We'll still let you do Arena Commander for a competition thing but that will be sort of in a limited arena area. The large world map for the multicrew will be spawning in, kind of the same way that we're doing for the social where you can just go, hang out, come in and out, fly around and people can work together or go fight/engage NPCs/AI in certain areas or you know... mess around with other people. So, we'll see how that goes but I think it's a really good base for all of the PU stuff that we need to work on... and actually a good base for a lot of stuff that we need for Squadron 42.So, longwinded answer but yes. I'd like you to go and be on the floating structures – look down as a spectator and see races and ultimately in the final game we'll definitely have the Murray Cup go, just like Formula 1, between different locations and one will be a race through asteroids and another will be a race through structures and we'll have these different locations and you can go and spectate and we'd have qualifiers and then we'd actually have the competition that players could come to and other players could come and watch and we'd also have sort of livestream it and that's all the sort of stuff that we want to do to make this universe feel more real and more alive.. you know, get lost in it. I think it would be really cool.