Has CIG ever considered adding a 'hunting' profession to Star Citizen, which would allow players to travel to wilderness landing zones and hunt dangerous alien beasts?asked by Nostromo1977

Well, that is very cool, it sounds very much like Evolve (which was also built in CryEngine by the way), so we've... longer term, we are planning on doing some exploration style stuff, where we generate sort of patches of procedural planet that you can go and explore, so that's some of the R&D that we're doing, we're actually doing some of that longer-term in Frankfurt, so that's the stuff they'll be working on after we've got the large world server stuff/multicrew stuff going. And that would be one of the things you'd do, cause we'd create these areas where you can go explore, where you can find some minerals, maybe some alien artifacts, maybe there would be some alien beasts that would attack you and you could defend yourself, or you could go find them as specimens, or you could go hunt them as is suggested here. That is something that, on the longer term, will be some of a fun gameplay.Our goal is to build the world out, and add these features as games are existing, there should be, as I've said many times, I want to have a very rich, varied amount of gameplay. It's not just about dogfighting in space or not just about hauling cargo, which is what you'd normally see in space games, so we're really trying to embrace a whole bunch of different play areas and styles so, long term, this is definitely something that'd be a fun one, and probably not too difficult to do, because if you play FarCry 4, that's a element in there, and if you've played FarCry 3, FarCry4, they're all essentially on the Junior engine, which came in from CryEngine, so a lot of the stuff that we have would, as long as we got the time to build it, that'd be doable. Of course, we've got a lot of other things to do first, not happening tomorrow, but long-term yes.