With the apparent style of WW2 dogfighting in Star Citizen, will CIG add various tobacco products to the game, such as: cigars, cigarettes, and pipes that players can smoke and do you envision them being illicit?asked by Nostromo1977
TL;DRWhether tobacco appears is undecided: it depends on the game's age rating, which hasn't been set, on what serves the universe, and on Chris's direction, with mass appeal the likely aim.
Well that's not a directly production related question. It does relate to outside aspects of game development. Which is ratings system such as the ESRB and which rating does our game fall into. Because that kind of activity is considered adult only that may bump a rating up to mature or higher. Where in-game violence because it's much more cartoony can be downgraded to like age 13 and up. So whether we'll have it in the game... we haven't really set our ESRB rating just yet. So it's kind of one of those unknowns and it depends on what kind of market you want your game primarily to appeal to. Something like Grand Theft Auto, obviously a lot of adult themes therefore it's going to have a mature rating. Do we want to have that kind of rating? I don't know, it's entirely up to Chris where he wants the game to go. But I believe mass appeal is the direction that we're going with cause we want this game to be accesible by a large audience. So while there may be you know a seedy bar kind of setting that you land on a planet where you can get bounty hunter missions and stuff like that. What kind of activities those characters will be up to, kinda still left up in the air.
Yeah, and if you go back to the lore or to the writers. What should the universe have in it? What should the characters have in it, right? I think that's something that's in Chris' head.
Right, does it serve a function.
Exactly. I don't know if it's you set out to make something you go, "I am definitely going to have that in my game." It's like well, does it inspire the world that the person's going to be in. Does it immerse them into this universe? And if smoking is supposed to be a part of it, then sure, right?
Or is smoking completely just outlawed in this universe.
You got it. You never know, in the future it may never exist. All tobacco plants, gone.
Just dead.
You never know.
Yeah.