Once the PU is officially released and the days of alpha and beta testing are over, will 'Arena Commander' follow the rules of non-FTL communication, which effectively means you can only play 'Arena Commander' matches against other players that are located on the same planet or space station as yourself?asked by Drakxter
TL;DRThis hadn't really been thought about, but Roberts finds the idea of Arena Commander following in-universe communication rules interesting and will consider it, while generally expecting it to let players play friends and others across the universe.
That's a pretty good question. I would say that we haven't really thought about that, so kind of a gut reaction to that is, that's an interesting concept. Normally I think we would... I mean, we were planning to have Arena Commander, well, two things:- To have a sort of competition inside our universe, and so that would actually be kind of cool, if people could compete but you'd have to travel to the system for the tournament, and play there... so that could be a possible cool game element, that sort of is a game within a game and also playing inside our universe.- But in general we were kinda thinking that Arena Commander would just allow you to play with your friends, against other people in general around the universe. And maybe sort of fudge the whole FTL side.But, uhh, I'll take this under consideration because does have some cool mechanics. It's just the downside is you don't really want to be stuck in a system when no one else is around who you can play around or train with, but these will all be things that we'll play with when we get the Persistent Universe up and running because I do like the idea of the game inside the game and then having it adhere to the rules of the universe.