How deep will the universe be simulated? Will we be able to see some black holes, pulsars, neutron stars and so on, and how would they affect gameplay?asked by BlackDog
TL;DRSome of these objects will be visible and environments that affect communications or flying are being explored, but it's too early to say how a black hole or neutron star would affect gameplay.
We'll definitely have some of these things that you'll be able to see. I'm not so sure about simulating it all the way, but we're playing around with the ideas of certain areas in space that have an environment that affects your communications, how you fly... and obviously being close to a black hole would be one of those environments... or into a deep gas cloud inside the rings of a planet... all those kinds of things. So we are looking to see what kind of interesting astrological aspects or physical effects that would come from various different elements in space, could affect the game play, could affect your ship, all the rest of the stuff. But its sort of too early to say, "well, you know black holes will definitely do this thing" or "a neutron star will do this thing". But that's all the sort of stuff that we debate and we're trying to thing about how to fold in to the gameplay experience.