One of my favorite themes in space sci-fi is the danger that comes from isolation in deep-space and the total reliance on the ship/tech you've used to get there.Star Citizen is focused on dogfighting and that's super greats, but outside of that core mechanic, will there be experiences where the biggest danger isn't pirates or bounty-hunters, but rather the environment itself?Perhaps during deep-space exploration or mining?asked by Rho

Yes, we're absolutely focused on having things that are not...Combat's obviously a large part, but we want experiences that are non-combat oriented so exploration experiences, flying into a dangerous nebula that could take down your radar or make your electronics a bit glitchy.In fact, in Squadron 42, the opening mission's around the Shubin mining base, which we've already shown, and there's a center to the asteroid base that's almost, think of it like the Bermuda Triangle, where all communications and stuff doesn't really work in there, your nav stuff doesn't work so you've got to manually navigate.We're actually looking at doing a fair amount of environmental situations and stuff that could be hazardous to your flight or dangerous. The same kind of stuff happens if you're trying to navigate a jump point. There will definitely be a whole bunch of stuff that is non-combat oriented. There'll be that and we want you to have to, maybe some of your equipment breaks down and you're flying and you have to go fix it up. The classic sci-fi scenes you've seen where Scotty's trying to make the engines work on the Enterprise.So yeah, we are focused on that. That will be part of some of the stuff that we do on the capital ship stuff that the Foundry 42 team is working on. They're gonna bring some of that, but environmental effects on your ship are definitely a core part of what we want to do to make the universe feel big and alive and rich.