Could you please elaborate on the Person of Interest (PoI) system?How will we be setting other people to be PoIs to ourselves?Will it require authorization from the other person, or can anyone set anyone else to be a PoI to them, given that they know the name they're looking for?asked by Kommissar
TL;DRThe person of interest system lets you quietly tag someone without their knowing, so you get notified when they leave the planet and can follow or track them, though Roberts says it remains to be seen how it works in practice.
The idea of the person of interest system is you basically say "I'm interested in this person over there," and the other person doesn't really have any awareness that you've tagged that person as someone that you want the game to let follow.Maybe we would have some devices that you could have to let you know that someone's watching you or snooping on you, which would be sort of like counter insurgency stuff, but the idea of the person of interest system is that way when they leave the planet, you get notified and you have the opportunity to follow them, fly with them in space, and deal with them. It's sort of like tagging someone as a temporary friend. Not that they're necessarily a friend, but it allows you to follow their movements or meet them out in space or track them, which is necessary if you're meant to track someone down for a bounty or whatever.That's kind of how the person of interest system is designed to work, so we'll see how it works in reality, but I'm hoping it will work well, because it will put you together with either your friends or people you're interested in, or people that would be related to what your group is doing, your enemies and stuff.