Will we be able to move between professions fluidly, or will we have to re-qualify for a profession if we decide to switch to something else?asked by Cap
TL;DRPlayers can move between professions fluidly with no gating or prerolled skills; equipment matters most, though reputation will unlock better missions and trust for things like valuable cargo.
So, that's a pretty simple one to answer is absolutely you can move between professions fluidly. We don't want to gate you as a player, we don't have prerolled skills for you. This kinda comes down to the system versus different mechanics like an RPG game you would design different mechanics or sets for like, 'oh here's my smuggling role set, here's my cargo role set, here's my mercenary role set' and it would have all these separate things. You would be sort of I'm either this or I'm that whereas with us you're not, we just basically figure we try to simulate an open world. Obviously we're not simulating it to a level that real life is but we're trying to approximate it and then we let you pick what you want so really your ability to perform different professions whether you want to haul cargo or whether you want to be a mercenary is more down to the equipment you have. Then also there will be some level of access for missions like for instance, no one's going to trust you to take a whole bunch of valuable cargo until you've done enough missions that have proven yourself as a reliable cargo hauler.
That's the key point to me, that's the key point to me which is there are no technical limitations in terms of you doing this but we still want to have just like in the real world, we want to give players the ability to progress. By that I mean that there will usually be entryway points where you can kind of do the junior mining missions, you can do the junior security missions, whatever it is. Then you will build up a personal reputation that's global, everybody knows how good you are in general at this particular profession versus that one, etc. That opens the door to additional missions and then there's another layer beyond that which is you can be an incredibly well known criminal but that doesn't mean the mafia boss here personally trusts you. So you get into the personal relationships to where, well I basically worked my way up and I've become…
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Ok then.
So, yes you'll be able to move fluidly between profession