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What feature are you looking forward to most in the Star Citizen universe, and why?

TL;DRTony Zurovec says he is most looking forward to the breadth of features and player choice, paired with consequences such as security and reputation systems pushing back on player actions.

Tony ZurovecDirector of the Persistent Universe

To me, I would say that the feature I'm most looking forward to isn't actually an individual feature. I've said this before. It's the breadth of features. It's the ability for the player to choose their own path through the world. And what you need when you have so many choices, the counterpart to that, is consequence. There need to be repercussions to your actions. If you think about it in terms of combat, in this game you can be a pirate. You are now basically doing things that are illegal. Therefore, we need to have in place an apparatus: security, a reputation system, etc., NPCs that will not deal with you if you've been doing that type of stuff. And these are all things that... The system allows you to do that, but it will push back against that. If you look at it in terms of being a miner, you will have the choice as to what you want to mine. Do you want to stick to the safe, secure zones? You're probably not going to make as much money. If you want to try to make a fortune, you're going to have to take some chances. Or are you going to form an alliance with some other miners, and you guys go out and stick together as a group? Are you going to hire a bunch of mercenary ships, which is going to cut down on your profitability? The point is, we're putting in place a lot of different levers, and it's up to the player to ultimately arrange those things the way they really want to, to get the type of game experience they're looking for.

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Published on this date.12 Aug 2016