Will Weissbaum · Assistant Narrative Director

Because he's also a fabricator. He's not just a collector. He's also producing his own items, and these rare resources are something that he desired. Or maybe someone else wanted to trade with him. There's several excuses. It's also partially, metagaming-wise, the timing of his release is with the Mine on the Line event. So we wanted something to tie it together with that.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

And it's the intention with each patch that the things that he's looking for and asks for will change. In fact, in 4.1.1, we're introducing guild scrip, a different physicalized currency that players will find throughout the universe. And he'll accept those.

Dave Haddock · Narrative Director

Yeah, it's also important to remember too that, and this was one of the beautiful benefits of him being a Banu, he's kind of eccentric. So to me, the thought of him going, hey, I want you to bring me like 30 Pips cans, some Carinite and a burrito, made sense for him, because he's kind of weird that way.

Will Weissbaum · Assistant Narrative Director

I mean, even for a Banu, I think he's on the eccentric end of things, because he's living alone out in human space without a Suli.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

And for a little behind the scenes, one of the suggestions of the person was, for vehicle rewards, you should be able to turn in one of the ones you've stolen and get it like this. Because we actually did look into that. We ran into a technical issue where the freight elevators couldn't destroy an item. So you load something in the freight. We actually tested. We actually intended to do something like that. You'd load it onto the thing, it would come down and come up with something else. But it kept coming up with the existing item, and you just kept duplicating stuff. So we inadvertently created our own asset duplication thing. So that aspect of it was not able to make the initial release. But it is something we're still looking at. And for what and how it will be implemented, you'll find out when it's ready. But again, it's another example of: we're thinking the same things they're thinking. We're having the same conversations they're having. And the answer almost always to why didn't they just do that is the thing we needed to do that wasn't ready. And if we waited until every single thing was ready, we wouldn't be running a live environment in the middle of our development.