Are there any plans to allow us to move from planet to planet or system to system while offline? For example, I'm on planet X and need to get to planet Y, but I have to go to work and don't have time. Can I book a flight from one planet to another on public transport, like Archimedes flights, take off, go to work, and come back to find I'm on another planet?
TL;DROffline travel between planets isn't planned for now, since the team doesn't want players bypassing risk and content, though they might look at other ways to offer something similar if there's a need.
It's a tough one. It's something we've been discussing in the past, and the consensus is that not really, or at least not for now. One of the main reasons is we don't really want players to bypass content. We will put dangers along the way. There'll be risks involved. There'll be opportunities happening as you travel from A to B, even if it's a long journey. We don't want players to just risk-free go like, yeah, I'm here now. Also, being there, what will you do with no ships? If your ships are not there, there are a few things you can do while you're there, but we need this logistics thing to actually be a risk-reward thing. If I need to move from point A to point B, I need to bring my assets with me in order to be able to do stuff, and it needs to be risky. You need to protect yourself. Consider if another player accepts that mission to move you from point A to point B, and that ship blows up along the way. Will you be happy with that? What will happen? You'll be really annoyed. You lost basically a life, just because someone messed up, and they can mess up just to mess with you, because they might do it on purpose. We can't really allow that stuff. Whether we will look over this in the future, we'll have to see. If there's a need for this type of thing, maybe we'll look into it and find other ways to offer the same facility, but in different ways. But right now, we'd rather have you guys at least experience the content and go through the world and move through the world realistically, rather than, hey, now I'm here, now I'm there when I get back from work. If you want to leave your computer open and step onto someone's ship, and when you get back from work you step out of someone's ship, and hopefully you don't get killed along the way and your friend doesn't get his ship blown up along the way, fair enough.