What are our thoughts on the perks that can be transferred from completing Squadron 42 into Star Citizen?
TL;DRProgress and relationships in Squadron 42 are meant to earn badges and unlock missions, content or vendors in the PU, with possible veteran-style groups, as a longer-term goal.
Yes, so there's definitely, so I'll give an example of a couple of things where you do things and you'll sort of earn the badge or the ability in the game, in the PU to get something that you wouldn't have done without doing that. And that also, there are some relationships or things that you can do during the story of Squadron that if you do, it will unlock some missions or content, or people that will deal with you or sell you something in the PU. So the idea is the PU, the Squadron is something that you did in the past, and the PU is sort of in the present. So yeah, it depends. We track your relationships with various crew members or characters you meet, and some of that will have an impact later on in the PU, like I said, unlocking certain things. So we kind of just want to make it fun. And then potentially there's also, we've discussed kind of like a veterans association or group that if you play Squadron, you join that, and then there's potentially opportunities and missions related to that that you wouldn't necessarily get if you hadn't played Squadron. Basically, if you hadn't served in the military, then you don't get some opportunities for jobs, but it's kind of up to you. I mean, it's sort of like life, right? It's like the military guy may not want to join the merchants' guild and trade and stuff. [...] I mean, longer term, obviously we've got a lot of content to build, but our longer term plan, even in the landing locations, is to have places focused on here, like the merchants' guild, and you go there, you have to be a member of the guild, and it's the club for the merchants, and in there you can get specific missions as a member of the merchants' guild, and the same would be for UEE military personnel, potentially subscribers, concierge, like the chairman's club for concierge, and I'm not sure if we have a name for the subscribers yet, but it would be kind of nice to build groups, and then we'll allow organizations themselves to maybe own or rent a place that they can make as their sort of org location, that essentially only lets in people out of that org. So that's kind of one of the sort of overriding goals, and so in the squadron process, playing the game, we want you to be able to earn various achievements or badges that will have an impact on the PU gameplay.