When the Persistent Universe comes out, will we be able to leave our ship in space, say lock it, join our friend's ship and leave? Would our ship despawn? Or if our ship gets destroyed, would we be able to come back with a salvager, or hire a salvager, to salvage parts off the vessel, assuming it's not destroyed completely?
TL;DRStill being designed, but the speakers lean toward ships left in space persisting for you alone after a proper log-off and not being stealable, unless you leave mid-combat with others around.
Are you talking about leaving your ship in space? In space. That's a good question. We've had a few discussions about that. We've had the discussion that if you do that, then your ship just ends up back in your hangar, and then there's the discussion: is that an exploit, because you're far away from your hangar and this is just a quick way for you to get it warped back, or does the ship just take over on autopilot and fly itself back? So I'm not 100%... We're going to have the ability for you to save in space anyway. That's the whole idea of sleeping in the beds or whatever. So, I don't know, maybe the ship would be back and we would have it persist in that position. Not necessarily for other people in the instance, but if you go back to where you left your ship, as the player on someone else's ship or some secondary ship, then we would know to create your ship, which is what I would probably think the answer is, because we need a situation where you can save mid-space anyway.
Yeah, no, I agree with that. In regards to player death, and given the vast travel distances involved and stuff, there are certainly some design details yet to be worked out. We don't really need to go into a lot of those.
Well, I guess I would just say that when you save and you're in space, you log off. The ship's there, but it's not like someone can just come by and have your ship. Your ship isn't actually persisting for anyone else but you. So no one can steal it while you're sleeping, basically.
No, as long as you do a proper log-off with your ship at a given location, that should be absolutely fine for you to basically come back and resume from right there. It's just like on a lot of MMOs, where you're basically going to retire your character, but you want to make sure that you're not right in the middle of combat, and you basically log off.
Now, of course, if you leave your ship in the middle of combat and someone else is around, then they can steal your ship. But as long as no one else is around, and it logs off like you've gone to sleep and saved, then it will not be available for people, and it will only come back in when you come back into that area.
There needs to be a process to ensure that it's...