Simon Bursey · UI Director

It could go anywhere, really. Where we're looking at for now, the core functionality will be similar to what's in the current Star Citizen, just with this much better interface. But in future, you've seen Google Maps, that's changed over the past 10 or 15 years and it's constantly changing. We could do the same kind of thing with the star map if we wanted to, but our priority is to make it nice and playable first, really useful.

David "Bone" Gill · UI tech team / UI systems programmer

We understand that maybe the current implementation is not so usable. So there's a priority of making that usable, and then we can look at all these additional features. We've got a feature list as long as your arm, with, oh, that looks cool, we could definitely do that, we should put that in. But I think showing things that you know about on the map is really important. When you learn things about a planet or a location, then this could be integrated into your map. So pinning stuff or finding out, I don't know, it's an icy moon with this kind of population, whether it's safe or not. A lot of that is based on your knowledge about what you've learned about the universe whilst you're exploring around it.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

Well, there's that, and then there's things like the Galactapedia, which exists outside the game right now, but eventually will begin to be incorporated into the universe. And I imagine there's a lot of opportunities to plug into that and pull information from that. Just easy cross-reference through tags. If I'm looking at microTech, what other information? There's the information that I've gathered or members of my team have gathered, but then what does the universe already know?

David "Bone" Gill · UI tech team / UI systems programmer

Yeah, what are the governing bodies, find me a safe place to go and land and refuel and things like that.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

So I would say that probably seems more like a Galactapedia feature than a star map feature, and then maybe the star map can tap into that in places once the Galactapedia comes online.