Can they explain what the expected rewards will be?asked by King Shaka
TL;DRThey can't give actual reward numbers, because the economy will always fluctuate; the session shows the reward algorithm and intent, not the final system, with more missions to be shown soon.
Well, in a way, that's what we've been trying to do for the last 20 minutes or so. We're showing you the EVR algorithm. We're showing you some of the considerations that are made. As far as what the actual numbers will be, that's a thing that, quite honestly, will always be in flux. Anybody who's worked on an MMO in the past, anybody who's played an MMO for several years will tell you that an economy is an ever-changing, ever-fluctuating thing. And at the scale that we're attempting to simulate across multiple star systems, it will be here too. So whatever that number reads today will not be what that number is however many weeks or months after that. That is the virtue of Quantum, which is, again, still the system in development, still where all this goes eventually. It's just, we're at a point now where 3.24 is so important to us, cargo is here. We don't have to wait until the finished thing to start laying the foundation of these new types of missions. We can use these other tools that we have. We can simulate all the same decisions, and then it's just a matter of plugging it into the system when that eventually comes online. So it's one of the more exciting aspects of 3.24 personally. I know all the hangar stuff is cool, but the idea that we're going to have these more involved missions that chain from one point to another point to another point, that are generated based on the need that you've been talking about, it's probably, for me, the signature element of 3.24. And again, in two weeks on ISC, we'll be talking about some of the content that's coming in 3.24, including a whole bunch of these missions we'll be showing you.
We're actually also already thinking ahead of how this can tie into an automated system in the future that basically robo-Jorrits me. So all of this, the Miro that I've shown you earlier, this whole rule set of what needs to go where, that system can be automated somewhere in the future.
There's many working parts to the backend systems, which are variously called Quantum or StarSim or whatever they're called. Just like Jared said, this is an illustration of our intent. It's not the final working system.