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I find that the Halo asteroid belt contains mostly small asteroids that lack significant resources worthy of the Mole's time and effort. Most of the more valuable ore is still locked in small rocks on moons. Will we see an increase in the yield of asteroids to make the Mole more useful?

TL;DRYes, asteroid placement and value are expected to be adjusted starting in 3.9 now that a content team has taken over, and they are still working out what an asteroid field should feel like.

Todd PapyStar Citizen Live Game Director

Yes. So again, we're going through and evaluating basically the placements, and we actually adjusted. We have what we consider a feature team and then a content team. As soon as a feature is done, then it needs to be handed over to a content team. And then once that content team is working on it, then the adjustments of where stuff is placed and how much it's worth and so on and so forth will always kind of grind through that economy team and that content team working together. We just did that switch. So in 3.9, we'll basically start seeing adjustments, and that team is also putting stuff on microTech and its moons, basically in, I think, Sprint 2, Sprint 3 of this coming quarter. So with the Aaron Halo and even just the clusters and everything, we know that we need to go through, and a lot of those asteroids are super old and won't necessarily look good with our mining tech and all of that. That's one of the things that Ian and I are thinking about and worrying about. What does an asteroid field feel like in our game? There's what it's like in real life, where you might see one every now and then. And then there's obviously the movie version of it, where it's super, super dense and you want to fly through everything. So we need to figure out what our Star Citizen asteroid field feels like.

Star Citizen Live›All About Alpha 3.8·
Published on this date.10 Jan 2020
EpisodeMiningEconomy