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Do you anticipate a difference between space mining versus planet-side mining, considering different needs, methods, or even types of vehicles?

TL;DRMining will start planet-side and later move to space, with the experience differing but the core ideas staying the same rather than becoming a separate type of mining.

Todd PapyStar Citizen Live Game Director

Well, I guess it would depend on whether we're talking about ore and stuff like that. I mean, right now we're going to start with planet side and then from there take it to space. But obviously, moving around a rock in space, you're moving around in three dimensions, versus on a planet surface, you're dealing with either landing or hovering and moving around it. And then Dan can...

Dan TrufinLead Systems Designer, Foundry 42 Frankfurt

It'll definitely be different. We want the experience to be different. How different? We do not want to make it a completely separate type of mining. The ideas will stay the same. You'll just have various things that you can do a lot easier when you're in space or on the ground, and some things that are harder depending on where you are. And then there's the different types of mining, going under the surface and stuff like this versus on the surface. Each of them will have their unique flavor to it.

Todd PapyStar Citizen Live Game Director

And I think I promised this to Marco. He doesn't want voxels.

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Published on this date.16 Feb 2018