How long can one survive away from one's ship without having to go back to it [with oxygen management]?
TL;DRHow long oxygen lasts in space isn't fixed; the first version will be adjusted over time based on tester feedback, so the current value is not the final one.
It's basically the same answer as the Idris question. Whatever it is today isn't necessarily what it's going to be tomorrow, isn't necessarily what it's going to be when it comes out, isn't going to be what it is three weeks after it comes out. That's a thing where we will put our first iteration of it out, and then you guys will test it, you guys will give us feedback, and then we'll continue to adjust. It's all part of running a live environment during testing. So how long the oxygen will last in space is a fluid concept that will be tweaked and changed as time goes on.
But let me tell you exactly why I'm really excited about running out of oxygen and dying in space. In 20 years, I've killed thousands and thousands of video game monsters and giant crabs and evil knights and so on. But the stories I keep coming back to in my head after all this time are when you run out of food in the Ultima games and your companions have to starve slowly. It's cool to see that again.
No, it's exciting. I only had that small sliver of 3.0 gameplay for the four days on the show floor. But as DJ and Gamble and Meyer showed, we're building the tools, the crazy things that you guys are getting to do with these things. That's what excites me most about 3.0, is watching the emergent gameplay that you guys invent with the tools that we give you.