How will colonizing other planets work?asked by Omricon
TL;DRExplorers will find new systems and planets, and a colony gets started through an in-game event of missions for terraforming gear, building the colony, and ferrying colonists, with colony types varying by planet.
So we talked about this a little in the economy doc. It's come up that over time we're going to colonize. So what's going to happen is as the explorers in our universe go out there and find new systems and find new planets, then somebody's going to take an interest and say, let's drop a colony here. And we'll have this big in-game event that goes around that, where first you're bringing out the equipment for terraforming, and then you're bringing out equipment to build the colony itself.
It'll generate missions, right?
Exactly, tons of missions, and then bringing out the first colonists, and they set up shop there and start building the shops and stuff they need to live. And then they set up mines and all that, and then more missions. Rinse and repeat. And there'll be different types of planets that have different types of colonies, and all that kind of stuff plays into it.