How will the spawning of boxes at wreck sites be handled? Will we see them spawn at random times, or is it on a cycle, like another box every 10 minutes?
TL;DRWill Maiden doesn't know if existing derelicts will replenish boxes; they want players to discover and strip wrecks and will adjust depending on how often they're used, and destroyed ships also spill cargo.
I don't know about replenishing existing derelicts. I know there's plans for more derelicts and having them be generated off the back of missions and other things. This is really our first foray into a lot of the derelict stuff, because we're doing planets for the first time. I'm not sure. It's going to depend on how much the community, how fast they find these, how often they're used. We've got a whole bunch in. Off the back of that, we'll see if we need more, if the algorithms aren't set, because a lot of these are algorithmically placed. We want to put boxes with derelicts so that once you strip them, they're clean. If you go back there, someone's already been here. If they were just constantly dropping, there would be a constant stream of ships going down to the same location. We want to make sure that...
It would just be a camping site.
Yeah, exactly. We want you to discover them. I think part of that discovery of, I've heard on the grapevine, I've heard on chatter, people have been saying a ship went down, I'm going to try and find that and get its cargo. We also have: you destroy a ship, you'll get some of its cargo as well.
It will spew out cargo boxes. A big glorious explosion, just everywhere.