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Service beacons tend to be used to lure people into traps; it seems you're just as likely to find a service beacon that's a trap as one where somebody actually needs help. With the advent of physicalized cargo, does it make using service beacons for criminal activity even more attractive?

Todd PapyStar Citizen Live Game Director

Maybe, but I think the criminals are going to do what they want to do. And so then the question is, are you a good Samaritan? Are you willing to... We always want to create opportunities for players, and then how they decide to use them, it's really going to be up to them how we meld them. Obviously, in the future for service beacons, we do want to have star ratings or those types of things. So you can start seeing, okay, somebody's got a two on that.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community

That was one of the oldest things. Chris was talking about that back in like 2013, 2014. The ability to rate player mission givers and have like a Yelp score for people.

Todd PapyStar Citizen Live Game Director

Correct. So that's still in the plan. It's just a little bit lower priority on that team.

Star Citizen Live›All About Alpha 3.18·
Published on this date.27 Jan 2023