Will players be able to own businesses that produce in-game items? If so, how would the system for product approval work?asked by Zefod

Well, we've already talked that players will definitely be able to control and own some economic nodes, and those economic nodes do produce items during the game. We're also going to allow players to trade. So one of the things that we're trying to do with the Banu trader is there's a whole receiving room in it, and you can maybe collect items in different parts of the galaxy and then maybe fly around and sell them in other parts. Because one of the goals is to make sure that you can't buy certain items all over the place. So a lot of really good and valuable items are very specific to areas of space, and so perhaps there's a business to be had of going to an area, getting a bunch of items and then flying somewhere else and selling them, right? And selling them to other players or selling them to NPCs. That will all be part of the gameplay. I think the question's about necessarily coming up with items to sell. And I don't think so much that you'll decide, okay, well I'm just making widget A. It's like you'll get the opportunity to purchase a factory that makes a certain kind of thing. And then you run that factory and perhaps expand its ability by buying more equipment or bringing more of a workforce in, and trying to grow its business. Certainly at the start you're not going to basically decide what you're going to manufacture and go from there. Maybe later on we would do something like that, but at the beginning we're not intending to. But I could see later on that you could have the possibility of choosing certain basic things you want to manufacture, whether it would be basic foodstuffs or something like weapons or whatever. From the outset, I think we would let you buy a node that, okay, you control this food node or you control this equipment manufacturer node.