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As a natural extension of that, has there been any discussion about additional POIs besides Orison on Crusader? Is there anything else, or did we just build Orison on Crusader and then stop there?
Ian Leyland · Environment Art Director

The focus is exclusively on Orison; that's the major landing zone on that gas giant. But what's interesting, right, is, remember what I said right back at the beginning, building Orison was hard. It came with certain challenges, where on previous LZs, you had terrain for the player to land on and get out and experience the location. Whereas we didn't really have that option there. So right from the very early stages, we were like, and it's kind of listening to the community as well, they don't want restricted areas. They want to make those decisions. So right from the get-go, we're like, how do we make this? So it is almost exclusively open for the player. So when you look around Orison and the entire stretch of it, I think there's two restricted areas, and they're around the commercial area and the industrial platform, just because of the social spaces, right? It's to stop griefing, but everything else is open. So to answer your question, basically, when you look at the latticework, think about it as a hierarchical OC system, whereby, okay, it's a habitation platform, and then within that habitation platform, you have the buildings, and then within those buildings, there's rooftop OCs, and there's going to be the building interiors that Todd mentioned before. So the way in which we've built it, if we wanted to create sister platforms or additional platforms or additional locations in the future, those OCs are already made. And when people do get to fly around Orison, one of the reads I really wanted is, I want to be out on a lonely platform in the middle of nowhere. So if you think about how big this is compared to other LZs, you could be on an industrial platform way out in the distance, and it would feel like you're looking at Orison in the distance, if you know what I mean. It was an early look we wanted to achieve. So to answer your question, initially, no. But we've kind of done the hard work to do that setup already.

Todd Papy · Live Game Director

I mean, we've talked about things scattered around Crusader so that they're on complete opposite sides of the planet, so on and so forth. So those are things that we will be looking into and trying out. But like Ian said, we have the base now for these things to be built off of.

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