With the living, breathing [universe], when somebody discovers an asteroid field or a derelict ship and it's played out, like salvaged or mined, will there be something randomly generated later on within that area, so there's constantly something new to discover?
TL;DRDiscovered asteroid fields, derelicts and similar points of interest persist while they draw player or NPC traffic, but are cleaned up when demand fades, so explorers are needed to find new ones later.
I'm not sure I caught the entire question, but I think I got the gist of it. One of the things I'd mentioned was all these transitory points of interest. You can picture a pioneer, and a pioneer basically finds an asteroid field. And this particular one contains 2% tin by volume. So it's extraordinarily appealing from a miner's point of view when tin is in high demand. But what happens basically as tin starts to recede in value and fewer miners are attracted to that? What we wind up doing is clearing out some of these things. Basically that knowledge eventually gets lost. And the idea is that if we don't have sufficient player traffic or NPC traffic, if there's no demand for that particular resource, then eventually it winds up fading away. And what this does is it opens the door such that later in the economic cycle, when there again is a demand for tin, then you need pioneers to go out and basically do this long range scanning slash probe slash discovery stage to find additional ones. And so it's the same thing with comets or derelict ships or any of these things, which is: if something is discovered and it's appealing enough that you're actually drawing player and NPC traffic to it, then even though it's dynamically constructed, it will persist and persist and persist. But once you get yourself into a state such that, for whatever economic reason, that's no longer drawing interest from those entities, then we'll wind up cleaning it up. And what that does is it sets the stage to basically need explorers, discoverers, pioneers to basically find more of that content when demand later ramps back up.