How high a priority is combat on planets and stations? It would be awesome to have a Han Solo/Greedo type encounter.asked by Posidas
TL;DRThere's no planetside combat until some time after launch, mainly due to content cost, but combat is planned aboard ships and space stations, so a Greedo-style encounter could happen on a station.
Well, I just mentioned in the previous answer that there is no combat down on planets. And that won't be a feature in the game until sort of post proper launch, and eventually we'll bring some of that on. And it's mainly a content issue. Because then we sort of have to have larger areas, more characters, and we've got to design sort of the equivalent of first-person levels to have combat in. And just to do that with all the worlds we've got, with all the spaceships we've got and all the other action we've got, is just way too much. Animations for all the characters. But the engine itself actually can sort of handle that. So that will be functionality we'll add on down the road. But I can't exactly say when it's going to be at the moment, but it'll be sort of post-live, maybe it's an update a year after the initial game goes properly live. There will be combat aboard ships, so the ship boarding, and there will be combat aboard space stations, or an asteroid base, because they're considered sort of persistent locations in space. So potentially you could get kind of a Greedo encounter if it was on a space station.
And so you're saying that sometime in the future, a war might break out on the planet?
Somewhere. I don't know. I'll have to see. Let's not get too ahead of ourselves.