Armitage is very dangerous. Will Jingo and other shopkeepers be at risk from shoplifting, thieving pirates or plundering Vanduul, or will the game mechanics prevent shops from being robbed?asked by M. Paleman
TL;DRPlanets are safe zones with no combat, so shopkeepers won't be robbed at least initially; theft mechanics aren't supported yet and might be opened up later.
Well, no, I'd say when you're down on the planets, pretty much that's sort of the safe zone. So the danger of being in a sort of more lawless area is what happens as soon as you leave the planet and you can get jumped. And there'll be shady people on the planet that'll be tracking you. But not necessarily there'll be any thieving or robbery happening down on the planets. At least anyway, at the beginning. I mean, who knows? Once we're live and we're changing things and we actually start to do more stuff in first person on the planets. But right now the first-person planet stuff is about buying, trading, talking, communicating, finding missions. But it's a safe zone, there's no combat, so therefore there's not going to be any sort of theft or anything like that. And as we open it up, maybe some of that stuff is, but we're not supporting that game mechanic yet. We've already got enough of other stuff to support to get this game out there.