How will leveling work? Is it solely based on your purchase of a ship you can fly, or are there any skills or training you will need to fly certain ships?asked by Leprechaun
TL;DRThere is no leveling as in an RPG; progress comes from ship upgrades and player skill, and they are considering, but haven't decided, license-like training for some ship classes.
Okay, so we don't have leveling per se. We're not an RPG. It's not like you're going to be Strength 18 and Dexterity 17 and Level 30. So for us, there's a couple of factors. One, your ship and building it up, getting better components, tuning the components, and then also just you as a player: as you play more, hopefully you'll get better. We are considering, or we haven't decided 100%, that there will be some classes of ship that you may need to fly some missions or get some training for before you have it, just like in the real world. So in the real world, if I want to drive an 18-wheeler truck, with my normal driving license I'm not allowed to drive an 18-wheeler truck. I have to go and get a driver's license that says I am a commercial driver and I can drive a vehicle of this class. So we may do that, which isn't really leveling, but it's sort of a task or a mission that you would have to do at some point before you could buy or fly one of these ships. So we're still working that out. So I hope that answers your question.