Medical & death

The intention is for players to choose on death between several permanent respawn locations (hospital, base, ship) plus temporary ones, which they say will come in a future update with no date given.

The Starlight has no fuel harvesting, only refueling features, with some improvements coming, though refueling and medical gameplay both need more development and are meant as altruistic loops rather than ways to get rich.

The intent is to reactivate medical beacons, and the technology hurdles are now solved by the interdiction work and new cluster service, though cross-star-system beacons aren't there yet and a team still has to be put on it.

They hope and are making every attempt to restore medical beacons with the Apollo next month but won't promise it; other medical frustrations won't be fixed by their return.

The Apollo launches next month without drone gameplay, since drones are tied to base building and no longer fit medical gameplay, but all six medical bay modules will be included free on every Apollo.

Non-combat armors are being designed around roles like medics with vital-sign visors and refilling med pens, tech suits with remote hacking and wireless charging, and environment suits, with EVA capability scaled back to specialised suits.

Engineers can make things worse, for example through overheating causing surges or fires, but they won't be instantly killed, and with item-focused damage ships mostly lose items first rather than exploding, except in cases like a quantum drive explosion.

Medical gameplay is "very likely" but depends on Squadron 42 bringing it online first; Star Marine currently has the downed state disabled, and experimental modes might be used to test it.

The full character reset tool becomes a faster repair tool that only replaces a broken playing avatar and leaves inventory and ships alone, while customer service keeps the option of a full reset.

They have discussed a fireman carry for long-distance moves and for hiding bodies in stealth, as a complement to the short-range body drag, and say they definitely want to do it in the future.

Tractor beaming players is disabled for 3.12, as touching a tethered box breaks the tether; long term they want it for injured or dead players and as a weapon, with balancing and counters.

The Kraken will likely get a medbay since its lack was probably a concept-stage oversight, but medbeds are powerful, so the team wants to limit them to ships where it makes sense.

Yes, AI creatures and humans will use the same needs system as the player, getting hungry, thirsty and needing hygiene, though in a simplified server-side simulation that still affects their performance and behavior.

The speakers say G-force limits are under review and will matter more, with aerodynamic control surfaces allowing higher-G maneuvers in atmosphere, a better exhaustion model, and talks about specialized flight suits.

The actor status system makes the player and NPCs affected by conditions like hunger and cleanliness, started with breathing and stamina, and is built out a bit further with each patch.

Medical gameplay such as reviving teammates, healing others, and hand-held MedPens is something they are looking at, but design is at a very early stage and it is only coming in the future.

From a lore view, the UEE might have a basic income or empire-wide minimum wage, possibly via public services or certified jobs, while Xi'an, Banu and Vanduul economies remain undecided and likely only seen through UEC.

Luke Pressley says Scramble Racing is a first-tier stepping stone toward Death of a Spaceman, not opposed to it, with a non-lethal version and injured-and-revive mechanics expected later, though the current game doesn't yet reflect that.

No plans exist yet for making aid shelters more useful, but upcoming player habs and changes to spawn logic could eventually allow smaller-scale spawning in remote locations, if it goes over well.

Outposts are made of interconnected modules, including habitation for respawn, armory, refining, hydroponics, storage and medical, and the owner can grant access to anyone they choose.

Nothing for parachutes or wingsuits is planned for 3.0, and ejecting in a planet's gravity is currently fatal; the speakers say they won't leave it that way, but it's a priority question.

How long oxygen lasts in space isn't fixed; the first version will be adjusted over time based on tester feedback, so the current value is not the final one.

Pirate insurance should work much like UEE insurance through pirate-world providers, with balancing still to be worked out through playtesting so penalties exist but are not catastrophic and abuse is discouraged.

Capturing criminal players has been discussed, with repeated captures perhaps making prison harder to escape and too many possibly forcing a new character, but details will be configured once the PU is more fleshed out.