Awesome! It would also be awesome if the quests somehow mimicked often your main income sources, so farmers would be asked to find a rare seed, bounty hunters kill a certain guy. Also, they would talk to you differently (hopefully always in approval of your way of life, but a judgmental character would be fun too).
Make it work first, and then go back and make it nice. Excellent plan! Or, just try to do everything in the first shot and deal with scope creep and perfectionism and foundations made of sand. They're pretty much the same outcome, right? =P
A holographic person, reflecting the ships own identity would be cool. "I'm the Ship", "Ship who...?".
Yes it is very rough but that’s how everything starts out . :^) Is this game going to be finished before 2020?
Perhaps. They'll go on to make other games, whilst another group continues to make small updates in the meantime.
I too am really liking the AI character concept for the player's ship, whether or not it starts out in the ship already and needs to be repaired/upgraded or is something that player's find/assemble. It would be interesting collecting computers in enemy bases in order to boost the AI's cognitive functions. Heck, it might even be a good way to work in that robot boss in a more logical sense. Let's say the default ship computer is in need of a serious upgrade, it needs AI level computing power. So the player character constructs a brain extractor and seeks out a superior brain, not wanting to just plug it into the ship and let all hell break loose the character first builds a robot body to test the integration, the robot goes nuts and the character must seek an alternate solution.
Perhaps the AI character could be a hologram (allowing for some customization options, such as species, hologram color, name, personality, etc). Think Cortana, Toonami's SARA, or even the various VI from the Mass Effect series.
It's a very good Idea ! But does the PNJ in the villages/cities/dungeons will be able to give quests and help too ? The PNJ structures will be more interesting !
A ship AI would indeed be cool, it could even communicate with you on the planet surface, updating you on important developments, and upgrade progress. It could present itself as a hologram.
