How will travel between planets be handled, a semi static instawarp starmap or something more akin to Escape Velocity? I personally would love to be able to fly around the galaxy in my ship(s) and then land on planets for terraria style spelunking/building before taking off again. Escape Velocity style combat and trading along with terraria style building and spelunking would make the game truly endless adventure.
Hmm, I'm pretty sure it was mentioned by Tiy that you'd use a Starmap to travel from planet to planet. Let me find it. "Tiy: Navigation is via a starmap "http://pastebin.com/jhU8Mdgs
I suppose starmap is good for now, because developers only have limited amount of manhours they can realistically put into game. But in future expansions, I hope, some separate spacefaring engine could be added. Maybe even with possibility of interplanetary PvE/PvP interaction. People love pew-pew.
Fully agree on the Pew Pew. Actually Escape Velocity had a starmap as well. You warped into a system via starmap and could fly around, battle in your ship and land on planets. Its just the planet landing kind of stopped at basically a tabbed inventory/chat window.
Never played Escape Velocity, just checked wikipedia entry on it, seems nice. What I was thinking about is Star Control II...
Escape velocity was an old mac game. Actually the Demo for the last game in the series is available from here. http://www.ambrosiasw.com/games/evn/ Star Control II would be a bit further than I was thinking although still cool. As long as we dont have the silly idea of hyperspace gravity wells pulling you into combat I think its a cool idea. Gotta have trading though.
I think a starmap is all they need for spacetravel. This game is about exploring the environments, not the cold black infinite emptiness of space.
Exploration of the cold black emptyness of space is alot of adventure, if every planet is simply a map and coordinates away then they have already been found and explored.
