Deleting systems poll UPDATE

[Kauket]

I think the consensus is there should be discovery as in non-claimed systems with little to no presence where you can actually go ingame and pretend to be an explorer.

One of the things I always wanted to see in Discovery was systems where only snubs and freighters could go. Maybe a system that functions as a shortcut of some kind but fraught with extreme dangers like hidden anomaly or singularity fields, mysterious and highly aggressive alien ruins not seen before in Sirius, highly radioactive nebulae, a super massive blackhole threatening to swallow you up if you don't get out of there in time, destroyed planets with the cores exposed and the only route out being within the husk of the planet...places where sleeping leviathans lurk.

Of course that's just a pipe dream of mine. I realize that it's probable that none of that will ever see the light of day in the mod. If I had any skill in writing system files I would do so myself and propose them be added to the mod but I'm just a simple network engineer and not anything related to being a developer of any kind.

I personally wanted to do such things, such as anomalies or blackholes done more with a sense of depth - new light graphs, playing with ideas of impeding player movement etc. I did somewhat get somewhere when goofing around with these ideas, but it would require a lot more of work, and learning more technical knowledge, to pull it off without making it seem like another visually repetitive system (similar solar assets being used like arch asteroid chunks, etc. )

I would rather fully implent something with a believable sense of difference, meaning I want to create quality and new assets specifically for that area, to really sell that idea of it feeling unusual.

Of course there are several issues, such as the tools like the ale editor have to be updated before making larger scale projects as results from using the editor usually comes out inaccurate. Or the fact that lots of time commitment is needed, on top of that, also need to do all the alchemy that's also needed for the mod, weapons - guns - etc. Always a lot to do. Manpower shortage makes it tremendously harder to explore different areas without delaying the patch. So for now, these ideas will have to just simply remain on the backburner.

As for system design, I would personally keep some exploration systems that are optional, on a different path - or that the connecting path is longer down the series of systems that it doesnt permit for travel deviations.

I think it should be noted that the Dev team is always looking for a new helping pair of hands, since it wasn't particularly announced that we don't rely on these 'seasonal recruitments' that open and close anymore.