David Braben Powerplay AMA

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Wicz

Wicz
Hi David, thanks for taking the time to answer some of our questions!

Will the 1.3 update include more appropriate consequences ( currently a bounty that can be paid off within a few minutes ) for killing clean ( no bounty ) players?
 

David Braben

CEO & Founder
Frontier
From Sigon:
How do you plan to balance the player influence over different factions? Would it be acceptable for Frontier if by player choice one of the major factions (Alliance/Empire/Federation) is wiped out?
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We will look at balance continuously, both during the beta and afterwards, but we want players to be changing the Galaxy.

It's possible a Major Faction gets brought down, but is very unlikely.

There’s already a player group trying to destroy the Alliance, for example.
 

TaoZero5

TaoZero5
Aaah! Too busy playing the game to remember to be here early.
Now the thread's growing faster than I can read - excellent!

No question. Just appreciation of the enjoyment I find in rocketeering.
Thanks to all the team(s).
 

Marc Alexander

Marc Alexander
David Braben said:
Nice!

It's funny that many people have connected the original Elite and the Thatcherite world view from the time - but that is not why we made 'score' into money. Both Ian and I were not quite so politically savvy I think it would be fair to say, but were just frustrated about the rut games were in. I was annoyed that almost all games got a smart bomb (or equivalent) at 5000, and an extra life at 10,000. I wanted to be able to choose!

As for Powerplay, it is more of a way of broadening involvement in the story. It has been in the works long before the election fever in the UK started, and is more inspired by TV shows like the excellent "House of Cards" and "Game of Thrones" than current political battles.
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Thanks for the answer David. Very much looking forward to Powerplay!
 

Starbuck_

Starbuck_
David Braben said:
We will look at balance continuously, both during the beta and afterwards, but we want players to be changing the Galaxy.

It's possible a Major Faction gets brought down, but is very unlikely.

There’s already a player group trying to destroy the Alliance, for example.
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And other communities fighting hard to save the alliance.
 

LIGHTWARRIOR

LIGHTWARRIOR
Greetings CMDR Braben!

Thanks to all the hard work your team has done!

I have only one question.

Will President Vidar Vondell from the corporate faction in Eta Draconis "Gold Vision Co." be part of the original 20 factions first included?

We flipped the system, they expanded to eradicate pirates from BD+57 1692 and had a galnet article posted with him commenting on the capture of Eta Draconis. Just curious =)

Thanks again, wonderful game.

-LW
 
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David Braben

CEO & Founder
Frontier
Wicz said:
Hi David, thanks for taking the time to answer some of our questions!

Will the 1.3 update include more appropriate consequences ( currently a bounty that can be paid off within a few minutes ) for killing clean ( no bounty ) players?
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Michael will be doing a 'crime special' in his next dev update... so I won't steal his thunder!
 

Adept

Adept
David, have you noticed Alliance no longer hold Leesti? Isn't that a big enough development that it should be making the Galnet news?
 

Surly_Badger

Surly_Badger
Adept said:
Personally I would put in jump drive decay so that it diminishes jump range. Misjumps and about 50% jump range when it's near zero.
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I was thinking about that the other day: wouldn't it be cool if you could overcharge your drive and make jumps 2-3 times longer than you normally could, but you damage the drive each time and you have a nonzero (and increasing with damage) chance of winding up someplace completely different?
 
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