I gotta say, as a certified white knight and fanboi, I really don't get why FDev would do this.
I hope they have a better reason than "There's stuff in Cone Sector that we don't want players to see"
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How about: "there is stuff there which is still unfinished and broken"?
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I mean, the whole story is: FD put a massive "wall" of permit locked systems around that. I mean, hey: put something behind 300 LY wide area of systems which are permit locked. Nobody will make it there, right? That is, unless they find that their megaship, which can jump once a week, has been given over 500 LY jump range to compensate for the limitation of only jumping once per week.
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So Cannon found a loophole and intended to exploit it. They were given warnings, they still went ahead.
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So now imagine the backlash in the following scenarios:
- FD would heavy-handedly said no and stopped everything in its tracks. I bet I would've heard the cries even when not online but being in bed.
- FD would've let people go ahead and find broken and unfinished content. Even if it was "only" unfinished, it'd take about 37 seconds till the first ranting video is on youtube, showing how terrible the game again is. And then imagine that some content might be broken enough to result in graphics issues, crashes or stuff like that. Which could very well mean that support would have to move each and everybody who gets too close to such an issue away by hand. (And a number of players would just then go there again... )
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We don't know what's there. We can guess that the area was permit locked for a reason. It's very likely that the zone will contain content in the future and it's very well possible that some foundations of that content, no matter how basic, messed up and broken it still is, is already there.
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I think Cannon got FD trapped in a corner here. They had to act, with limited options available. Sure a better storyteller could've made a bit more out of this, but people would complain all the same.
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