Braben teased a future update, said the next logical step would be to introduce settlements on planets

[Deleted member 115407]

Yes, it sounds awful, doesn't it?

Assuming it ever happens, it's reasonable to assume that (like everything else in ED) building a base would involve a heap of grinding.
After going to all that effort, I'd hate to move elsewhere in the galaxy, arrive back at my previously pristine base and discover that I had to do half the work all over again.

If you don't like grinding then don't grind.

Problem solved.

 

[Han Zulu]

Yes, it sounds awful, doesn't it?

Assuming it ever happens, it's reasonable to assume that (like everything else in ED) building a base would involve a heap of grinding.
After going to all that effort, I'd hate to move elsewhere in the galaxy, arrive back at my previously pristine base and discover that I had to do half the work all over again.

No, what's really bad is that you take your Anaconda. Travel to a distant star system that requires a minimum of 50 ly jump range because of a few stars are around 100 ly distant, so you have to use max boost jumponium. You build your base there. And then next day, a Vulture shows up with weapons and everything. You do some mining, and the lawless vulture with pulse lasers and canons and everything demands you start handing things over. You're there, in an anaconda that was super-trimmed for distance, in other words, no weapons, small shield, lightweight hull, etc, and now you're being bullied. Can this happen? Until today, I didn't think so, but here's what happened to me today: I'm at close to 2,000 ly on top of Sol. Quite far out in the top layer of the galaxy, just above the bubble. The stars are so distant from each other that you have to use jumponium to boost your FSD. I have a 60 ly range, and one pair of stars were over 100 ly apart. I'm on a planet doing some mining. And suddenly, a "Systems Defence Force" vulture shows up, protecting a wreck on the ground that doesn't have anything of value. The vulture is lawless, but I didn't see any bounty on it. It has weapons and everything. How... the... heck... did it get out here? But it's here. And I bet that if I had some valuable cargo, it would be "tasty" to him/her.

 

[SciTrekker]

Oh, Tencent - soon you buy 10,000,000 Credit for just Tencent.

Maybe it will be a good thing, maybe it won't.. I just don't have a lot of faith in the Chinese when it comes to gaming experiences.

They may want to remove all/most government types from the bubble/galaxy except communistic democracy (or whatever they call what they have http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-type-of-government-does-china-have.html)