News David Braben Powerplay AMA Part 2 - all of David's answers in one place

[David Braben]

Question: Will there any system or feature be implemented so you can communicate your position in a system to someone else (and I don't mean a wing beacon), so when someone says let's meet at XXX or at RES Y or whatever we both know where this location is? Maybe a way do display or determine local coordinates in a system or unique identifiers for (stellar) objects, so when there are 3 RES in the NAV screen I can tell the difference between them (this is also relevant when you don't have any cartography data for a system and can't navigate at all with any purpose, because of the sheer endless list of unknown contacts)

TLDR: find/display and navigate to a specific spot in a system with 'coordinates'? Some kind of unique ID unknown stellar objects or RESs (to differentiate between them in NAV panel)?

Interesting idea. Might be quite cumbersome?

 

[David Braben]

Just a couple more answers...

Hi David,

Will the actions of actions of players working for the various powers begin to feed back in to the FD curated narrative?

For example, if one of the major powers was dominated by the other competing powers would they be effectively written out of the story?

Yes - the intention here is players can determine the galactic narrative in the future.

 

[David Braben]

And... last answer.

Hello David! I know you're announcing a new game at E3 which I am excited to see, but will there be any Elite news there?

Yes, there will be Elite news too.