BETA update interview with Senor Braben via PC Gamer
http://www.pcgamer.com/2014/05/30/david-braben-on-the-ambitious-future-of-elite-dangerous/
"“There’ll be players trying to be the one who finds a nugget of interest in the unknown. A lot of systems won’t have anything of relevance. There might be a beautiful sunset, but fundamentally we can’t have every system being full of gold. It would just destabilise the world. But occasionally we will destabilise it intentionally so players can pile in and take advantage of it. Players can be one of these explorers who goes out and discovers things for the first time and does well from it. This is where space is at its most interesting. Where there is no law and you can just be attacked without real recourse. We’ll see a lot of player collaboration, where players will band together to protect each other.”"
"There’s a huge range of ships. There are 25 you can pilot, ranging from very small ships—smaller than the Sidewinder—going up to bigger ones like the Anaconda.
Big ships can carry other ships, so you’d be able to launch a small fighter from it, which is more nimble. "
the scope of this game just kills me
and it be a scale hard to beat.
