Edit: I'd just like to add that this isn't something I feel would be quite essential for launch, but do think it'd be needed sooner rather than later if this game is meant to keep newer players emotionally invested.
I have no idea if this is already a planned feature.
I'm seeing a lot of people complaining that this game has no soul.
That could be interpreted in many ways but I'm guessing that means they see little of the overall context that the universe is set in.
Who are these three empires?(/political entitities)?
How do they REALLY differ from eachother?
What is their history and what has caused things to be the way they are today?
Who are all these companies I'm seeing adverts for in stations?
Why should I care if people are suffering on Eranin (or any planet)?
There are dozens and dozens of questions that are important to really FEELING this universe, and the answers absolutely exist... but not INSIDE the game. I need to leave the game and read web sites, or a book, or tons of forum pages, or play previous games in the franchise to glean some of this (IMHO) incredibly important information.
My proposal is a Mass Effect-esque codex that serves as a repository of history/info or (hitch hiker's) guide the galaxy if you will. VO the most important parts and have the rest purely as text. Or have it all as text, whatever, but please, some of us want to really get into this universe without having to scurry around in so many disparate locations.
I know the forums are ablaze with other concerns right now but please, I'd like to 'hear' other people's thoughts on this.
The universe is vast, but I feel this is one of the things that would help fill it up and make it great.
I have no idea if this is already a planned feature.
I'm seeing a lot of people complaining that this game has no soul.
That could be interpreted in many ways but I'm guessing that means they see little of the overall context that the universe is set in.
Who are these three empires?(/political entitities)?
How do they REALLY differ from eachother?
What is their history and what has caused things to be the way they are today?
Who are all these companies I'm seeing adverts for in stations?
Why should I care if people are suffering on Eranin (or any planet)?
There are dozens and dozens of questions that are important to really FEELING this universe, and the answers absolutely exist... but not INSIDE the game. I need to leave the game and read web sites, or a book, or tons of forum pages, or play previous games in the franchise to glean some of this (IMHO) incredibly important information.
My proposal is a Mass Effect-esque codex that serves as a repository of history/info or (hitch hiker's) guide the galaxy if you will. VO the most important parts and have the rest purely as text. Or have it all as text, whatever, but please, some of us want to really get into this universe without having to scurry around in so many disparate locations.
I know the forums are ablaze with other concerns right now but please, I'd like to 'hear' other people's thoughts on this.
The universe is vast, but I feel this is one of the things that would help fill it up and make it great.
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. There very little testing need to test whether a cut scene or two plays when it needs to. Hopefully they have produce an animation film that explains the history of the universe that is required viewing before joining the pilot federation and getting your first sidewinder. I'm hoping they have fill out planetary histories a little as the game continually evolve as well. There also the captain log that is meant to be coming hopefully that will add a bit more soul as well. Galnet should have a intelligence section which contains all the details.