Proposal Discussion Survival Mode

[DazzyB]

Hi all,

Just a thought... I was thinking how awesome it would be to have a 'Survival Mode' in E, meaning that you will have to drink, eat, sleep, use the toilet (or maybe not that last one!) etc. built into the game. Water and food etc could be purchased at stations and planets (when the expansion arrives). In terms of sleep, you could book into a hotel when at a station or on a planet. Sleeping would not be real-time, but would just save your game. I'm not talking about Minecraft style gaming (crafting etc) but I think it would give it more immersion and depth imo. Do you think this is a good idea?

Dazzy.

 

[Alric]

I don't see it adding anything fun to the game. The only place I could see it being worthwhile is if they do add planetary landing, getting out of your ship with full scale procedurally generated worlds. Maybe then.

But in your ship.. long periods of travel time punctuate the whole game. There would be plenty of time for your character to eat and sleep during the normal routine. It's not like you'd need to return to base or something. So I don't think adding the need to manually confirm it as having any gameplay value.