Wheres the constantly evolving background simulation galaxy?
I loved some of David Brabens vids about his ideas and plans for the game and there was one that really caught my interest (cant find it at the mo) where he was going on about background mechanics and factions fighting over an area and blockades you could help or try to run through.
In my mind ‘background simulation’ meant that all over the galaxy factions would come into conflict and little wars would pop up. In my head I thought they would have some kind of procedural generation where 2 of a systems factions reach a point where they have near equal influence and a war would start between them for supremacy and would cause conflict zones and related missions to be generated within that system (and clear of once a victor has been decided) I would have thought this would mean conflicts would be popping up and changing throughout the galaxy.
Further other than the isolated conflicts between system factions I thought there would be conflicts on a grander scale between the 3 main galaxy factions and we would see them expanding their territories, something like a Federation system has become strong enough to try and expand and take over a neighboring Independent system and must be driven back.
However so far as I can tell there are only the 3 or so ‘Story’ conflicts in the entire galaxy and those have all been manually injected by FD and I don’t know if they have been brought about in anyway by the state of affairs between the systems factions beforehand.
As an example, last time I was there LHS 3447 has two factions that were showing as ‘CIVIL WAR’ but as far as I could tell didn’t mean anything, there were no conflict zones or missions recruiting to help one side or the other.
Now don’t get me wrong im loving the game and playing pretty much non stop but this is the vision I had in my head and im just wondering-
Is this kind of evolving galaxy happening and its just that I have not yet seen it?
Is it the kind of thing they have in mind but its not in there yet?
Are my hopes too high and the only kind of evolution will be the kind FD script and inject themselves like the ‘Story’ conflicts they have at the moment?
I loved some of David Brabens vids about his ideas and plans for the game and there was one that really caught my interest (cant find it at the mo) where he was going on about background mechanics and factions fighting over an area and blockades you could help or try to run through.
In my mind ‘background simulation’ meant that all over the galaxy factions would come into conflict and little wars would pop up. In my head I thought they would have some kind of procedural generation where 2 of a systems factions reach a point where they have near equal influence and a war would start between them for supremacy and would cause conflict zones and related missions to be generated within that system (and clear of once a victor has been decided) I would have thought this would mean conflicts would be popping up and changing throughout the galaxy.
Further other than the isolated conflicts between system factions I thought there would be conflicts on a grander scale between the 3 main galaxy factions and we would see them expanding their territories, something like a Federation system has become strong enough to try and expand and take over a neighboring Independent system and must be driven back.
However so far as I can tell there are only the 3 or so ‘Story’ conflicts in the entire galaxy and those have all been manually injected by FD and I don’t know if they have been brought about in anyway by the state of affairs between the systems factions beforehand.
As an example, last time I was there LHS 3447 has two factions that were showing as ‘CIVIL WAR’ but as far as I could tell didn’t mean anything, there were no conflict zones or missions recruiting to help one side or the other.
Now don’t get me wrong im loving the game and playing pretty much non stop but this is the vision I had in my head and im just wondering-
Is this kind of evolving galaxy happening and its just that I have not yet seen it?
Is it the kind of thing they have in mind but its not in there yet?
Are my hopes too high and the only kind of evolution will be the kind FD script and inject themselves like the ‘Story’ conflicts they have at the moment?
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