Rumba Purring
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Posted - 2009.01.27 22:48:00 -
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Wow, this is crazy awesome.
Based on information released, some of w-space boundary conditions resemble those of other games many of us are familiar with and love, namely Homeworld and Starcraft.
Here's what could happen with a w-space system. An expedition group arrives at an empty system. The group consists of several industrials carrying control tower, refining array, assembly array, a ship maintenance bay, and lots of BPCs. Everyone else in the group fly frigates and cruisers because that's all the wormhole will allow through. After the expedition crosses wormhole, it is exhausted and collapses shut.
The first order of business is to anchor POS and modules, and start mining. First, you upgrade mining ships to improve flow of minerals. As economy gets better, you can start to build better and larger fighting ships, both for efficient ratting and protection.
Now 1 or more expedition groups can arrive any time while this is going on. You can either decide to fight them or join forces. This would be completely open. If you decide to fight, then what could ensue is a fighting game like that of Homeworld/Starcraft. The winner takes all, and the losers will have to self-destruct their pods to wake up back in medical clone back in k-space.
If you're successful, at some point, after harvesting enough riches from the w-space, you may want to return to k-space. As soon as a wormhole to a suitable return location has been found, the order is given to fly as many industrials filled with new world riches through the wormhole. My guess is that cargo will be more valuable than whatever you brought to the w-space or you built there. So the returning group may be all industrials and pods. You cay either decide to destroy all your w-space equipment or leave them for future discoverers of the system.
Your friends in k-space may be coordinating an operation to receive returning expedition group, since I'm sure there will be pirates looking to attack the returning industrials.
In any case, this is all speculation based on limited information released. We'll just have to wait until release and see if this is how it would play out. |