athios
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Post by athios on Mar 28, 2017 0:05:01 GMT -5
There's plenty of planetary exploration going on already, so I thought this might be a nice little incentive to get people into doing more exploring on a galactic scale.
I'm assuming just simply flying around already gets you XP through checks and stuff, but there could be a small bonus for "clearing the map" (>90% visible) and finding hidden planets?
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Post by Cory Trese on Mar 28, 2017 10:51:21 GMT -5
There are already a built in XP bonuses.
I don't think encouraging sector exploration just for the sake of clearing the maps is a good thing to associate bonuses with.
The design concern here is related to undesirable behavior and rewarding non-fun activities.
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Post by grävling on Mar 28, 2017 11:04:12 GMT -5
Discovering planets that were completely covered by the fog of war is kind of fun, though. Be more fun if they turned out to be secret bases of your enemies, etc.
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Post by Cory Trese on Mar 28, 2017 11:11:26 GMT -5
Discovering planets that were completely covered by the fog of war is kind of fun, though. Be more fun if they turned out to be secret bases of your enemies, etc. Yeah, and that is where we are giving bonus XP, because finding planets is a behavior we want. |
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athios
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Post by athios on Mar 28, 2017 12:01:51 GMT -5
I get what you mean.
Is there any sort of feedback that would signal to a player, "Hey, you've already found everything on this map." so they know to stop looking? Cos we can't really tell if there's going to a hidden planet in that dark corner or along the zone edge...
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Post by Cory Trese on Mar 28, 2017 12:16:11 GMT -5
Yes, that type of feedback will be available.
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