Note: Base building available “early next year”
Introduction to Crafting
➣ What is crafting:
ㅤ✦ There will be professions dedicated to crafting which will feature progression through the ranks of individual guilds
ㅤ✦ Resource Gathering
ㅤ✦ Crafting and Customizations
ㅤ✦ Upgrading and Building
ㅤ✦ Player choices will have weight and impact on crafting capabilities
➣ Resource Gathering Professionals
ㅤ✦ This loop will be coming in the future
ㅤ✦ Will feature hand, vehicle, and ship options
➣ Raw Materials to Refining to Profit
ㅤ✦ Used in crafting of gear and improving gear
ㅤ✦ Players will be able to tradd with NPCs and other players
ㅤ✦ Raw materials will be used in base building
➣ New Gathering
➣ Blueprints
ㅤ✦ Blueprints will be used to refine items and craft new ones
ㅤ✦ Reputation will be critical in buying and looting of blueprints
ㅤ✦ Blueprints will be upgradeable
ㅤ✦ Volt pulse pistol showcased
ㅤ✦ Vehicles, up to tier 5, can be crafted
➣ Quality
ㅤ✦ Quality of crafted items will vary based on the resources gathered and refined
ㅤ✦ Rules will apply to crafting and crafted items for balance
ㅤ✦ Rare materials will exist which may be required to craft specific items
ㅤ✦ Crafted items will have unique stats
ㅤ✦ Tiers of items will exist and be upgraded through research
Crafting Process
➣ Acquiring Blueprints
ㅤ✦ Blueprints will be acquired through purchasing looting, or earned through reputation
ㅤ✦ Blueprints are digital not physical in nature
➣ Research
ㅤ✦ Specific actions will need to be performed to upgrades blueprints
➣ Refining requires Blueprints
ㅤ✦ Blueprints used to determine what can be refined and upgraded
ㅤ✦ Quality of raw materials defined quality of refined material
➣ Item Fabrication
ㅤ✦ Will utilize crafting machines
ㅤ✦ Communal in nature at bases
ㅤ✦ Different tiers of these machines will exist
ㅤ✦ Player owned
➣ Crafting Scale and Future
ㅤ✦ 1000+ Blueprints
ㅤ✦ 1-5 Tiers
Base Building Structures
➣ Video
ㅤ✦ Construction Grav Cart
ㅤ✦ Overhead Base Building mode “Drone View”
ㅤ✦ Fuel Generator – Power building
➣ Hologram placement
ㅤ✦ Holograms will show players where modules can be placed
➣ Supplies from the local area will be used for construction
➣ Resource Management screen
ㅤ✦ Manage power, water, shield, and freight
➣ Buildings in 3 tiers
ㅤ✦Impacts efficiency and quality
➣ Interior Decorations
ㅤ✦ Buildings come empty
ㅤ✦ Also utilizes hologram placement
ㅤ✦ Can be locked in place and access rights set
Industrialize
➣ Drones will be available to increase efficiency of industrial tasks
➣ Extractors
ㅤ✦ Retrieves raw materials from the local area
ㅤ✦ Solid, liquid, and gas extractors will exist
➣ Refineries
ㅤ✦ Refines raw materials gathered from the local area into useable resources
➣ Linking Freight elevators to share a common storage
ㅤ✦ Distance limit contained within same base but can be daisy chained
➣ Buildings deform ground to ensure leveling
➣ Fabrication Hanger for Ships
ㅤ✦ Players will be able to transfer ship ownership
➣ Player Shops
ㅤ✦ Mag locked until purchased
ㅤ✦ Advertise via mobi or physically in game
ㅤ✦ Shops can be labelled according to what they sell
➣ Farming and Ranching
ㅤ✦ Low tech – Seeds to growing to harvesting
ㅤ✦ High Tech – Hydroponic
ㅤ✦ Animals produce materials
➣ Small to XL buildings
➣ Defense
ㅤ✦ Walls and shielding to protect base
➣ Size determines quickness of building construction up to months