Greetings, Spacefarers!
This week, we’re taking a look at the next point on our roadmap, and exploring the work around provisioning. When we use the term provisioning, we’re talking about features related to upkeep, but outside of the scope of maintenance. This would include things like hero recruitment, repair and healing, and vendors. While maintenance features are centered around your homebase and owned POI’s, provisioning is more closely tied to your ships and heroes.
Acquiring resources, such as fuel for your ships, is a crucial part of preparing your fleets, and ensuring you’re ready for battle. Much of that will of course center around mining and building and maintaining your mining ships and the support ships necessary to protect them. In addition, however, vendors will have an important role to play. While we aren’t going to spoil all of the kinds of vendors just yet, this would include merchants such as fuel vendors at our fuel depots, ensuring you won’t be stranded in your travels. They will support players in a variety of ways, while also bringing the universe around you to life.
Among the vendor types will be more unique opportunities such as the Black Market. This vendor will be encountered at various POI’s, and will offer a random selection of wares. The wares available will cycle and change regularly, and will always be worth keeping a close eye on! They can sell any resource type, and can sometimes even offer precious items like hero recruitment contracts. You’ll need to act quickly if you see such things for sale, as the Black Market can sell out if others are faster to scoop up valuables.
As we continue to shore up and expand on these features, it will enhance the depth of gameplay, and encourage players to always look for the POI beyond the horizon. We look forward to sharing more as we continue to move forward in the Progression module!
