I brought this up today during the stream discussing possible pack rewards, and I wanted to make sure that it was properly understood what I was talking about.
My idea was something like a "treasure map" that leads to special locations in the world. People thought that I meant that you would get some kind of unique treasure for finding those locations.
What I actually meant was that there is a plan to simulate an entire planet in Em8er, which means there will be a LOT of terrain, and the vast majority of it will be unknown when the game starts. People have to terraform it, fight off Kaiju attacks etc.
So that means there is plenty of opportunity to fill the map with hidden things. For example there could be locations that have particularly good mining rates for certain resources, or areas that have unique landmarks, or areas where bases get some kind of special bonus etc.
All of these areas can be discovered by the player base naturally as they explore the planet, but founder packs could include a hint for some of them, or even rough coordinates. That way founders will have the benefit of being expedition leaders and being able to go out and discover hidden stuff in the world, but since all of that stuff will be discovered by someone at some point eventually anyways it's not really a pay to win feature, it just gives them a leg up on being the first to a discovery in the game.
If there are a few hundred special areas on the planet and someone with a higher founder pack gets the location of one of them they can be the person to discover it for everyone else essentially.
My idea was something like a "treasure map" that leads to special locations in the world. People thought that I meant that you would get some kind of unique treasure for finding those locations.
What I actually meant was that there is a plan to simulate an entire planet in Em8er, which means there will be a LOT of terrain, and the vast majority of it will be unknown when the game starts. People have to terraform it, fight off Kaiju attacks etc.
So that means there is plenty of opportunity to fill the map with hidden things. For example there could be locations that have particularly good mining rates for certain resources, or areas that have unique landmarks, or areas where bases get some kind of special bonus etc.
All of these areas can be discovered by the player base naturally as they explore the planet, but founder packs could include a hint for some of them, or even rough coordinates. That way founders will have the benefit of being expedition leaders and being able to go out and discover hidden stuff in the world, but since all of that stuff will be discovered by someone at some point eventually anyways it's not really a pay to win feature, it just gives them a leg up on being the first to a discovery in the game.
If there are a few hundred special areas on the planet and someone with a higher founder pack gets the location of one of them they can be the person to discover it for everyone else essentially.
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