This not a doom thread but a genuine enquiry, having hardly played since the sunset announcement. Our large nine fleet armada is literally stagnating with almost all fleet leaders now having left the game, only logging in to play a new TFO or episode. I know the foundry will not be introduced again but I think one way of revitalising the game for many would be an exploration system which could be retroactively applied to existing assets such as the large number of planetary systems in game that you can't currently visit .
Are there any plans for such a system in the near future or long term?
Well...considering the rather LIMITED exploration clusters that they had was removed from the game as that was too much of a hassle for this dev team...I'm leaning no. Although to be completely honest, that system was pretty rubbish and any decent exploration system will be a massive development project. Fixing the foundry would most likely be an easier fix than to try to get a good exploration system in place.
Cryptic has talked about having done whiteboarding, and some high level testing, for a new exploration system concept, but if they are actively going to develop that further isn't known.
I dont think anyone really knows how to answer that, love to know, BTW, i'm not fond of exploration, the Genesis System was flawed, but i understand the appeal of others to that..
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