banditloaf

Absolutely. There's a huge difference between smuggling non-native fruits and selling human beings, and our system will represent that. More than that, though, we're hoping to encourage players to react the same way, treating slavers as the scum of the earth much moreso than they would someone stealing Xi'an art.

Not at all; unlike a big publisher we're going to be letting you guys do the testing. When we promise "alpha and beta" access it means we're actually going to let you alpha and beta test the game. Lots of companies use that as PR speak for getting an early demo of the finished product... but it's not the case here. We'll be relying on our community to see what's wrong with the game before we launch the finished product.

Yes! We've been putting a lot of thought into this, especially how it will impact the finished economy and we've decided to come up with another window for LTI. There will be more details published at the RSI website later today.

This is another 'check back later today' answer! We're going to be having a mini-campaign this next week and leading up to the new website, our first real attempt at raising money since the original funding period ended. There's even another 24-hour livestream in the works...

No, not all the planets will have multiple cities... just the especially important ones. (Many systems will have multiple planets and stations... and moons and other points of interest, though.)