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On behalf of Chris Booker:

"Given that you said Douglas Adams was fascinated by the prospect of generating a galaxy from a single number, did you ever try using '42' as a seed?"

Are you considering multiple in game currency - or the ubiquitous all encompassing Credits?

All servers will be run by Frontier, but they are building in a failsafe for the future should they ever decide to switch them off, so that you can still play single player.

Until then you have the option for permanent offline single player

OR

synced single player - limited group multiplayer - unlimited multiplayer

The last 3 share the same universe, so what happens in SSP, LGMP or ULMP affects the other 2 - BUT in SSP you are the only PC and in LGMP you only play with people you want to - so no griefing :D

And griefing will also be combated in ULMP by use of a bounty system and NPC police close to core planets and stations.

Dear Michael/David.

Loving update 28 - but I have a question re the engines.

Everything mentioned points to dogfight manouvrability, but will different engines also have different jump ranges like in FE2/FFE?

So a larger engine would take you a longer jump distance in the same time, but with an increased amount of fuel and less cargo space.

Eg class 1 - range 8ly fuel req 1t space req 10t Class 2 - range 32ly fuel req 4t space req 25t