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[Debido]

Maybe after Alex has finished the main campaign, he can release some specialised mission Campaign packs that have various extended missions that occur within a larger campaign map at DLC pricing with some new ships, weapons and sound effects.

Maybe David can come up with a storyline or two? I mean who wouldn't pay $5 for a FTL or Homeworld storyline mission that sees you hounded across from one side to the other of the galaxy.

[Solinarius]

Significant similarities can be drawn with Starsector and Mount & Blade in that: the game doesn't end; there's no goals aside from player motive; interaction is done only through an "overworld". These similarities along with Gother's statement suggest that the final game's campaign will not be unlike Mount & Blade.

I mention the above only because Starsector has potential for an endless amount of "plug-in" scenarios in the same way that M&B does (granted, M&B doesn't have any such scenarios without mods). Who says Alex ever needs to make an end-game. Alex can just perfect and expand the current rendition of the campaign and add the ability to apply scenarios/meta-games (DLC and mods alike) to it to keep it interesting.

Example:
One scenario could be a galactic invasion. An ultimate badass race of aliens will invade your galaxy after a set amount of time. The aliens will conquest every system, one by one and if they overtake them all, you lose.

[xenoargh]

Mount and Blade actually does have end-states (you can conquer Calradia or retire a character and get an ending); it's just that very few players ever get there, because the developers made it kind of ridiculous to achieve them, through artificial rules that make it progressively (and unrealistically / ahistorically) difficult to do so.

[Solinarius]

Territory can't be conquered in Starfarer in the same way, but isn't that already a future goal of Alex's to implement?

[xenoargh]

Well, actually, it can be captured, just not in Vanilla.  Try Exerelin, Uomoz, Vacuum, etc.; capturing of stations and building new ones and all that can already be done.

[dogboy123]

I think it'll end up being an X3 style game where you can keep playing in the sandbox as much as you want.

[c plus one]

I think it'll end up being an X3 style game where you can keep playing in the sandbox as much as you want.

I cherish that possibility.

[NanoMatter]

Thinking like in terraria, Once you defeat the "Wall Of Flesh" Then the game enters "hardmode" with harder enemies and whatnot. Game needs bosses. Thinking of a giant mechanical spaceworm created by aliens as a boss to enter "end-state"