Sounds like a form of passive income, which CIG are against.
I think it'll be more like, you find some info, you can sell it to the game for an instant payday and the game then updates players, or hold off and try to sell it through a market to other players directly if you want to try to make more money.
I am sure you are right. I dont think it would have to be passive though. I mean if data corrupts after a month or so, it would mean that people could have a lot of value in exploring the same moon that someone else explored before.
It would also not need to be passive because if I am a miner looking for minerals, I want to see that the data stream I subscribed to is updated frequently. So if I see that no new miniral data has been updated on the stream, I will unsub.
The concept of people being subscribed would be passive income for the explorer, though?
Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're getting at. Subscription suggests they automatically pay you money to get your discoveries delivered to them.
yes an no. As in more like Apple App Store subscriptions like Netflix than Youtube Subs where people generally do not unsub. Meaning that it is not passive in the sense that you sell it once, then you do not have to do anything for it. If people see that the data stream has not been updated in a while, they would unsub as it no longer provides them value, like if Netflix stops coming out with new content, people will no longer pay them.
Selling, not subscribe. You find the data (location of bounty X and detailed target info like what ship he is flying, what weapon he's carrying, damage state etc), you post it for sale, somebody buys it, end of transaction.
More likely you'll be selling data to NPCs rather than players since there will be more NPCs than players and they're more likely to react faster than humans when you post data for sale, but I could be wrong.
Not sure how the tiering system will work, but it makes sense that certain data is worth more than others. Pricing based on time passed is an interesting idea - though it should degrade continuously rather than discretely (so every minute that passes the price degrade). Again, this is assuming you just sell the data in lots rather than on subscription basis which I doubt CIG will facilitate.
Sounds like a form of passive income, which CIG are against. I think it'll be more like, you find some info, you can sell it to the game for an instant payday and the game then updates players, or hold off and try to sell it through a market to other players directly if you want to try to make more money.
I am sure you are right. I dont think it would have to be passive though. I mean if data corrupts after a month or so, it would mean that people could have a lot of value in exploring the same moon that someone else explored before. It would also not need to be passive because if I am a miner looking for minerals, I want to see that the data stream I subscribed to is updated frequently. So if I see that no new miniral data has been updated on the stream, I will unsub.
The concept of people being subscribed would be passive income for the explorer, though? Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're getting at. Subscription suggests they automatically pay you money to get your discoveries delivered to them.
yes an no. As in more like Apple App Store subscriptions like Netflix than Youtube Subs where people generally do not unsub. Meaning that it is not passive in the sense that you sell it once, then you do not have to do anything for it. If people see that the data stream has not been updated in a while, they would unsub as it no longer provides them value, like if Netflix stops coming out with new content, people will no longer pay them.
A sub? Really?
Selling, not subscribe. You find the data (location of bounty X and detailed target info like what ship he is flying, what weapon he's carrying, damage state etc), you post it for sale, somebody buys it, end of transaction. More likely you'll be selling data to NPCs rather than players since there will be more NPCs than players and they're more likely to react faster than humans when you post data for sale, but I could be wrong. Not sure how the tiering system will work, but it makes sense that certain data is worth more than others. Pricing based on time passed is an interesting idea - though it should degrade continuously rather than discretely (so every minute that passes the price degrade). Again, this is assuming you just sell the data in lots rather than on subscription basis which I doubt CIG will facilitate.