"SomethingJones"
Star Citizen: 7 hours of what Tony Zurovec saidNOTE: Nyx Landing Zone was previewed as "Coming Soon" in August 2015. This interview took place shortly after that preview - Tony Z says that Nyx Landing Zone is
"largely done" and will be released in the next milestone after 'Shopping'.
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Jared Huckaby:Is there anything more you can tell us about Nyx?
Tony Zurovec:Yeah, NYX... NYX will likely show up in the milestone immediately after shopping, NYX is... it's interesting in that NYX has actually been largely done for quite a while.
There was one particular area, this BAZAR area that still had a lot of design details and artistic, you know... ISSUES that needed to be worked out, um... but with those now RESOLVED, production is, ah... you know, proceeding at FULL SPEED on it and we expect to have that done, ah, you know FAIRLY SOON
We should actually be able to spend quite a bit of time REFINING and TWEAKING, you know, ensuring that the performance is at the level that we actually want before we release it to the community. In other words the actualy BUILD OUT of the level is, ah... going REALLY REALLY WELL at this point.
Jared Huckaby:Will it be another destination on the elevator?
Tony Zurovec:That's... for the SHORT TERM we're just going to CHAIN and you're going to have the magical elevator, you can access it from there or from your hangar, that will change you know as we get a little bit farther along and your... you know... gain ability to ah, you know travel to different systems and stuff, ah... but for the SHORT TERM we will just allow players to go in there, it will just be another destination, you know, on that elevator.
Um, it's actu... um... NYX is really INTERESTING ah, from my perspective for a variety of different reasons, one of which is that it actually gives us the ability to have three, ah, completely distinct functional areas. What I mean by that is when you first land in NYX and you come out and you go through CUSTOMS and you basically go down to the main, ah... the main AREA... there's LAW AND ORDER, there's SECURITY, it's WELL MAINTAINED, all the LIGHTS are on, there's SECURITY GUARDS, you know, there's CIVILIANS, you know, CIVILIANS going about their BUSINESS
There's SHOPS in which you can do business, you know, ahhhh... ETCETERA
There are HINTS, you know, internally, that you're within an ASTEROID that's... ah... you know... you can see that from windows that give you these beautiful views, you know, ah, of the OUTSIDE, aahhm, you can tell because some of the CEILINGS you know, there was no point to basically building, ah... you know... to building ROOFS and CEILINGS all that type of stuff um so you can actually see you know BIG HUGE CHUNKS OF STEEL EXPOSED YOU KNOW AH
Asteroid stone, rock, metal you know, etcetera, you know just HANGING in various areas... but in general that area actually LOOKS, aaahhh... it LOOKS you know, very... it looks very MODERN. It looks built out. It looks like what it's supposed to be which is an area where people, you know, did a lot of business, they, you know, conduct a lot of business in that area.
As you start to MOVE you know down various passages and corridors and passageways away from that central area, you'll start to encounter what we call, you know... it's... it's a it's a more... it's a more DANGEROUS zone... basically it's an area that's no longer officially utilised by, you know, by the POLITICAL and CIVILIAN classes of this planet and it's been overtaken by uhh, by uhh, by you know... more QUESTIONABLE types, lots... you know... lots uh... much more crime there than you would ever see in the central area of the city there's no security to discourage it, ah
There are obviously you know just some, just some HARD LUCK cases out there, ugghhhmmm
You'll see these, uh along uh
Stuff that's fallen into disrepair
Lights that are flickering not working
Control panels you know that are no longer
Operate doors that are you know half stuck open
THAT TYPE OF THING
To where it looks
Very similar you know conceptually to the central area except it looks like it hasn't really been you know properly maintained for you know for a decade
THEN
If you continue proceeding even farther you'll get into what we call the
E X C A V A T I O N A R E A S
and this is where ONCE UPON A TIME
decades earlier
when this was
YOU KNOW
an area that they thought was going to be a... a... a...
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out
etcetera
you know, the idea was...
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ALL THESE CONTROL ROOMS AND STORAGE FACILITIES
ETCETERA
and that construction you know STOPPED
Very Quickly.
And...
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THAT WAS ALL LEFT BEHIND AND BASICALLY THESE more politically oriented you know population gradually moved in and basically what you wound up with is a populous that tends to be a little bit more you know ahhhh radical in there overall you know political beliefs versus the mainstream
