Well, I’m glad you found this discussion to clarify your view. Keep an eye on the game though. Never know how it might take a different turn, if it proves to be successful.
The funny part about this is that they’ve added NPCs to a recent version so some of these answers are out of date. it’s very possible that a sandbox mode could include these NPCs to play witht, potentially acting as a mode the same as the online except with only bots. We’ll see though, that may take extra work or it may be as simple as having the client run it’s own “server” inside.
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So this is a big problem because it seems that on the game site the information is also outdated.
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Not entirely. The game is in active development, things can and will change and it’s unclear at this point what role NPCs will play in the final product. I would suggest to you, check back sometime in the future when the game is much further along and there may be a more concrete answer, maybe the game will be worth picking up to you then.
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I´ll keep an eye on this for sure, and hopefully they add some love to solo mode in the future.
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Having bots in the offline sandbox makes sense, as it doesn’t sound difficult to implement, but it also doesn’t turn the sandbox into an actual solo mode. For that you’d need some sort of objectives and some type of progression system. That WOULD BE a lot of work and that’s the part they have no plans about. There’s only so much fun that can be had with fooling around in a sandbox without a purpose, even if it’s populated with bots presenting a predefined behavior.
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Indeed. The offline mode could be a good way for people to scratch their “explore and practise flying” itch, with a few bots thrown in to keep it interesting.
However, the intrinsic lack of challenge would hopefully drive people back to multiplayer when they’re ready, since that’s where the real action and focus is!
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Those things are planned for the multiplayer. If bots exist in MP and work properly, you could just run a singleplayer that does the same thing including progression and objectives as the MP but with bots instead of players.
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