The events are usually centered around the current destination! For a month or so characters have the opportunity to explore a new planet, take up any variety of jobs on it (coughs fighting and black market stuff coughs other stuff), and every destination has a different theme. For example, the current one consists of a bunch of asteroids and is really rocky. Because of this, there is a rock and roll theme, so characters can play in a rock band and wear really embarrassing rock star clothes. In the heist I mentioned, a "famous rock star" was suspected to have special secret information, so characters broke into his complex to try and obtain info on how everything works (how the reality show works, who brought them there, etc). We were even given the opportunity to decide on the information our characters were able to find!
Since I mentioned jobs, that's an additional way for characters to earn money! There are also player-made permanent establishments within the fleet (such as bars, restaurants, a library, etc). So in case someone played a character who didn't care for the reality tv stuff, they could simply do something else.
There are periods of what's called "drifting week" in which they are heading towards their next destination. So it's our sort of time in-between destinations to focus on anything else, or just chill. Team building or whatever, though you can do that while on destinations too. But players can make things happen too, if you wanted to, during such time periods, with weird things happening to characters. For example, some people have temporarily aged their characters down, and others have had weird things happen to their character's abilities. There are things that can be done to make such things happen!
omg TL;DR along with things that happen in game, you can make as much or as little happen as you want! Sorry if I've said things that make no sense aahhh.
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The events are usually centered around the current destination! For a month or so characters have the opportunity to explore a new planet, take up any variety of jobs on it (coughs fighting and black market stuff coughs other stuff), and every destination has a different theme. For example, the current one consists of a bunch of asteroids and is really rocky. Because of this, there is a rock and roll theme, so characters can play in a rock band and wear really embarrassing rock star clothes. In the heist I mentioned, a "famous rock star" was suspected to have special secret information, so characters broke into his complex to try and obtain info on how everything works (how the reality show works, who brought them there, etc). We were even given the opportunity to decide on the information our characters were able to find!
Since I mentioned jobs, that's an additional way for characters to earn money! There are also player-made permanent establishments within the fleet (such as bars, restaurants, a library, etc). So in case someone played a character who didn't care for the reality tv stuff, they could simply do something else.
There are periods of what's called "drifting week" in which they are heading towards their next destination. So it's our sort of time in-between destinations to focus on anything else, or just chill. Team building or whatever, though you can do that while on destinations too. But players can make things happen too, if you wanted to, during such time periods, with weird things happening to characters. For example, some people have temporarily aged their characters down, and others have had weird things happen to their character's abilities. There are things that can be done to make such things happen!
omg TL;DR along with things that happen in game, you can make as much or as little happen as you want! Sorry if I've said things that make no sense aahhh.