Permit locked regions

[raymazoida]

Ok, so the usual theory for these is that they are areas "put aside for future content" (and one area is believed to be a dev test area with a recreation of the bubble)

But I've found so many in the game so far, near both the "sol side" rim, the "beagle side" rim, several in between, near the core, the one by witch head (likely candidate for future content) and I'm just thinking.

Really?

I mean right now the one I've found is 55000ly from the bubble. So who is going to come here for "future content"? A few people I guess, but there are plenty more good distances away too.

Now one or two may get visitors in reasonable numbers, kinda like Jacques, though thats still just a small % of the playerbase. But imagine we are heading towards the end of the final development season, all of these areas are unlocked with "content", who is going to be jumping from one to another to another all this huge distances, how many would even have gone to any of them?

I'm thinking its unlikely some, if not most of them are for "future content" as I really just can't see how it would work (unless we got some sort of Wormhole based long range portal type jump network) people would just spend so long travelling between them they'd not get the "conent" or you'd have people decamping from the bubble for a year to one place or another thinning the players in one area even more.

So I'm wondering if anyone has any theories for these area beides future content? (And the dev test area)

Personally I'm wondering if it's possible these are areas that simply haven't been generated. Maybe if they removed all permits you couldn't actuall visit these places because there is nothign there? No planets no stars, nothing? Why? Maybe errors in the generation of the galaxy, maybe to provide some "mystery" maybe because the database couldn't handle the numbers of stars so they culled huge numbers... I dunno.... I'm just not really seeing how all of these could be for "content" atm.

Any thoughts folks?

[Turd Ferguson]

in game test area is a good thought.

Also maybe long-distance carrier jumps for some kind of galactic wars content?

[Fork_Q2]

Not sure why an alien would be able to lock you out of a system without a "permit"... unless FSDs have been repurposed alien tech all this time! Perhaps at least some of them could be far-off human colonies? Maybe that way exploring outside the bubble need not be totally lonesome?