 After some Christmas, New Years and operational delays, Frontier's community team have just dropped some answers to player questions about Odyssey direct from the development team. In this video we're going to break down what we now know as a result of those answers. If you enjoy this video remember to subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications and if you'd like to support our work you'll also find us on Patreon. Links to everything you need are in the description below. This time around all the answers we have mostly revolve around settlements and how they'll impact Odyssey gameplay. So first off a couple of questions were asked regarding settlement population and what happens if you wipe everyone out, will the AI respawn or is it essentially now a ghost town? It seems that settlements will summon reinforcements when attacked and those reinforcements will get progressively tougher, however they are finite and it will be possible to completely clear out a settlement. Without going into detail the developers did say that the consequences for such an action would be quite severe. Once the settlement has been cleared however it won't stay empty forever, all the team are saying at the moment is that it will repopulate again over time. A question was asked about NPC mission givers in a starport being from the controlling faction only, Frontier confirmed that in actual fact NPC mission givers in a starport will be from multiple factions and not just the controlling faction as well as there being multi-factional mission boards for players to use. The developers also picked up a question about NPCs wandering the terrain and whether we'd see random NPCs in a similar vein to the parked ships that are sometimes found on planetary surfaces. It seems that whilst we won't see lonely NPC spacemen wandering randomly the many worlds of elite dangerous odyssey, there is a chance you'll meet NPCs around planetary focal points like POIs. A question was asked about planetary settlements and what permanent states they could exhibit in the background simulation, it seems there are a number of states specific to planetary settlements in odyssey and those states are active, abandoned, war, damaged, online, online damaged, offline, offline damaged and conflict zone, how those states affect the game and gameplay around them we have yet to find out. As part of the questions and answers Frontier again confirmed that we will have a new set of engineers to use to alter our ground based suits and weapons but they further confirmed that not only will we be seeing these new engineers in person we'll also be meeting the old ship engineers in person for the first time. And as part of the AMA it was confirmed that environmental conditions in ground operations will be a consideration, in particular the classic gaming trope of exploding barrels is indeed a thing in odyssey, exploding barrels make everything better, quite what other environmental features we can account for we don't yet know. A question was asked regarding whether we'd be able to hack weapon emplacements and turn them on their erstwhile owners, that question wasn't answered specifically but it was said that we'll be able to power down weapon emplacements allowing vehicles to approach the installation and powering down an installation will grant you access to areas that would otherwise be out of bounds. The question was asked about filling a ship with mine launchers and essentially carpet bombing an installation into submission whilst this sounds fun it seems that the defences around installations in odyssey are at such a level that an activity like this would rapidly result in an exploding ship, clearly some science required there. And a further question was asked about something like a ship launched fighter attacking a base without giving detail frontier merely hinted that some hand held weapons may prove useful there, we're guessing that means player launched surface to air missiles are confirmed but I guess we'll have to see. That's all the answers we have for now, did the team pick up your question there? Are you now formulating your attack plan to take down an installation in odyssey? Let us know in the comments below and in case you're not already aware be sure to check out our sister channel on youtube the burp it plays where we stream the elite dangerous breakfast club every thursday as well as other games that take our fancy. That channel is linked on screen for you now. That's it for now thanks very much for watching we'll be back later this week with more videos until then 07 commanders follow the greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack we very much look forward to seeing you next time.