What's the purpose of Regions?

[dwispa]

Is there a functional purpose to regions? Or will they serve some sort of functional purpose?

[Ynnoz]

I’d say gamification of exploration.

[Nevioni]

Navigation and a reason to explore

[Kralith]

Nice Names to identify your home with the area

[Chompman]

To fill out your atlas over time to make it look nice.

[ceresward]

Currently they don’t have much meaning. I suspect the devs probably have plans for them, it’s just not high on the list of priorities.

I suggested an idea a while ago for the Cubit shop to have items you can use to unlock some quality-of-life benefits for a region:

@ceresward

Gathering, Hunting, Mining

The reward could be the ability to designate a region as part of your ‘hunting grounds’ (not exclusive; any number of players can designate the same region). This would give some quality-of-life benefits while gathering/hunting/mining in that region, like maybe it will tell you how many of a particular resource are left in the region, or maybe even mark the direction to the nearest resource on the compass.

[Veitsi]

They’re used in meteorite hunting

[dwispa]

Great idea.

My own idea: Just like a viceroy for a planet or being the capital of a planet, there could be a viceroy for each region and possible benefits to it. Like if you have the most prestige (or some other quantitative metric), you can upgrade that region with things that help spawn more valuable ore or better NPCs. There should be pros and cons to this but it would give more meaning to being the viceroy to each region and contribute to the overall meta of the planet.