Endless Encyclopedia

Foreword

The Endless Universe is full of story and background knowledge. To me, that's one of the two most important reasons, why I'm playing Endless games - it's universe!

The Devs are doing a great job by creating all this amazing artwork and music. It simply feels so rewarding to me, to still discover knew things by playing different quest lines or recruit new heroes with their own story.

Sadly, my brain isn't capable to store all this information in detail. So why not creating an in game encyclopaedia of the endless universe?! Supported by all the amazing artwork.

My Vision in detail

At the beginning, the encyclopaedia contains only some basic information. "What is Dust? Who where (are) the endless?..." Maybe some basic game mechanics? (Tutorial) Further information has to be unlocked by playing and discover the game. For example, if someone discovers a unique planet, then an entry is added (unlocked) in the encyclopaedia.

Informations I would like to see:

The Endless Universe

• The Endless
• What is dust (supposed to be)?

Major Factions

• United Empire
• Story Background (Origin)
• Characters (from completed quests, faction leaders)
• Faction related places (from completed quests, home system)
• Faction related heroes (if recruited once, skill tree preview, academy ship)
• Faction related ships (if researched once, pls with preview of the module layoutsStick Out Tongue)
• Horatio
• ...

Minor Factions

• "Similar to major factions - if information does exist"

Faction unrelated stuff

• Unique planets
• Pirate ship classes
• Anomalies
• Special Resources (luxury/strategic)
• Rare Tech (modules discovered only by probes)

What else comes to your mind?

I think players will stay motivated, as they try to unlock more entries and it encourages players to try different questchoices/research different ship types/ recruit different heroes - what will lead to a more diverse player experience.

Also, it could be combined with steam achievments!