8th January 2003, 8:54 PM
Well, since the ship kept scanning far areas (I like to think the ship itself was doing the far area scanning) and telling me something was found here, or here, that was pretty much eliminating the "find everything your own dang self" aspect. There was still loads of exploring, more so than Fusion (though Fusion still had lots once you got far into it). Also, you can't say story wasn't a huge part when almost all the scans are non-essential story revealing data. A HUGE amount of story was done in Prime, perhaps even larger than Fusion.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)