"I'm revamping the UI, just as concept art to see how I'd solve UI problems, and simplify the interface. I'm not only redesigning the existing interface but changing it and adding gameplay mechanics changes as well.

While I think Egosoft did a good job on the design of the ships and stations, walking through stations and seeing all those NPCs gives me the feeling I'm playing with a modded fps 10 years ago. I think it's awkward, and the concept you have to physically go to places on empty and borings stations makes me feel it's just a feature to increase time spent in the game, and not adding anything meaningful to the gameplay. I miss X3-s easy to use tree menu based system, where I didn't need to use my mouse but was able to get through menus just using my keyboard. So this is a concept for that user flow.

I think it's also boring to look for crew members, you should be able to see people for hire (as in the real world), and their skills. So I also added some random generated dialog. Every NPC in the game says basically the same, and for me after like a couple of hours became very repetitive, and I really like random features in games. (Although I can imagine in some cases you have to find an outstanding candidate, because that person not on the job market, but it should have been done differently.)

In this case I imagined a very simple text generator, maybe creating 10-20 personalities, and a couple of variations for every line in the conversations. (And also stealing a little bit from The Expanse, to create interesting character dialogues, and give some personality to characters. Until there are no proper TTS engines in games, it should be simple text-based in my opinion.)

For example:
[Neotech Samurai]
Line 1 variations: {Konbanwa / Konnichiwa / Hajimemashite, ...}, {Battle Master san / Sensei / Captain / my friend / ...}!
Line 2 variations: {I am / My name is / You contacted with / ...} [name comes here].
Line 3 variations: {...an extremely talented and experienced / I'm a professional / ...} [profession comes here]
..."