What motivates spaceship investment? (Destiny)

by electricpirate , Friday, May 09, 2014, 22:38 (3860 days ago) @ petetheduck

We know you can (at least visually) upgrade your spaceship in Destiny. Assuming the upgrading requires the expenditure of glimmer and/or materials, what motivation do players have to invest in their spaceship?

Sure, we see it--in the hangar, in orbit, when deploying into the world--but are those fleeting moments really worth spending resources and effort upgrading a spaceship for?

The Director seems to suggest there isn't player-controlled space travel, but perhaps the spaceship is playable in some way..

I assume the ship also acts as a gating mechanism for harder content...